Guidelines
Faculty members, teaching teams, schools, departments, and units can find essential information and best practices for developing courses within the Common Core Program. These guidelines ensure that all course offerings meet the university's academic standards while promoting a rich and engaging learning experience for students.
To encourage cross-disciplinary education, course instructors are allowed to list their new or migrated Common Core courses under more than one common core area in the new Common Core Program. A significant amount, say 50%, of the course content should be related to each of the proposed Common Core areas. Course instructors are required to briefly elaborate how the course ILOs could achieve the ILOs of each stated Common Core area.
Double-counting allowance for students to double-count credits earned for common core courses to fulfill both School/Major and common core requirements is discontinued in the new Common Core Program. Besides, required courses for School/Major prerequisites, Major programs including Track studies and Options, and Extended Major programs will not be considered as common core courses under the new framework.
Approval has been granted for existing 2000/3000-level Common Core courses by the Committee on Undergraduate Core Education (CUCE) in consideration of appropriate explanation/academic justifications. Further explanation/academic justifications and approval are not required if similar course contexts, T&L, and assessment arrangements are adopted for the migrated Common Core course.
The UxOP encompasses several initiatives focused on undergraduate experiential opportunities, encouraging students to engage with real-world issues through research and practical experiences. The guideline and code assignment details outline the procedure and details of course development.
Approval has been granted for existing SHSS common core courses to use Chinese as the teaching medium and/or in teaching materials by the CUCE in consideration of appropriate academic justifications. Further academic justifications and approval are not required if similar course contexts are adopted for the migrated common core course.