The Inquiry Core Curriculum

Core Curriculum Syllabus Statement

Student learning is enhanced when they are exposed to explicit connections between courses and to the skills they are developing in courses. To better promote student learning within the Core Curriculum, all courses participating must include the following statement early in their syllabus.

This course is part of Cleveland State University’s Inquiry Core Curriculum program. The Inquiry Core Curriculum program aims to provide students with a well-rounded education, emphasizing a diverse range of methods of inquiry and essential skills for success after graduation. This course contributes to the program by fulfilling the [insert requirement here] requirement. In fulfilling that requirement, this course will provide you opportunity to develop the following core competencies: [list competencies].

To ensure the quality of the Core Curriculum program, student work in this course may be used to assess the program outcomes.

In a change from GenEd08, you are not required to include a full list of the requirements the course meets to be a part of the Core Curriculum. You are encouraged to include explicit student learning outcomes, contextualized to the course, that specify how the core competencies will be understood in your course.

 

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CSU Core Curriculum Handbook by Core Curriculum Committee is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.