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.
All designated Cultural Expression, Human Experience, and Thought courses must meet the following student competencies
In addition:
Forms are not needed for courses satisfying the Visual and Performing Arts Core requirement offered by fields of study in the College of Liberal Arts or for courses that have been previously approved for this area.
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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.
In addition:
Forms are not needed for courses already satisfying the Social & Behavioral Science Core requirement or that have been previously approved for this area.
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Six semester hours in natural sciences are required in addition to the courses taken as part of the Science and Technology 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.
Courses must contain at least three of the following five educational objectives from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s Core Curriculum Exemplary Educational Objectives:
In addition:
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For more information, please contact John St. Lawrence, jes@austin.utexas.edu
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.
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 using the online core course proposal form. The deadline for the 2019-20 General Information Catalog was August 2018.
For more information: https://ugs.utexas.edu/core/proposals
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.
For more information on flag criteria, teaching resources, and workshops/events: https://ugs.utexas.edu/flags/faculty-resources
The online proposal system: https://ugs.utexas.edu/flags/faculty-resources/propose-flag
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. The deadline for 2019-20 proposals was August 1, 2018.
Proposals should include:
For more information: https://ugs.utexas.edu/sig/propose
The online proposal system: https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/ugs/ugsdb/sig/