Committee Charge:
Academic Affairs Policy
The University Ethnic Studies Implementation Committee is charged with developing and evaluating the criteria for the implementation of the GE Area F Ethnic Studies requirement including, but not limited to:
- Working with Ethnic Studies departments (Africana Studies, Asian Pacific Studies and Chicana and Chicano Studies) and the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas minor to select lower-division Ethnic Studies prefix courses and approved Indigenous Peoples of the Americas courses to cross-list for Phase I inclusion in the new General Education Area F Ethnic Studies requirement to meet the legally-mandated Fall 2021 deadline;
- Reviewing and approving upper-division courses to fulfill the General Education Area F Ethnic Studies requirement from Africana Studies, Asian Pacific Studies, Chicana/o Studies, and the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas minor in the event that students did not fulfill this requirement with an approved lower-division Ethnic Studies course;
- Utilizing the approved list of core competencies/student learning outcomes developed by the CSU Ethnic Studies Council and listed in the CSU General Education Breadth Requirements Area F and any criteria established by the UESC to approve the aforementioned qualifying courses.
- Determining the mode for cross-listed course prefixes.