Bachelor of Arts in Integrated Studies

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Integrated Studies degree provides students with the opportunity to construct a Bachelor of Arts individualized major that meets their unique needs. This flexible program allows students to create a major by combining two course clusters from the same or different school/college:

One cluster must be based on a CLAS minor or certificate in the CU Denver catalog. The cluster must be at least 15 credits and include a minimum of 6 upper division level credit hours, and students can add additional courses (up to 21 credits total in one discipline) to either meet this 15 credit minimum or fulfill the minor or certificate’s requirements if they exceed 15 credits.
The second cluster must also be at least 15 credits and include a minimum of 6 upper division level credit hours. This cluster is more flexible and can be constructed in one of three ways:
it can be based on a minor or certificate in the catalog (within CLAS or another school or college);
you can construct it using courses from a variety of disciplines that form a coherent body of knowledge (an interdisciplinary cluster); or
it can be or based on a pre-formed thematic cluster with an already-approved group of classes provided by the major.
The B.S. option requires one of the two clusters to be composed of courses from Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Environmental Sciences, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Economics or Engineering. The cluster may be a minor or certificate in one of these areas. An additional 6 credits outside the cluster must also be in one of the above-defined areas.

Students must also complete an interdisciplinary capstone course and project that bring together the learning from their two clusters.