Guaranteed Transfer Classes

Focuses on economic principles and decision-making by consumers, firms, and government with emphasis on their application to the food, fiber, and natural resource sectors of the economy. This is a Statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-SS1 category. (3-0)

Examines major contemporary socio-economic issues and policies such as drugs and crime, education, health care, poverty and inequality, and globalization. These issues will be explored using economic tools and methods. This is a Statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-SS1 category. (3-0)

Focuses on the study of the national economy, emphasizing business cycles and long-run growth trends. Explores how macroeconomic performance is measured, including Gross Domestic Product and labor market indicators. Examines the saving-investment relationship and its relationship to Aggregate Supply and Aggregate Demand. Discusses money and banking, international trade, fiscal and monetary policy. Explores the macroeconomic role of the public sector. This is a Statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-SS1 category. (3-0)

Focuses on the study of individual decision making, emphasizing households, business firms and industry analysis. Explores market models, including competition, monopoly, monopolistic competition and oligopoly. Examines market failure and related efficiency criteria for government intervention. Explores public policy, including labor market issues, poverty and the environment. This is a Statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-SS1 category. (3-0)

Focuses on a survey of the discipline of political science including political philosophy and ideology, democratic and non-democratic governments, and processes, and international relations. This is a Statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-SS1 category. (3-0)

Includes the background of the U.S. Constitution, the philosophy of American government, general principles of the Constitution, federalism, and civil liberties. Examines public opinion and citizen participation, political parties, interest groups, the electoral process, and the structure and functions of the national government. This is a Statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-SS1 category. (3-0)

Emphasizes the structure and function of state, county, and municipal governments including their relations with each other and with national government. Includes a study of Colorado government and politics. This is a Statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-SS1 category. (3-0)

Examines the interactions among various levels of actors in the international system. This course attempts to explain behaviors across state boundaries. This is a Statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-SS1 category. (3-0)

Introduces the basic components of the criminal justice system in the United States. Concepts of crime, crime data, victimization, perspectives, and views of crime, theory, and law are discussed. Particular attention to the criminal justice process, interaction and conflict between criminal justice agencies, and current criminal justice issues are examined. This is a Statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-SS3 category.  (3-0)

Examines the spatial distribution of environmental and societal phenomena in the world’s regions. Environmental phenomena include topography, climate, and natural resources. Societal phenomena include patterns of population and settlement, religion, ethnicity, language, and economic development. This course also analyzes the characteristics that define world regions and distinguishes them from each other. This course examines the relationships between physical environments and human societies, and examines globalization, emphasizing the geopolitical and economic relationships between more developed and less developed regions. This is a Statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-SS2 category. (3-0)

Introduces geographic perspectives and methods in the study of human societies by examining the spatial characteristics of populations, language, religion, ethnicity, politics, and economics. This course examines the relationships between physical environments and human societies. This is a Statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-SS2 category.  (3-0)

Covers the study of world population and food production and distribution. Problems and opportunities concerning population and food are discussed in a global context. This is a Statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-SS3 category. (3-0)

Examines the study of human cultural patterns, including communication, economic systems, social and political organizations, religion, healing systems, and cultural change.  Prerequisite: College Readiness in English. This is a Statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-SS3 category. (3-0)

Introduces the science of recovering the human prehistoric and historic past through excavation, analysis, and interpretation of material remains. This course provides a survey of the archaeology of different areas of the Old and New Worlds. Also includes the works of selected archaeologists and discussions of major archaeological theories. Prerequisite: College Readiness in English. This is a Statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-SS3 category. (3-0)

Covers the basic principles of forensic anthropology, an applied field within the discipline of biological anthropology. The course includes the study of the human skeleton, practical application of biological anthropology and archaeology, and judicial procedure, as they relate to the identification of human remains within a medico-legal context. This is a Statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-SC1 category. Prerequisite: College Readiness in English and Quantitative Literacy Math (3-2)

Studies the origins of native peoples in the New World, through the development of geographic culture areas, to European contact and subsequent contemporary Native American issues. This is a Statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-SS3 category. Prerequisite: College Readiness in English (3-0)

Explores the basic principles of medical anthropology, an applied field within the discipline of cultural anthropology, including the cross-cultural study of illness, health, healing, death, globalization, and the interaction of the medical systems between cultures. This is a Statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-SS3 category. Prerequisite: College Readiness in English (3-0)

Places the mass media in a technological, historical, and cultural perspective, considering the validity, integrity, and influence of the evolving media in a democracy. This is a Statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-SS3 category. (3-0)

Focuses on the scientific study of behavior including motivation, emotion, physiological psychology, stress and coping, research methods, consciousness, sensation, perception, learning, and memory. This is a Statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-SS3 category. Prerequisite: College Readiness in English. (3-0)

Focuses on the scientific study of behavior including cognition, language, intelligence, psychological assessment, personality, abnormal psychology, therapy, life span development, sex, gender, sexuality, and social psychology. This is a Statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-SS3 category. Prerequisite: College Readiness in English. (3-0)

Examines gender comparisons in work, courtship, family life, and sexual behavior throughout the life span. This is a Statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-SS3 category. Prerequisite: College Readiness in English. (3-0)

Surveys physiological, psychological, and psychosocial aspects of human sexuality. Topics include relationships, sexual identity, and sexual health. This is a Statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-SS3 category. Prerequisite: College Readiness in English. (3-0)

Focuses on the behavior of humans in a wide variety of social settings and the social influences humans have on each other in those settings. This is a Statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-SS3 category. Prerequisite: College Readiness in English. (3-0)

Examines the philosophies of life and death, emphasizing dying, death, mourning, and the consideration of one`s own death. This is a Statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-SS3 category. Prerequisite: College Readiness in English. (3-0)

Examines human development from conception through death emphasizing physical, cognitive, emotional and psychosocial factors. This is a Statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-SS3 category. Prerequisite: College Readiness in English. (3-0)

Focuses on growth and development of the individual from conception through childhood, emphasizing physical, cognitive, emotional, and psychosocial factors. This is a Statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-SS3 category. Prerequisite: College Readiness in English. (3-0)

Students will learn an overview of the scientific study of attitudes, behaviors and personality variables related health, illness, and bodily systems. Emphasis is on the interaction of biological, psychological, and social factors that cause illness and influence its treatment and prevention. This is a Statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-SS3 category. Prerequisite: College Readiness in English. (3-0)

Examines abnormal behavior and its classification, causes, treatment, and prevention. This is a Statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-SS3 category. Prerequisite: College Readiness in English. (3-0)

Provides a global view of communication across cultures and brings an awareness of how perception, language, race, verbal and nonverbal communication impact our behaviors, messages, and interactions. Emphasis is on developing effective and ethical cross-cultural communication skills while also building an appreciation for different cultures. This is a Statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-SS3 category. (3-0)

This course examines the basic concepts, theories, and principles of sociology, including topics of culture, race, class, gender, sexuality, social groups, and deviance through a local and global lens. Analyzes and interprets socio-historic as well as contemporary issues by using critical thinking skills and linking individual experiences to social structures. This is a Statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-SS3 category. Prerequisite: College Readiness in English. (3-0)

Examines the basic concepts, theories, and principles of sociology, including topics of family, religion, education, politics, the economy, health, demography, the environment and social movements through a local and global lens. Analyzes and interprets socio-historical as well as contemporary issues by using critical thinking skills and linking individual experiences to social structures. This is a Statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-SS3 category. Prerequisite: College Readiness in English. (3-0)

Offers a critical exploration of marriage, family and kinship. It examines the family as an institution and how social, cultural and personal factors influence family relations locally and globally. Explores the stability and evolution of the family, along with current trends and a range of family forms. This is a Statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-SS3 category. Prerequisite: College Readiness in English. (3-0)

Critically examines various deviant categories and societal reactions to deviance affecting diverse populations. Examines how sociologists study deviance and the theories they use to explain it. Explains the ways social institutions define deviance and attempt to control, change, or treat those deviant behaviors, attitudes, and conditions. This is a Statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-SS3 category. Prerequisite: College Readiness in English. (3-0)