GENERAL EDUCATION
At
California State University
Long Beach
Major,
Unchanged aspects
of
Current
GE Policy
(PS 00-00)
Categories from EO 595
• Sections 5 & 7 of the policy
• A – Communication in the English Language
and Critical Thinking – 9 units
• B – Natural Sciences and Mathematics
– (New title and change in units)
• C – Humanities and the Arts (change in units)
• D – Citizenship and Social and Behavioral
Sciences and History
– (New title and change in units)
• E – Self-Integration – 3 units
Additional Requirements
• Required separately from GE
– Section 40404 in Title 5 and EO 405
• United States History
– 3 units
• Constitution and American Ideals
– 3 units
• But, EO 338 (=595) allowed inclusion in 48
units since 1980
• Now considered part of Category D
At CSULB, GE consists of
3 sequential phases
• Section 3 of policy
• Foundation – all of “A” and Mathematics (B.2.)
• Explorations – rest of “B” and all of “C”, “D”, & “E”
– Global Issues
– Human Diversity in the U.S. (new title)
• Capstone
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Final three courses
Double count within Explorations
Advanced Skills
Service Learning
Interdisciplinary (I)
Major
Changes
from
Current
GE Policy
(PS 00-00)
Required Outcomes and
Assessment
• Learning Outcomes are provided (Sec. 2)
• All courses must
– address at least one learning outcome
• All departments must
– provide evidence of assessment of
– learning outcomes
– for course re-approval for GE
• The entire program must be assessed by
the GEGC (Section 13.4.1.)
Policy Clarification/Organization
• Sections numbered using 1.1.1 convention
• Sections moved and/or combined to clarify
requirements
• Combined all general requirements into
one single section
• Eliminated section on composition of
GEGC;
– Will be in new committee charge
Reduction in Units
• Currently – 51, Proposed – 48, Why?
• Title 5 (EO 338/595) required 48 in 1980
• Since 1980 CSULB has required 51
– Would count only 3 of 6 units associated with
• United States History and
• Constitution and American Ideals
– So, General Education required 51 units
• CO has requested that campuses use 48
– CSULB will count all 6 units
– Thus, only 48 total
Reduced units in “B”, “C”, & “D”
• Currently
– 11 in “B” (reduced by senate from 12)
– 12 in “C”
– 15 in “D”
– Total = 38
• Proposed
– 9 in “B”, 9 in “C”, 12 in “D”
– 6 “floater” units among the three
– Total = 36
Counting units from major
department toward GE
• Currently
– courses in major department may not be
double counted as GE, EXCEPT
– for certain special cases.
– Their number keeps growing, and
– result is much confusion.
• Proposed (Section 4.3)
– allow up to 10 units
– in the major department
– to count as General Education
How many current patterns?
• pre-1981 – based on earlier requirements
• 1981 – based on PS 81-11
– introduced Categories A-E
– 9 UD units required, 6 of which are in “I” courses
• 1985 – based on PS 81-11 amended 1985
– required course in World Societies & Cultures in D
• 1993 – based on PS 91-00
– HD required
• 1999 – based on PS 98-00
– all 9 UD units must be in Capstone courses
– Global Issues separated from D
– “C” or better required in Foundation courses
Returning students –
New Requirements (Sec. 6.1.)
• Returning students
– those who left with no more than one
remaining course may graduate under earlier
pattern
– reduced mainly for pre-1981 pattern in 00-00
• All returning students
– must complete 9 upper division GE units
– 6 of which must be capstone (same as 00-00)
Transfer Students –
New Requirements (Sec. 6.2)
• Currently all CCC transfer students with full GE
certification must complete only
– Capstone - here (relatively easy) or elsewhere (relatively difficult)
• Currently all other transfer students must complete
– Capstone, Human Diversity in the U.S. and Global Issues
– As well as all remaining requirements in Categories A-E
• Proposed – all transfers must complete
– Capstone, Human Diversity in the U. S., and Global Issues
– here (relatively easy) or elsewhere (relatively difficult)
– As well as all remaining requirements in Categories A-E
• Of 165 Interdisciplinary (I) courses
– 53 (32%) are Global Issues (G)
– 20 (12%) are Human Diversity in the U.S. (HD)
• CCC transfers
– May have already completed HD and/or G
– but not Capstone (Must be completed at CSULB)
Changes to titles of categories
• EO 595
– long, descriptive statements
– not shorter titles for categories
• CSULB utilizes shorter titles
• Titles stated 3 times in document
– Sections 3, 5, & 7
– sometimes different titles are used
• Current titles may confuse naïve readers
Category A
• EO 595 – communication in the English
language, to include both oral communication
and written communication, and in critical
thinking, to include consideration of common
fallacies in reasoning.
• 00-00 - Communication in the English language
and Critical Thinking
• Proposed title - Communication in the English
Language and Critical Thinking
Category A.1.
• CSULB designation
• 00-00 - written composition in English or
written English
• Proposed - Written Communication in
English
Category A.2.
• CSULB designation
• 00-00 - oral communication(s)
• Proposed - Oral Communication in English
Category A.3.
• CSULB designation
• 00-00 - critical thinking
• Proposed - Critical Thinking
Category B
• EO 595 - inquiry into the physical universe
and its life forms, with some immediate
participation in laboratory activity, and into
mathematical concepts and quantitative
reasoning and their applications.
• 00-00 - Physical Universe
• Proposed – Natural Sciences and
Mathematics
Category B.1
• CSULB designation
• Not given specific title in 00-00
• Proposed – Natural Sciences
Category B.1.a. & B.1.b.
• CSULB designation
• 00-00 – Life sciences or biological
sciences (B.1.a.) and physical sciences
(B.1.b.)
• Proposed – Biological Sciences (B.1.a.)
and Physical Sciences (B.1.b.)
Category B.2.
• CSULB designation
• 00-00 - Mathematical Concepts and
Quantitative Reasoning
• Proposed - Mathematics
Category B.3.
• CSULB designation
• 00-00 – no specific title
• Proposed – Additional Natural Sciences
and Mathematics courses
• necessary primarily for natural science
courses lacking a laboratory component,
many of which are capstone
Category C
• EO 595 – arts, literature, philosophy and
foreign languages.
• 00-00 - Humanities and the Arts
• Proposed - Humanities and the Arts
Category C.1.
• CSULB designation
• 00-00 – Fine Arts
• Proposed – Fine Arts
Category C.2.
• CSULB designation
• 00-00 – not given title – C.2.a. – literature;
C.2.b. – philosophy; C.2.c. – foreign
language(s)
• Proposed – use same designations for
C.2.a, b, and c, with plural for languages
• Write in Humanities as title for C.2.?
Category C.3.
• CSULB designation
• 00-00 – no specific title
• Proposed – Additional Humanities and the
Arts
• necessary for humanities courses that do
not easily fit into literature, philosopy, or
foreign language
Category D
• EO 595 – human social, political, and
economic institutions and behavior and
their historical background
• 00-00 – either Social and Behavioral
Sciences and History or Social and
Behavioral Sciences and their Historical
Background
• Proposed – Citizenship and Social and
Behavioral Sciences and History
Category D.1.
• CSULB designation; EO 405 – United
States History, Constitution and American
Ideals
• 00-00 – either U.S. History and the
Constitution and American Political
Institutions and Processes or Citizenship
• Proposed – Citizenship
Categories D.1.a. & D.1.b.
• CSULB designation
• 00-00 – U.S. History (D.1.a.); U.S.
Constitution and Ideals (D.1.b.)
• Proposed – U.S. History (D.1.a.) and the
Constitution and American Ideals (D.1.b.)
Category D.2.
• CSULB designation
• 00-00 – Social and Behavioral Science or
Other Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Proposed – Social and Behavioral
Sciences and History
Category E
• EO 595 – study designed to equip human
beings for lifelong understanding and
development of themselves as integrated
physiological and psychological entities.
• 00-00 – Self-Integration or The Integrated
Self
• Proposed – Self-Integration
Summary of 48 required units
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Category A – 9 units
Category B – minimum of 9 units
Category C – minimum of 9 units
Category D – minimum of 12 units
Category E – 3 units
Six units to “float” among B, C, and D
Overlapping requirements for
– Global Issues
– Human Diversity in the U.S.
– Capstone
I am done!
Thank you!!
Questions, comments??