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Certification of Courses for the new GE Curriculum
On December 5, 2001, the College faculty voted in favor of a new general education (GE) curriculum centered on the following three areas of knowledge, Foundations of the Arts and Humanities, Foundations of Society and Culture, and Foundations of Scientific Inquiry. The GE Governance Committee, in collaboration with the College FEC and the Undergraduate Council, undertook a review and re-certification of offered and newly proposed GE courses. In order to assist the departments in this certification process, the GE Governance Committee established three ad hoc workgroups composed of faculty representatives from departments associated with the new GE curriculum’s three foundation areas of knowledge. Below are links to the reports submitted to the UCLA Undergraduate Council on the certification of courses for the new general education curriculum in the College of Letters and Science
- Transmittal Letter from the FEC and the GE Governance Committee
- Report from the Foundations of the Arts and Humanities
- Report from the Foundations of Society and Culture
- Report from the Foundations of Scientific Inquiry
General Education at UCLA: A Proposal for Change
Final Report to The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Towards New Communities of Learning
Campus-wide GE Requirements Chart
Creating New Communities of Learning at UCLA: An Institutional Transformation in Progress, 1993-2002
Reviews
Self-Review Report on the General Education Curriculum - Foundations of Scientific Inquiry
Over the last ten years, all UCLA units responsible for undergraduate education have worked collaboratively to establish a common campus-wide General Education (GE) curriculum and course list based on three foundation areas of knowledge: Arts and Humanities, Society and Culture, and Scientific Inquiry. To further maintain and strengthen the quality of UCLA’s general-education program, the Vice Provost (VP) for Undergraduate Education and the Undergraduate Council (UgC) worked closely with the GE Governance Committee in 2005-06 to establish a process for the systematic review of the course offerings in each of the new foundation areas of knowledge. As with departments, these GE curricular reviews were slated to take two years to complete and involve a period of self review, as well as a site visit by campus and extramural scholars.
Review of the Foundations of Scientific Inquiry
A review of the Scientific Inquiry GE curriculum was conducted during 2006 by an ad hoc faculty committee jointly appointed by the GE Governance Committee and Vice Provost Judith L. Smith. This ad hoc workgroup focused on several issues, including the overall pedagogical aims of the foundation area, as well as the quality of the courses offered, and issued its Self-Review Report in Fall 2006. This report was reviewed by the GE Governance Committee and used by the review team, which conducted a site visit May 29, 2007 and issued an Academic Senate Program Review report on July 11, 2007. Both of these reports are available online at the following sites:
>> Self-Review Report
>> Academic Senate Program Review Report for Scientific Inquiry