Proposing Faculty Member: Henry Scott Category: Common Core Component: The Natural World Description: Our world’s oceans have elicited fear, balanced against human curiosity, for all of recorded history; remarkably, this continues to today because they are so vast and much remains unknown. From our earliest attempts to fish from their shores, to modern efforts to… Read more »
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CJUS-B 190 (VT: Crime and the Media!)
Proposing Faculty Member: Stacie Merken Description: Have you ever wondered whether what you see about crime in the media is accurate? Do Criminal Minds, Orange is the New Black, and Law and Order: SVU resemble real FBI, corrections, courtroom, and policing? This course will examine the criminal justice system through a media lens, including, but… Read more »
THTR-A 190 (VT: The Secret Life of Puppets)
Proposing Faculty Member: Aimee Cole Description: This course will explore the use of puppetry in the performance arts of theatre, television and film. Topics will include exploring the history and diversity of puppetry in world culture, appreciating various puppet styles and performance methods and research master puppeteers and their contribution to the field. This is… Read more »
THTR-T 399 (VT: LGBT Theater Post-Stonewall)
Proposing Faculty Member: Jason Resler Description: This course introduces students to LGBT theatre and its history, focusing on plays and musicals written after the 1969 Stonewall Uprising. The course looks at important works in the cannon placing them in their historical context. Discussion focused, this writing intensive course will explore the connections and various perspectives… Read more »
GenEd Assessment for Spring 2022
Groupings within our General Education curriculum are assessed on a rotating basis so that each area is reviewed every 3rd semester, with individual courses being selected via systematic sampling. The Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) to be assessed for each area (e.g., Fundamental Literacies – Quantitative Reasoning) should be identical for all offerings that satisfy that… Read more »
Procedures for Tagged Information Literacy Courses
Information Literacy (IL) is part of our campus-wide general-education requirements. Prior to Fall 2021, IL was under the Fundamental Literacies category of our general-education curriculum, and all students were to satisfy it by taking COAS-Q 110, Introduction to Information Literacy (1 credit). Starting in Fall 2021, however, IL is now categorized under Additional Requirements, and… Read more »
Gen-Ed Transfer Courses w/ Credit Deficit
Every now and then transferred courses are identified as equivalent to one of our existing courses when they come in, yet they were completed with fewer credits at the other institution than how they’re offered on our campus. This can cause confusion when the equivalent course on our campus satisfies a General-Education requirement. As an… Read more »
Co-Director Announcements at January 2022 Senate Meeting
January 2022 Gen-Ed Co-Director Announcements at Academic Senate: Still working on the Gen-Ed website: https://academics.iusb.edu/general-education/index.html New Gen-Ed Blog: https://blogs.iu.edu/iusbgened/ Historical listing of approved Common Core courses: Blog Post Blanket Approval for All Existing HPER Courses to Satisfy Health & Wellness: Blog Post Faculty can now add their own “Class Descriptions” to their courses that will show up… Read more »
Blanket Approval of Current HPER Courses for Health & Wellness
A point of confusion for several years has been the fact that only a subset of the HPER courses in current rotation had been officially approved by the Senate General Education Committee to satisfy the Health & Wellness component of our Extended Literacies. However, in late 2021, the Committee granted a blanket approval so that… Read more »
ANTH-A 399 (VT: Race and Ethnic Relations)
Proposing Faculty Member: Theodore Randall Description: The course describes and explains contemporary racial and ethnic relations in the United States and world at large. This is accomplished by discussing the fallacy of the concept of race, contemporary and future projections of global and national racial and ethnic diversity, the diversity within the popular designated racial… Read more »