Section 11. Elon Core Curriculum Council
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For procedures, policies, and the names of current members, refer to Elon Core Curriculum Committee Section.
Membership
- Director of the Elon Core Curriculum
- Members of the teaching faculty elected for three-year terms, one from each of the divisions and schools into which the departments are organized, except the Law School, and two at-large from among the teaching faculty. At-large members must represent different divisions. Elections to the Elon Core Curriculum Council occur in a three-year cycle:
Year One
- One member from the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business
- One member from the School of Communications
- One at-large member
Year Two
- One member from Fine Arts and Humanities
- One member from Mathematics and Natural Sciences
- One member from Social Sciences
Year Three
- One member from the Dr. Jo Watts Williams School of Education
- One at-large member
- The Elon Core Curriculum Council will elect annually in May a Chair-Elect from among the eight teaching faculty members. The Chair-Elect will serve one year in that role and then assume the duties of the Chair in the following year.
- Two student members elected for two-year terms, one elected each year
- Writing Across the Curriculum Director, ex officio
- Faculty of the Law School are excluded from service on this committee.
Duties
- To advise the Director of the Elon Core Curriculum in implementation of the core curriculum program
- To work in consultation with the departments to insure that department courses satisfactorily meet Core Curriculum requirements
- To provide leadership in creating, modeling, and promoting effective teaching methods for Core Curriculum courses
- To develop and implement assessment criteria and procedures to evaluate courses, student development, and the progress of the Core Curriculum itself
- To promote the goals of Core Curriculum across campus
- To review periodically and make recommendations to the University Curriculum Committee for curricular changes in the core curriculum
- To approve petitions from departments not included in liberal studies for acceptance for one semester of an appropriate class for credit in the Core Curriculum at the advanced (300-400) level
- To approve petitions from departments for acceptance of courses carrying a Core Curriculum prefix
- To plan, implement, and review Core Curriculum seminars (first year foundations and advanced)