Changes affect students in liberal arts and business
The University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the UI Tippie College of Business are making changes to their General Education Program requirements. The changes will be effective beginning with students enrolling for Summer Session 2011.
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
All students admitted for the 2011 summer sessions and beyond will need to fulfill the new General Education requirements. The University has clarified and integrated requirements without making significant changes to the General Education Program.
- The Foreign Language category will be renamed World Languages
- The (GE) Distributed (6 semester hours [s.h.]) and Humanities areas (3 s.h.) will be replaced with three new categories:
- International and Global Issues (3 s.h.)
- Literary, Visual, and Performing Arts (3 s.h.)
- Values, Society, and Diversity (3 s.h.)
The new categories include many of the same courses and outcomes of the discontinued areas, providing students with a wide range of courses to fulfill the new requirements.
What hasn’t changed is that transfer students with an associate of arts degree from an Iowa community college will enter the University having fulfilled all General Education requirements except World Languages for the Colleges of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Education. In addition, these students are exempt from the University’s high school course admission requirements. Learn more …
Tippie College of Business
Effective summer 2011, all students entering the University planning to enroll in the Tippie College of Business (TCOB) will be held to new General Education requirements. The new General Education requirements include some name changes in various General Education categories, and, most importantly, a significant change in the foreign language requirement.
The new TCOB foreign language policy requires completion of the fourth-level proficiency in a single language OR completion of the second-level proficiency in two different languages.
Either requirement may be fulfilled with the appropriate high school credit.
The foreign language requirement may be fulfilled in either of two ways:
- Option1: Complete four semesters of the same foreign language (fourth-level proficiency).
- Option 2: Complete two semesters of two different foreign languages (second-level proficiency).
Students with an AA degree from an Iowa community college will enter the University having fulfilled all General Education requirements except world languages for the TCOB. Learn more …