Curriculum
Several offices and organizations at the College of Charleston collaborate to structure our curriculum in such a way to reflect our core values.
Core Values
Integrity: We take accountability for our actions and adhere to the highest ethical standards in all our professional obligations and personal responsibilities. We demonstrate respect for self, others and place.
Academic Excellence: We are committed to a dynamic intellectual community, high academic standards, strong academic programs, exceptional teacher-scholars, engaged students and lifelong learners. Liberal Arts
Education: We encourage intellectual curiosity and foster each student’s ability to think creatively and analyze, synthesize, apply and communicate knowledge from many sources.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: We create and nurture a diverse and inclusive community demonstrated through our thoughts, words and actions. We value and respect the unique perspectives, backgrounds and experiences every individual has to offer.
Student Centeredness: We are devoted to nurturing thriving scholar-citizens through the intellectual, ethical and social development of each individual student.
Innovation: We act with an entrepreneurial spirit to imagine and implement creative, bold and sustainable solutions in our pursuit of excellence and continuous improvement.
Public Mission: We demonstrate social responsibility in meeting the educational and professional needs of our community, our state, our nation and the world.
Liberal Arts & Sciences General Education Program
Consistent with its heritage since its founding in 1770, the College of Charleston retains a strong liberal arts undergraduate general education curriculum. The Liberal Arts and Sciences General Education requirement serves all students, regardless of major, and assures that students are exposed to a breadth of intellectual inquiry distributed across seven areas of the curriculum: First Year Writing, Foreign Languages, Classical or Modern, History, Humanities, Mathematics/Logic, Natural Science and Social Sciences.
The general education program emphasizes the acquisition of knowledge, communication and languages, analysis, explanation and problem-solving. Faculty have defined specific learning outcomes for each of the distribution areas.
Information for faculty can be found on the Academic Affairs Hub.
General Education Mission Statement
The Liberal Arts and Sciences General Education requirement serves all students, regardless of major, and assures that students are exposed to a breadth of intellectual inquiry distributed across seven areas of the curriculum: History, Humanities, Mathematics and/or Logic, Foreign Language, Natural Science, Social Science and Writing. The College’s mission and institutional identity as a public liberal arts and sciences university informs the rationale for general education. While the work in the major of their choice will give students specialized knowledge and skills in that discipline or profession, the College of Charleston’s core curriculum will equip each student, regardless of major, with crucial intellectual skills in analysis, research and communication.
Curriculum Management
The Office of the Provost, the Registrar's Office, and the Office of Institutional Effectiveness work closely with the Curriculum Committee (for undergraduate curriculum), the Committee on Graduate Education (for graduate curriculum), and the Committee on General Education (for general education curriculum) to evaluate all proposed change to the College curriculum. The College ensures that all programs and changes are rigorous, well-designed, and consistent with the College's overall mission.
More information for faculty is available on the Academic Affairs Hub.
Academic Affairs HUBCurriculog
The College's Curriculum Management System is powered by Curriculog™, an online interface that allows programs, minors, and courses to be proposed, created, assessed, revised, approved, and implemented. Faculty and staff involved in departmental-, school-, and university-level reviews may view the progress of their proposals from start to finish. For additional resources, view the Curriculog Guidebook (faculty sign-in required) or the guidance provided within Curriculog.
While Academic Affairs oversees the Curriculog system, creating curricular proposals and the review of curriculum is a function and a responsibility of the faculty and the relevant Faculty Senate committees.
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