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GENERAL EDUCATION

Special Report of the General Education Council concerning A Proposal to Require Submissions
of General Education Designation Requests in Electronic File Format
Sen. Doc. No. 07-036
Special Report of the Academic Matters Council and the General Education Council concerning
the Application of General Education Requirements to Returning Students
Sen. Doc. No. 05-041
Special Report of the General Education Council concerning Proposed New General Education
Designation: "Science Interdisciplinary" or "SI"
Sen. Doc. No. 04-019
Special Report of the General Education Council concerning The Designation of Social &
Cultural Diversity Courses
Sen. Doc. No. 02-013
Special Report of the General Education Council concerning The Review of General Education
Sen. Doc. No. 01-035
Special Report of the General Education Council concerning Recommended Courses
Changes concerning the Basic Mathematics Skills Requirement
Sen. Doc. No. 96-003
Special Report of the Academic Matters Council and the General Education Council concerning
Modifications in the General Education Requirements
Sen. Doc. No. 90-015
Special Report of the Rules Committee concerning The Undergraduate General Education
Requirement
Sen. Doc. No. 85-024B (revised February 24, 2005)
Special Report of the Rules Committee concerning The Undergraduate General Education
Requirement
Sen. Doc. No. 85-024A

GENERAL EDUCATION DESIGNATIONS: APPROVALS

Special Report of the General Education Council concerning Recommended General Education Designations
for LINGUIST 390C and 390D
Sen. Doc. No. 08-034
Special Report of the General Education Council concerning Recommended General Education Designations
for Biology 127H and 190A
Sen. Doc. No. 08-024
Special Report of the General Education Council concerning A Recommended General Education
Designation For CE-ENGIN 211
Sen. Doc. No. 08-019
Special Report of the General Education Council concerning A Recommended General Education Designation
HISTORY 390J - "Cross-Disciplinary Contemporary Issues: War and Patriotism in Afro-American Literature and History" - I & U
Sen. Doc. No. 08-011
Special Report of the General Education Council concerning Recommended General Education Designations
AFROAM 390J - "Cross-Disciplinary Contemporary Issues: War and Patriotism in Afro-American Literature and History" - I & U
COMM-DIS 210 - "Introduction to Communication Disorders " - U
Sen. Doc. No. 08-004
Special Report of the General Education Council concerning A Recommended General Education Designation
JUDAIC 309 - "Music of the Jewish People" - AT & G
Sen. Doc. No. 07-049
Special Report of the General Education Council concerning Recommended General Education Designations
ANTHRO 205 - "Inequality and Oppression" - U
COMPLIT 391B - "French Film" - AT
HONORS 291J - "Cross-Cultural Preparation Seminar" - I & G
HONORS 292S - "Engaging with the Community" - I & U
POLISCI 181 - "Controversies in Public Policy" - SB
SPORTMGT 202 - "History of Sport and Physical Activity" - HS
Sen. Doc. No. 07-037
Special Report of the General Education Council concerning A Recommended General Education Designation
JUDAIC 343 - "American Jewish Diversity" - HSG
Sen. Doc. No. 07-032
Special Report of the General Education Council concerning A Recommended General Education Designation
MILITARY 290A - "Iraq: Understanding a Complex Country in Complex Times" - HSG
Sen. Doc. No. 07-024
Special Report of the General Education Council concerning Recommended General Education Designations
EDUC 300 - "Current Issues in Higher Education" - SB
CLASSICS 102 - "Roman Civilization" - HS
CLASSICS 202 - "The Age of Augustus" - AT
Sen. Doc. No. 07-020
Special Report of the General Education Council concerning Recommended General Education Designations
HISTORY 253 - "Asian-Pacific American History: 1850-Present" - HSU
PHYSICS 190Q - "Einstein's Dice" - PS
SOCIOL 240 - "Sociology of the Asian American Experience" - SBU
Sen. Doc. No. 07-013
Special Report of the General Education Council concerning Recommended General Education Designations
HISTORY 254 - "The Black Freedom Struggle since 1945" - HSU
HISTORY 269 - "The American War in Vietnam" - HS
SCH-MGMT 350 - "Professional Ethics in Contemporary Society" - SB
Sen. Doc. No. 06-045
Special Report of the General Education Council concerning Recommended General
Education Designations
HISTORY 200 - "New Approaches to the Study of History" - HS
HISTORY 247 - "Empire, Race, and the Philippines" - HSG
Sen. Doc. No. 06-027
Special Report of the General Education Council concerning A Recommended General
Education Designation for Spanish 266 - "The Occult in Literature" - ALG
Sen. Doc. No. 06-019
Special Report of the General Education Council concerning A Recommended General
Education Designation
HONORS 292J - "Cultural Diversity in Northeast North America" - IU
Sen. Doc. No. 06-014
Special Report of the General Education Council concerning A Recommended General
Education Designation
EDUC 293A - "Love and Work" - SB
Sen. Doc. No. 06-010
Special Report of the General Education Council concerning Recommended General
Education Designations
ART-HIST 191A - "Introduction to Architecture and the Built Environment" - ALG
JUDAIC 374 - "Culture & Immigration in Israel" - HSG
Sen. Doc. No. 06-008
Special Report of the General Education Council concerning Recommended General
Education Designations
RES-ECON 211 - "Introductory Statistics for the Life Sciences" - From R2 to R1/R2
RES-ECON 212 - "Introductory Statistics for the Social Sciences" - From R2 to R1/R2
JUDAIC 373 - "Jewish Travelers and Travel Liars: Exploration and Imagination,
Ancient to Modern Times" - HSG
PLSOILIN 285 - "Sustainable Living" - I
Sen. Doc. No. 06-005
Special Report of the General Education Council concerning A Recommended General
Education Designation
WOMENSST 290A - "Introduction to the Biology of 'Difference'" - SIU
Sen. Doc. No. 05-030
Special Report of the General Education Council concerning A Recommended General
Education Designation
PHYSICS 190E - "Energy and Society" - PS
Sen. Doc. No. 05-017
Special Report of the General Education Council concerning A Recommended General
Education Designation
LINGUIST 390A - "Controlling the Discourse" - I
Sen. Doc. No. 05-013
Special Report of the General Education Council concerning A Recommended General
Education Designation
EDUC 258 - "Educating for Social Justice and Diversity through Peer Theater" - U
Sen. Doc. No. 04-045
Special Report of the General Education Council concerning Recommended General
Education Designations
HONORS 391D - "Dean’s Book - Synthesis" - I
HONORS 391G - "Dean’s Book - Transfer" - I
HONORS 391S - "Dean’s Book - Service Learning" - I
Sen. Doc. No. 04-041
Special Report of the General Education Council concerning Recommended General
Education Designations
COM-HLTH 229 - "Bioterrorism and the Challenges to Public Health" - I
POLISCI 252 - "Globalization, Governance and World Order" - SBG
POLISCI 338 - "Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Identity" - SBG
Sen. Doc. No. 04-029
Special Report of the General Education Council concerning Recommended General
Education Designations
BIOLOGY 290A - "Under the Connecticut" - SI
CHINESE 190A - "Modern China through Literature and Film" - IG
ENGLISH 270 - "American Identities" – AL
JAPANESE 190B - "Japanese Fiction through Film" - G
JAPANESE 190R - "Introduction to Japanese Religion" - IG
JAPANESE 190S - "Rituals and Customs in Japanese Society" - IG
JUDAIC 390D - "Sephardic Cultures and Literatures of the Spanish Diaspora" - IG
PSYCH 110 - "Psychology as a Natural Science" - BS
Sen. Doc. No. 04-027A
Special Report of the General Education Council concerning Recommended General
Education Designations
GERMAN 276 - "Vikings and Their Stories" – AL
LABOR 190A - "Labor and the Global Economy" - SB
LABOR 190B - "Labor and the Law: Justice at Work" - SB
LABOR 201 - "Issues of Women and Work" - SBU
MICROBIO 190A - "Plagues: The Microbiology of Disease" - BS
NURSE 320 - "Holistic Health" - SBG
Sen. Doc. No. 04-018
Special Report of the General Education Council concerning Recommended Courses
BIOCHEM 100 - "My DNA" - BS
BIOL 290H "Cosmos to Humanity" - BS
FREN 356 - "Fictions of the Grail in Literature and Film" - AL
GERMAN 290C - "The Crusades and the Image of Islam" - HSG
JAPAN 235 - "Performing Arts of Japan" - ATG
POLSCI 201 - "American Politics through Film" - HS
SPORST 200 - "Sociology of Sport" - SB
Sen. Doc. No. 03-001
Special Report of the General Education Council concerning Recommended Courses
CLSICS 330 - "Witchcraft and Magic in the Greco-Roman World" - HS
EDUC 377 - "Introduction to Multicultural Education" - U
HONORS 392I - "Interpretation in Cross-Cultural Perspective" - G
JAPAN 290D - "Diversity in Japan" - G
UWW 190B - "Introduction to Body and Mind" - BS
Sen. Doc. No. 02-028
Special Report of the General Education Council concerning Recommended Courses
AFROAM 117 - "Survey of Afro-American Literature I" - ALD
AFROAM 190F - "Survey of Afro-American Literature II" - ALD
AFROAM 290C - "The Blues Came Down Like Dark Night Showers of Rain" - ATD
AFROAM 290D - "Afro-American Poetry: Beginnings to 1900" - ATD
AFROAM 390A - "Jazz and Blues Literature" - ALD
AFROAM 390C - "Afro-American Literature of the 1930's" - ALD
AFROAM 390D - "Langston Hughes" - ALD
ECON 367 - "Development of Post-Independence Africa" - SBD
MUSIC 309 - "Introduction to the Music of the Jewish People" - AT
POLSCI 162 - "Introduction to Constitutional Law" - SB
POLSCI 219 - "State & Local Government" - SB
SOCIOL 225 - "Sociology of Revolution" - SBD
Sen. Doc. No. 01-019
Special Report of the General Education Council concerning Recommended Courses
BIOL 190A - "Ethnobotony of North American Indians" - BS
EDUC 490H - "Weighing Evidence" - I
MUSIC 190F - "Music in Film" - AT
UNIV 190F - "The Universe through the University" - I
Sen. Doc. No. 00-010
Special Report of the General Education Council concerning Recommended Courses
AFROAM 190B - "The Minority Experience in American Life & Culture I" - ID
AFROAM 332 - "Blacks and Jews in the United States" - D
BIOL 190H - "Experiments in Modern Biology" - BS
ENGL 116 - "Native American Literatures" - ALD
GERMAN 190G - "From Grimm to Disney: Germanic Fairy Tales and U.S. Popular Culture" - AL
MIE 190H - "Introduction to Engineering Design" - R2
Sen. Doc. No. 99-026
Special Report of the General Education Council concerning Recommended Courses

Sen. Doc. No. 97-039

Special Report of the General Education Council concerning Recommended Courses
ANTH 390A - "Contemporary Issues for Native Americans" - D

Sen. Doc. No. 97-016

Special Report of the General Education Council concerning Recommended Courses
ARTHIS 100 - "Ancient to Medieval Art" - ATD
COMLIT 390V - "Vietnam: Images of War in Translation & Adaptation" - ALD
ECON 190J - "Comparison of U.S. and Japanese Economies" - SBD
ECON 190L - "Intro. to Latin American and Latino Economic Issues" - SBD
FRENCH 290M - "Introduction to Medieval Studies" - I
HIST 383 - "American Environmental History" - HS
HONORS 392X - "Visions & Revisions: Literary Nonfiction as Social History" - ID
PHYSIC 190A - "From the Big Bang to Black Holes: 20th Century Physics for Non-Majors" - PS
PUB HL 190E - "Eating Disorders: A Physiological, Psychological, & Medical Perspective" - I
PSYCH 390E - "Multicultural Issues in Psychology" - D
SOCIOL 322 - "Sociology of Education" - SBD
SOCIOL 387 - "Sexuality and Society" - SBD
UNIV 190B - "Baseball & Modern America" - HSD
W&FCON 250 - "Wildlife & their Environment" - BS
Sen. Doc. No. 96-052
Special Report of the General Education Council concerning Recommended Course
COINS 187 - "Programming with Data Structures" - R2
Sen. Doc. No. 91-051
Special Report of the General Education Council concerning Recommended Courses
COMLIT 390C - "Introduction to Science Fiction" - ALD
DUTCH 290A - "Colonial Literature in Britain and the Netherlands" - AL
FRENCH 290B - "Knights & Narratives: Medieval French Literature in Translation" - AL
GERMAN 379 - "Contemporary Germany" - I
Sen. Doc. No. 91-050
Special Report of the General Education Council concerning Recommended Courses
AFROAM 290A - "Afro-American Press in the USA" - D
GEOG 332 - "Southeast Asia" - D
HIST 190I - "Modern South Asia" - HS
HONORS 292T - "America at the Turn of the Century" - D
SPAN 490A - "Spanish America: A Cultural Overview" - D
MUSIC 150 - "The Lively Arts" - ATD
Sen. Doc. No. 91-040
Special Report of the General Education Council concerning Recommended Courses
LEGAL 333 - "Law and Culture in America" - HS
AFROAM 161 - "Introduction to Black Political Science" - SB
NAREST 100 - "Conservation of Natural Resources" - I
Sen. Doc. No. 91-019
Special Report of the General Education Council concerning Recommended Courses
ANTH 369 - "Archaeology of North America" - HSD
ANTH 375 - "South American Archaeology" - HSD
COMM 265 - "Communication & the Development of Western Civilization" - HS
COMM 370 - "Rhetoric & Social Change I" - HS
COMM 371 - "Rhetoric & Social Change II" - HS
ENGL 368 - "Modern American Drama" - AL
HIST 190E - "Social Change & the 1960's" - HSD
HIST 388 - "U.S. Women's History to 1890" - HSD
HONORS 292F - "The American Family" - I D
HONORS 292P - "American Portraits" - I D
HONORS 292W - "America at War: Militarism, Ideology & Representation" - I
HONORS 392I - "Making Sense through Interpretation: The West meets the East" - I
JUDAIC 345 - "The Making of Modern Jewry" - HSD
LABOR 290A - "Labor & Work in the United States" - I D
LEGAL 333 - "Law & Culture in America" - HS
MUSIC 103 - "History of Jazz" - ATD
NUTR 190B - "Nutrition, Culture & Agriculture" - D
WDTECH 201 - "Introduction to Wood Science" - BSL
AFROAM 190A - "Roots of Apartheid: School & Society in South Africa 1652-1948" - HSD
LEGAL 460 - "Legalization of the American Indian" - HSD
Sen. Doc. No. 91-013

GENERAL EDUCATION DESIGNATIONS: WITHDRAWALS

Special Report of the General Education Council concerning the Withdrawal of a General
Education Designation
SOCIOL 120 - "Introduction to Macrosociology" - SBD
Sen. Doc. No. 06-046
Special Report of the General Education Council concerning the Withdrawal of General
Education Designations
EDUC 276 - "Erroneous Beliefs" - R2
EDUC 517 - "Computer Use in Teaching" - R2
Sen. Doc. No. 06-028
Special Report of the General Education Council concerning Withdrawal of General
Education Designations
ENVIRDES 597A - "Computers in Environmental Design" - R2
ENGLISH 320 - "Religion in Western Culture" - AL
LEGAL 333 - "Law and Culture in America" - HS
LEGAL 460 - "Legalization of the American Indian" - HSD
Sen. Doc. No. 06-015
Special Report of the General Education Council concerning The Withdrawal of "BS"
General Education Designation For NRC 212 "Forest Botany"
Sen. Doc. No. 05-039

GRADING SYSTEMS

Special Report of the Academic Matters Council and the Graduate Council concerning Changes
in the Grading Systems for Undergraduate and Graduate Students
Sen. Doc. No. 03-026A

GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS (HONORS)

Special Report of the Academic Matters Council concerning Requirements for Graduation
Magna or Summa Cum Laude
Sen. Doc. No. 04-026
Special Report of the Academic Matters Council concerning Resident Credits Required for
Graduation with Latin Honors
Sen. Doc. No. 03-029

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