Transcript Baccalaureate Core Committee: Proposed Criteria Revision for Perspectives Categories

Baccalaureate Core Committee: Proposed
Criteria Revision for Perspectives
Categories
OSU Faculty Senate, October 11, 2012
Kerry Kincanon and Marion Rossi, BCC Co-Chairs, 2012-13
Reconciling Policy and Practice
• Last spring, the BCC engaged in discussion about the inclusion
of upper-division coursework in the Perspectives Categories of
the Bacc Core.
• All Perspectives categories include the statement: “Be lower
division and at least three credits”
• Four Perspectives categories, Western Culture, Cultural
Diversity, Literature and the Arts, and Social Processes and
Institutions, include upper-division course as options to meet
the category
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BCC Conclusions
• The statement should be revised in the Perspectives
categories to align the criteria with what has been the
apparent practice of the BCC for several years.
• The revised statement should acknowledge that
Perspectives categories are often fulfilled by lowerdivision students and the courses therein should not
be overly restrictive with limitations and/or
prerequisites.
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Proposed Change
• Strike the “Be lower division and at least three credits” statement from the
criteria of all Perspectives categories
• add the following statements to the criteria for all Perspectives categories:
For the non-science categories
Courses in this Perspectives category shall be at least three credits and
accessible to both lower and upper division students. Prerequisites or
class‐level restrictions for Perspectives courses must not create unreasonable
barriers for students seeking to fulfill these categories.
and for the science categories
Courses in this Perspectives category shall be at least four credits, contain a
lab, and accessible to both lower and upper division students. Prerequisites or
class‐level restrictions for Perspectives courses must not create unreasonable
barriers for students seeking to fulfill these categories.
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