Climate Change Studies - Policy Track, BA
General Requirements
To earn a degree, students must satisfy all requirements in each of the three areas below, in addition to their individual major requirements.
- CU Denver General Graduation Requirements
- CU Denver Core Curriculum
- College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Graduation Requirements
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Program Requirements
- Students must complete a minimum of 46 credit hours and of those 33 will be upper division credit hours from the approved courses.
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A minimum of 30 credit hours must be completed in courses taught by faculty in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, at CU Denver.
- Students must earn a minimum grade of C- (1.7) in all courses that apply to the major and must achieve a minimum cumulative major GPA of 2.0. Courses taken using P+/P/F or S/U grading cannot apply to major requirements.
Program Restrictions, Allowances and Recommendations
- Only three credits of Travel Study may be counted toward graduation requirements.
- Undergraduate students may count up to 6 credit hours of independent study or internship (any combination of relevant independent study, internship, or directed research coursework) towards elective credit in the major as approved by the program director. Students may not receive more than three credit hours per independent study section. No more than three credit hours of independent study may be taken with the same instructor or in the same term.
- CCST 3939 Internship: Community/Professional Experience optional, but highly recommended.
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Complete the following required courses: | 4-5 | |
| Climate Change Seminar | ||
| Climate Change Capstone | ||
| Complete the following climate literacy courses: | 6-7 | |
| Introduction to Environmental Sciences and Introduction to Environmental Sciences Laboratory (Courses can fulfill CU Denver Core Natural/Physical Sciences lab science and/or non-lab science course requirement.) | ||
or GEOG 1202 | Introduction to Physical Geography | |
| Weather and Climate | ||
| Complete the list of the following foundations of climate policy courses: | 15 | |
| Introduction to Environmental Communication | ||
| Environmental Economics | ||
| Climate Change: Causes, Impacts and Solutions | ||
| Global History of Energy | ||
| Politics of Climate Change | ||
| Complete one of the following environmental justice courses: | 3 | |
| Climate Justice | ||
| Indigenous Political Systems | ||
| Indigenous Politics | ||
| Complete one quantitative methods course from the following list: | 3-4 | |
| Quantitative Methods in Anthropology | ||
| Biostatistics | ||
| Environmental Modeling with Geographic Information Systems | ||
| Applied Spatial Statistics | ||
| Data Wrangling & Visualization | ||
| Applied Statistics | ||
| Research Methods | ||
| Complete one qualitative methods course from the following list: | 3 | |
| Critical Analysis of Communication | ||
| Research Methods: Qualitative | ||
| Hazard Mitigation and Vulnerability Assessment | ||
| Theory and Practice of History: An Introduction to the Major | ||
| History at Work: Public and Community History | ||
| Community Health Assessment | ||
| Ethnographic Research In Public Health | ||
| Project Management and Program Evaluation | ||
| Complete one course from the following natural sciences list (methods courses can substitute): | 3-4 | |
| Principles of Ecology | ||
| Conservation Biology | ||
| Applied Microbial Ecology | ||
| Biogeography | ||
| Colorado Climates | ||
| Landscape Biogeochemistry | ||
| Earth Environments and Human Impacts | ||
| Applied Geomorphology | ||
| Glacial Geomorphology | ||
| Mountain Biogeography | ||
| Beeography: Geography of Bees | ||
| Urban Climate and Air Quality | ||
| Complete two courses from the following policy list: | 6 | |
| Environmental Communication | ||
| The Politics of Nature | ||
| Science, Policy and the Environment | ||
| Introduction to Environmental Health | ||
or PBHL 3070 | Perspectives in Global Health | |
| Policy and Advocacy | ||
| Managing and Leading in Environmental Organizations | ||
| Community Resilience, Climate, and Emergency Response | ||
| Sustainable Energy Policy | ||
| Transportation, Planning and Policy | ||
or URPL 4555 | Transportation, Land Use and the Environment | |
| Complete one course from the following society list: | 3 | |
| Editing Earth: Ancient Human Impacts | ||
| Environmental Communication | ||
| Economics of Natural Resources | ||
| Environmental Economics | ||
| Climate Change & Society | ||
| Urban Sustainability and Resiliency: Perspectives and Practice | ||
| Nature and Power in American History | ||
| Science, Technology, and Society in the Modern World | ||
| Global Demography and Health | ||
| Ethnicity, Health and Social Justice | ||
| Health in the City: Urban Health | ||
| Global Ecological Crises | ||
| Total Hours | 46-50 | |
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