ab1460向前发展, the Ethnic Studies GE Requirement

发送日期:2020年10月2日

发件人:文森特·J. 德尔·卡西诺.他是教务长兼学术事务高级副校长

亲爱的同事们,

我希望这封邮件发现你一切安好. 我今天写的是关于这篇文章的 of AB 1460, which mandates a new graduation 要求 in Ethnic Studies for all CSU undergraduate 2024-2025年毕业的学生. 这项法案对…有直接影响 标题5, the overarching law that governs the CSU, 和 Chancellor’s Office (CO) of the 犯罪现场调查组现在必须着手将AB 1460纳入标题5.

As many of you probably know, the CO had already passed a version of an Ethnic Studies 和社会公正的要求. 有了这个新要求，他们修改了 标题5 to include a new 通识教育 area for Ethnic Studies - Area F - and implemented a required reduction in lower division Area D (社会科学) from 9 单位至6个单位. These changes were a result, in part, of mandating a new graduation 要求不添加单位的程度. ab1460缩小了区域的范围 F 要求 while also fitting into the broader categorical changes that were made.

The CO outlines this major change to 通识教育 on their 网站 并提供了一些答案 常见问题 (常见问题解答’s) that are now emerging as a result of AB 1460’s passage. 简而言之，在AB下 1460 . CO应与…合作 民族研究委员会 和 加州州立大学学术委员会 定义新要求的核心学习成果. 我怀疑这种情况会改变 may be made to these learning outcomes over time, but these are the 一个s that we have 现在.

No matter what position you may have taken on AB 1460 or the CO approach, this new law provides us an opportunity to have an important and engaged conversation about how best to integrate new Area F courses into our larger curriculum. 没有意义 in trying to hit the minimum bar here - let’s excel and take advantage of the amazing talent on campus to build not only an individual course 要求 but a robust set of programs that continues to leverage the intellectual power of Ethnic Studies pedagogies 和严格的实践来加强我们的社区.

I am not writing as provost today to say, however, what the course 要求 should 是或应该如何交付. 课程开发和审批是 教师. But, I am writing as a colleague to suggest that we already have the 让这一切顺利进行的机制. 学术委员会将进行投票 on a policy change to add Area F to our 通识教育 program in a few weeks, 例如. The Senate 通识教育 Advisory Committee can “appoint ad hoc General 教育 Review Panels (GRP)” to evaluate “a specific curricular 要求 or set 的需求.” And, we have a strong group of Ethnic Studies departments, programs, and faculty across our colleges that can help guide the development of this new 要求. As we begin this conversation in our Senate and on our campus, therefore, we must recognize that this new 要求 impacts all of our undergraduate degree programs 虽然方式不同. 例如，我们设法维持工程 只有120个单位的度. 这是通过在 通识教育. AB 1460 impacts those programs and thus those faculty need to be 参与更广泛的对话.

AB 1460 does not just impact the work of 教师 和 curricular process. It also impacts the everyday work of the administration, which must figure out how to not only fund and offer this new 要求 but how to manage the long-term budgetary 这些变化的含义. 在短时间内有许多工作要做 time. 而且，有很多对话要进行. 我们需要为 conversation even as we discuss some of the first courses that will meet this new 要求. After all, maybe this is a chance to demonstrate that 通识教育 can be a site of an innovative curricular redesign that works past “the discipline” and toward the epistemic challenges brought by Ethnic Studies pedagogies and philosophies? Maybe this is an opportunity to present every single student with a “high impact” engaged learning experience that is rooted in the practices of Ethnic Studies? 这 要求, which has been developed through a legislative process, does not foreclose our own creative and critical thinking about 通识教育.

I am personally excited about what this campus can and will do in this space. 这 is an amazing opportunity, even with some of its challenges, to think “broader.”

还有更多的事情要做.

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