Course Proposal Forms

Proposing Courses to Meet General Education Requirements

Departments may propose courses to meet Perspective, Practical Reasoning, and Active Learning Experience requirements. For each course being proposed a syllabus or detailed course description and a completed request form for the credit(s) being proposed should be submitted electronically to Tiffany Lindsey (lindseyt@berea.edu), staff support to COGE. The request forms ask respondents to indicate how the course will address the faculty-approved learning goals for the requirement.

The submission deadlines concerning requests for general education requirements during 2024-2025 (ALE, PR, PRQ, Natural Science, Perspectives, and Service-Learning) are as follows:

Please submit all documentation for these requests to Tiffany Lindsey (lindseyt@berea.edu) before these deadlines pass.

If you are new to Service-Learning or not sure if your course is a good match for Service-Learning, please contact Ashley Cochrane, Director of The Center for Excellence in Learning Through Service (CELTS) to learn more and brainstorm possibilities. Just as a reminder, courses that are not permanently designated as service-learning courses need to “renew” their S-L Course designation each time the course is taught as an S-L course by submitting the S-L Course designation proposal form (Part A only).

Just as a reminder, here are the ways to go about requesting perspectives for various types of course offerings:

If you have any questions or concerns about this, please feel free to contact Tiffany Lindsey, Eileen McKiernan-Gonzalez, or EJ Stokes.

The request forms, which should be completed and submitted with a course syllabus, are available below:

Perspectives

Practical Reasoning

Active Learning Experience

Natural Science

Values & Richnesses for New Curriculum^{*, **}

^*Departments can request that courses carry a Value or Richness without the form for a probationary period of one year. After that period, the courses will need to submit the form for permanent review if they wish to carry permanent designations. (It is fine for departments to go ahead and submit the form to take care of that process but the probationary period does exist to help with the transition into the new General Education format.)

**Courses that are not permanent catalog courses (i.e. Special Topics courses), or courses that can be taught differently from year to year or between different instructors, will need to always resubmit the request with each offering of the course.