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ntegrative Core Curriculum
APPLICATION FOR THEME AND PERSPECTIVE
Department:
Course Number and Title
Campus Phone & E-mail:
Department Chair
submitting proposal*
* Applications for general education designation must be forwarded as an email sent to
icc@ithaca.edu by the department chair. Hard copies with signatures are not required. Please name
the file according to the following format: [SUBJ] [Course#] [mm-dd-yy].docx
Before completing this designation request, please review the Guidelines for ICC Themes and
Perspectives Designations, available on the CCR website. Courses proposed for Themes and
Perspectives designation should carry minimal pre-requisites and be at the 100- or 200-level.
For new or substantially revised courses, this form should not be completed until the relevant APC
paperwork has completed School processes.
--------------------------------------------1. Please electronically attach a copy of the course syllabus.
2. Please identify the designations you are seeking.
Select a maximum of two Themes:
Identities: Who are we and how do we distinguish ourselves from others?
Inquiry, Imagination, and Innovation: How do we know what we know?
Mind, Body, Spirit: What does it mean to be a balanced person?
The Quest for a Sustainable Future: How do we sustain a growing population
in a world of limited resources?
A World of Systems: How do people make sense of and navigate complexity?
Power and Justice: How are they related and how can they be balanced?
Select a maximum of two Perspectives:
Creative Arts
Humanities
Natural Sciences
Social Sciences
3. Designation Proposal Questions
Review the Student Learning Outcomes for Theme-based approach to learning, and the
Perspective(s) you selected above. By checking the boxes below, you acknowledge that your course
must address and assess these outcomes.
A. Your course will contribute to the following overarching goals of the Theme-based approach to
learning, whereby students will be able to:
Identify, formulate and/or evaluate significant questions for exploration within the Theme
Communicate and advocate for their positions or conclusions; and
Propose new ideas, positions, solutions, or techniques in response to significant questions within the
Theme
B. Upon completion of your Perspective-designated course, students will be able to:
Creative Arts (CA)
Recognize and explain the forms, techniques, and processes used in at least one area of creative arts;
Analyze, in themselves and others, how performances or creative works stimulate emotions, provoke
thoughts, or guide actions and beliefs; and
Articulate the role of the creative arts in the construction of historical and/or contemporary cultures
Humanities (HU)
Understand and analyze human expression (such as language, texts, or images) through the lens of
the humanities
Recognize and begin to appraise existing arguments and articulate arguments of their own; and
Describe and interpret the values, beliefs, and behaviors of self and others in the context of historical
and/or contemporary cultural institutions
Natural Science (NS)
Understand basic scientific principles and facts as well as the methods that natural scientists use to
study the physical world
Recognize the impact of natural science on self and society; and
Explain how humans interact with and understand the natural and physical world
Social Science (SS)
Understand how social science methods are used to analyze, investigate, or predict human individual
or group behavior
Articulate their own values, beliefs, and behaviors, and trace the possible forces that shape their
values, beliefs, and behaviors; and
Explain how diverse cultures and institutions help shape, and in turn are shaped by, the lives and
decisions of their members
C. Making explicit reference to your syllabus, please address:
1) How your course integrates the Theme’s stated inquiry (e.g., How do we know what we know?)
2) How your course addresses the overarching goals of the Theme-based approach to learning
Refer to content covered, readings, assignments, etc. Answers should not exceed 250 words.
D. Making explicit reference to your syllabus, explain how you will address and assess the SLOs of
the Perspective you selected (content covered, readings, assignments). Answers should not
exceed 250 words.