General Education/ Graduation Program Requirements

Announcements

Area B Review of Course Syllabi: Call for Syllabi

The GE/GR Course Review Subcommittee will be reviewing all Area B course syllabi during Spring 2013. Department Chairs have been contacted and are responsible for submitting syllabi for all sections of courses taught by different faculty and approved for GE in Area B no later than February 25, 2013. Please note that each syllabus must be accompanied by a cover sheet.
Please note that all Area B course syllabi must be in compliance with the appropriate Area/Sub-Area Student Learning Outcomes adopted in Fall 2012. Materials provided below include: 1) the full Call for Syllabi, including Area B course lists; 2) GE Syllabus Cover Sheet, including new Student Learning outcomes; 3) GE Checklist which will be used by the Subcommittee members to review syllabi.

Example Syllabi and Cover Sheets

Syllabi: B1 B3 B5
Cover Sheets: B1 B3 B5


For further information, contact Associate Dean Sheree Meyer at 278-5344 or meyers@csus.edu

The General Education Office is responsible for coordinating the University's General Education Program. The office monitors all General Education courses for availability and compliance with university policy. The office administers GE policy and acts as a liaison from Academic Affairs to the 

Faculty Senate General Education Policy and Graduation Requirements Committee. The General Education Office is a resource for information about General Education. New and innovative General Education programs are explored and evaluated by this office. The General Education Office is responsible for implementing the CSUS WPJ policy and the Graduation Writing Assessment Requirement.

The General Education Office acts as the "home department" for special majors and First Year Seminar courses. The University's Learning Community and First Year Experience Program, the General Education Honors Program, and the Writing Across the Curriculum Program are administered by this office.

Sheree L. Meyer, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for  Undergraduate Studies
Email: meyers@csus.edu


Jay Rutherdale
Assistant to the Associate Dean
Email: jayr@csus.edu

6000 J Street
Sacramento Hall 234 
Sacramento, CA 95819-6016
(916) 278-5344
(916) 278-7648 FAX

What does General Education Mean to Us?

The Secret Names
(written for the GEmmy Awards & GE Recognition Event, December 2, 2011)

To be a child again, knowing books could change the world. Running up the narrow stairs into soft, yellow light of the old Carnegie branch, and there they are, walls of them. Librarian smiles at Dad and me, kid exchanging finished stack for more.

Now I love to read the titles of courses I will never get to take: The Nature of Culture; Form, Space, Vision; Primate Behavior. If I took all three at once, could I tell new stories, speak new tongues,
or just appear an educated gibbon at an art opening in midtown?

Clicking through the college catalog I can see him - General Ed lurking deep inside, chanting the secret names of what we hope to come to understand: The Joy of Garbage, Urban Geography, Visualization, and he winks at us. What comes from all this work?

Community Engagement, Children and Television, The List Poem: No, not “knowing,” really, but still we climb towards that warm & yellow light.

Bob Stanley
Sacramento Poet Laureate 2009-2012
Recipient of 2011-2012 GEmmy Award for GE Community Engagement)