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Humanities Proposal

“By agreeing to teach this designated Common Curriculum requirement, you will not only be expected to teach towards the specific goals for this designation but also submit student evidence (assignments, artifacts) for assessment.”

In order to omit errors, we strongly recommend you type your answers in MS Word
and then cut & paste them into this form to avoid typos.

Deadlines for submission:

If the designation is scheduled to take effect in Spring or Summer the deadline is September 1 of the year before (For Example: Spring 2018 revisions must be submitted by 9/1/2017)

If the designation is scheduled to take effect in Fall the deadline is December 1 of the year before revision is to take effect (For Example: Fall 2018 revisions must be submitted by 12/1/2017)

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The Curriculum Committee CANNOT guarantee timely review of proposals received after the deadlines. Further, it is the policy of the Curriculum Committee to give priority to proposals that are the result of Program Review.

Today's Date

MM/DD/YYYY

Effective Term

Is this proposal the result of program review?

	yes
	no

If so, what year was the review completed?

Basic Course Information

Department:

Course Number:

Course title (as listed in the official catalog). If this is a topics course, please list specific title this request applies to:

Abbreviated title for class schedule (30 characters or less including parenthesis & designation)

How many credits is this course worth?

List prerequisites for the course:

MOST RECENT Official course description from the Academic Catalog. If this is a topics course, please list description for this specific topic:

Instructor(s):

Please include your full email address. When you click submit, a copy of your submission will be automatically emailed to you.

Please enter your department chair's email here:

List all other designations

applied for:

received:

Humanities Criteria

General course description for the Humanities requirement in the common curriculum
The Humanities disciplines constitute a way of thinking, talking and writing about what it means to be human. Study in the Humanities disciplines introduces us to people we have never met, places we have never visited, times in which we have not lived, perspectives we have never taken, and ideas that may never have crossed our minds. Through careful and rigorous engagement with texts produced by (and about) those other people, places, and ideas, we explore issues of identity, community, and culture, as well as values, purpose, and meaning. With perspectives thus enlarged and enriched, and with the skills to explore these questions further, the Humanities invite and equip us to live an examined life.
Courses that satisfy the Humanities requirement will be either upper or lower division four-credit courses with no more than one course from a single Humanities Department. Though Theology is one of the Humanities disciplines, Theology courses do not satisfy the Humanities requirement. Interdisciplinary courses, with a Humanities orientation, are eligible for designation as a Humanities core course.

Each of the following questions is designed to help the Committee understand how the Humanities learning goals will be met in your course. Please be as specific as possible in your responses. Examples are especially helpful.

What documents and/or primary sources will students analyze?

Describe how students will demonstrate that they have engaged a text with the analytic, critical, sympathetic, and/or speculative methods of one of the Humanities disciplines.

Describe how students will demonstrate critical thinking and effective communication through writing and discussion of the examined texts.

Are you also submitting a request for another designation at this time?

	No
	Yes, I am submitting a separate request for an additional designation

If you are submitting a request for an additional designation, indicate below & you will be redirected to that form after submitting your HM proposal:

	EL - Experiential Learning
	GE - Gender
	IC - Intercultural