Facilitator's Guide: - College in Colorado

Grade 11, Education After High School #: 2: Choosing Lesson Title a College Major
Student Handbook, Page Sample Title College Requirements
SAMPLE COLLEGE REQUIREMENTS
The following chart shows the requirements of the University of Colorado at Boulder
Core Curriculum Requirements — the courses that must be fulfilled to graduate.
Which classes would you choose if you went to UB?
1. Go to the CU-Boulder College of Arts and Sciences for a list of courses that fulfill these requirements:
http://www.colorado.edu/ArtsSciences/students/undergraduate/core.html
2. On the chart below, circle the four Content Areas of Study that interest you the most.
3. For each of four selected categories, choose the courses you would take to fulfill the requirement.
(Some courses are found under more than one objective, but you can’t count the same
course twice. If you use a course to satisfy one objective, you have to pick a different course
for another objective.)
Content Area of Study Requirements
(# of classes)
Foreign Language: If students did not achieve
a third-level proficiency while in high school
will have a MAPS deficiency. They must pass a
third-semester college course or by pass a CU-
Boulder-approved proficiency examination.
Quantitative Reasoning and Mathematical
Skills (QRMS): Students acquire reasoning skills
necessary to assess the data which will confront
them in their daily lives.
Written Communication: Students acquire the
ability to express ideas clearly and gracefully, so
that readers take pleasure while taking instruction.
Historical Context: Students acquire the ability
to contribute to historical perspectives that may
help to clarify issues that arise today or will
arise tomorrow.
Human Diversity: Students acquire an understanding
of the world’s diversity and pluralism
through the study of the nature and meaning
of diversity and the experience of marginalized
groups and the study of cultures other than those
of Europe and the United States.
0-3 (depending
on proficiency)
Your Course Selection
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