Please follow the instructions below to add a 2025 curriculum code by submitting a change request:
Go to this webpage if your course number is 1-499:
https://courserequest.trinity.duke.edu/duke/main/trinity/undergraduate
Go to this webpage if your course number is 500-899:
https://courserequest.trinity.duke.edu/
Click 'Change' on top
Click 'Show and Hide Filters'
Below 'Search Filters,' check 'AMES' for 'Subject' and click 'search'
Find your course 'AMES xxx' among the more than 100 courses' list. Click the course ID xxxxx
Select the module 'Arts & Sciences Curriculum 2025'
Fill out the effective semester and other required information
1.Select only one curriculum code and write a detailed justification, if your course has been assigned a default code.
or
2.Select two curriculum codes and write justifications if your course is not given a default code.
In the Remarks section, please state:
I am adding an additional code to the existing approved default code.
or
I am adding two 2025 curriculum codes.
For your reference, below are the explanations of the 2025 curriculum codes:
SB: Social and Behavioral Analysis
Courses in this area examine human individual behaviors, group dynamics, and societies. Students explore thought processes, decisions, beliefs, emotions, and motivations; examine how individuals develop over the life course and in response to experiences; and study the development and expression of identities, the establishment of social structures and political institutions, and the dynamics of economic systems.
CE: Creating and Engaging with Art
Courses in this area involve the production, performance, and/or experience of artistic creativity. Students develop cognitive, affective, and corporeal capacities through the process and production of knowledge via the creative arts; explore through practice the aesthetic forms that arise across cultures and communities; and formulate insights about human creativity by making art and reflecting on how values and meanings are expressed through arts practice. When applying the CE code, Courses Committee members look for evidence that courses in this area center the creative process and involve the making or production of art by all enrolled students.
HI: Humanistic Inquiry
Courses in this area interpret literary and aesthetic expressions that span geographical locations, historical periods, and cultures. Students analyze works and practices; engage with philosophies, religions, and intellectual traditions; investigate communication practices and media; and gain skills in research methods associated with humanistic inquiry. When applying the HI code, Courses Committee members look for evidence that learning or practicing interpretation is a key feature of the class.
IJ: Interpreting Institutions, Justice, and Power
Courses in this area investigate the events, ideas, and practices that shape human societies. Students examine institutions, ethical and cultural traditions, religious systems, and the historical and current events that shape these large-scale features of societies; examine the structures that underlie inequality, power, and societal change; and apply a diverse set of qualitative and quantitative scholarly practices.
NW: Investigating the Natural World
Courses in this area investigate and develop models for physical and biological processes. Students develop foundational knowledge about the causes of natural phenomena; explore the structure and temporal evolution of physical and biological systems; apply experimental, analytical, and computational methods; and learn the power and limits of scientific explanations.
QC: Quantitative and Computational Reasoning
Courses in this area involve mathematical reasoning, statistical analysis, and computational methods. Students engage in: formal, inductive, and deductive reasoning; apply statistical modeling and inference methods; learn tools and techniques for data analysis; develop algorithms to solve problems; design, develop, and analyze computational systems; and/or interpret claims based on computational models and simulations. When applying the QC code, Courses members look for evidence of the following:
1. "Acquisition" -- We distinguish between teaching and using. Use of quantitative skills that students already have upon entering the course is not equivalent to teaching students quantitative skills.
2. "Conceptual understanding" -- Students should be acquiring a conceptual understanding of the concepts described above, not merely the mechanics of using them.