If your course has been approved for any of the Simpson Core designations, the description of those requirements needs to be included in your syllabus.
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SC Assessment: For each designation in the Simpson Core, be sure to indicate what assignment would be appropriate for a student to upload to their Portfolium account if you are teaching an Inquiry, Mission, or Experiential Learning course.
The designation proposal form that was approved by the faculty contains the information about assignment and activities that align with the course characteristics. The approved designation proposal forms are available on SC Connect; just click on the Curriculum Committee link or check with your department chair to obtain a copy of the proposal form.
Experiential Learning
Experiential learning courses consist of approved high-impact practices such as internships, service learning, co-curricular or extra-curricular activities, study abroad, entrepreneurship, collaborative projects, or undergraduate research opportunities. Incoming, first-year students are required to complete TWO distinct experiential learning experiences. May be fulfilled by a course that also fulfills an Inquiry or Mission requirement or a course in the major. Foundations courses cannot carry an experiential learning designation.
Course Characteristics
Courses with an Experiential Learning designation will
1. require a minimum of 35 hours of engaged experiential learning, including the time for reflection.
2. require students to reflect on how education, work, and/or service promote the college’s core values (Discovery, Access, Citizenship, Belonging, Justice, and/or Integrity).
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The purpose of Inquiry courses is to provide a diverse liberal arts experience. These courses will be offered at the 100-200 level and typically have no prerequisites. Each requirement draws from subdisciplines with recognized expertise in that area of study.
Inquiry Designations - Scientific Inquiry (SI), Human Behavior and Society (HBS), Arts and Creative Expression (ACE), Cultural and Textual Inquiry (CTI), Historical Inquiry (HI), and Data Analysis (DA)
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Effectively forming a core for the curriculum, Mission courses embrace disciplinary or interdisciplinary frames to develop students’ engagement with key areas of the college’s values and mission statements. They serve a scaffolding function by reinforcing and developing ideas learned in Foundations courses. These courses are aimed at second- and third-year students and are typically taught at the 200-level or 300-level without prerequisites. They may be taught by any department.
Mission Designations - Ethical Decision Making (EDM), Global Studies (GS), and Local Studies (LS)
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As part of the requirements for majors outlined separately in the catalog, each major includes a Capstone, an Undergraduate Research Experience, a Disciplinary Writing course, and a Disciplinary Speaking course. Departments determine whether these requirements are fulfilled simultaneously or attached to other courses in the major.
Major Requirements - Capstone, Disciplinary Writing (DW), Disciplinary Speaking (DS), and Undergraduate Research Experience (URE)
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