The Core Curriculum

In keeping with the University's mission to provide a distinct undergraduate program "based on the traditional values of liberal learning" and with "an emphasis on inter- disciplinary learning," the Core Curriculum embraces the notion that all of the University's undergraduates should participate in an interdisciplinary set of curricula unique to the University of Denver.

2400 Communities and Environments    |  2500 Self and Identities

2600 Change and Continuity

Students will take one Core course covering each of these themes.  The themes reflect explicit priorities of the University's mission statement, including internationalization, multiculturalism, the history of cultural experience, environmental responsibility, awareness of the social consequences of technological innovation and selection, ethics, and civic engagement.

CONGRATULATIONS to our awardees for Best Proposal and Best Writing Intensive Proposal. These individuals have carefully integrated the above themes into courses that will prove to be challenging and beneficial additions to the Core Curriculum.

Ingrid Tague  Best Proposal--Spring 09

     Animals and Human Societies

Lisa Conant   Best Writing Intensive Proposal--Spring 09

     Politics of Rights

Aimee Reichmann-Decker   Best Proposal--Fall 08

     Memoirs of Madness

Lisa Pasko   Best Writing Intensive Proposal--Fall 08

     Murder in America

Li Li Peters  Best Proposal--Spring 08

     Testimony, Memory, and Allegory: The Representations of Chinese Cultural Revolution

Elizabeth Karlsgodt  Best Writing Intensive Proposal--Spring 08

     The French Revolution

Awards are passed out on a quarterly basis to those who have submitted outstanding proposals for approval to the Faculty Core Committee.

For more information about the Core Curriculum, please contact the Core Office at 303-871-4577.