Spring Quarter at CAHSS

SOCI 2250: This course explores how social systems shape crime, law, and justice.

You will examine how economic, political, and cultural forces influence definitions of crime and responses to it.  (4 credits)

ECON 1020: This course explores different economic theories and how they shape our understanding of inequality, globalization, and social and environmental challenges.

You will examine how economic ideas influence real-world policy and everyday life. (4 credits)

PSYC 1001: This course introduces the scientific study of human behavior, including biological, cognitive, social, and cultural influences.

You will learn how psychologists use research methods to understand and explain human experience. (4 credits)

ANTH 2105: This course uses an evolutionary perspective to explore human biological diversity across time and place.

You will examine how environmental and cultural forces shape the human species. (4 credits)

PLSC 1000: This course introduces the foundations, structure, and functioning of American government and political behavior.

You will examine how political institutions shape power, policy, and civic life. (4 credits)

ETHN 1004: This course examines race, ethnicity, and indigeneity as social and political constructs in the U.S. and globally.

You will explore how these categories intersect with gender, class, immigration, and modern systems of inequality.  (4 credits)

MFJS 2280: This course analyzes how media institutions influence political knowledge, public opinion, and democratic participation.

You will explore how media can both strengthen and limit citizen engagement.  (4 credits)

PLSC 2200: This course examines China’s political and economic transformation since 1949 and its growing global influence.

You will analyze key issues such as economic development, democratization, and international relations. (4 credits)

MFJS 2220: This course examines popular music as a tool for social change across genres like hip-hop, rock, and folk.

You will explore how music reflects, challenges, and responds to social injustice. (4 credits)

COMN 1002: This course introduces major communication theories and shows how scholars explain and analyze how human communication works in society.

You will also learn to critique existing theories and imagine how new ones might be developed. (4 credits)

THEA 2870: This course introduces you to the basics of acting through physical and vocal exercises, improvisation, and scene study.

You will build confidence, presence, and communication skills as you learn to analyze scripts and bring characters to life. (4 credits)

JAPN 2700: This course explores major works of classical Japanese literature written by women, including myths, poetry, diaries, personal essays, The Tale of Genji, and travel and religious writings.

You will examine how women authors shaped literary culture in historical Japan while developing skills in close reading, analysis, and interpretation. (4 credits)

CHIN 2516: This course explores how Chinatown has been represented in Chinese American literature as both a real community and a powerful cultural symbol.

You will examine how stories about Chinatown reveal connections between place, identity, race, and immigration, including a walking tour of Denver’s historic Chinatown. (4 credits)

HIST 2920: This course introduces the modern history of Latin America, with a focus on the 19th and 20th centuries and themes such as colonial legacies, revolution, democracy, and social change. You will explore how struggles for independence, economic growth, and justice have shaped the region’s past and continue to influence its present. (4 credits)

HIST 1750: This course explores how family, food, and motherhood shape culture and community across Africa through stories, history, film, and art.

You will examine how African women have reimagined caregiving, agency, and identity across time and place. (4 credits)

RUSS 1750: This course explores how Western writers have portrayed Russia and the Soviet Union from the early 20th century to today, analyzing how ideas of identity, ideology, and power shape these narratives.

Through novels, memoirs, nonfiction, and film, you will examine how literature reflects Western anxieties and historical change, from the Russian Revolution to the Cold War and beyond. (4 credits)

JAPN 2450: This course explores contemporary Japanese literature, art, and film to understand the rise of postmodern and “superflat” cultural styles since the 1980s.

You will examine how writers and artists engage with consumerism, aesthetics, and global culture, and how these works shape modern experiences of identity and popular culture. (4 credits)