General Education

Please address any questions to the Administrative Assistant for General Education (422-3388) or GE Secretary (422-5641), and address any correspondence to the Dean of Undergraduate Education, c/o the Administrative Assistant for General Education, 350B MSRB.

Current GE Courses
When a course comes up for review (every 2 years for a provisional GE course, and every 6 years for a certified GE course), a packet containing the documents below will be sent to a department automatically. The first two documents give departments a checklist for materials and procedures for preparing for a review. The third document, "Review Criteria for FGEC Evaluation," lists the criteria that the FGEC will use when reviewing courses. This document helps departments to know what the FGEC will be looking for when they do the review; a department can then address or elaborate on criteria that particularly relate or don't relate to one of the criteria.

New GE Course Proposals
If you want to propose a course to receive GE certification, use the forms below. Check the Foundation Documents to see which requirement the course would fit. The support letters from the chair and dean should make it clear that the course is a new proposal. The deadline for new course proposals is August 1.

If the course is also new to the department's curriculum, it needs to go through the University Curriculum Council (UCC) and the FGEC review at the same time. With your materials submitted to GE, please also include a copy of the new course form given to the UCC. Clearance by the UCC and certification by the FGEC usually takes a year as both councils do not review courses except during Fall and Winter semesters.

Cover Sheet and Checklist of Materials Required for a GE Course Review

Department Review Procedures and Documentation for GE Course Reviews

Review Criteria for FGEC Evaluation

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Requirement Rationales

Requirement Rationale Statements for All University Core Courses

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Foundation Documents

Advanced Writing

American Heritage

Arts

Civilization

First-Year Writing

Global and Cultural Awareness

Languages of Learning

Letters

Quantitative Reasoning

Scientific Principles and Reasoning

Wellness

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The forms are provided in Word format; other documents are in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format.