The Faculty Senate
SD 14-09
Curriculum and Educational
Policy Committee, along with
General Education
Subcommittee
April 28, 2014
For Discussion
May 7, 2014
Moved to Action
Approved unanimously
TO: University Senate
FROM: Curriculum and Educational Policy Committee, along with General Education
Subcommittee
SUBJECT: Approval of Illinois Transfer Courses for General Education
The Curriculum and Educational Policy Committee, along with the General Education
Subcommittee, requests the Senate’s approval for the following:
Background:
The Illinois Articulation Initiative (IAI) General Education course descriptions can be found at
http://www.itransfer.org/IAI/faculty/Course/CourseDesc.aspx?section=faculty&subsection=cour
se&topic=desc. Each category has a list of courses that have designated IAI codes according to
disciplines (i.e. Humanities: Foreign Language, History & Civilization, Literature, Philosophy,
etc.). There are also IAI codes that are major-specific (i.e. Criminal Justice). For a course to be
recognized and approved for an IAI code it has to be reviewed and approved by the IAI
committee members from that discipline, just like CTL (Core Transfer Library). The course is
given an IAI number and added to the college or university IAI course listing on the IAI website.
Any Illinois public university or college can accept that course to meet their General Education
requirement for that discipline.
There are 7 Gen Ed categories in IL, 6 General Education Core Competencies in IN, and 9
General Education Competencies here at Purdue Calumet. All transfer students in Illinois are
required to complete English Comp 1 & 2, Speech, 3 courses in Humanities/Fine Arts (at
least one in each category), one Math course, two Science courses (one must be Life Science,
the other Physical Science, and at least one must have a lab), and 3 courses in Social and
Behavioral Science (must be in at least two disciplines) to earn an Associate of Arts or Science
(Science requires two math courses). The total credit hours for Gen Ed is 36-39 hours for
these IL Associate degree students.
The 7 Illinois Gen Ed categories map closely onto the 6 Indiana Competencies. At PUC the
additional Competency in “Knowledge of University and Personal Resources” is met by our First
Year Experience courses. Thus, there are in effect three PUC Competencies—Wellness,
Technology and Society, and Computer Literacy—that are not covered in the 7 Illinois Gen Ed
The Faculty Senate
categories. The total credit hours for PUC Gen Ed courses is 30 hours. The table below
represents the Gen Ed categories and correspondences in the two states and at PUC:
The Faculty Senate
Indiana
Written Communication
Speaking and Listening
Quantitative Reasoning
Scientific Ways of Knowing
Social and Behavioral Ways of
Knowing
Humanistic and Artistic Ways
of Knowing
Illinois
Communication Written
and Oral
Purdue Calumet
Communication Written and
Oral
Mathematics
Problem Solving Skills/Symbolic
Reasoning
Scientific Principles
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences
Social and Behavioral
Sciences
Humanities
How People Function in Society
Arts and Humanities
Fine Arts
Technology and Society
Computer Utilization Skills
Wellness
University and Personal
Resources
Proposed:
The Illinois general education approval covers the following conditions:
1. In cases wherein students will have completed an Associate’s degree at an accredited
Illinois School of higher education before beginning their fulltime enrollment at
Purdue University Calumet, we will accept that the student has met the General
Education requirements toward a bachelor’s degree from Purdue University Calumet.
2. In cases wherein students will not have completed an Associate’s degree before
beginning their fulltime enrollment at Purdue University Calumet, we will accept IAIapproved courses as meeting equivalent discipline General Education course
requirement(s) toward a bachelor’s degree from Purdue University Calumet.
General Education Subcommittee
Approved:
Rittenmeyer
Johnson
Green
Stankowski
Bryant
Brandon
Hambrich
Schleigh
The Faculty Senate
Disapproved:
Absent:
Curriculum and Educational Policy Committee
Approved:
Farook
Mo
Moore
Pierce
Pierson
Schultz
Disapproved:
Absent: