Faculty Senate

University College and General Education Committee

Report #2001-02-1

February 11, 2002

PART I

Additions to the Current General Education Program (1981)

At their meeting of February 7, 2002, the University College and General Education Committee considered two items of business requiring approval by the Faculty Senate and recommends the following:

A. That students be permitted to apply the Fall 2002 Honors Colloquium, HPR 201 "Genetic Technology & Public Policy in the New Millennium", to either the Letters (L) area or the Social Sciences (S) area of the current General Education program.

B. That HIS 160, Technology & American Life 1800 &endash; Present, to the Letters (L) area of the current General Education program subject to the provisions of the 2001 general education proposal that each course in each area be reviewed and, if the faculty member wishes, re-proposed in accordance with the new guidelines.

PART II

Informational Report on the Revised General Education Program (2001)

During the summer 2001 The Office of the Provost with the assistance of the Instructional Development Program ran a series of workshops for continuing faculty members who had been identified by department chairs and deans as the persons who were currently and would in the future be involved in teaching general education courses in the Social Sciences (S) area. These workshops provided the opportunity for faculty members to find out how other faculty members have implemented the integrated skills into their courses. Participants also developed plans for incorporating one or more of the integrated skills into courses that they teach. Further information on the workshops can be found at http://www.uri.edu/facsen/Gen_Ed_Workshops.html.

At their October and November meetings, the UCGE Committee approved guidelines for course proposals in the Social Sciences (S) area and the Foreign Language/Cross-cultural Competence (FL/CC) area of the General Education Program. Details are available on the web at http://www.uri.edu/facsen/GenEd_Appendix_A.html. Sample proposals including syllabi should be available before spring break.

A Letters Working Group was formed at the end of the fall semester. The group is currently developing guidelines and prototype syllabi for the Letters (L) area.

The UCGE Committee is now looking for interested faculty members for the Fine Arts and Literature (A) area working group. The English Communications (EC) area will follow Fine Arts and Literature.

Academic deans were alerted in early February and are expected to notify department chairs and encourage proposal submissions as soon as possible. The General Education Application form appears on the web at http://www.uri.edu/facsen/GenEd_Application_Form.html. A reduced-size sample form is attached to this report.

Workshops will be available this summer for faculty members in Foreign Language/Cross-cultural Competence and Letters. These workshops will assist with the development of course proposals. The University College and General Education Committee will begin course approvals in the fall.

Members of the Committee:

Arts and Sciences: Timothy George, HIS

Arts and Sciences: Sandra Ketrow, COM

Arts and Sciences: Lewis Pakula, MTH

Arts and Sciences: Linda Shamoon, ENG

Business Administration: Mark Higgins, CBA

Engineering: Leland Jackson, ELE

Human Science and Services: Martin Bide, TMD

Nursing: Deborah G. Brown, Chairperson

Pharmacy, Sara Rosenbaum, APS,

The Environment and Life Sciences: Anthony Mallilo, FAVS

University Libraries: Robin Devin

Provost's Representative: Richard Rhodes, Interim Vice Provost

FCCE Representative: Edmund Ferszt, Associate Dean

Student Affairs Representative: Pamela Rohland

Dean of University College: Jayne Richmond

Faculty Senate Coordinator: Sheila Black Grubman

Danielle LaChance, undergraduate student

Jennifer Moore, undergraduate student