All changes to the core curriculum course lists must be approved by the Faculty Council on the recommendation of the Dean of Undergraduate Studies and the Undergraduate Studies Advisory Committee. Courses proposed for the core are evaluated on the basis of their ability to develop the Student Competencies that UT and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board have defined for each component of the core.
Proposals to add or remove a core course should be submitted on the core course proposal form and approved by the dean of the college or school offering the course prior to submission to the School of Undergraduate Studies. The deadline for the 2010-12 Undergraduate Catalog was February 11, 2009.
For more information and to download the Core Course Proposal form: http://www.utexas.edu/ugs/core/facstaff
Flags are added to individual courses by the Undergraduate Studies Advisory Committee in consultation with university-wide faculty committees overseeing each flag. Proposals to add flags to courses are evaluated on the basis of the flag guidelines developed by the Faculty Council and the Undergraduate Studies Advisory Committee.
Flag proposal deadlines for 2010-11:
For more information on flag criteria, teaching resources, and to download flag proposal forms: http://www.utexas.edu/ugs/teaching/flags
The online proposal system: https://www.utexas.edu/ugs/flag-proposal/proposal/
Faculty members are invited to submit a proposal to teach a Signature Course through the online proposal system. Proposals will be forwarded to the School of Undergraduate Studies after your dean has given approval. Proposals for the 2010-11 academic year were due October 5, 2009.
The proposal should include:
For more information: http://www.utexas.edu/ugs/sig/propose
Three semester hours of designated coursework from the cultural expression, human experience, and thought area are required in addition to the course counted toward the visual and performing arts area of the core curriculum. The course must originate from a field of study in the College of Liberal Arts.
All designated cultural expression, human experience, and thought courses must meet the following student competencies
Department chairs/center directors with courses seeking cultural expression, human experience, and thought designation must submit a Cultural Expression, Human Experience, and Thought Area Request form (DOC) to the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs by February 15, 2010.
Note: DOC files require Microsoft Viewer.
Three semester hours chosen from an approved list of social science courses are required, in addition to the course counted toward the social science area of the core curriculum. The course must be taught in the College of Liberal Arts and must be in a different field of study from the course student's use to fulfill the University core social science requirement. Courses on the approved list will be primarily in the fields of anthropology, economics, geography, linguistics, psychology, and sociology, but not every course in these fields will be approved. Courses approved for an area of the University Core other than the social science area may not be used for this requirement.
All designated social science courses must meet the following student competencies.
Department chairs/center directors with courses seeking social science designation must submit a Social Science Area Request form (DOC) to the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs by February 15, 2010.
Note: DOC files require Microsoft Viewer.
Six semester hours in natural sciences are required in addition to the courses taken as part of the Natural Science Core Curriculum. Courses used to fulfill this requirement may be selected from alternative natural science courses approved by the dean or from history/philosophy of sciences courses, with no more than three semester hours in either the history of science or the philosophy of science.
Department chairs/center directors with courses seeking alternative natural science designation must submit an Alternative Natural Science Request (DOC) to the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs by March 1, 2010.
Note: DOC files require Microsoft Viewer.
According to the two most recent undergraduate catalogs, nine semester hours of designated University of Texas at Austin coursework in Air Force Science, Military Science, or Naval Science may be counted toward any degree in the College of Liberal Arts, regardless of a student’s commissioning status.
Course designation is decided by a faculty committee based on the following guidelines:
For more information, please contact Lisa Vera, lisav@austin.utexas.edu.
