Georgia State University Fall 2009 Freshmen Learning Communities

Fall 2015 Freshman Learning Communities

Call for Proposals

Guidelines

This Call provides proposal guidelines for the development of a new Freshman Learning Community (FLC) around a “meta-major” to be offered during the fall 2015 semester. Submit proposals via email to , or hand deliver to the Office of Undergraduate Studies, 14th floor 25 Park Place by Wednesday, January 14, 2015.

Freshman Learning Community Program Description—

FLCs offer first-year students the opportunity to become a member of a small group of students (25) who, during their first semester at Georgia State University, take a cluster of five or six first-year courses related to a common “meta-major”—Humanities and Arts, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences/STEM, Business, Health Sciences, Policy Studies, Undeclared. Each FLC has an instructor who teaches the FLC anchor course, a one-credit GSU 1010 New Student Orientation course, and collaborates with instructors from three or four other courses from the general education core to integrate assignments and/or the area of interest. The department that proposes the new FLC is encouraged to create a Pers 2001 or 2002 that will continue the meta-major theme and that will be incorporated in the FLC schedule for fall semester.

Common Features of all FLCs:

 Cluster of six courses (15 credit hours) taken by all students in the FLC;

 Engl 1101 (English comp). Depending on AP or other university accepted credit for Engl 1101, students may substitute an English course appropriate for their program;

 Four or five additional courses from the Core Curriculum. Strong justification is needed for the inclusion of any non-core courses; and,

 An optional “linked” Pers 2001 or Pers 2002 course.

Freshman Learning Communities—Fall 2015

1. Lead Department: ______

Faculty Contact: ______

2. Meta-Major:  Humanities and Arts  Social Sciences Natural Sciences/STEM

 Business Health Sciences Education

 Policy Studies Undeclared/General Education

3. Appropriate major(s) that relate to the FLC: ______

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4. Courses to be included GSU 1010______

(if no preference, leave blank) Engl 1101_____

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If requesting a non-core course in the FLC, please provide a justification as to why first-semester freshmen need to register for the requested course.

4. Will the department offer a Pers 2001/Pers 2002?  Yes No

If yes, who will teach the course? ______

5. Who will teach the GSU 1010? ______

Signature of chair(s). Signature indicates the chair’s willingness to have the faculty member or Graduate Teaching Assistant listed under #5 act as an adviser to the FLC and to teach GSU 1010 during the fall 2015 semester. If submitted electronically the chair may send an e-mail stating the above.

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Chair Date