A&S Curriculum Projects
Arts & Sciences Curriculum Projects
Administrative Priorities
The Arts and Sciences Center fosters student success by providing a well-planned and clearly articulated curriculum that offers students an accessible, relevant, high-quality academic experience. Our commitment to student success drives the work of the Arts and Sciences Center in developing, implementing and reviewing courses that:
- Increase offerings to support transfer agreements, Associate or Arts or Associate of Science degree requirements, and pre-majors
- Support the needs of programs through high-quality general education offerings
- Expand the flexible learning options (hybrid, online, accelerated, and other flexible options) to enhance student access to courses
- Revise courses to increase transferability and respond to occupational and technical program needs
- Revise courses to enrich assessment
- Address the curriculum priorities of Learner Success
Curriculum and Assessment Committee
In pursuit of these goals and actions, the Arts and Sciences Curriculum and Assessment Committee
- Reviews proposals for new courses and course revisions submitted by instructors and their departments.
- Recommends courses for approval for the Arts and Sciences curriculum.
- Distributes available funds to individuals for their work in writing curriculum.
- Forwards highly ranked proposals to a college-wide curriculum committee for funding consideration.
Committee Members
English
Cherif Correa, Gwen Ebert
World Languages
Tom Curtis
Communication and Performing Arts
Franklin Cham
Anthropology
Luke Matthews
Math and Computer Science
Dave Sarocka
Physical Sciences
Jennifer Lewis
Biology
Robert Lovely
Economics
Pithoon Thanabordeekij
Administration
Todd Stebbins, Kathleen Paris, Kevin Mirus
Proposal Form Format
All boxes on the proposal form are editable in Word. The proposal form can be accessed on the Curriculum Design Documents page.
Multiple proposals
You may submit more than one project. However, because funds are limited, the Arts and Sciences Curriculum and Assessment Committee can usually recommend only one grant per year to an individual faculty member.
A&S Curriculum and Assessment Team Funding Process
Recently, there have been different funding sources for curriculum projects in A&S: our own Center curriculum money, strategic funding from the Associate Vice President’s office, and Title VI money from the International Education office. Both Strategic and Title VI funding may have particular requirements that some of our proposals meet. When this occurs, we forward those proposals that seem appropriate for consideration of these funds, as this expands our ability to stretch our funding dollars.
The A&S team ranks all proposals using our rubric. In the event a project is funded from the alternative sources (Strategic or Title VI), we shift our Center funds to proposal(s) that rank next on our list.
Curriculum proposers are encouraged to identify the funding source most appropriate for their proposals. In any event, the A&S team considers all proposals for Center funding and only withdraws a proposal that secures funding from another source.
Submission Process
- Develop your proposal for a new course or course revision.
- Present your proposal to your department for feedback.
- obtain your department’s approval and suggestions.
- Refine and complete your proposal.
- Meet with Todd Stebbins to discuss your project and to obtain his signature. Leave a hard copy with Todd.
- Submit your proposal to A&S Curriculum and Assessment Committee Chair Dave Sarocka by Friday, March 23rd, either in hard copy or electronically (dsarocka[at] matcmadison [dot] edu).
Note: Proposals not requesting funding may be submitted at any time before April 20th. Funding decisions will be announced by May 2nd.
Proposal Form Instructions
Download a printable copy of the Proposal Form Instructions (Word, 76 KB) for suggestions and clarifications when completing the proposal form and for information on how the proposal form is assessed.