General Education Home page

Applications for Course Designations

This page contains information about the Gen Ed program relevant to faculty and advisors.  Included are:

Policy:

If you are substantially changing your course to fulfill a perspectives requirement, a course number change is highly recommended by the Office of the Registrar to avoid confusion for students and advisors.

Please note: Signature Perspective courses can also fulfill up to one distribution requirement and up to two threads.

Information:

The process followed by the General Education Committee:

 

Application documents :

  • Application documents for designating
    a course as USP, GP or EP:

USP, GP or EP forms

 
 
   
  • GP study abroad guidelines:
 
  • When applying for Arts & Aesthetics, Cultural Elective, Health & Physical Learning, Literature, and Social & Behavioral Sciences designations use the Distribution Elective forms:

Distribution Elective forms

 
 
   
  • When applying for Information Literacy, Oral Communication,
    and Writing Intensive designations use Skills Thread forms:  

Skills Thread forms

 
 

Course Level Learning Outcomes :

Carefully consider these when you apply for a general education designation.

Include the appropriate ones in your syllabus. Use online rubrics from the Research Planning and Assessment website on at least one major course assignment. A link to those rubrics is provided here.

Perspectives:
  
 
Distribution Electives:
 
 
 
 
Skills Threads:
 
 
Visit the College Writing Committee webpage for information and resources
 
Experiential Learning:
  
 

 

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