Curriculum

Gateway welcomes students to the university and provides a high impact educational experience for all first-year college students.

Students at UCCS complete two Core Writing Courses in addition to two Writing Intensive Courses.

The Compass Curriculum goal of quantitative and qualitative reasoning proposes that well-educated people are able to think at a certain level of abstraction.

UCCS hopes to provide students with experience outside their major discipline to expose them to different ways of thinking and interacting with the world around them.

All Navigate courses center on the idea of "Knowledge In Action" and engage students actively in applying and integrating knowledge, which is drawn from a range of disciplines and includes advanced-level critical and creative thinking.

UCCS values inclusive diversity as a foundation for teaching and scholarship that prepares students, faculty, staff and community members for both local and global multicultural engagement.

Each college has specific courses that fulfill students' Writing Intensive requirements.

UCCS requires all students to take a course that discusses sustainability to help them better understand the interaction between human development and the natural environment.

Summit Experiences provide advanced college students the opportunity to apply and integrate their knowledge and skills.

Prior to graduation with an undergraduate degree, all UCCS students must demonstrate their proficiency in writing.