Facilitator's Guide: - College in Colorado

Grade 11, Education After High School 2: Choosing a College Major
[Have students work in small groups or pairs to go online and view a list of courses
that fulfill the University of Colorado at Boulder requirements: http://www.colorado.
edu/ArtsSciences/students/undergraduate/core.html.]
4. SAY SOMETHING LIKE: Let’s take a quick look at the first content area, “Foreign Language.”
How many courses are students required to take to fulfill this objective? (0-3)
The reason that there is a range in the number of classes required is that you may
already have some of the skills required! If you will have achieved a third-level proficiency
in a foreign language by the time you graduate from high school, you will not
need to take Foreign Language Course at CU-Boulder. However, if you did not achieve
a third-level proficiency in high school, you’ll need to pass a third-semester college
course or pass a CU-Boulder-approved proficiency examination. If you’ve never studied
a foreign language before, you’ll need to start in a first semester course, then take
a second semester course, and finally a third semester course.
5. Let’s move on to the next objective, “Quantitative Reasoning and Mathematical Skills
(QRMS).” How many classes are required for this objective? [Point out that one class is
required. Note that some are individual classes and some are 2 semester sequences of
classes.]
SAY SOMETHING LIKE: The next content area, Written Communication, requires 2 courses.
One of the courses is a Lower-Division Course and one is an Upper-Division Course.
This means that you’ll need to choose one class from the Upper-Division Group of courses
and a second course from the Lower Division group.
6. SAY SOMETHING LIKE: Great, now you’re going to select four content areas that interest
you and choose one course requirement for each. Look at the related lists and choose
the courses you would take to fulfill each requirement. Note that some courses are found
under more than one content area, but you can’t count the same course twice. If you use
a course to satisfy one content area, you have to pick a different course for another content
area.
7. [Give students time to choose one course for each of the content areas they’ve chosen,
and write their choices on their charts.]
III. Choosing a Major (10 minutes)
1. SAY SOMETHING LIKE: Chances are, someone’s already asked you what you think
you’ll study in college. Some of you may already know, some of you may still be figur-
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