Procedure for Proposing a new GE course
All paper work goes through the Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs'
Office. Your course proposal is first approved by the college committee on
Curriculum and Resources and then it is approved for GE credit by the General
Education Sub committee of the University Educational Policies Committee (UEPC.)
The committee pays close attention to how each course fulfills the following GE
goals.
Goals for General Education Classes
Each GE course must demonstrate how it will meet Goals 1-5 and either Goal 6 or
Goal 7
- Subject knowledge. To provide an educational experience that will
enhance students understanding of the disciplines' basic principles,
methodologies, and perspectives.
- Communication. To provide an educational experience that will
enhance the ability to communicate.
- Inquiry and Critical Thinking. To provide an educational experience
that will enhance critical thinking skills and will contribute to continuous
inquiry and life-long learning.
- Information Retrieval and Evaluation. To provide an educational
experience that will enhance the ability to find, understand, examine
critically, and use information from various sources.
- Interdisciplinary Relationships. To provide an educational
experience that will enhance students' understanding of a discipline's
interrelationships with other disciplines.
- Global or Multicultural Perspectives. To provide an educational
experience that will enhance the ability to look at issues from multiple
perspectives and/or that will describe the disciplines impact on or
connection to global issues, AND/OR
- Social Responsibility. To provide an educational experience that
will help students understand the complexity of ethical judgment and social
responsibility and/or that will describe the discipline's impact on or
connection to social and ethical issues.
Multicultural Courses
In addition, courses that meet the requirements for General Education Area G,
Multicultural requirement. are those classes of 3 or more units that address
multicultural issues, ethnic studies. gender issues, or non-western cultures as
follows:
- Multicultural courses should discuss more than one culture but include the
study of one culture in some depth.
- Multicultural courses should show that there are differences between
cultures, show ways to study such differences, and stimulate students to do
additional studies
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