GENERAL EDUCATION COURSE PROPOSAL
MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS
GENERAL EDUCATION COMMITTEE/UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION – LC 30
COURSE NUMBER: ____________ COURSE TITLE: ________________________________________________
DEPARTMENT: __________________________ CONTACT PERSON: __________________________________
PHONE: ____________ EMAIL: _______________________________________________________________
Is this a new course?
Yes: ___
No: ___
Estimated enrollment: _____
Cross-listing departments/programs (if any): _____________________________________________________
PLEASE ATTACH THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IN ELECTRONIC FORM:
A. Copy of the course syllabus. The syllabus must contain the following information: 1) the category or
categories of General Education that the course fulfills; 2) the general characteristics governing all
General Education courses; 3) the specific learning objectives of the category or categories that the course
fulfills.
B. The following characteristics apply to all General Education courses at UAlbany in the category of
Mathematics and Statistics. Please briefly indicate how the course fulfills each of the following
characteristics:
1. Offers explicit understandings of the procedures and practices of disciplines;
2. Emphasizes active learning in an engaged environment that enables students to be producers as well as
consumers of knowledge;
3. Promotes critical inquiry about the assumptions, goals, and methods of relevant fields of academic study
within mathematics and statistics and the interpretive, analytic, and evaluative competencies central to
intellectual development.
C. Approved courses introduce students to or extend their knowledge of precalculus, calculus, discrete mathematics,
probability, statistics and/or data analysis. Courses may be offered in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics
and in other departments that have expertise in quantitative reasoning and data analysis and that offer appropriate
courses, particularly in statistics or discrete structures. Please indicate how the course is designed to meet specific
learning objectives in one of these knowledge areas. Additional information on such objectives is available at
http://www.albany.edu/generaleducation/mathematics.php.
ROUTING: When the course proposal is completed, the department, school or program must have the proposal reviewed
and approved by its respective college or school. It is then submitted to the General Education Committee. Any questions
concerning the approval process should be directed to Richard Fogarty, Associate Dean of General Education, LC31.
Email: rfogarty@albany.edu.
APPROVAL ACTION:
Department/Program Chair: ________________________________________
Date: _________________
College/School Dean or Designee: ___________________________________
Date: _________________
General Education Committee liaison: ________________________________
Date: _________________