Structural

Reform #10: Six-Credit Student Choice (AS and AAS Alignment)

1. Eliminate the existing Student Choice (Depth or IN) and ID categories.
2. Redefine the Student Choice Category that replaces the IN and ID categories.
3. AA and AS Students take two courses from Student Choice, each course from a different
designation. The designations in Student Choice would be as follows:

International and Global Learning (GI), which might include the following: ANTH
1030 World Prehistory (GI) 3; ENGL 2630 Global Literature (GI) 3; HIST 1100 Western
Civ. to 1300 (GI) 3; HIST 1110 Western Civ. Since 1300 (GI) 3; HIST 1300 Colonial Latin
America (GI) 3; HIST 1310 Modern Latin America (GI) 3; HIST 1450 Middle Eastern
Civilization (GI) 3; HIST 1460 Modern Middle Eastern Civ (GI) 3; HIST 1500 World
History to 1500 (GI) 3; HIST 1510 World History Since 1500 (GI) 3; HUMA 2300 World
Religions (GI) 3; INTL 2040 The Immigrant Experience (GI, DV) 3; INTL 2060 Intl Lit and
Culture (GI, DV) 3; INTL 2230 Global French Cultures (GI) 3; INTL 2240 Latin American
Studies (GI) 3; INTL 2980 Travel Studies (GI) 3; INTL 2990 Study Abroad (GI) 3; POLS
2100 Intro to International Politics (GI) 3; POLS 2200 Intro to Comparative Politics (GI)
3; POLS 2700 Model United Nations (GI) 3.
Human Relations (HR), which might include the following: ART 1150 Art Foundation
Seminar (PC) 3; BUS 1010 Intro to Business (PC) 3; CTEL 1010 Leadership & Team
Building (PC) 3; EDU 1020 Essentials of College Study (PC) 3; ENGL 1030 Writing in the
Professions (PC) 3; LE 1350 Values and Self Image (PC) 3; LE 1360 Opening Diverse
Doors (PC, DV) 3; FIN 1050 Personal Finance (PC) 3; HLTH 1050 Life, Society and Drugs
(PC) 3; HLTH 1500 Lifetime Wellness and Fitness (PC) 3; MKTG 1050 Consumerism (PC)
3.
Applied Science and Technology (AS), which might include the following: BMAN 1110
Intro to Biomanufacturing (AS) 3; BMAN 1130 Bioengineering in Society (AS) 3; CIS 1070
Living in a Digital World (AS) 3; ENGR 1050 Intro to Nanotechnology (AS) 3; GEOG 1800
Mapping Our World (AS) 3; MUSC 1500 Music and Technology (AS) 3; TECH 1010
Technology and the Future (AS) 3; TECH 1030 Complex Devices Simplified (AS) 3.
Communication, Thinking, and Argumentation (CA), which might include the
following: BUS 1040 Ethics at Work (CA) 3; BUS 2200 Business Communication (CA) 3;
COMM 1010 Elements of Effective Comm (CA, CM) 3; COMM 1020 Principles of Public
Speaking (CA, CM) 3; COMM 1270 Analysis of Argument (CA) 3; COMM 1500
Introduction to Mass Communication (CA) 3; COMM 1560 Radio Production (CA) 3;
COMM 2110 Interpersonal Comm (PC, HR) 3; COMM 2500 Elements and Issues of Digital
Media (CA) 4; COMM 2150 Intercultural Communication (CA, DV) 3; LE 1310 Mind,
Machine, Consciousness (CA) 3; CTEL 1020 Career Speech Skills (CA) 3; PHIL 1250
Resonbl. & Ratl Decsn-Makng (CA) 3.

4. AAS and Certificate students must take a course from HR and a course from CA, which will
replace the existing CM designation.

Rationale: This is a conservative proposal that keeps all existing courses, but reorganizes them into
more rational Student Choice categories that will be relevant to student interest. It also better aligns
the General Education experiences of AAS students with those of AA and AS students and reinforces
the ideal that General Education spans all degrees and programs.

Note: The criteria for the IG, CA and AS categories would be the same as in proposal #11.
The Human Relations criteria would look like this:

The Human Relations category includes courses that have, as a core focus of the class, fundamental
aspects of:

1. Human Relations (which takes a broad view of human interaction; focuses on the
responsibilities students have to themselves, their families, their employers and co-workers
and their communities; focuses on individuals place in the social web, including effective
and sensitive oral and written listening/communication skills; presents theories to explain
the connections of and the skills needed to function within the social web; requires students
to practice these skills in real-life scenarios), and/or

2. Personal Skills & Capacities (which focus on learning outcomes that are portable across
contexts and disciplines, such as information literacy and critical thinking, problem-solving,
leadership, effective time/resource management, integrative learning, healthy living,
informed citizenship; ethical and values-based decision-making, etc.), and/or

3. Career Preparedness (which focus on qualities that are associated with career success across
disciplines, such as teamwork, work ethic, analytical thinking, technological proficiency,
professional communication, etc.).