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General Education Curriculum Proposals: Procedures, Forms and Deadlines

Proficiency-Intensive Course Proposals

FORMS

Forms for proposing courses to be oral communication-intensive, using information technology-intensive, or writing-intensive are online. Faculty seeking more than one proficiency-intensive designation for a course (e.g., oral communication-intensive and writing-intensive) must complete forms for each.

Oral Communication-Intensive Course Proposal Form
Using Information Technology-Intensive Course Proposal Form
Writing-Intensive Course Proposal Form

After the committee approves a course as proficiency-intensive, the department chair must complete a Proficiency-Intensive Course Routing Sheet and submit it to the chair of the proficiency-intensive committee. The Registrar’s Office uses this form to post information about the course in SIS and the course schedule.

DEADLINES

To offer a course as proficiency-intensive for the first time in the terms indicated below, departments should submit proposals to committee chairs by the following dates:

NOTE

When only certain sections of a course will be taught as proficiency-intensive (following review and approval by the appropriate committee), department chairs must submit a new routing sheet to the proficiency-intensive committee chair prior to each term in which proficiency-intensive sections will be offered. Routing sheets must be submitted according to the deadlines listed above.

Removing Proficiency-Intensive Status from a Course

The General Education Advisory Council (GEAC) has established the following procedure and calendar for removing the proficiency-intensive designation from a course:

(a) The change will occur only with the publication of the Undergraduate Catalog for the next academic year.

(b) The deadline for changes to the catalog is February 1.

(c) Removal of proficiency-intensive status requires approval by the department chair, the respective proficiency-intensive committee, the Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, and the GEAC by this date.

(d) Because the new academic year begins in the following fall term, removal of proficiency-intensive status will become effective in that term. Until that date, faculty must continue to teach the course as proficiency-intensive.

General Education Core Course Proposals

The GEAC has established the following procedure and calendar for adding courses to the core or removing courses from it:

(a) The change will occur only with the publication of the Undergraduate Catalog for the next academic year.

(b) The deadline for changes to the catalog is February 1.

(c) Changes in the core require approval by the GEAC by this date.

(d) Because the new academic year begins in the following fall term, changes in the course listing for the core will become effective in that term.

FORM

General Education Core Course Proposal Form

DEADLINE

The GEAC receives proposals to add or remove courses to the general education core throughout the academic year. However, to meet the February 1 deadline for changes to the catalog, departments making course proposals to be effective for fall of the next academic year should ordinarily submit a proposal no later than September 15 of the previous year.

NOTE

Before writing a proposal to add a course to the core, a department should meet with the GEAC to discuss the advisability of moving ahead with the proposal process. Please contact Bill Kirkwood (kirkwood@mail.etsu.edu or 423-439-5049) to schedule time on the GEAC agenda.

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