Academic Efficiency Updates

Changes to the DELL General Education Curriculum

• The reduction of required hours in DELL from 42 to 31-32

• The core remains the same (12 credit hours)

• The reduction of areas of study from nine to five

• Fine Arts and Humanities is a new area of study that combines the former areas of study (i.e.Historical Interpretation, Artistic and Creative Thinking, Ethics & Civic Engagement, and Literary Analysis)

• The Wellness area of study is eliminated.

Areas of Study: 

• • Fine Arts & Humanities (two courses/6 credit hours…students must take two different prefixes)

  • Language and Intercultural Competence (3 credit hours…students may take either a language class or an intercultural class)

  • Quantitative Reasoning (one course 3 or 4 credit hours)

  • Scientific Literacy (4 credit hours)

  • Social Science Literacy (3 credit hours)

• Writing Enriched requirements are reduced from 7 classes to 4 classes

Changes to the Westover General Education Curriculum

• The reduction of required hours in Westover from 46 to 38-39

• Added Quantitative Reasoning options as alternatives to fulfill the HONR 121 requirement

• Added Scientific Literacy options as alternatives to fulfill the HONR 200 requirement

• Replaced the Language requirement (6 credit hours) with Language and Intercultural Competency options (3 credit hours)

• Eliminated Wellness

• Reduced the required Honors Colloquia hours from 9 to 6.

Changes to Course Enrollment Caps

Enrollment caps will be increased to optimize efficiencies with regard to the scheduling of classes and utilizing available space/capacity

• DELL 100/300 courses move from 22 to 25 students.

• DELL 400W courses move from 20 to 22 students.

• ENVS 111 and 112 (lecture) moves from 21 to 42 students. Lab portion remains at 14.

• BIOL 113 and 114 (lecture) moves from 24 to 48 students. Lab portion remains at 16.

• BIOL 224 and 225 (lecture) moves from 24 to 48 students. Lab portion remains at 12.

• MATH 102, 106 and STAT 222 move from 25/26 to 30 students.

• MATH 103 moves from 25 to 30 students.

• MATH 104 moves from 25 to 30 students.

• Most non-WE non-lab courses move to caps of 30. (COMM 101 stays at 25.)

• Business courses move to Schewel classroom max for non-WE courses.

• Education courses required by both elementary and secondary education move to 30.

• Most non-WE Criminology courses move to 30.  (CRIM 255 stays at 20.)

• All 3-credit non-WE Psychology courses move to 30.

• Computer Science courses (excluding senior capstone) are capped at lab capacity.

• Most online graduate courses are capped at 30.

Note: Room priority for certain larger spaces will be based on course enrollments.