Course Eligibility Criteria

Course Eligibility Criteria

Course content determines a Diversification designation. The traditional disciplinary affiliations of the department, program, or college that offers the course are not factors. Thus, a course in the College of Social Sciences may receive a Biological Sciences (DB) designation.

Two-thirds of the content of the course's governing syllabus and approximately two-thirds of the required class meetings must demonstrate the hallmarks of its Diversification category.

Examples:

• • DS (Social Sciences) designation: Family Resources course that is two-thirds social sciences and one third humanities.

  • No designation:

    • A course that studies film theory for half the course (i.e., DL) and representations of culture in film (i.e., DH) for half of the course.

    • A course with content that is one half biological science and one half social science.

    • A "topics" course with content that can vary each semester from literatures to humanities.

Two simultaneous designations may be granted ONLY for a course with an embedded science laboratory (i.e, DB+DY or DP+DY).

Cross-listed courses must have the same Diversification designation.

Ineligible for Diversification designations are the following types of courses:

• Directed reading and research (courses typically numbered x99)

• Internship

• Practicum

• Experimental (courses typically numbered x97 or x98)

• Graduate-level