Proposal to the Undergraduate Studies Committee

September 25, 2018

 

 

Lewis College of Human Sciences and the departments of Humanities, Psychology and Social Sciences propose the following process for evaluating transfer credit hours from 2-year colleges and applying those hours to the IIT core curriculum.  We believe this approach will facilitate the acceptance of transfer students while maintaining the integrity of the core curriculum requirements.

 

 

1.   All potential (one-for-one) 3-credit hour, 300-level equivalences applied to 200-level courses transferred to Illinois Tech from other institutions will be submitted for departmental approval on a case-by-case basis.  Departments will communicate their decisions to UGAA which will then act on them by assigning the appropriate designator and number on the new students’ Illinois Tech transcripts.  (The department of Psychology already has articulated correspondences for some of its upper-level courses and their counterparts at 2-year colleges in the area for their major.  These agreements will remain in effect with respect to the major and be expanded to include the core curriculum requirements.)

 

2.   To make this process more efficient going forward, representatives of the departments will work with UGAA to determine transfer equivalencies for courses, from selected community colleges, in their areas of responsibility based on current course descriptions and syllabi.

 

The following language was removed at the 9-25-18 meeting:

3.   Departments may approve counting two, 3-hour, 200-level courses as the equivalent of a single, 3-hour, 300-level (or-higher) course to be applied to core curriculum requirements.   Departments have the right to consent to or deny the substitution on a case-by-case or wholesale basis.  This type of substitution can replace only one 300+ level course for each of the H and S requirements in the core curriculum.

 

 

 

Menhart proposes to return the following to the proposal:

Departments may approve counting two, 3-hour, 200-level courses as the equivalent of a single, 3-hour, 300-level (or-higher) course to be applied to core curriculum requirements.  

 

 

 

Troyk Global Revision

Lewis College of Human Sciences and the departments of Humanities, Psychology and Social Sciences propose the following process for evaluating transfer credit hours from 2-year colleges and applying determining the equivalency of those hours tofor satisfying the requirements of the IIT core curriculum.  We believe this approach will facilitate the acceptance of transfer students while maintaining the integrity of the core curriculum requirements.

 

1.   All potential (one-for-one) 3-credit hour, 300-level equivalences, applied to satisfied by one or more 200-level courses transferred to Illinois Tech from other institutions, will be submitted for appropriate departmental approval on a case-by-case basis.  Departments will communicate their decisions to UGAA which will then act on them by assigning the appropriate designator and number on the new students’ Illinois Tech transcripts.  (The department of Psychology already has articulated correspondences for some of its upper-level courses and their counterparts at 2-year colleges in the area for their major.  These agreements will remain in effect with respect to the major and be expanded to include the core curriculum requirements.)

 

2.   To make this process more efficient going forward, representatives of the departments will work with UGAA to determine common transfer equivalencies for courses, from selected community colleges, in their areas of responsibility based on current course descriptions and syllabi.

 

The following language was removed at the 9-25-18 meeting:

3.   Departments may approve counting two, 3-hour, 200-level courses as the equivalent of a single, 3-hour, 300-level (or-higher) course to be applied to core curriculum requirements.   Departments have the right to consent to or deny the substitution on a case-by-case or wholesale basis.  This type of substitution can replace only one 300+ level course for each of the H and S requirements in the core curriculum.