How is the fulfillment of a General Education Program requirement through an “experience” entered into a students record?
When the experience is an integral part of an academic program/major, the particular courses associated with the experience are to be identified. When a student who is in that program/major satisfactorily completes these listed courses, credit for the component of the General Education Program fulfilled by the experience will be automatically recorded. Of course this requires proper coordination between the program/major, the General Education Coordinating Committee, and the Registrar. This entails several steps: the program/major identifies the experience and the related courses; this information is submitted to the General Education Coordinating Committee; and the General Education Coordinating Committee works with the Registrar to implement the system that will enter the information into a students record.When an experience is a special activity, such as the Yucatan trip offered through the A&S Department of Geography, the faculty in charge of the activity is responsible for definin
