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Approval of New Courses Meeting the General Education Requirements Course proposal
forms can be found here: Communication The criteria for courses meeting the communications requirements are available at: Professor David Zimmerman is the Communication liaison to the University General Education Committee. He is the first point of contact regarding new courses proposed to carry Communication designations. For Comm A, an ad hoc committee may be convened to study the proposal. Professors Zimmerman is authorized to review and approve assignment of the Comm B attribute, which may be added to existing courses or to courses at the time of creation. Comm B is the only General Education Requirement for which "section-level" approvals are allowed. Requests to review transfer courses to meet the Communication A requirement should be directed to Ron Harris (English Department, rwharris@wisc.edu); for reviews of courses to meet the Communication B requirement and requests for extraordinary exceptions to either requirement, contact Professor David Zimmerman (dazimmerman@wisc.edu). Quantititative Reasoning The criteria for courses meeting the Quantitative Reasoning requirements are available at: Professor Mari-Beffa (Mathematics) serves as the Quantitative Reasoning liaison to the University General Education Committee. Proposals for Quantitative Reasoning courses should be submitted to Professor Mari-Beffa (maribeff@math.wisc.edu); proposals to develop new QRA courses may require consideration by an ad hoc subcommittee. Professor Mari-Beffa also evaluates requests to grant extraordinary exceptions for students. Ethnic Studies The Ethnic Studies Requirement has been the subject of an extensive process of review and revision (ca 1999-2004). As a result, responsibility for evaluating courses and exceptions are - for the time being - vested in a subcommittee of the University General Education Committee. For information about the requirement and procedures for adding courses to the course array, please refer to the following documents:
Departments and members of the faculty may ask to have courses reviewed by the Ethnic Studies Subcommittee of the University General Education Committee. Professor Susan Johnson (History) serves as chair of this subcommittee, and Assistant Dean Elaine M. Klein (kleine@ls.admin.wisc.edu) coordinates questions referred to the committee. Students who wish to have a course that is not on the list reviewed should first approach the instructor and discuss whether or not adding the designation is appropriate, and if so, the professor should contact Assistant Dean Klein. General Breadth (Humanities/Literature/Arts, Social and Natural Sciences) Each school and college can determine, for purposes of its own degree requirements, which courses satisfy various breadth areas. In general, breadth indicators align with the Divisional Executive Committee that is responsible for approving courses in each of the four curricular areas. The L&S Curriculum Committee assigns L&S breadth and level indicators used in the Timetable; assignment of Timetable breadth indicators is conducted through the normal process for adding or changing courses, as outlined by the Office of the Secretary of the Faculty (http://www.secfac.wisc.edu/divcomm/courses/CourseProposals.htm) |