1. At California State University Long Beach
GENERAL EDUCATION At
California State University Long Beach

2. Major, Unchanged aspects of Current GE Policy (PS 00-00)

3. 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
E – Self-Integration – 3 units
Dave, Are these really unchanged since you are indicating that some of them have changes in title and number of units? Maybe remove the units and keep only the titles. Or, remove entire slide???? The categories and their contents are unchanged; some of the titles and unit requirements have changed. I intend to explain this somewhat verbally.

4. Additional Requirements
Required separately from GE
Section in Title 5 and EO 405
United States History
3 units
Constitution and American Ideals
But, EO 338 (=595) allowed inclusion in 48 units since 1980
Now considered part of Category D

5. 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
Final three courses
Double count within Explorations
Advanced Skills
Service Learning
Interdisciplinary (I)

6. Major Changes from Current GE Policy (PS 00-00)

7. 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 )
Who will assess the entire program? GEGC

8. Policy Clarification/Organization
Sections numbered using 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

9. 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

10. 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
Why do we need to talk about major department here since we deal with it in the next slide? Ok

11. 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
What section is this? Please quote. I did.

12. 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 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
Praveen – I really want to add this slide. It gives important information as to when certain requirements came in and relates to the reduction of “grandparenting” shown later.

13. Returning students – New Requirements (Sec. 6.1.)
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)
Consider a different color for the reduced bullets. Will help. How is this?

14. 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)
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)
Dave, this is confusing. We have to make it clearer Question is what can and can not be done at CSULB? That is the central question. Do my changes make sense? Yes, but do mine?

15. 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
Dave, I really think you need to reduce the slides on titles to no more than 3 slides that incorporate major changes. The senators will tune out. I know that was my reaction as soon as I saw so many slides on title changes. Main point to be made is that regardless of title, the requirement for a particular category follows the long descriptive statements made in EO Rethink all slides from 15 to 30. Really!!!! I disagree but I relented and reduced it down to the ones with significant changes. I will state that the others have either no change in title or relatively minor ones.

16. 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.
Communication in the English language and Critical Thinking
Proposed title - Communication in the English Language and Critical Thinking

17. Category A.1. CSULB designation
written composition in English or written English
Proposed - Written Communication in English

18. Category A.2. CSULB designation 00-00 - oral communication(s)
Proposed - Oral Communication in English

19. Category A.3. CSULB designation 00-00 - critical thinking
Proposed - Critical Thinking

20. Category B
EO 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.
Physical Universe
Proposed – Natural Sciences and Mathematics

21. Category B.1 CSULB designation Not given specific title in 00-00
Proposed – Natural Sciences

22. 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.)

23. Category B.2. CSULB designation
Mathematical Concepts and Quantitative Reasoning
Proposed - Mathematics

24. 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

25. Category C
EO 595 – arts, literature, philosophy and foreign languages.
Humanities and the Arts
Proposed - Humanities and the Arts

26. Category C.1.
CSULB designation
00-00 – Fine Arts
Proposed – Fine Arts

27. 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.?

28. 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

29. 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

30. 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

31. 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.)

32. Category D.2. CSULB designation
00-00 – Social and Behavioral Science or Other Social and Behavioral Sciences
Proposed – Social and Behavioral Sciences and History

33. 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

34. Summary of 48 required units
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

35. I am done! Thank you!!
Questions, comments??