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H&S General Education Committee

The H&S General Education Committee, established in fall 2011, is the faculty committee responsible for oversight of the current General Education program in H&S, including: review of general education designation requests submitted by departments for Ithaca College courses; review of petitions for general education credit submitted by students for courses taken at other institutions; and assessment of the program. (Note that designations for the new Core Curriculum are handled by the Committee on College-wide Requirements, or CCR.)

The committee is also responsible, in coordination with the H&S Curriculum Committee, for overseeing the development and implementation of the new integrative core curriculum in H&S, specifically the Complementary Liberal Arts component of the ICC. In spring 2012, H&S faculty approved a school-wide curricular structure for H&S students to satisfy this component of the Core curriculum.

The General Education Committee members for 2013-14 are:

Jeane Copenhaver-Johnson, Education (SS, '14)*
Chrystyna Dail, Theatre Arts ( FA,'14)
Bruce Henderson, Communication Studies (At Large, '14)
Leann Kanda, Biology (NS, ’15)
Rebecca Lesses, Jewish Studies (HU, ’15)
Cyndy Scheibe, Psychology (At Large, ’15)
TBD (liaison to H&S Curriculum Committee)

Stacia Zabusky, Associate Dean, H&S, ex officio

*Co-chair for 2013-14; second co-chair TBD

General Education Designation Subcommittee

Faculty and departments requesting a General Education designation for new or existing courses should complete the H&S application form (unless they also are requesting a Themes and Perspectives designation; see below) and submit it as an attachment to an email to hscurriculum@ithaca.edu. Such proposals are reviewed on a rolling basis, and decisions are generally made within two weeks of submission. The committee recommends that faculty/departments consult the sample designation application forms for guidance on how to complete the application document.

Faculty members creating new courses for the Themes and Perspectives component of the ICC may use the ICC designation proposal form to request some of the H&S General Education designations (1, 2a, 3a, 3b) instead (i.e., without completing the H&S application form). These forms should also be sent to hscurriculum@ithaca.edu for processing.

Faculty seeking other Integrated Core Curriculum designations (writing intensive, diversity, quantitative literacy, or capstone) should consult the ICC website.

Note: There is a separate process for students who wish to petition to have transfer courses taken elsewhere (i.e., not at IC) count for General Education credit.

In 2010-11, the IC20/20 Integrative Learning and Liberal Education task force studied materials and models related to the integrative core curriculum that you can access here.

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