of University Hawaii - West Oahu General Education Foundations Requirement Course Designation Proposal
To propose a course for acceptance as meeting the General Education Foundations hallmarks, submit this form along with a course outline to the UHWO General Education Committee by the proposal deadline. Check with your Division Chair for deadlines for each semester. If this is a new course, you must also submit Form CC1 to the Curriculum Committee at the same time for approval. 1. Course information Subject Alpha and Number: (e.g. Anth 101) ____________ Any cross-listings: _________________ Course Title: ______________________________________(limited to 30 spaces) # of credits: ___ 2. Indicate which Foundation designation(s) you are requesting _____Global & Multicultural Perspectives (FG) (please circle subcategory: a, b, or c here, as defined in the hallmarks) _____Symbolic Reasoning (FS) _____Written Communication (FW) 3. Official course description (limited to 75 words) Submit a copy of the course description (if the course is the same as one offered at another UH campus, you may use the description from that campus most recent catalog). That description must be consistent with the appropriate hallmarks. If this is a new course, please attach a copy of the CC1 form submitted to Curriculum Committee.
2 4. Hallmarks. Explain in detail how this course meets each of the appropriate hallmarks.
(a more detailed explanation of the hallmarks are located at the UHWO General Education website, http://www.westoahu.hawaii.edu/gened)
To satisfy the Global and Multicultural Perspectives (FG) requirement, a course will: 1. provide students with a large-scale analysis of human development and change over time. (Note: the two FG courses will together cover the whole time period from pre-history to present. 2. analyze the development of human societies and their cultural traditions through time in different regions (including Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania) and using multiple perspectives. 3. offer a broad, integrated analysis of cultural, economic, political, scientific, and/or social development that recognizes the diversity of human societies and their cultural traditions. 4. examine processes of cross-cultural interaction and exchange that have linked the world's peoples through time while recognizing diversity.
5. include at least one component on Hawaiian, Pacific, or Asian societies and their cultural traditions. 6. engage students in the study and analysis of writings, narratives, texts, artifacts, and/or practices that represent the perspectives of different societies and cultural traditions.
3 To satisfy the Symbolic Reasoning (WS) requirement, a course will: Courses in Symbolic Reasoning (FS) should present symbolism as a means to facilitate reasoning and not merely as a technique to represent course content. They should engage students in the active use and application of symbolic techniques, but should not present the use of symbolization strategies techniques and in a strictly mechanical way. Rather, they should focus on presenting concepts and tools of symbolic reasoning to further understanding of the course material. The majority of a FS course should address issues of symbolic reasoning, and impart an appreciation of the power and clarity that such reasoning brings to our thinking and understanding. Courses that apply for the FS designation should meet all six hallmarks.
1. expose students to the beauty, power, clarity and precision of formal systems. 2. help students understand the concept of proof as a chain of inferences. 3. teach students how to apply formal rules or algorithms. 4. require students to use appropriate symbolic techniques in the context of problem solving, and in the presentation and critical evaluation of evidence. 5. not focus solely on computational skills. 6. build a bridge from theory to practice and show students how to traverse this bridge.
4 To satisfy the Written Communication (FW) requirement, a course will: 1. introduce students to different forms of college-level writing, including, but not limited to, academic discourse, and guide them in writing for different purposes and audiences. 2. provide students with guided practice of writing processesplanning, drafting, critiquing, revising, and editingmaking effective use of written and oral feedback from the faculty instructor and from peers. 3. require at least 5000 words of finished proseequivalent to approximately 20 typewritten/printed pages. 4. help students develop information literacy by teaching search strategies, critical evaluation of information and sources, and effective selection of information for specific purposes and audiences; teach appropriate ways to incorporate such information, acknowledge sources and provide c...