GENERAL EDUCATION PROGRAM - SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SCIENCES
STUDENT PETITION TO RECEIVE GENERAL EDUCATION DESIGNATION
FOR COURSES TAKEN AT OTHER INSTITUTIONS
This petition should be completed by students who wish to receive general education credit for courses taken at institutions other than Ithaca College that have transferred in as non-specific courses (e.g., MATH 18888). This form cannot be used to request general education credits for nondesignated courses taken at Ithaca College. This petition should be submitted after the course has been completed. Before completing this petition, students should also review their degree evaluation with their adviser to determine what general education requirements remain outstanding in their academic record. Completed petitions and accompanying documentation should be sent electronically to the Dean’s Office, School of Humanities and Sciences, at hsadmin@ithaca.edu
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Name:
ID #:
Email:
Phone number:
Major:
Expected graduation
date (sem/year):
Course # on IC transcript:
Course # at original institution:
Course title:
The course was taken at:
Date the course was
taken (term/year):
Designation being
requested (check all that apply):
1: Self and Society
2a: Science
2b: Mathematics and Formal Reasoning
3a: Human Expression: Language
3b: Human Expression: Visual and Performing Arts
g: Global Perspective
h: Historical Perspective
P ETITION R EQUIREMENTS
1. In addition to this form, all petitions must include a) a catalog course description from the institution offering the course; and b) a syllabus from the course for the term in which it was taken.
2. Please answer both parts of question 2, which begins on the next page, in the space provided. v. Jan2012

2.A. For each designation being requested, select the general education goals that are most relevant to the course:
1: Self and Society (minimum of two)
Students will explore their own values, beliefs, and behaviors and trace the causes for and sources of those values, beliefs, and behaviors.
Students will also discover how they express those values and beliefs through their actions and learn to evaluate the effects of these values and beliefs on their daily lives.
Students will come to understand the developmental process of identity formation.
Students will examine interactions between diverse cultures and institutions and explore areas of both harmony and conflict.
Students will explore the ways in which cultures and institutions help shape, and in turn are shaped by, the lives and decisions of their members.
2a: Science (minimum of two)
Students will develop an understanding of some basic scientific principles.
Students will develop an appreciation for the relevance of science to society, as well as some comprehension of the interaction of humans and the natural and physical world.
Students will develop an understanding of the methods the natural sciences use to study the physical world, through courses that include an experimental component and/or an observation component and/or a component to evaluate data and develop and test hypotheses.
2b: Mathematics and Formal Reasoning (minimum of one)
Students will examine mathematics and/or other formal reasoning systems as tools in societies.
Students will examine mathematics and/or other formal reasoning systems as reflections of the concerns, values, and direction of human communities.
Students will examine mathematics and/or other formal reasoning systems as abstract, universal systems.
3a: Human Expression: Language (minimum of one)
Students will analyze texts to discover the role language plays in how people view themselves and their world.
Students will use language to shape ideas about themselves and their world.
3b: Human Expression: Visual and Performing Arts (minimum of one)
Students will examine how performances or visual works stimulate our emotions, provoke our thoughts, and even guide our actions and beliefs.
Students will perceive and understand the visual and performing arts and articulate this perception and understanding.
Students will place the visual and performing arts in the larger context of human communities.
Students will create their own performances or visual works to understand the processes by which people express meaning and as a way of exploring values and beliefs.
Global Perspective
Students will examine the nature of the viewpoints, beliefs, and organizations of a community outside of the United States.
Students will examine the verbal, written, or visual ways in which members of a community outside of the United States express themselves through physical structures, works of literature, art, music, or mass media.
Historical Perspective
Students will study how the events, institutions, works, expressions, or ideas that we study from the past are related to what preceded them and followed them.
Students will examine the relationships between contemporaneous events, institutions, ideas, and individuals, and those in a past society.

2.B. How does this course meet the goals of the specific curricular area(s) or perspective(s) you wish to receive credit for with your application? Please support your explanation with specific evidence from the syllabus. Explain how particular material in the course (topics, readings, events, etc) and/or assignments (papers, exams, etc) meets the curricular area(s) or perspective(s) you identified in 2.A. Comparable designated IC courses may also be used as supporting evidence; please explain how the course you are seeking designation for corresponds to the IC course.