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General Education Resources

General education resources available to faculty, advisors and staff are listed below. This list is by no means exhaustive; we invite users to let us know what we should add.  Please send suggestions to webmasterls@mail.ls.wisc.edu. 

• Advising Network 
• Gen Ed Website Frequently Asked Questions:
  • Faculty and Staff
  • Students
• This site posts the current lists of General Education Courses, with updates and instructions for downloading the complete list in rich text or .pdf format.  The site also provides links to each of the following lists:
  • Communication Part A Courses
  • Communication Part B Courses
  • Quantitative Reasoning Part A Courses
  • Quantitative Reasoning Part B Courses
  • Approved Ethnic Studies Courses  
• The Advising Toolkit

Instructional Resources

General

• Frequently asked questions:
  • Faculty and Staff
  • Students
• How to get a course approved to fulfill...
  • Comm A credit -- approved on a course-by-course basis; please consult Ron Harris at (rwharris@facstaff.wisc.edu)
  • Comm B course criteria -- please consult Sherry Reames (slreames@facstaff.wisc.edu) to have courses reviewed
  • Criteria for QR A and QR B courses -- For assistance with QR course approval, please contact  Richard Brualdi, 
    Dept. of Mathematics, Room 725, Van Vleck Hall, 262-3298 (brualdi@math.wisc.edu).
  • Breadth Requirements (Natural Science; Humanities, Literature and the Arts; and Social Studies) -- approved through the campus-wide course approval process, with review of breadth designation conducted by the L&S Curriculum Committee. For information about the process to adding new or changing existing courses, please see the Secretary of the Faculty website, http://www.secfac.wisc.edu/divcomm/courses/CourseProposals.htm. Please consult Elaine M. Klein (kleine@ls.admin.wisc.edu) to discuss L&S Curriculum Committee review.
  • Ethnic Studies Requirement. Requests are considered by the Ethnic Studies Subcommittee of the University General Education Committee. For more information about the criteria, please refer to the procedure for adding courses to the ESR course array, which includes links to the ESR descriptive guidelines and faculty legislation relevant to this requirement. Send questions to Elaine M. Klein (kleine@ls.admin.wisc.edu).
• How to get a writing fellow
• Outcomes Assessment and the Online Assessment Manual

• Criteria for Comm B. Courses
• Guides to help Comm A and Comm-B students use the library effectively 
• Campus Library User Education (CLUE): learn more about CLUE, or go to http://clue.library.wisc.edu/ to enter the CLUE portal
• Writing Resources, including:
  • The Writing Center
  • Writing Across the Curriculum
  • The Writing Fellows Program

• Criteria for QR Courses

Breadth Requirements (Natural Science; Humanities, Literature and the Arts; and Social Studies)

Please submit suggestions about resources in this area to the Elaine M. Klein (kleine@ls.admin.wisc.edu).

Ethnic Studies Requirements

• Adding courses to the ESR course array
• ESR descriptive guidelines
• ESR faculty legislation
• A description of the requirement and its purpose appears in the Undergraduate Catalog listing. 
• A list of approved courses is provided on this site.  

Please submit suggestions for other links to the webmaster.