In order to ensure a meaningful General Education curriculum, students must have information about the choices available to them among the courses they are required to take. The UCSB General Education program offers this page of links to departmental web pages offering information about their General Education courses.
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NOTE TO STUDENTS: this page links mainly to previous
syllabi. They are intended for informational purposes only, to help
you choose your General Education courses. DO NOT use these syllabi to purchase course materials, as the content for any given course usually changes when that course is next offered. |
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[the following policy information for departments should be placed at the bottom of this page]
- Location of departmental pages. The table below links to departmental web pages that provide information and syllabi for their courses that fulfill UCSB's General Education Core and Special Requirements. If the department moves their GE page, the Undergraduate Council should be informed immediately.
- Updating departmental pages. Each departmental GE page should
contain listings of when and by whom each of their GE courses were taught,
over the most recent five year period, and how many students enrolled
in that offering. Summer session offerings should be included.
- At least one recent syllabus for each course should remain available, although departments are encouraged to keep a five-year window of syllabi available for GE documentation purposes. For courses taught by more than one instructor, links to at least one syllabus from each instructor should be maintained.)
- Departments should update their pages with syllabi of their currently taught GE courses by the fifth week of the current quarter.
- The requirement that departments make the syllabi of their GE courses available is being phased in beginning Fall 2004, so offerings prior to this date may not be listed.
- Basis of requirement. The requirement that GE syllabi be made
publicly available was instituted by the Undergraduate Council in May
2003 and reported to the Faculty Legislature on May 29, 2003 (see no.
4 under "guiding principles" of this 5/15/03
memo). (Link to 5/29/03 minutes on Legislature
web page; see last agenda item at bottom.)
- Monitoring. There is at present no mechanism to monitor departmental compliance with this directive. However, when a department submits a request to add one of its courses to the GE list, CUAPP may hold up their application until the department's page is brought up to date.
- Technical assistance. A page template and limited assistance
from LSIT is available for departments that do not have the staff
resources to create this page on their own.
- Responsibility for maintaining the departmental page and the collecting the requisite syllabi rests ultimately with each department.
- html or pdf versions of syllabi are both acceptable.
- jump down to sample template page for history department; Black Studies and Chemistry already offer syllabi for all of their courses.