Building Community and Lowering Energy Usage, One House at a Time

Several houses in Colorado Springs are now more energy efficient thanks to retrofits installed by students in a course titled Energy: Environmental Thermodynamics and Energetics. Students explore physics- and chemistry-based concepts of thermodynamics to study energy generation, use, and conservation.

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December 18 - January 19
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What’s a Block?
Block Blogs

About the Block Plan

Instead of taking multiple classes at a time, CC students study
one class at a time, for three-and-a-half weeks.

8 Blocks Per Academic Year

8 Blocks
Per Academic Year

3 1/2 Weeks Per Block

3 1/2 Weeks
Per Block

4 1/2 Day Block Break

4 1/2 Day
Block Break


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Featured Courses

Japanese Americans During World War IIPsychology

Japanese Americans During World War II

World War II presented a unique set of social and identity-based challenges for Japanese Americans. This course will examine the manner in which the events of WWII influenced Japanese American identity and culture. Additionally, this class will take a 3 day trip to the Amache incarceration site.
From Multicultural Education to Critical Pedagogy: Civil Rights in the U.S. Public SchoolsEducation

From Multicultural Education to Critical Pedagogy: Civil Rights in the U.S. Public Schools

This course provides an introduction to multicultural education and critical pedagogy along with the sociopolitical issues surrounding the multicultural context of U.S. schools today. Students will be prompted to examine multicultural education as an act of civil rights through readings, films, and their participation.
Language and CultureAnthropology

Language and Culture

An introduction to linguistic anthropology and the study of speaking in a cultural context. Students will examine the ways in which people use talk to cooperate, manipulate, structure events, and negotiate identities using examples such as Apaches, Japanese, Korean-Americans, New Yorkers, and people of different generations.
Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'English

Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'

Chaucer challenges the social hierarchies and gender boundaries drawn by medieval culture. Students will develop a working knowledge of Middle English that will allow them to think deeply and critically about the poetry they’re reading. Collaboration with Deborah Thornton, Executive Director of the Imagination Celebration.

CC Stories

Partnership Expands 91.5 KRCC and Creates New Public Media Center News

Partnership Expands 91.5 KRCC and Creates New Public Media Center

CC President Jill Tiefenthaler Named Head of National Geographic Society News

CC President Jill Tiefenthaler Named Head of National Geographic Society

Cornerstone Arts Week Highlights Gap Between Marginalized Artists, Arts Industry News

Cornerstone Arts Week Highlights Gap Between Marginalized Artists, Arts Industry

Olivia Hatton, Seven CC Co-authors Publish in Microbiology Journal Molecular Biology

Olivia Hatton, Seven CC Co-authors Publish in Microbiology Journal

City Council Unanimously Approves Robson Arena Athletics

City Council Unanimously Approves Robson Arena

Grass Roots Bulletin

Grass Roots

Using Antarctica’s Geology to Forecast Future Sea Level Rise Faces of Innovation

Using Antarctica’s Geology to Forecast Future Sea Level Rise

Untold Stories: Michael Nava '76 Untold Stories

Untold Stories: Michael Nava '76


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Colorado College recognizes and honors the original inhabitants who first settled in the area and who called the nearby highest mountain “Tava,” the original name given by the Ute people to what is now known as Pikes Peak. At CC, we respect all peoples and strive to grow as a unique and welcoming community.