SECTION 300 - ACADEMIC
AFFAIRS
303.0110 CURRICULUM-COMMON COURSE OUTLINE
POLICY Every approved academic course at Georgia Perimeter College must
have an official Common Course Outline. Throughout the college all faculty
teaching a course should adhere to the Common Course Outline.
PROCEDURE The following procedure describes the development and use of a
Common Course Outline:
A. The appropriate course curriculum
committee will develop and approve Common Course Outlines for each course for
which it is responsible. Approval of Common Course Outlines for all new courses
requires approval by the faculty senate, per GPC Policy 303.0105, Curriculum
and Academic Policy Proposals. Any changes in the common course outline
necessitating a catalog change, such as credit hours, course title, or course
description, require approval by the faculty senate.
B. A Common Course Outline should include
the following information:
I. Course
Abbreviation
II. Credit
Hours
III. Course
Title
IV. Prerequisites
and Co-requisites
V. Catalog
Description
VI. Expected
Educational Results
a. course
b. general
VII. Course
Content*
VIII. Assessment
of Expected Educational Results*
a. course
grade
b. department
assessment
c. use
of assessment findings
IX. Date
(Common Course Outline submitted or updated)
C. The course curriculum committee will
review and update all Common Course Outlines as necessary.
D. The college believes in the academic
value of giving final exams that are comprehensive in nature; however, the
college also values the discretion of the faculty member to determine
appropriate assessment methods. The departments on each campus and/or
individual instructors will construct a detailed syllabus based on the Common
Course Outline for implementation in each class.
*The
Common Course Outline offers only a schematic description of the course content
and assessment material. Campus departments and/or individual instructors
should elaborate upon and enhance these sections in their syllabi. At the beginning
of each term, faculty members must submit their syllabi for approval to the
department head and/or the discipline coordinating dean. The sequencing of
topics as well as all readings and other assignments designed to assist the
student in accomplishing course objectives are left to the discretion of the
campus department and/or the individual instructor as long as these components
adhere to the Common Course Outline.
Revised
7/94
Revised
by Academic Affairs Policy Council 11/99
Approved
by College Advisory Board 7/27/00
Revised
by Academic Affairs Policy Council 11/2000
Approved
by the Academic Affairs Policy Council 3/2001
Approved by College Advisory Board 4/25/01