METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
REQUEST FOR GENERAL STUDIES DESIGNATION (2012-13)
ARTS AND HUMANITIES
Please review the Course Selection Criteria for this category for assistance in completing this
form, particularly as it relates to the percentages associated with each Student Learning
Outcome.
If this course is also being submitted for the Global Diversity Category, check here , and
complete and attach the separate Global Diversity General Studies Designation request.
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A. Course content and Student Learning Outcomes
Describe the specific ways in which this course addresses each of these Student Learning
Outcomes, providing students opportunities to develop the skills and abilities and/or acquire the
knowledge. Include reference to readings, discussions, lectures, and other pedagogical tools
which will be used.
2. Demonstrate the ability to locate sources when information is needed, and to evaluate the
authenticity, validity, and reliability of resources applied to a specific purpose. (10%)
3. Create persuasive and well-reasoned arguments that are appropriate to topic and purpose.
(10%)
5. Communicate in writing with an awareness of audience, by using language conventions
appropriate to the occasion and task. (10%)
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12. Identify important examples of texts, creative works, artifacts, or problems in the
discipline including the cultural context. (20%)
13. Analyze text(s), artifact(s), or problem(s) using a point of view informed by the critical or
aesthetic perspectives appropriate to the discipline. (20%)
B. Assessment of Student Learning
Identify and describe at least one specific form of assessing student achievement of each Student
Learning Outcome which will be a regular part of the course. Examples include specified test
questions, specified problem sets, written paper prompts and scoring guide or rubric, projects
with assignment sheet and scoring guide or rubric, etc. Include attachments as applicable. A
single piece of student work may be used to assess student achievement of more than one
Student Learning Outcome.
2. Demonstrate the ability to locate sources when information is needed, and to evaluate the
authenticity, validity, and reliability of resources applied to a specific purpose.
3. Create persuasive and well-reasoned arguments that are appropriate to topic and purpose.
5. Communicate in writing with an awareness of audience, by using language conventions
appropriate to the occasion and task.
12. Identify important examples of texts, creative works, artifacts, or problems in the
discipline including the cultural context.
13. Analyze text(s), artifact(s), or problem(s) using a point of view informed by the critical or
aesthetic perspectives appropriate to the discipline.
C. Conformance with Course Selection Guidelines
Briefly describe how the course meets the course selection guidelines
 The course undertakes a systematic inquiry into values, ideas, ideals, or techniques intrinsic
to the disciplines in the Arts and Humanities as a part of an exploration of foundations of
thought or modes of expressions that foster students’ appreciation of human culture and the
human condition.
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 The course syllabus demonstrates instruction in a broad knowledge of important figures,
works, movements and/or major schools of thought over a significant period of time or
through multiple contexts and is of sufficient breadth to be of benefit to students who are not
majoring in the discipline.
 The course is part of a discipline in the Arts and Humanities.
Approvals:
Department Curriculum Committee / Date
Department Chair or Program Director / Date
School Curriculum Committee / Date
Dean or Associate Dean / Date
Chair, General Studies Committee / Date
Associate Vice President, Academic and Student Affairs / Date