2025-2026 Academic Catalog

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Mathematics Minor

General Requirements

Students must satisfy all requirements as outlined below and by the department offering the minor.

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Program Requirements

  1. Students must complete a minimum of 21 MATH credit hours.
  2. Students must complete a minimum of nine upper-division (3000-level and above) MATH credit hours.
  3. Students must earn a minimum grade of C- (1.7) in all courses that apply to the minor and must achieve a minimum cumulative minor GPA of 2.0. Courses taken using P+/P/F or S/U grading cannot apply to minor requirements.
  4. Students must complete a minimum six MATH upper-division level credit hours with CU Denver faculty.

Program Restrictions, Allowances and Recommendations

  1. Be aware of no co-credit policies. Here is a non-exclusive list of our most common no co-credit policies: no co-credit between
  2. For slash-listed courses:
    • MATH 3440 Introduction to Symbolic Logic/PHIL 3440 Introduction to Symbolic Logic.
    • MATH 4408 Applied Graph Theory/CSCI 4408 Applied Graph Theory,
    • MATH 4650 Numerical Analysis I/CSCI 4650 Numerical Analysis I, and
    • MATH 4660 Numerical Analysis II/CSCI 4660 Numerical Analysis II, one can take either the MATH section or the slash-listed section of the course. Either one count towards the minor in MATH.
Complete all of the following required courses:12
Calculus I
Calculus II
Calculus III
Complete three upper-division level (3000 level or higher) MATH courses worth three or more credit hours each. 9
Total Hours21

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