GER 216, Introduction to Literary Texts, be required to resubmit review materials in the AY 1998-99 review of Social and Behavioral Sciences (Category D) which will document that the course meets the G.E. criteria for an intermediate language course and a literature course, or else it will be subject to decertification as a G.E. course (see p. 9).

SPAN 212, SPAN 213, SPAN 214, SPAN 216, and SPAN 290 be required to resubmit review materials in the AY 1998-99 review of Social and Behavioral Sciences (category D) due to the incomplete materials submitted during the current review, or else the courses will be subject to decertification as G.E. courses (see p. 9).

RECOMMENDATION NO. 2: The Committee recommends that syllabi for all G.E. courses contain a statement regarding the learning objectives for the course and how they relate to the G.E. program, and that they contain a list of assessable outcomes for the course.

Both to facilitate establishment of G.E. outcomes assessment, and to better communicate the goals of G.E. to students and faculty, the Committee believes that syllabi for all G.E. courses clearly state the learning objectives for the course and how they relate to the overall G.E. program. Additionally, syllabi should contain a list of assessable outcomes for the course. As the preceding review indicates, syllabi for reviewed courses commonly describe the courses and their purposes, but few syllabi present explicitly stated learning objectives and/or assessable outcomes. Because departments have developed outcomes assessment plans, complying with this recommendation should be a straightforward matter of stating in G.E. course syllabi the objectives and assessable outcomes that have been developed.

General Education Committee

Joe Chavez, School of Natural Sciences (Chair)

Carolyn Eggleston, School of Education

Lee Hanson, School of Business and Public Administration

Charles W. Martin, Dean of Undergraduate Studies

Phil Page, School of Humanities

Geraldine Stahly, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences

Shannon Stratton, Student Representative

REVIEW OF THE SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES BREADTH AREA (CATEGORY D)

UNIVERSITY GENERAL EDUCATION COMMITTEE

JUNE 24, 1999

The General Education Committee is charged with a five-year review of the General Education Program, approximately a fourth of the program being reviewed in years one through four, and the overall program in the final year. A new five-year cycle (1996-2001) commenced in 1996-97 with a review of the Natural Sciences Breadth Area (Category B), and continued last year with a review of the Humanities Breadth Area (Category C). The current review is of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Breadth Area (Category D). In addition, selected Foreign Language courses are reviewed in this cycle; some of which were inadvertently omitted from the previous review, while others are being re-reviewed in this cycle due to incomplete materials submitted last year. This report contains five sections: