Faculty

General education courses offer students the opportunity to explore new topics as well as hone skills they have been working on for years. Even as students (and society writ large) seem to imagine that a university education is job training, it might be better to characterize it for students as career preparedness--in that many graduates will not go into a job related to their major, and many still will change their career often over their lifetime.  

The Office of Teaching and Learning, as well as the University Writing Program, and the Faculty Director of General Education, offer opportunities to hone teaching and share different approaches.

Course Proposals

First-year Seminars (FSEM) proposals usually are due mid-February. Review FSEM Faculty Resources page for more information.

Advanced Seminars (ASEM) proposals are due mid-Fall or mid-Winter terms for consideration for the next AY.

All other courses are approved by each unit (NSM reviews AI: Natural and SI: Natural; CAHSS reviews SI: Society, AI: Society; CWLC reviews foreign language courses, UWP reviews WRIT courses). If you wish for your course to be included in the Common Curriculum, courses should be submitted and approved first before submitting it to each unit.