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REQUEST FOR CERTIFYING COURSE FOR GENERAL EDUCATION CATEGORY
WORLD CULTURES (WC)
Note: this form can be used ONLY for certifying a course in the indicated general education category.
The course description can be changed via this form only if the change is directly related to certifying the course in the indicated general
education category.
All other aspects of a course change must be dealt with via a CHANGE IN COURSE form.
World Cultures Category Description: Students will explore cultural diversity and worldviews and acquire an understanding of and
sensitivity to other cultural perspectives as a way to challenge and enrich their own. This will prepare them to work in an increasingly
complex world and to function in the global community.
A COMPLETED WORLD CULTURES COURSE INFORMATION DOCUMENT (CID) IS INCLUDED ( NOTE THAT A COURSE INFORMATION
DOCUMENT IS NOT THE SAME AS A COURSE SYLLABUS.) THE CID MUST EXPLICITLY DOCUMENT HOW EACH OF THE FOLLOWING
CRITERIA ARE ADDRESSED.
Details and supplementary information regarding this General
Education Category and its criteria can be found at
http://www.salemstate.edu/26049.php. Note that ALL criteria must
WC: WORLD CULTURES
be addressed.
CRITERION 1: STUDENTS WILL GAIN KNOWLEDGE ABOUT ONE OR MORE CULTURES OUTSIDE THE U.S., WHICH MAY INCLUDE THE
STUDY OF THEIR DIASPORA(S).
Note: COURSES IN THIS CATEGORY WILL FOCUS ON THE CULTURE OF ORIGIN EVEN IF THEY ARE EXAMINING A DIASPORA.
THE DESIGNATION "CULTURES OUTSIDE THE U.S." DOES NOT EXCLUDE DISTINCT CULTURES IN THE AMERICAS, SUCH AS
NATIVE AMERICAN, PUERTO RICAN, AND U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS CULTURES.
CRITERIA FOR GENERAL EDUCATION CATEGORY
CRITERION 2: STUDENTS WILL BE EXPOSED TO DIVERSE WORLD VIEWS.
CRITERION 3: STUDENTS WILL IDENTIFY DIFFERENCES AND SIMILARITIES BETWEEN THEIR OWN CULTURE(S) AND THE CULTURE(S)
THAT THEY ARE STUDYING.
DEPARTMENT:
SEMESTER/YEAR IN WHICH CERTIFICATION WILL TAKE EFFECT:
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COURSE PREFIX AND NUMBER:
OTHER CERTIFICATIONS FOR THIS COURSE:
FULL TITLE:
CREDITS:
cr.
(FYS|QR|OC|PGR|CEA|WC|HP|CS|SR|W-I|W-II|W-III)
COURSE DESCRIPTION (FOR AN EXISTING COURSE, DESCRIPTION EXACTLY AS IT CURRENTLY APPEARS IN THE SSU CATALOG; FOR A NEW COURSE,
DESCRIPTION EXACTLY AS PROPOSED ON THE NEW COURSE CURRICULUM FORM).
SAMPLE: This course introduces discipline X. It will provide foundational material and allow for future study in this discipline. Three
lecture hours per week. Excessive work outside of class will be required.
COURSE DESCRIPTION IS BEING CHANGED. Note: any changes to the existing course description must be directly
related to one or more aspects of certifying the course for one or more general education categories. Changes not related to
certification for general education categories require use of the Change in Course form.
REVISED COURSE DESCRIPTION EXACTLY AS IT IS TO APPEAR IN THE SSU CATALOG
NOTES (NOT FOR INCLUSION IN CATALOG):
SUBMITTED BY:
Department
(name of department chairperson)
(name of sponsor / contact person only if other than department chairperson )
department name Department
department website URL
World Cultures Course Information Document
PREFIX nnn Course Title
n cr. WC
Catalog description:
Course description. Focus on the course goals in developing the description; do not incorporate implementation details
unless they are directly related to course goals. [n lecture hours [and m hours of scheduled laboratory per week] [plus work
outside of class].]
Prerequisites: list all prerequisites (delete this line if there are no prerequisites)
Course Narrative:
Provide a reasonable (two to four paragraph) narrative that goes beyond the course description in articulating the
pedagogical and disciplinary mission and scope of the course. Think of this narrative as a means of connecting the dots
between the course description and course goals and outcomes.
Your narrative must include a separate description of how the criteria for certifying the course for the World Cultures
general education category are addressed.
Course Goals:
(The wording of course goals may be phrased to meet disciplinary standards.)
This course will {introduce | explain | examine | …}:
G1:
G2:
G3:
general goal (not necessarily directly measureable);
general goal;
general goal; (insert additional goals as needed; try for no more than 3-5 goals)
Course Outcomes (Objectives):
(The wording of course outcomes may be phrased to meet disciplinary standards but outcomes must be assessable /
measurable.)
Upon successful completion of the course, a student will be able to {demonstrate | explain | demonstrate | identify | …}:
O1:
O2:
O3:
specific (measurable!) objective (stated as something that the student did during the course);
specific (measurable!) objective;
specific (measurable!) objective; (insert additional objectives as needed; try for no more than 4-8 objectives)
Topics:
(Note: for special topics courses, provide appropriate separate topic outlines for two different special topics.)


topic one
 sub-topic

sub-sub-topic
topic two
 sub-topic

sub-sub-topic
Student Experiences: Describe the various type(s) of student experiences that will be used to assess student learning vis-à-vis
stated course objectives, e.g. presentations, tests, lab reports, writing projects, discussions, performances, etc. For each type,
briefly describe what the activity entails and provide an example or two of a typical assignment. Note that these examples are
not meant to be prescriptive.
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Student Experiences by Course Outcome (Objective) matrix:
(Eliminate or add columns and/or rows as necessary; each row represents a student experience (similar experiences should be
grouped if appropriate - this is NOT meant to be a list of every student experience); each column relates a student experience
type to the relevant course outcomes (objectives). Insert a check mark () in any cell where a given course objective is assessed
via a specific student experience.)
student outcome / experience
(e.g. presentations, tests, lab reports, writing projects,
discussions, performances, etc.)
O1
O2
O3
O4
O5
O6
WORLD CULTURES CRITERIA AND WHERE / HOW THEY ARE ADDRESSED IN THIS COURSE
CRITERIA FOR GENERAL EDUCATION
CATEGORY WC: WORLD CULTURES
WORLD CULTURES CRITERIA
DETAILS AND SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION REGARDING THIS GENERAL
EDUCATION CATEGORY AND ITS CRITERIA CAN BE FOUND AT
http://www.salemstate.edu/26049.php. NOTE THAT ALL CRITERIA MUST BE
ADDRESSED.
Course outcome(s)
For each World Cultures criterion, locate and identify CID
(objective(s)) that
elements aside from course outcomes, particularly student
address a criteria
experiences, which are directly related to that criterion.
(e.g. O3, O6)
CRITERION 1: STUDENTS WILL GAIN
KNOWLEDGE ABOUT ONE OR MORE CULTURES
OUTSIDE THE U.S., WHICH MAY INCLUDE THE
STUDY OF THEIR DIASPORA(S). 1
CRITERION 2: STUDENTS WILL BE EXPOSED TO
DIVERSE WORLD VIEWS.
CRITERION 3: STUDENTS WILL IDENTIFY
DIFFERENCES AND SIMILARITIES BETWEEN
THEIR OWN CULTURE(S) AND THE CULTURE(S)
THAT THEY ARE STUDYING.
Sample Bibliography: (required for new courses only) (format as appropriate for your discipline; representative resources, not
required to be exhaustive)
(Note: for special topics courses, provide representative sample bibliographies for two different special topics.)
(examples)
Booch, Grady; Rumbaugh, James; Jacobson, Ivar. The Unified Modeling Language User Guide. Second Edition.
Addison-Wesley, 2005.
Gamma, Erich; Helm, Richard; Johnson, Ralph; Vlissides, John. Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented
Software. Addison-Wesley, 1995.
1
Note: Courses in the World Cultures category will focus on the culture of origin even if they are examining a Diaspora. The
designation "cultures outside the U.S." does not exclude distinct cultures in the Americas, such as Native American, Puerto
Rican, and U.S. Virgin Islands cultures.
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Hwang, K.; Fox, G.; Dongarra, J. Distributed and Cloud Computing: From Parallel Processing to the Internet of
Things. Morgan Kaufmann, 2012.
(General Notes: anything in red must be deleted or replaced (and changed to black). Anything in red and in parentheses (like this
note) is an advisory comment and must be deleted. Note that while additional components may be inserted if appropriate, listed
components must be included. For examples, visit http://www.salemstate.edu/26049.php.)
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