## GEP Social Sciences and U.S. Diversity Special Topic Shell Offering (SSUS 295)

This form is to be used for submitting a Special Topics shell offering for the Social Sciences and U.S. Diversity GEP category to the Council on Undergraduate Education (CUE)

Course action proposals for a GEP shell offering must provide documentation to show how the course is designed to enable a student to achieve the particular GEP category objectives.

The GEP Social Sciences objectives will provide instruction and guidance that help students to:

- 1. Examine at least one of the following: human behavior, culture, mental processes, organizational processes, or institutional processes.
- 2. Demonstrate how social scientific methods may be applied to the study of human behavior, culture, mental processes, organizational processes, or institutional processes.
- 3. Use theories or concepts of the social sciences to analyze and explain theoretical and/or real-world problems, including the underlying origins of such problems.

The GEP U.S. Diversity objectives will provide instruction and guidance that help students to achieve at least two of the following:

- 1. Analyze how religious, gender, ethnic, racial, class, sexual orientation, disability, and/or age identities are shaped by cultural and societal influences.
- 2. Categorize and compare historical, social, political, and/or economic processes producing diversity, equality, and structure inequalities in the U.S.
- 3. Interpret and evaluate social actions by religious, gender, ethnic, racial, class sexual orientation, disability, and/or age groups affecting equality and social justice in the U.S.
- 4. Examine interactions between people from different religious, gender, ethnic, racial, class, sexual orientation, disability, and/or age groups in the U.S.

SSUS 295
Department(s)/Program	New GEP Special Topics Offering	☐
Special Topic Title: (30 character limit)	Review 2nd Review 2nd for Offering
Term to be Offered
Instructor Name/Title
SECTION 1: GEP CRITERIA
Instructions: At least one of the Instructor’s student learning outcomes must be listed under each GEP category objective. • Achievement of the outcomes must allow students to meet the GEP category objectives. • Outcomes must illustrate what students will do in order to demonstrate they have achieved the outcome. • At least one means of evaluation must be listed under each outcome and provide data to allow the instructor to judge how • well students have achieved outcomes. Student learning outcomes that are relevant to the GEP category objectives must be applied to all course sections. • For assistance with writing outcomes and list of active verbs using Bloom’s Taxonomy [Click Here] •
Social Sciences
List the Instructor’s student learning outcomes for the course that are relevant to GEP Social Sciences Objective 1: Obj. 1) Examine at least one of the following: human behavior, culture, mental processes, organizational processes, or institutional processes.
Measure(s) for above Outcome: Describe the assessments that will be used to determine if students have achieved the outcome. Including a relevant example assignment/question/prompt is encouraged for clarity.