As described on the Academic Affairs website, students may submit petitions to request that a transferred course be considered as a substitution to meet an IUSB general-education requirement or, in very special circumstances, they may request an exemption from a general-education requirement. There’s a separate web-based form for each type of request (i.e., a substitution… Read more »
Info for Advisors
FYS for Students with 30+ Credits
Starting with Fall 2021, students are required to complete a First Year Seminar (FYS) within their first year at IU South Bend as part of the First Year Experience (FYE). The FYS designation is a “tag” added to a course that meets another general-education requirement, and enrollment in such courses is restricted to students with… Read more »
Change in Pre-Calculus & Trigonometry As Quantitative Reasoning Option
Up through the 2022-2023 IUSB Bulletin, Pre-Calculus (MATH-M 125) and Trigonometry (MATH-M 126) were listed as two-course sequence suitable for fulfilling the Quantitative Reasoning component of the Fundamental Literacies category. Starting with the 2023-2024 IUSB Bulletin, however, only MATH-M 126 will be listed, as it, alone, will be sufficient to meet the requirement. Furthermore, this change… 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 »
First Year Seminar Questions
Two Common First Year Seminar (FYS) Questions: 1. What if students fail to take an FYS course in either the fall or Spring of their first year? The system is set up to block students from registering for FYS if they have 30 credits or more. When students don’t complete FYS within the first year,… Read more »
Historical Listing of Approved Gen-Ed Courses
Approved courses in the following general-education areas can be found in the Bulletin: Fundamental Literacies Contemporary Social Values Extended Literacies Common Core courses, however, are approved not just for the four areas, as listed below, but with specialized Variable Titles (VTs) with unique class descriptions. Although some VTs are offered repeatedly, others might only be… Read more »
Using iGPS for Common Core Courses
There are four areas within the Common Core (CC): Arts, Aesthetics & Creativity (A) Human Behaviors & Social Institutions (B) Literary & Intellectual Traditions (T) Natural World (N) Offerings within the CC can be at either the 100-level (typically 190 or 191) or 300-level (typically 390 or 399); students are required to take one course… Read more »
Using Attributes to Find Gen-Ed Courses in iGPS
“Attributes” can be assigned to courses so that they can be used to filter class searches within iGPS for specific offerings within General Education. The following are currently in active use: Campuswide Extended Literacies Common Core Common Core-Art, Aesthetics, and Creativity Common Core-Human Behavior and Social Institutions Common Core-Literary and Intellectual Traditions Common Core-Natural Word… Read more »