Any departments or programs in the College of Arts and Sciences that wish to nominate an existing Arts and Sciences course to count for one or more of the requirements that are part of the new Arts and Sciences General Education Curriculum should follow the instructions below. (Submit all nomination forms and related materials to: ascurriculum@colorado.edu or 275 UCB)
Skills requirements and the Diversity requirement
Any existing Arts and Sciences course that was not grandfathered into one of the four General Education Skills requirements (Foreign Language, Quantitative Reasoning and Mathematical Skills, Lower-Division Written Communication, or Upper-Division Written Communication) or one of the two General Education Diversity requirements (United States Perspective and Global Perspective) needs to be nominated to be considered for any of these requirements. To nominate a course for one or more of these requirements, please fill out the appropriate nomination form(s) linked to here:
Distribution requirements
During 2017, the General Education Implementation Committee evaluated all existing Arts and Sciences courses that fill a requirement in an Arts and Sciences major, minor or certificate (MMC courses) and assigned nearly all such courses to at least one of the three General Education Distribution Requirements (Arts and Humanities, Natural Science, and/or Social Science.)[1] To nominate an existing Arts and Sciences MMC course for a second or third distribution requirement or to nominate an existing Arts and Sciences non-MMC course for one of the distribution requirements, please fill out the appropriate nomination form(s) linked to here:
To nominate an existing Arts and Sciences course to fill the Natural Science Laboratory requirement, fill out the appropriate parts of the “Distribution Requirement: Natural Science” form that is linked to above.
[1] Thesis hours, independent study, internship, and practicum courses are specifically excluded from counting for any General Education requirement even if they count toward an A&S major, minor, or certificate. Some skills courses, like writing and mathematics courses, that fulfill a major, minor and/or certificate requirement were assigned only to one of the Gen. Ed. skills categories and not to the Distribution Requirement.