[VPAAEtal] Call for Core Curriculum Courses

[Academic Affairs]

Call for Core Curriculum Courses 2021-2022
      DEADLINE TO SUBMIT:  SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

      Through the Texas Core Curriculum at A&M-Commerce, students will prepare for contemporary challenges by developing and demonstrating the following core objectives:


*       Critical Thinking Skills: to include creative thinking, innovation, inquiry, and analysis, evaluation and synthesis of information;

*       Communication Skills: to include effective development, interpretation and expression of ideas through written, oral and visual communication;

*       Empirical and Quantitative Skills: to include the manipulation and analysis of numerical date or observable facts resulting in informed conclusions;

*       Teamwork: to include the ability to consider different points of view and to work effectively with others to support a shared purpose or goal;

*       Personal Responsibility: to include the ability to connect choices, actions and consequences to ethical decision-making; and

*       Social Responsibility: to include intercultural competence, knowledge of civic responsibility, and ability to engage effectively in regional, nation, and global communities.

All courses in the core curriculum will be assessed for institutional effectiveness purposes at the end of the semester. Please submit the request for consideration for the 2021-2022 academic year:

1.         Submit attached core application with syllabus to contact below.
2.     Proposal goes through internal review process with University Studies Council where the Council votes on the reviewed proposal.
3.
    If approved, submit via Course Leaf during annual curriculum revision period (begins in September). Indicate that proposed change would affect the Core.
4.         The Chair of the University Studies Council will accept/reject proposal per Council's vote via Course Leaf.
5.         Dean of College of Innovation & Design submits changes to Core to THECB. Dean is only allowed to submit once yearly.
6.         Changes are made to catalog.
7.         Course Instructors make changes to syllabi to indicate (1) core outcomes for relevant component area and (2) IE requirements if necessary.
8.         Any new courses in the Core will be added to IE rotation.

Contact Dr. Quynh Dang (Quynh.dang at tamuc.edu<mailto:Quynh.dang at tamuc.edu>), Chair of the University Studies Council, for additional information.
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