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Campus guidelines for courses submitted for General Education Certification

Guidelines on developing an Advanced Composition course

The General Education form can be found on the Provost's Website.

General Education proposals must include the campus General Education form (Fill out sections A, B, C, D, and only the categories in E that you are submitting the course for), a syllabus, and the course outline form.

If you are submitting an existing course for General Education credit, please include all of the above and the fully approved course outline form.

The College recommends that departments apply for General Education certification at the same time as new courses are approved. The college will then handle the two reviews simultaneously so that, if approved, General Education credit can be earned by students the first time a course is taught.

Proposals must first be reviewed by the LAS Council on General Education. Once the course has received college approval it is forwarded to the campus-level General Education Board, which governs the certification of all General Education courses.

General Education proposals should be submitted electronically to Amy Elli: amyelli@illinois.edu.

For more information on any of these procedures, please contact Ann Mester, Associate Dean, LAS, 294 Lincoln Hall, MC-448, 333-6622; mester@illinois.edu