Petition
for COURSE to provide credit toward the 2014 NEW UNIVERSITY CORE curriculum in
Core Category: Ways of Knowing
1. Petition Submitted by __________________
Name of Department
2. Discipline
Course Number
Academic Focus: Creative and Aesthetic Expression
__________________________ _____________
faculty member preparing petition
Date
Course Title
Semester Hours:
3. Catalog Description and Prerequisites:
4. Attach an example course syllabus with this petition. The syllabus should include a list of the NEW UNIVERSITY CORE
learning outcomes that are addressed by this course.
5. In the table on page 2, provide a brief explanation that describes how this course fulfills the learning outcomes of this
category. You should also provide example assignments, sample test items, or other artifacts that will be used to
evaluate student performance of learning outcomes for this category of the NEW UNIVERSITY CORE .
6. Complete a course assessment plan as outlined on page 3. The course assessment plan should include:
 A scoring guide or rubric that addresses the outcomes for the category and specifies a minimum of three
proficiency levels: 1 = Unacceptable; 2 = Acceptable; 3 = Target Proficiency;
 An explanation of how often assessment data will be collected and how this information will be reported,
 Glossary (optional): Please provide an explanation of discipline specific terms and concepts.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Signature _______________________________________________
Chair/Director of department originating petition
_______________________
Date
Signature _______________________________________________
Dean of College originating petition
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Date
Approved by the University Core Curriculum Council
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Date
Signature ________________________________________________
University Core Director
Petition to add course to NEW UNIVERSITY CORE
Page 2
Course Characteristics
New (2014) UCC Category
Learning Outcome:
Students should understand the uses
of creative expression in the fine,
performing, or literary arts, through
the recognition and description of
humanistic, historical, or artistic
works or problems and patterns of
the human experience..
Students should create, interpret, or
reinterpret artistic and/or humanistic
works through performance or
criticism.
Students should develop appropriate
means of interpreting works of art,
through the application of disciplinary
methodologies, epistemologies, and
traditions of the humanities and the
arts, including the ability to
distinguish primary and secondary
sources.
Students should develop appropriate
means of interpreting works of art by
analyzing and evaluating texts, objects,
events, or ideas in their cultural,
intellectual or historical contexts.
Students will analyze the concepts and
principles of various types of
humanistic and artistic expression.
Students should develop appropriate
means of understanding ways in
which works of art express ideas and
evoke feelings, by positing arguments
about forms of human agency or
expression grounded in rational
analysis and in an understanding of
and respect for spatial, temporal, and
cultural contexts.
Students should analyze diverse
narratives and evidence in order to
explore the complexity of human
experience across the ages
Provide an explanation of
how the course will
address each of the
learning outcomes.
ASSESSMENT PLAN
Sample test items, example
assignments, or other artifacts
Petition to add course to NEW UNIVERSITY CORE
Assessment Scoring Guide or Rubric for “Assessment Plan Indicators”
New (2014) UCC Category
Learning Outcome:
Unacceptable
(1)
Acceptable
(2)
Page 3
Target Proficiency
(3)
Students should understand the uses of
creative expression in the fine,
performing, or literary arts, through the
recognition and description of
humanistic, historical, or artistic works
or problems and patterns of the human
experience..
Students should create, interpret, or
reinterpret artistic and/or humanistic
works through performance or
criticism.
Students should develop appropriate
means of interpreting works of art,
through the application of disciplinary
methodologies, epistemologies, and
traditions of the humanities and the
arts, including the ability to distinguish
primary and secondary sources.
Students should develop appropriate
means of interpreting works of art by
analyzing and evaluating texts, objects,
events, or ideas in their cultural,
intellectual or historical contexts.
Students will analyze the concepts and
principles of various types of
humanistic and artistic expression.
Students should develop appropriate
means of understanding ways in which
works of art express ideas and evoke
feelings, by positing arguments about
forms of human agency or expression
grounded in rational analysis and in an
understanding of and respect for
spatial, temporal, and cultural contexts.
Students should analyze diverse
narratives and evidence in order to
explore the complexity of human
experience across the ages
Contact NUCC Director or Assessment Coordinator for guidance or to propose an alternative assessment strategy.
Petition to add course to NEW UNIVERSITY CORE
Page 4
WAYS of KNOWING ASSESSMENT: Ways of knowing courses will be distinctive in that they will
meaningfully and explicitly incorporate consideration of how a particular discipline contributes to the creation of
knowledge. Each Ways of Knowing course in the New University Core Curriculum will address at least one of the
following learning outcomes:
New (2014) UCC
Learning Outcome:
Provide an explanation of how
the course will address one of the
learning outcomes.
ASSESSMENT PLAN
provide example assignment, test
item, etc.
Students will be able to utilize
problem solving, the process of
designing, evaluating, and
implementing a strategy or strategies
to answer an open-ended question
or achieve a desired goal, as defined
by the way of knowing
Students will be able to apply
methods of inquiry and analysis, the
systematic process of exploring
issues/objects/works through the
collection and process of breaking
complex topics or issues into parts
to gain a better understanding of
them that result in informed
conclusions/judgments, as identified
by the way of knowing.
The student will demonstrate the
ability to know when there is a need
for information, be able to identify,
locate, evaluate, and effectively and
responsibly use and share that
information for the problem at
hand.
The student will design and execute
a performance of the way of
knowing. A performance is defined as:
A dynamic and sustained act that
brings together knowing and doing
(creating a painting, solving an
experimental design problem,
developing a public relations strategy
for a business, etc.); performance
makes learning observable.
Petitions for courses to be included in any one of the six Civic and Cultural Awareness (Ways of Knowing)
categories must demonstrate how the course addresses the Ways of Knowing Goals and Learning Outcomes as
well as the specific learning outcomes of the particular category in which a course will be included. Ways of
Knowing courses will be assessed according to how well they meet both the Ways of Knowing outcome(s) and
the outcomes of the specific category.