This executive
order is
issued pursuant to Title 5, California Code of Regulations, Sections
40402.1,
40403, 40405, 40405.1, 40405.2, 40405.4, and 40508, and Sections 1 and 2
of
Chapter III of the Standing Orders of the Board of Trustees of the
California
State University.
This executive order is
intended to establish a common understanding of the minimum requirements
for CSU
General Education Breadth and to provide for the certification of
coursework
completed by transfer students at regionally accredited institutions. Reciprocity among the CSU campuses for full
and subject-area completion of lower-division General Education Breadth
Requirements is also addressed in this executive order.
This
document also
addresses:
·
Applicability
of the policy (Article 1, page 1),
·
Pathways
to fulfillment of general education requirements (Article 2, page 2),
·
Premises
of CSU General Education Breadth (Article 3, page 4),
·
Distribution
of General Education Breadth units (Article 4, page 6),
·
Transfer
and articulation (Article 5, page 9),
·
Implementation
and governance (Article 6, page 16).
Article 1. Applicability
1.1 Prior
to Completion of CSU
Lower-Division General Education Requirements
The
requirements, policies, and procedures adopted pursuant to this
executive order
shall apply to students enrolling in fall 2008 and subsequent terms who
have
not previously been enrolled continuously at a campus of the CSU or the California Community Colleges and who have
not
satisfied lower-division general education requirements according to the
provisions of Title 5 Sections 40405.2 or 40405.3.
1.2
Subsequent to Completion of Entire CSU
General Education Requirements
Subsequent
to initial completion of all CSU general education requirements (at the
lower
and upper divisions), a student may not be required to satisfy further
exclusively
general education requirements associated with an additional major
program or
baccalaureate degree.
Article 2.
Fulfilling General Education Requirements in the CSU
2.1 Pathways
Policies
adopted by the Board of Trustees in July 1991 provide three pathways for
undergraduate students to fulfill CSU general education requirements:
1.
CSU General
Education Breadth
Fulfillment of CSU
General Education
Breadth Requirements (Title 5, Section 40405.1), including the
completion of an
upper-division requirement consisting of a minimum of nine semester
units or
twelve quarter units at the CSU campus granting the baccalaureate
degree; or
2.
Intersegmental
General Education Transfer Curriculum (IGETC)
Completion of the
Intersegmental General
Education Transfer Curriculum (IGETC) (Title 5, Section 40405.2), as
certified
by a California community college, plus a minimum of nine upper-division
semester units or twelve upper-division quarter units at the CSU campus
granting the baccalaureate degree; or
3. University of California (UC)
Campus Lower-Division
Completion of
lower-division general
education requirements of a University of California campus (Title 5,
Section
40405.3), as certified by that campus, plus a minimum of nine
upper-division
semester units or twelve upper-division quarter units at the CSU campus
granting the baccalaureate degree.
Implementation of this alternative is contingent on development
of a
formal agreement between the California
State University
and the University
of California.
2.2 Minimum
Requirements
2.2.1 General
Education Requirements
Every
baccalaureate candidate who has not completed either the IGETC or
UC-campus
pathway specified in Article 2 shall complete the CSU General Education
Breadth
requirements described in Article 4, Subsections A through E, totaling a
minimum of 48 semester units or 72 quarter units.
2.2.2 Minimum
Grades
Each
CSU campus shall establish the minimum grades for satisfactory
completion of
CSU General Education Breadth courses.
2.2.3 Upper-Division
Requirement
At
least nine of these semester units or twelve of these quarter units must
be
upper-division level, taken no sooner than the term in which
upper-division
status (completion of 60 semester units or 90 quarter units) is
attained.
2.2.4 Residency
Requirement
Campuses
may require that at least nine of the 48 semester units or twelve of the
72
quarter units shall be earned at the campus granting the degree. In all cases, students shall meet the
residency requirements specified in Title 5 Section 40403.
2.2.5 Exceptions
Exceptions
to the foregoing requirements may be authorized only under the following
circumstances:
a. In
the case of an individual student, the campus may grant a partial waiver
of one
or more of the particular requirements of Title 5 of the California Code
of
Regulations, Section 40405.1, to avoid demonstrable hardship, such as
the need
to extend the time required for completion of the degree in the case of a
senior-level transfer student.
b. In
the case of high-unit professional major degree programs, the chancellor
may
grant exceptions to one or more requirements for students completing the
particular program. Such exception must
be approved at the campus level prior to initiating a request to the
Chancellor’s Office. A full academic
justification shall be submitted to the executive vice chancellor and
chief academic
officer, Academic Affairs, who shall submit his or her recommendation
and the
campus recommendation (along with all relevant documents) to the
chancellor.
c. Each campus is
authorized
to make reasonable adjustments in the number of units assigned to any
of the five
required distribution areas (A through E) if campus requirements and CSU
GE-Breadth
distribution requirements unduly exceed any of the minimum GE Breadth
credit
requirements. However, in such
cases, the total number of general education units required shall not be
fewer than
48 semester units or 72 quarter units.
(No campus is required to adjust normal course credit
configurations for
the sole purpose of meeting the requirements specified herein.)
2.2.6 Double
Counting
2.2.6.1 General
Education,
Major, and Other Requirements
Through
a process of campus-wide curriculum review and approval, campuses may
permit
the “double counting” of courses for General Education Breadth with
major
requirements and prerequisites only after giving careful consideration
to the
impact of such actions on general education programs.
2.2.6.2 General
Education
and US History, Constitution, and American Ideals Statutory
Requirement
CSU
campuses may permit up to six semester units or eight quarter units
taken to
meet the United States History, Constitution, and American Ideals
Requirement
(Title 5 of the California Code of Regulations, Section 40404) to be
credited
toward also satisfying General Education Breadth Requirements.
Article 3.
Premises
of CSU General Education Breadth
3.1 Background
CSU
General Education Breadth requirements have been designed to complement
the
major program and electives completed by each baccalaureate candidate, to
assure that graduates
have made noteworthy progress toward becoming truly educated persons.
These
requirements are designed to provide the knowledge, skills, experiences,
and
perspectives that will enable CSU students to expand their capacities to
take
part in a wide range of human interests and activities; to confront
personal, cultural,
moral, and social problems that are an inevitable part of human life;
and to
cultivate both the requisite skills and enthusiasm for lifelong
learning. Faculty are encouraged to assist
students in
making connections among disciplines to achieve coherence in the
undergraduate
educational experience.
Courses
approved for GE-Breadth should be responsive to the need for students to
have
developed knowledge of, or skills related to, quantitative reasoning,
information literacy, intellectual inquiry, global awareness and
understanding,
human diversity, civic engagement, communication competence, ethical
decision-making,
environmental systems, technology, lifelong learning and
self-development, and
physical and emotional health throughout a lifetime.
3.2 CSU
Student Learning Outcomes
Each
CSU campus shall define its GE student learning outcomes, to fit within
the
framework of the four “Essential Learning Outcomes” drawn from the Liberal Education and America’s Promise
(LEAP) campaign, an initiative of the Association of American Colleges
and
Universities.
LEAP
Essential
Learning Outcomes Framework
·
Knowledge of Human Cultures and the
Physical and
Natural World
·
Intellectual and Practical Skills
·
Personal and Social Responsibility
·
Integrative Learning
Within
the LEAP Essential Learning Outcomes framework, campuses may identify
more
specific outcomes, such as students’ ability to:
·
think clearly and logically;
·
demonstrate information
competency—finding and
examining information critically;
·
carry out effective oral
communication;
·
write effectively;
·
apply quantitative reasoning concepts
and skills
to solve problems;
·
make informed, ethical decisions;
·
understand and apply the scientific
method;
·
apply learning from study abroad
experiences to
general education areas;
·
utilize technology in pursuit of
intellectual
growth and efficacious human interaction;
·
demonstrate understanding of human
beings as
physiological and psychological organisms;
·
demonstrate understanding of the
physical world
in which they live and the life forms with which they share the global
environment;
·
demonstrate knowledge of cultural
endeavors and
legacies of world civilizations;
·
demonstrate understanding of how
human societies
have developed and now function;
·
apply
socially responsive knowledge and skills to issues confronting local or
global
communities;
·
demonstrate life skills such as
financial
literacy;
·
understand and apply the principles,
methodologies, value systems, ethics, and thought processes employed in
human
inquiry;
·
engage in lifelong learning and
self-development; and
·
integrate and apply the insights
gained from general
education courses.
3.3 Entry-Level
Learning Skills
3.3.1 Minimum
Competency
Title 5
of the California Code of Regulations, Section 40402.1, provides that
each
student admitted to the California
State University
is expected to possess basic competence in the English language and
mathematical computation to a degree that may reasonably be expected of
entering college students.
3.3.2 Remediation
Students
admitted who cannot demonstrate such basic competence should be
identified as
quickly as possible and be required to take steps to overcome those
deficiencies. Any coursework completed
primarily for this purpose shall not be applicable to the baccalaureate
degree.
Article 4
Subject
Area Distribution
Instruction
approved to fulfill the following subject-area distribution requirements
should
recognize the contributions to knowledge and civilization that have been
made
by members of diverse cultural groups and by women as well as men.
Area A
English Language
Communication and Critical Thinking
Minimum 9 semester units
or 12 quarter units
-one
course in each subarea
A1 Oral
Communication
(3
semester units or 4 quarter units)
A2 Written
Communication
(3
semester units or 4 quarter units)
A3 Critical
Thinking
(3
semester units or 4 quarter units)
A
minimum of nine semester units or twelve quarter units in communication
in the
English language, to include both oral communication (subarea A1) and
written
communication (subarea A2), and in critical thinking (Area A3), to
include consideration
of common fallacies in reasoning.
Students
taking courses in fulfillment of subareas A1 and A2 will develop
knowledge and
understanding of the form, content, context, and effectiveness of
communication. Students will develop
proficiency in oral and written communication in English, examining
communication from the rhetorical perspective and practicing reasoning
and
advocacy, organization, and accuracy.
Students will practice the discovery, critical evaluation, and
reporting
of information, as well as reading, writing, and listening effectively. Coursework must include active participation
and practice in both written communication and oral communication in
English.
In critical
thinking (subarea A3) courses, students
will understand logic and
its relation to language; elementary inductive and deductive
processes,
including an understanding of the formal and informal fallacies of
language and
thought; and the ability to distinguish matters of fact from issues of
judgment
or opinion. In A3 courses, students will
develop the abilities to analyze,
criticize, and advocate ideas; to reason inductively and deductively;
and to
reach well-supported factual or judgmental conclusions.
Area B
Scientific
Inquiry and Quantitative Reasoning
Minimum of 12 semester units or 18 quarter units
-one course
each in
subareas B1, B2, and B4, plus laboratory activity related to one of the
completed science courses
B1
Physical Science
(3
semester units or 4 quarter units)
B2
Life Science
(3
semester units or 4 quarter units)
B3
Laboratory Activity associated with a course
taken
to satisfy either B1 or
B2
B4
Mathematics/Quantitative Reasoning
(3
semester units or 4 quarter units)
A minimum of
twelve semester units or eighteen quarter units to include inquiry into
the
physical universe and its life forms, with some immediate participation
in a
related laboratory activity, and into mathematical concepts and
quantitative
reasoning and their applications.
In subareas
B1-B3, students develop knowledge of scientific theories, concepts, and
data
about both living and non-living systems.
Students will achieve an understanding and appreciation of
scientific
principles and the scientific method, as well as the
potential limits of scientific endeavors and the value
systems and ethics associated with human inquiry. The
nature and extent of laboratory
experience is to be determined by each campus through its established
curricular procedures.
Courses in
subarea B4 shall have an explicit intermediate algebra prerequisite, and
students shall develop skills and understanding beyond the level of
intermediate algebra. Students will not
just practice computational skills, but will be able to explain and
apply basic
mathematical concepts and will be able to solve problems through
quantitative
reasoning.
Area C Arts
and Humanities
Minimum of
12 semester units or 18 quarter
units
-at
least one course completed in each of these two subareas:
C1 Arts:
Arts, Cinema, Dance, Music, Theater
C2 Humanities: Literature,
Philosophy, Languages Other than English
A
minimum of twelve semester units or eighteen quarter units among the
arts,
literature, philosophy and foreign languages.
Across the disciplines in their Area C coursework, students will
cultivate intellect, imagination, sensibility and sensitivity. Students will respond subjectively as well as
objectively to aesthetic experiences and will develop an understanding
of the
integrity of both emotional and intellectual responses.
Students will cultivate and refine their
affective, cognitive, and physical faculties through studying great
works of
the human imagination. Activities may
include participation in individual aesthetic, creative experiences;
however
Area C excludes courses that exclusively emphasize skills development.
In their
intellectual and subjective considerations, students will develop a
better
understanding of the interrelationship between the self and the creative
arts and of the humanities in a
variety of cultures.
Students
may take courses in languages other than English in partial fulfillment
of this
requirement if the courses do not focus solely on skills acquisition but
also
contain a substantial cultural component.
This may include literature,
among other content. Coursework
taken in fulfillment of this requirement must include a reasonable
distribution
among the subareas specified, as opposed to restricting the entire
number of
units required to a single subarea.
Area D Social
Sciences
Minimum of
12 semester units or 18 quarter units
A
minimum of twelve semester units or eighteen quarter units dealing with
human
social, political, and economic institutions and behavior and their
historical
background.
Students
learn from courses in multiple Area D disciplines that human social,
political
and economic institutions and behavior are inextricably interwoven. Through fulfillment of the Area D
requirement, students will develop an understanding of problems and
issues from
the respective disciplinary perspectives and will examine issues in
their
contemporary as well as historical settings
and in a variety of cultural contexts.
Students will explore the principles, methodologies, value
systems and
ethics employed in social scientific inquiry. Courses that emphasize
skills
development and professional preparation are excluded from Area D.
Coursework
taken in fulfillment of this requirement must include a reasonable
distribution
among the subareas specified, as opposed to restricting the entire
number of
units required to a single subarea.
Area E Lifelong
Learning and Self-Development
Minimum
of 3 semester units or 4 quarter units
A
minimum of three semester units or four quarter units in study designed
to
equip learners for lifelong understanding and development of themselves
as
integrated physiological, social, and psychological beings.
Student
learning in this area
shall include selective consideration of content such as human
behavior,
sexuality, nutrition, physical and mental health, stress management,
financial
literacy, social relationships and relationships with the environment,
as well
as implications of death and dying and avenues for lifelong learning. Physical activity may be included, provided
that it is an integral part of the study elements described herein.
Article 5. Transfer
and Articulation
This
article pertains to regionally accredited non-CSU institutions that
certify
transfer students’ fulfillment of CSU General education breadth
requirements.
5.1 Premises
of General Education Breadth Transfer and Certification
a. It is the joint
responsibility of the public
segments of higher education to ensure that students are able to
transfer
without unreasonable loss of credit or time.
b. The faculty of an
institution granting the
baccalaureate degree have primary responsibility for maintaining the
integrity
of the degree program and determining when requirements have been met.
c. There shall
ordinarily be a high degree of
reciprocity among regionally accredited institutions unless there are
specific
indications that such reciprocity is not appropriate.
5.2 Conditions
for Participation in CSU
General Education Breadth Certification
Any
institution that is accredited by a recognized regional accrediting
association
and that offers the BA or BS degree or the first two years of such
degree
programs may participate in General Education Breadth certification if
it
agrees to the following provisions:
a. The participating
institution shall designate
a liaison representative who shall participate in various orientation
activities
and provide other institutional staff with pertinent information.
b. The participating
institution shall identify
for certification purposes those courses or examinations that fulfill
the
objectives set forth in Article 3 of this executive order and such
additional
objectives as may be promulgated by the chancellor of the California State
University.
1. The courses and
examinations identified
should be planned and organized to enable students to acquire abilities,
knowledge, understanding, and appreciation as interrelated elements, not
as
isolated fragments.
2. Interdisciplinary
courses or integrated sets
of courses that meet multiple objectives of the CSU General Education
Breadth
requirements may be appropriate components of general education.
3. Credit units of an
interdisciplinary course
or integrated set of courses may be distributed among different areas of
general education, as appropriate.
c. The CSU Office of the
Chancellor, Division of
Academic Affairs, shall maintain a list of participating institutions’
courses
and examinations that have been identified and accepted for
certification
purposes.
1. Each entry in the
list shall include
specification of the area or areas and objectives to which the course or
examination relates and the number of units associated with each area or
objective. (See Attachment A.)
2. The list shall be
updated annually. Each participating
institution shall transmit
annually to the CSU Office of the Chancellor, Division of Academic
Affairs, any
proposed changes to its portion of the list.
If a course is to be added or if the specification of areas and
objectives for a course is to be modified, the participating institution
shall
include in its submission the approved course outline.
If a course is part of an integrated set of
courses, the submission shall identify the set and describe how the
course
complements the others in the set.
3. A copy of the list
shall be made available in
printed or electronic form to any CSU campus or participating
institution. Participating institutions are
free to share
their course outlines and communications from the CSU about those course
outlines with other participating institutions.
4. The participating
institution shall be
responsible for reviewing periodically its portion of the list to assure
that
entries continue to be appropriate and to reflect current knowledge in
the
field. It is also responsible for
re-approving entries that are found to have remained appropriate and for
directing to the subcommittee of the Chancellor’s General Education
Advisory
Committee any questions such updating of the courses may have raised as
to
their congruence with CSU General Education Breadth areas and
objectives.
5. The
participating institution shall report
certification for individual students in a format to be specified.
5.3. Certification
Requirements
5.3.1 Definition
General
education “certification” shall indicate that a participating
institution has
verified that a transfer student has met CSU lower-division
requirements. CSU campuses shall accept
participating
institutions’ full certification or subject-area certification, as
defined
below.
5.3.2 Full
Certification
5.3.2.1 Fulfillment
of
Lower-Division Requirements
Students
admitted to a CSU campus with full certification shall not be held to
any
additional lower-division general education requirements.
5.3.2.2 Additional Lower-Division
Graduation
Requirements
Full
certification does not exempt students from unmet lower-division
graduation
requirements that may exist outside of the general education program of
the
campus awarding the degree.
5.3.2.3 Qualification
for Full Certification
To
qualify for full certification, a student must satisfactorily complete
no fewer
than 39 lower-division semester units or 58 lower-division quarter units
of
instruction appropriate to meet the objectives of Articles 3 (Premises)
and 4
(Distribution Areas). Community college
certification does not guarantee that all CSU campus admission
requirements
have been met. The units must be distributed
as follows below (except as specified in Subsection 5.3.4 below):
a.
In Area A, no fewer than 9 semester units
(12-15
quarter units), including instruction in oral communication, written
communication, and critical thinking.
b.
In Area B, no fewer than 9 semester units
(12-15
quarter units), including instruction in physical science and life
science, at
least one part of which must include a laboratory component, and
mathematics/quantitative reasoning.
c.
In Area C, no fewer than 9 semester units
(12-15 quarter
units), with at least one course in the arts and one in the humanities
(see
Attachment A).
d.
In Area D, no fewer than 9 semester units
(12-15
quarter units), with courses taken in at least two disciplines (see
Attachment
A).
e.
Area E, no fewer than 3 semester units (4-5
quarter
units).
5.3.3
Subject-Area (Partial) Certification
5.3.3.1
Fulfillment of Lower-Division
Requirements by Area
Students
admitted to a CSU campus with subject-area certification may not be held
to any
additional lower-division general education coursework in the subject
areas
certified.
5.3.3.2 Certification
Limits on Credits that Exceed Minimum
Subject-Area Requirements
For
subject-area certification, campuses are not required to certify credits
that
exceed the minimum number of units required for the five Subject Areas—A
through E.
5.3.3.3 Additional
Lower-Division Graduation
Requirements
Subject-area
certification does not exempt students from completing unmet
lower-division
graduation requirements that may exist outside of the general education
requirements at the campus awarding the degree.
5.3.3.4 Qualification
for
Subject-Area Certification
To
qualify for subject-area certification, a student must satisfactorily
complete
instruction appropriate to meet the objectives of one or more
subsections of Article
4 (Subject-Area Distribution). Except as
specified in Subsection 5.3.4, the units must be distributed as follows:
a.
For Area A, no fewer than 9 semester units
(12-15
quarter units), including instruction in oral communication, written
communication, and critical thinking. A
single course may not be certified as meeting more than one subarea for
any
given student.
b.
For Area B, no fewer than 9 semester units
(12-15
quarter units), including instruction in mathematics/quantitative
reasoning and
physical science and life science, at least one part of which must
include a
laboratory component. A single course
may not be certified as meeting more than one subarea for any given
student,
except for laboratory components incorporated into a physical or life
science
course.
c.
For Area C, no fewer than 9 semester units
(12-15
quarter units), with at least one course in the arts and one in the
humanities
(see Attachment A).
d.
For Area D, no fewer than 9 semester units
(12-15
quarter units), with courses taken in at least two disciplines (see
Attachment
A).
e.
For Area E, no fewer than 3 semester units
(4-5 quarter
units).
5.3.4 Exceptions
to Certification Requirements
At the discretion of
the campus, exceptions
to the requirements
for full certification and subject-area certification (as specified
above) may
be made for programs in which instruction is integrated into a set of
courses
or into interdisciplinary courses designed to meet multiple objectives. Interdisciplinary courses in this case would
be expected to be offered at an appropriately greater number of units.
5.4 Certification
of Courses and Examinations
5.4.1 Qualification
for Certification
A
participating institution may certify completion of courses or
examinations taken
at other eligible institutions, provided that all such courses and
examinations
would be identified for certification purposes by the institution
offering
them.
5.4.2 If
so identified, those courses and examinations shall contribute to
qualification
of a student for either full certification or subject-area
certification, as
appropriate.
5.4.3 California
Community Colleges may include non-CSU upper-division courses in
certification
of lower-division CSU General Education Breadth or Intersegmental
General
Education Transfer Curriculum.
5.5 Limitations
of
Certification
5.5.1 Restriction
to General Education Requirements
Neither full
certification nor
subject-area certification exempts students from unmet lower-division
graduation requirements that may exist outside of the general education
program
of the campus awarding the degree.
5.5.2 Maximum
Number of Credits Allowed
5.5.2.1 Limit
on
Certification on Total General Education Units
A
participating institution shall not certify a student for more than 39
semester
units or the quarter equivalent. If more
than one participating institution certifies a student, the CSU campus
granting
the degree is not required to accept certification for more than 39
semester
units or the quarter equivalent.
5.5.2.2 Limit
on
Certification of Units in Areas B through D
A
participating institution shall not certify a student for more than 30
semester
units (45 quarter units) total in subject areas B through D combined. If more than one participating institution
certifies
a student, the CSU campus granting the degree is not required to accept
certification for more than 30 semester units (45 quarter units) total
in
subject areas B through D combined.
5.5.2.3 Limit
on
Requirements After Transfer
Upon
transfer, no student shall be required to complete more units in General
Education Breadth than the difference between the number certified in
accordance with this executive order and the total units in General
Education
Breadth required by the campus granting the degree.
5.5.2.4 Restrictions
on
Certification of Upper-Division Courses
Baccalaureate-granting
institutions certifying a student for units earned in upper-division
courses or
examinations may provide certification only for those units that were
completed
during or after the term in which the student achieved upper-division
status
(i.e., earned a total of at least 60 semester units or 90 quarter
units).
5.6
General
Education Reciprocity Among CSU Campuses
5.6.1 Full Lower-Division Reciprocity
a. Full lower-division
reciprocity is the
process through which all lower-division general education requirements
that
one CSU campus has designated as having been satisfactorily and entirely
completed shall be accepted as fulfilling all lower-division general
education
requirements of the CSU
campus granting the baccalaureate degree—without regard to differences
that may exist between the GE requirements of
two campuses.
b. A course or
examination is to be regarded
as satisfactorily completed if the student’s performance meets the
minimum
standards for full acceptance toward satisfying a requirement as set by
the
campus at which the course or examination was taken.
c. For the purposes of
this section,
completion of lower-division general education requirements is
equivalent to
qualification for full certification, as defined in Article 5 above.
5.6.2 Reciprocity as
Fulfillment of Full
Lower-Division General Education Requirements
Transfer
students admitted with documentation of full lower-division general
education
program completion at another CSU campus shall not be held to any
additional
lower-division general education requirements by the campus awarding the
degree.
5.6.3 Reciprocity for
Subject-Area General
Education Requirements
5.6.3.1 Definition
a. Subject-area
lower-division reciprocity
is the process through which lower-division general education
subject-area
requirements designated by CSU campuses as having been satisfactorily
completed
shall be recognized as fulfilling the corresponding subject-area general
education requirements of the CSU campus granting the baccalaureate
degree—without regard to differences that may exist in the configuration
of the
two programs or in the content of the subject area.
b. Students
seeking to transfer under the provisions
of this section shall be responsible for requesting verification that
lower-division general education program or subject-area requirements
have been
met. Upon the request of a currently or
formerly enrolled student, the CSU campus from which the student seeks
to
transfer shall determine the extent to which that student has
satisfactorily
completed the lower-division general education requirements in each
subject
area, and shall provide official documentation of such completion.
c. For the
purposes of this section,
completion of lower-division general education subject-area requirements
is
equivalent to qualification for subject-area certification, as defined
above.
d. Transfer
students admitted with
documentation of completion of one or more general education subject
areas at
another CSU campus may not be held to any additional lower-division
general
education requirements in that subject area by the campus awarding the
degree.
5.6.4 Reciprocity
Limitations
The
provisions of Article 5.6 do not exempt students from unmet
lower-division
graduation requirements of the CSU campus awarding the degree or from
lower-division courses required by individual baccalaureate majors at
the CSU
campus awarding the degree.
Article 6 Implementation
and Governance
6.1. General
Education Advisory Committee
A
systemwide Chancellor’s
General Education Advisory Committee is hereby established. While it is important that the membership of
this committee be broadly based, it shall in largest part be drawn from
the instructional
faculty of the California
State University.
At
minimum, the membership shall also include Chancellor’s Office staff,
one California Community College
instructional faculty member, one CSU campus academic affairs
administrator,
and one articulation officer from the CSU system and one from the California Community College system. Each member of the committee shall have an
equal vote.
The
chancellor or the executive vice chancellor and chief academic officer
may from
time to time request that the committee address and provide advice on
other
issues related to the development and well-being of California State
University
General Education Breadth policy and programs.
The
responsibilities of this committee shall be as follows:
a. To review and propose
any necessary revisions
in the objectives, requirements, and implementation of CSU General
Education
Breadth policy to ensure high-quality general education.
b. To continue to study
general education
policies and practices inside and outside the system and, as
appropriate, to
stimulate intersegmental discussion of the development of general
education
curricula.
c. To review the
implications of CSU General
Education Breadth policy for students transferring to the CSU and for
the
institutions from which they transfer, and to propose any necessary
adjustments
to pertinent policies and practices so that students may be better
served in
their educational pursuits and achievement of the baccalaureate degree.
d. To report as
appropriate to the Chancellor
and the Board of Trustees.
6.2 Campus
Responsibility
6.2.1 Development
and Revision of Campus Requirements
Campus
faculty have primary responsibility for developing and revising the
institution’s particular general education program.
Within the CSU General Education Breadth
distribution framework, each CSU campus is to establish its own
requirements
and exercise creativity in identifying courses, disciplines, and
learning
outcomes. In undertaking this task,
careful attention should be given to the following:
a. Assuring
that
General Education Breadth requirements are planned and organized so
that
their objectives are perceived by students as interrelated elements, not
as
isolated fragments.
b. Considering
the
organization of approved courses so
that students may choose from among a variety of “cores” or
“themes,”
each with an underlying unifying rationale.
c. Periodically
reviewing
approved courses to ensure that they remain responsive to the essential
learning outcomes framework identified in Section 3.2
d. Using
evidence
of student attainment of learning outcomes to inform the ongoing
design of General Education curriculum and instruction.
e. Considering
the
possibility of incorporating integrative courses, especially at the
upper-division level, that feature the interrelationships among
disciplines and
traditional general education categories.
f. Providing
for
reasonable ordering of requirements so that, for example, courses
focusing
on learning skills will be completed relatively early and those
emphasizing
integrative experiences will be completed relatively later.
g. Developing
programs
that are responsive to educational goals and student needs, rather
than programs based on traditional titles of academic disciplines and
organizational units.
h. Considering
possibilities
for innovative teaching and learning, including activity as well
as observation in all general education coursework.
6.2.2 GE Breadth
Requirements and the Development
of New Baccalaureate Degrees
The
development of new baccalaureate programs shall include consideration of
how
the degree requirements will incorporate at least the minimum required
general
education distribution credits, the major program requirements, and
other
graduation requirements. Justifications
must be provided to the Office of the Chancellor for any program
extending the
baccalaureate credit requirement beyond 120 units (Title 5, Section
40508).
6.2.3 Campus Standing
General-Education Committee
The
effectiveness of a General Education Breadth program is dependent upon
the
adequacy of curricular supervision, its internal integrity and its
overall
fiscal and academic support. Toward this
end, each campus shall have a broadly representative standing committee,
a
majority of which shall be instructional faculty, and which shall also
include
student membership, to provide for appropriate oversight and to make
appropriate recommendations concerning the implementation, conduct and
evaluation of these requirements.
6.2.4 General-Education
Academic Advising
Each campus shall provide for
systematic, readily available academic advising specifically oriented to
general education as one means of achieving greater cohesiveness in
student
choices of course offerings to fulfill these requirements.
6.2.5 General-Education
Review and Assessment
Each
campus shall provide for regular periodic reviews of general education
program
policies and practices in a manner comparable to those of major
programs,
including evaluation by an external reviewer.
The review should include an assessment of general education
student
learning outcomes (as designed by campuses in consonance with but not
constrained by the objectives stated in Article 3.2 of this executive
order).
Charles B. Reed, Chancellor
Dated: June 18, 2008
Executive Order No.1033
Attachment A
Requirements for Certification of CSU General Education Breadth
Area A
English Language
Communication and Critical Thinking
References: Article 4-A,
Article 5.3.2.3-A, Article 5.3.3.4-A
A minimum of
9 semester units or 12-15 quarter units
-one course
in
each subarea
Oral
Communication…………………………………………………………………….. A1
Written
Communication…………………………………………………………………. A2
Critical
Thinking………………………………………………………………………… A3
________________________________________________________________________________________________
Area B
Scientific Inquiry
and Quantitative Reasoning
References: Article
4-B, Article 5.3.2.3-B, Article
5.3.3.4-B
A minimum of
9 semester units or 12-15 quarter units
-one course in subareas B1, B2, and B4, plus
laboratory
activity related to one of the completed science courses
Physical
Science………………………………………………………………………… B1
Life
Science………………………………………………………………………………B2
Laboratory
Activity................................………………………………………………… B3
associated with the course taken to satisfy
either B1 or B2
Mathematics/Quantitative
Reasoning…………………………………………………… B4
________________________________________________________________________________________________
Area
C
Arts and Humanities
References: Sections
Article 4-C, Article 5.3.2.3-C, Article 5.3.3.4-C
A minimum of 9 semester units or 12-15 quarter
units
-at least one course in each subarea
Arts
(
Art, Cinema, Dance, Music,
Theater)…………………………………………….. C1
Humanities (Literature, Philosophy, Languages Other than
English)…………………………………………………………………………………. C2
________________________________________________________________________________________________
Area
D
Social Sciences
References: Article
4-D Article 5.3.2.3-D Article
5.3.3.4-D
A minimum of 9 semester units or 12-15 quarter
units
-courses to be taken in more than one subarea
Anthropology
and Archeology………………………………………………………….. D1
Economics……………………………………………………………………………..........….. D2
Ethnic
Studies*…………………………………………………………………………........ D3
Gender
Studies*…………………………………………………………………......………. D4
Geography…………………………………………………………………….........……….…
D5
History*…………………………………………………………………………...........…….… D6
Interdisciplinary
Social or Behavioral Science…………………………..…… D7
Political
Science, Government, and Legal Institutions…………………
D8
Psychology……………………………………………………………………………….
D9
Sociology
and Criminology………………………………………………………… …
D0
* Ethnic Studies, Gender Studies, or
history courses emphasizing artistic or humanistic perspectives may be
categorized in Area C.
________________________________________________________________________________________________
Area
E
Lifelong Learning
and Self-Development
References: Article
4-E Article 5.3.2.3-E Article
5.3.3.4-E
3 Semester units or 4-5 quarter units required
E
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