{"id":43296,"date":"2022-06-14T05:40:02","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T09:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=43296"},"modified":"2022-06-19T09:43:31","modified_gmt":"2022-06-19T13:43:31","slug":"reimagining-gen-ed-for-all-it-can-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2022\/06\/reimagining-gen-ed-for-all-it-can-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Reimagining \u2018gen ed\u2019 for all it can be"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga is reimagining general education, and academic departments can begin identifying courses to offer through the gen ed program for fall semester 2023 implementation.<\/p><\/div>\n

Physics to finance, Japanese to journalism, whatever the major, all roads to a bachelor\u2019s degree pass through general education\u2014the courses that comprise most of the first two years of every student\u2019s college instruction.<\/p>\n

Because that makes general education the only program all graduates complete, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Chancellor Steven R. Angle declared that general education must be one of the strongest and most meaningful programs offered by UTC.<\/p>\n

\u201cCan our general education program be an exhilarating and even more meaningful part of the UTC experience? Yes, it can, and we will do it,\u201d Angle said during his 2020 State of the University address. A few weeks later, UTC Provost Jerold Hale assembled a committee charged with \u201cReimagining General Education,\u201d led by Vice Provost Lauren Ingraham, who was then director of general education.<\/p>\n

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Vice Provost Lauren Ingraham<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cHistorically at UTC, we take a good look at gen ed about once a decade and, since our current program was implemented fall 2014, we\u2019re a little ahead of the curve,\u201d Ingraham said.\u00a0\u201cWe got seriously to work in January 2021, charged with exploring possible models and best practices, listening to key stakeholders and proposing a final design to submit to appropriate faculty governance processes. The goal was to propose this design in the spring 2022 semester for fall 2023 implementation, if adopted.\u201d<\/p>\n

The committee hit its target, with faculty voting to approve the proposal in May, followed by the chancellor\u2019s approval. Now, academic departments can begin identifying courses to offer through the general education program starting in fall semester 2023.<\/p>\n

Courses will fall into these six disciplines and credit hour requirements for a total of 40-41 hours completed:<\/p>\n