Multiple Inquiry Goal Guidelines

The Multiple Inquiries Goal was established to encourage greater intentionality and engagement on the part of students and faculty, an intentionality that will be reflected in course selection, by the student, and course design, by the instructor.

For the MIG, students will need one course each in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences; and two courses in the Natural Sciences, one of which must include a laboratory component. APPC envisions that most MIG courses will be taught at the 100- and 200-levels, and will be suitable for First-year students and sophomores.

Multiple Inquiries Goal Guidelines

The following information must be submitted for each course.

1. Course name and number.

2. Whether the course is to be considered as a course in the arts, humanities, social sciences, or natural sciences. If a natural sciences course, whether it has a laboratory component or not.

3. An explanation of how the course will prepare students to produce work that is exemplary of the perspectives and modes of inquiry, analysis, and expression that characterize the discipline that the course is intended to represent. In deciding whether to approve the course for the Multiple Inquiries Goal, APPC will find it helpful if the explanation includes the following information:

a. A brief discussion of course goals and methods to indicate how the course typifies artistic, humanistic, social scientific, or scientific disciplinary approaches.

b. A brief discussion of the learning goals for students that makes clear that one goal of the course is to help students develop an understanding of the disciplinary approach the course exemplifies.

c. An identification of activities and assignments designed to achieve this learning goal. For example, if a course is to satisfy the laboratory component of the natural science requirement, address how students will come to understand and articulate laboratory methods of inquiry through these activities and assignments.

4. A copy of the current or revised course syllabus, if you are not using the new course proposal form.

 

Please submit your MIG proposal electronically to the Registrar.

 

Originally posted 20 February 2004. Modified 2 February 2005 and 1 May 2007.