From: Subject: General Education - Draft GE Area Criteria Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:09:13 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/related; type="text/html"; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0000_01C88FF2.9B4CAC10" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0000_01C88FF2.9B4CAC10 Content-Type: text/html; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Location: http://www.csus.edu/acaf/Portfolios/GE/geareacriteria.stm General Education - Draft GE Area Criteria

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Learning = =20
Goals 

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California State = University,=20 Sacramento

 

General Education Criteria and = Outcomes

For two academic years, 2000-2001 and 2001-2002, the General=20 Education Area Coordinator Task Force worked to develop outcomes = for=20 each of the General Education areas as well as the graduation=20 requirements. Faculty were widely consulted for acceptance of = the draft=20 outcomes and pilot studies were conducted in each area to test=20 assessment for the area outcomes. In the spring, 2002, the = General=20 Education Policies/Graduation Requirement Committee and the = Faculty=20 Senate approved the outcomes as stated below. The left column = describes=20 the criteria for courses in each area; the right column = describes=20 expected learning outcomes seen in students' behaviors.

AREAS:

A-1 = Oral=20 Communication criteria
A-2 = Written=20 Communication criteria
A-3 = Critical=20 Thinking
B-1 = Physical=20 Science
B-2 = Life=20 Forms
B-3 = Lab=20 Component
B-4 = Mathematical Concepts&Quantitative Reasoning
B-5 = Further=20 Studies
C-1 = World=20 Civilizations
C-2 = Introduction to the Arts
C-3 = Introduction to the Humanities
C-4 = Further=20 Studies in the Arts and Humanities
D-1a=20 Foundation in Social and Behavioral Sciences
D-1b World = Cultures
D-2 = Major=20 Social Issues of the Contemporary Era
D-3 = American=20 Institutions
E=20 Understanding Personal Development
Writing=20 Intensive Outcomes
Race = and=20 Ethnicity Outcomes
Writing=20 Criteria for all Upper Division GE Areas
English 20=20 Graduation Requirement
Foreign = Language=20 Graduation Requirements=20

 

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