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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;text-indent:.25in"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Call for Core Curriculum Courses 2021-2022</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:red"> DEADLINE TO SUBMIT: SEPTEMBER 30, 2020</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"> Through the Texas Core Curriculum at A&M-Commerce, students will prepare for contemporary challenges by developing and demonstrating the following core objectives:</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Critical Thinking Skills: to include creative thinking, innovation, inquiry, and analysis, evaluation and synthesis of information;</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Communication Skills: to include effective development, interpretation and expression of ideas through written, oral and visual communication;</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Empirical and Quantitative Skills: to include the manipulation and analysis of numerical date or observable facts resulting in informed conclusions;</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Teamwork: to include the ability to consider different points of view and to work effectively with others to support a shared purpose or goal;</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Personal Responsibility: to include the ability to connect choices, actions and consequences to ethical decision-making; and</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Social Responsibility: to include intercultural competence, knowledge of civic responsibility, and ability to engage effectively in regional, nation, and global communities.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">All courses in the core curriculum will be assessed for institutional effectiveness purposes at the end of the semester.</span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Please
submit the request for consideration for the 2021-2022 academic year:</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">1. Submit attached core application with syllabus to contact below.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">2. Proposal goes through internal review process with University Studies Council where the Council votes on the reviewed proposal.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">3.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"> If approved, submit via Course Leaf during annual curriculum revision period (begins in September). Indicate that proposed change
would affect the Core. </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">4. The Chair of the University Studies Council will accept/reject proposal per Council’s vote via Course Leaf.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">5. Dean of College of Innovation & Design submits changes to Core to THECB. Dean is only allowed to submit once yearly.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">6. Changes are made to catalog.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">7. Course Instructors make changes to syllabi to indicate (1) core outcomes for relevant component area and (2) IE requirements
if necessary.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">8. Any new courses in the Core will be added to IE rotation.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Contact Dr. Quynh Dang (<a href="mailto:Quynh.dang@tamuc.edu">Quynh.dang@tamuc.edu</a>), Chair of the University Studies Council, for
additional information.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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