President as Professor: Higher Ed From a Unique Viewpoint

With the college’s president as one of their professors, students in the Economics of Higher Education class look at the shifting financial landscape of higher education, applying economic theory, data analysis, and meetings with experts to dissect issues of prestige, admissions, financial aid, and endowments.

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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

Sorcery, Magic, and Devilry: The History of WitchcraftHistory

Sorcery, Magic, and Devilry: The History of Witchcraft

What makes a witch? How do societies define magic, and who gets to draw the boundaries between categories like magic and religion? This course will grapple with the myriad ways that witchcraft reveals patterns of belief, structures of power, and social relations in different times and places.
GeneticsMolecular Biology

Genetics

Inspect the nature, transmission and expression of hereditary information with this molecular biology course! Using the language, concepts, and themes of genetics, students will learn the principles of molecular and transmission genetics with an emphasis on contemporary molecular genetic research.
Black Feminist TheoryFeminist & Gender Studies

Black Feminist Theory

Delve into the critical tenets of Black feminist and womanist theories, especially the ways race, gender, class, and other social, cultural, and political markers are connected. Explore the theories concerning the ways Black communities throughout the African Diaspora are particularly oppressed systemically and systematically.
Art and SocietySociology

Art and Society

Examine the influence of art on society and of society on art, including the use of art as propaganda and social protest, the social sources of creativity, the relation between artists and audiences, the roles of patrons and critics, and the workings of arts organizations!

CC Stories

Ryan Bañagale '00 Publishes in The Conversation Music

Ryan Bañagale '00 Publishes in The Conversation

Colorado College Named a 2018 Tree Campus USA Facilities Services

Colorado College Named a 2018 Tree Campus USA

Momentix Returns to Big Idea Competition to Take First Prize Innovation

Momentix Returns to Big Idea Competition to Take First Prize

Jia Mei ’21 Awarded Gilman Scholarship Awards

Jia Mei ’21 Awarded Gilman Scholarship

Colorado College Releases 2019 Conservation in the West Poll State of the Rockies Project

Colorado College Releases 2019 Conservation in the West Poll

Congratulations to CC’s Record 12 Fulbright Semifinalists Awards

Congratulations to CC’s Record 12 Fulbright Semifinalists

Untold Stories: Kelly Dolphus Stroud ’31 Untold Stories

Untold Stories: Kelly Dolphus Stroud ’31

Teaching Empathy and Global Citizenry Through Films Made By Kids Faces of Innovation

Teaching Empathy and Global Citizenry Through Films Made By Kids


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