Students seeking course substitutions for their General Education requirements must contact the Dean of their admitting School or College. The GEOC does NOT approve course substitutions. At the request of departments, the GEOC reviews and a…
ALL* courses are now submitted via the Senate Course Action Request (CAR) Form. Courses are routed to appropriate committees through the online system. For any questions about this system or the approval process, please contact Cheryl Galli…
In the past decade, several general education assessment projects have helped us to better understand how UConn students are performing as writers. Some assessments have focused on actual W-designated courses, while others have looked close…
1) Feedback from relevant departments on the learning goals and learning objectives proposed here would be useful. 2) We strongly believe that the resources required for assessment should not negatively impact the overarching missions of th…
This draft encompasses comments from CA2 faculty members, the new CA2 subcommittee members, and the GEOC as of February 5, 2007. 1. We hold to the scientific principle that an assessment can only be useful to the university if corresponding…
Arts and Humanities courses should provide a broad vision of artistic and humanistic themes. Guided by trained and experienced artists, designers, musicians, playwrights, actors, writers and scholars, courses in Content Area 1 enable studen…
GEOC is looking into ways to discover whether the goals of the general education program as a whole and those of the individual content areas and competencies are being met. As part of that process, GEOC has recast the content area requirem…
Please see the List of “GEOC/Common Curriculum Courses” on the Registrar’s Reports webpage. The following courses have been approved for teaching in the Intersessions/Intensive Sessions (sessions of four weeks or less). No additional GEOC r…
Universality: All students at the University of Connecticut should have the same University General Education Requirements irrespective of their major, School or College. Schools and Colleges may not restrict the courses that students are a…
W Course Information from the Writing Center “W” Moratorium: At the end of the Spring 2008 semester the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) faculty voted to make a permanent change to the general education “W” requirement. CLAS stud…
The writing across the curriculum W course requirements are designed to ensure that writing instruction continues after the First Year Writing courses (ENGL 1007, ENGL 1010, ENGL 1011 or ENGL 2011 for Honors). As one of the fundamental ways…
Second Language Competency allows students to utilize communication skills and (inter)cultural awareness for effective participation in local, regional, and international contexts. Learning a second language has been proven to have a lifelo…