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Scientific literacy instead of having students take a basic science course where they learn concepts and terms-they need to learn to make sense of science.

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Have marketable skills for the job that motivated them to go to college.

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Have marketable skills for the job that motivated them to go to college.

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exposure to arts, humanities and social science

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exposure to arts, humanities and social science

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In addition to content and skills students should be expected to learn and demonstrate, a revision of the Gen. Ed. curriculum should also give attention to the pedagogy of Gen. Ed. This could become another area of coherence across the curriculum. For example, Gen. Ed. courses ought to use writing and speaking as central modes of learning, not just as skills to learn.

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Chairs and departments need to be involved because of existing expertise, faculty lines, and course inventory.

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Chairs and departments need to be involved because of existing expertise, faculty lines, and course inventory.

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Improve scalability. We have courses that are difficult to teach because the enrollment is required to be too low.

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Improve scalability. We have courses that are difficult to teach because the enrollment is required to be too low.

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Many humanities majors rely upon gen ed requirements to recruit majors. For example, because few students have philosophy classes in high school, a significant pool of majors are recruited from students taking philosophy classes to fulfill gen ed requirements.

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Many humanities majors rely upon gen ed requirements to recruit majors. For example, because few students have philosophy classes in high school, a significant pool of majors are recruited from students taking philosophy classes to fulfill gen ed requirements.

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Good integration of technology tools in class projects to build skills 

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Good integration of technology tools in class projects to build skills 

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Basic computing / digital skills, regardless of their major

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Basic computing / digital skills, regardless of their major

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Longevity literacy - given the aging of the population and the likelihood that  students will work with older co-workers in teams and for many students in healthcare, they will serve older adults in their work.  Also longevity literacy is important for one's own life planning and well being.  Gerontology teaches this.

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Longevity literacy - given the aging of the population and the likelihood that  students will work with older co-workers in teams and for many students in healthcare, they will serve older adults in their work.  Also longevity literacy is important for one's own life planning and well being.  Gerontology teaches this.

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Understanding diversity, both domestic and international

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Understanding diversity, both domestic and international

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Reading

Communicating clearly in speaking and writing

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Theirs and others'. Understanding content within contexts. Understanding current context. Environmental crisis. Capitalism. Fascism.

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writing - even when students transfer in with credits, they don't have enough writing skills. same with math

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writing - even when students transfer in with credits, they don't have enough writing skills. same with math

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Statistics, hard sciences, humanities. Answer "the why" and make balanced judgment.

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Critical thinking in the sense of being able to evaluate data/information/truth claims

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Critical thinking in the sense of being able to evaluate data/information/truth claims

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CLAS should not dominate the Gen- ed courses. All colleges have to participate

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CLAS should not dominate the Gen- ed courses. All colleges have to participate

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We're facing several different existential crises now and in the next decades: climate change, resource depletion, creeping fascism and nationalism; our students need to know how to address their futures in this context.

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We're facing several different existential crises now and in the next decades: climate change, resource depletion, creeping fascism and nationalism; our students need to know how to address their futures in this context.

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Lab and projects should be interchangeable. Projects give set of skills that are essential 

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Lab and projects should be interchangeable. Projects give set of skills that are essential 

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The ability to attend to the news/current events in a way informed by history and cultural studies (the latter understood broadly).

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The ability to attend to the news/current events in a way informed by history and cultural studies (the latter understood broadly).

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Critical thinking, communication and writing skills. Students also need assistance with managing transitions - both coming in to college and then transitioning out into their profession. 

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Critical thinking, communication and writing skills. Students also need assistance with managing transitions - both coming in to college and then transitioning out into their profession. 

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citizenship

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Information literacy and digital media literacy since these skills provide a strong foundation for both disciplinary practice and information encounters outside of academic lives.

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Information literacy and digital media literacy since these skills provide a strong foundation for both disciplinary practice and information encounters outside of academic lives.

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deeper understanding of our racial history

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deeper understanding of our racial history

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rotating faculty to keep ideas and learning fresh

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rotating faculty to keep ideas and learning fresh

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Understand how our society has come to be and impacts on various groups.  Using critical thinking.

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Understand how our society has come to be and impacts on various groups.  Using critical thinking.

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Communicate accross a variety of audiences (technical and non-technical). Teach those Lifelong learnering skills.

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Personal framing of issue within given society with given time period

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Strong international and intercultural focus

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Strong international and intercultural focus

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An appreciation of the value of learning 

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An appreciation of the value of learning 

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Students should learn a foreign language.

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Students should learn a foreign language.

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Productive citizenry skills and knowledge--incl financial literacy, knowledge of civic institutions

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Productive citizenry skills and knowledge--incl financial literacy, knowledge of civic institutions

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Requiring writing within the major in addition to more general "college freshman" writing requirement

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Importance of digital literacy -- ability to assess truth claims

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Physical well being is important to a balanced life. Should we include Kinesiology in Gen Ed?

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Physical well being is important to a balanced life. Should we include Kinesiology in Gen Ed?

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Work in teams
Understand Modern communication tools
contemporary topics, such as Genetics, robotics, AI, sustainability

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awareness of the cultures of the world, world languages

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awareness of the cultures of the world, world languages

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opportunities for community engagement - get involved in Charlotte and the area

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opportunities for community engagement - get involved in Charlotte and the area

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Difference between opinion and analysis 

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Difference between opinion and analysis 

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Anti-racism and decolonizing knowledge as action/responsibility and not just knowledge of diversity

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Anti-racism and decolonizing knowledge as action/responsibility and not just knowledge of diversity

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social justice, DEI, broaden students' horizons

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social justice, DEI, broaden students' horizons

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More of the current goals of GenEd, e.g. critical thinking, need to be pursued within departmental majors.

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More of the current goals of GenEd, e.g. critical thinking, need to be pursued within departmental majors.

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"forced togetherness" - throwing people together and making them get to know each other, communicate

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"forced togetherness" - throwing people together and making them get to know each other, communicate

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They should know about things like environmental crises, fascism, capitalism, how the stock market work and who it works for.

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Understanding of data collection and use

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Understanding of data collection and use

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Our students are living in a digital world, and they need to understand how things are tracked and how people are using data.  What it means to click yes an app may use my GPS.  Digital literacy including intellectual property understanding.

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A larger emphasis on ethics. Understanding ethics in the professional world and as it applies to various disciplines.

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Which evidence is relevant to which claim? What counts as the kind of claim that requires a certain kind of evidence.

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Hire enough full-time faculty to adequately serve our enrollment growth. 

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Hire enough full-time faculty to adequately serve our enrollment growth. 

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I want the students to understand that Gen Ed. matters and that they are surrounded by faculty in their department who also value Gen. Ed.

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I want the students to understand that Gen Ed. matters and that they are surrounded by faculty in their department who also value Gen. Ed.

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Should be able to distinguish. Understand algorithms and how they determine what we can know. Supporting arguments with facts/evidence/anecdotes/data

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Students need to be leaving our university with the understanding that different constituencies value different things in writing. So understanding which genres are valued in a profession, what that audience needs and expects, etc.

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Overall information literacy- knowing how to find information, use the information, and appropriately attribute the information (academic integrity).

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Overall information literacy- knowing how to find information, use the information, and appropriately attribute the information (academic integrity).

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How to consume statistics and data. Evaluating sources.

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Teach initiative - college students shouldn't need to be hand held to complete an assignment.  

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Teach initiative - college students shouldn't need to be hand held to complete an assignment.  

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LBST 2301 - good addition to the curriculum

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LBST 2301 - good addition to the curriculum

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COED - giving opps to disseminate work outside class, undergraduate research conference

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COED - giving opps to disseminate work outside class, undergraduate research conference

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Critical evaluation of numbers and statistics

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Critical evaluation of numbers and statistics

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Everything from proper grammar to how to write a professional email. These are basic skills that our students still struggle with

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Exposure to fields outside of their major. Broad based education.

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Exposure to fields outside of their major. Broad based education.

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Cross-curricular discussions on learning outcomes (e.g., in the same way Math Pathways does this)

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Cross-curricular discussions on learning outcomes (e.g., in the same way Math Pathways does this)

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Some take as electives and are interested in the topic, despite major

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Great instructors in the Gen Ed courses; students love them 

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Great instructors in the Gen Ed courses; students love them 

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No requirement of course in the humanities. 

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No requirement of course in the humanities. 

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LBST is not the same as humanities. The category doesn't work.

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lbst communication and critical thinking

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lbst communication and critical thinking

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Collaboration with a search engine in data, information and knowledge discovery.  Independent evaluation and critical thinking.  

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Collaboration with a search engine in data, information and knowledge discovery.  Independent evaluation and critical thinking.  

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Increasing taught by part-time faculty. 

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Increasing taught by part-time faculty. 

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Make sure full-time faculty dedicated to gen ed to teach courses.

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Be comfortable with multiple "ways of thinking": systems thinking, future/anticipatory thinking, etc.

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Be comfortable with multiple "ways of thinking": systems thinking, future/anticipatory thinking, etc.

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all large courses. "Stepchild" of the curriculum.

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"Getting LBST out of the way"

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Better balance between TT & NTT faculty teaching gen ed classes

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Better balance between TT & NTT faculty teaching gen ed classes

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Understanding social justice, advocacy, equity, etc., and how these concepts apply to various communities

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Oral communication requirement should be in the department

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Oral communication requirement should be in the department

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What were the results of the LBST offerings experiment when compared with other campuses?

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What were the results of the LBST offerings experiment when compared with other campuses?

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we are on the front lines trying to explain this to students, so it needs to be organized in a way that is easy for us to explain and easy for DegreeWorks to lay out.

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Ability to read and understand scholarly texts. Ability to communicate in writing. Ability to struggle with difficult texts. Learn to enjoy reading. Understand that reading is fundamental to research.

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Focus on both oral and written communication

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Focus on both oral and written communication

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Greater emphasis on transdisciplinary options - how different disciplinary perspectives can inform and challenge - build upon one another. 

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Greater emphasis on transdisciplinary options - how different disciplinary perspectives can inform and challenge - build upon one another. 

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Why is there no requirement to take an introductory class in a humanities field, analogous to the natural sciences and social sciences requirement?

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I view LBST classes as stuck between distribution requirements across fields vs. some kind of common curriculum. What really ties together LBST classes with the same number? Not much beyond the course title.

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Need to consider how our courses will transfer out-e.g. LBST 2301 will not transfer out as a 2nd FYW course

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Need to consider how our courses will transfer out-e.g. LBST 2301 will not transfer out as a 2nd FYW course