gtPathways – COURSE NOMINATION FORM

Review Date:

Initial Submission? Yes No

Resubmission? Yes No

SECTION A:
Please complete Section A and check the content area and a single criterion that the proposed course is designed to address.
gtPathways Content Area
(Check only one with an “X”) /

gtPathways Content Criterion

(see Content Criteria for Statewide Guaranteed Transfer on DHE website)
(Check only one with an “X”)
Required / Arts and Humanities / Arts and Expression (GT-AH1)
Literature and Humanities (GT-AH2)
Ways of Thinking (GT-AH3)
Foreign Languages (GT-AH4)
Communication / Introductory Writing (GT-CO1)
Intermediate Writing (GT-CO2)
Advanced Writing (GT-CO3)
History / GT-HI1
Mathematics / GT-MA1
Natural & Physical Sciences / Course with Required Laboratory (GT-SC1)
Lecture Course without Required Laboratory (GT-SC2)
Social & Behavioral Sciences / Economic or Political Systems (GT-SS1)
Geography (GT-SS2)
Human Behavior, Culture or Social Frameworks (GT-SS3)
Course Number: / Credit Hours:
Course Name:
Department:
Prerequisites/Co-requisite (Please list titles and section numbers):
Is this course cross-listed? If so, please list the names of the courses with which it is cross-listed, give a reason why it is cross-listed, and acknowledge here that the same approved syllabus will be used across sections of the cross-listed courses:
Short description of the course from the catalog:
SECTION B: SENIOR ACADEMIC OFFICER ENDORSEMENT
By completing this section, I attest to the following:
I certify that the course described herein is an approved general education course offered at my institution (or will be so, automatically, upon approval as a gtPathways course). The attached content curriculum description applies to all course sections taught at my institution.
Required / Name/Title of Senior Academic Officer: / Signature (Electronic Accepted):
Name of Institution: / Date:
E-Mail: / Phone:
Institutional Contact/Name for this submission if different from above signatory / E-Mail:
SECTION C:
Complete numbers 1-3 below and any competency (numbers 4-8) that applies to the nominated course per content criteria guidelines (see Content Criteria For Statewide Guaranteed Transfer On DHE Website and Competency Criteria). Please submit a course outline that contains a week-by-week schedule, an explanation of the graded pieces of work and how grades will be calculated, and the course learning outcomes. You may also include content or curriculum guides or other supporting documents. THESE MATERIALS MUST ENABLE EVALUATORS TO VERIFY NUMBERS 1 – 8 BELOW.
Required / 1. State scope of course and the primary concepts or topics it covers:
2. Provide rationale and/or evidence for how the nominated course meets the specific content criteria:
3. List student outcomes and detail how outcomes will be met in the course:
4. Describe how students demonstrate and develop critical thinking competency:
5. Describe how students demonstrate and develop reading competency:
6. Describe how students demonstrate and develop written communication competency:
7. Describe how students demonstrate and develop technology competency:
8. Describe how students demonstrate and develop mathematics competency:


Note Regarding Natural and Physical Sciences Courses (GT-SC1 & GT-SC2):

The GT-SC1 category is used for courses that integrate a lecture with a lab, and also for separately transcripted labs that have a GT-SC2 lecture course(s) as a prerequisite or co-requisite. When submitting a separately transcripted lab for GT-SC1 approval, indicate the required GT-SC2 course(s) and attach the nomination materials for the GT-SC2 course(s) so that the lab can be evaluated in the context of the companion lecture course. (If the GT-SC2 course was previously approved, include the nomination materials from that earlier review process.)

SECTION D: COURSE RESUBMISSION
To be completed only if this course is being resubmitted for
consideration and placement within the gtPathways curriculum.
1. SUBSTANTIVE CONCERNS REGARDING PREVIOUS SUBMISSION(S):
Please attach reviewer comments/justification for the “deferred” designation and respond to the question below.
How has the course been modified to address the concerns raised by the review committee(s)?

Revised 12/11/2012

Course Nomination Form: gtPathways Review

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