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(a)Each public institution of higher education that does not already have a Board-approved core curriculum on file must submit its proposed core curriculum to the Board for staff review and approval. The request for approval should include a description of the goals of the core curriculum, a table showing the institution's core curriculum by component area (based on the model found in Charts I and II in §4.28(b) of this title, relating to Core Curriculum), and a complete listing of courses approved by the institution to fulfill core component requirements, organized to reflect each required and supplemental component area of the core curriculum as detailed in the document Core Curriculum: Assumptions and Defining Characteristics, adopted by the Board. Courses should be selected to fulfill component requirements in a core curriculum based at least in part on their ability to meet most of the exemplary educational outcome statements for the component area as described in the document Core Curriculum: Assumptions and Defining Characteristics, adopted by the Board. (b)An institution should follow these procedures to modify its core curriculum to add or delete courses, change the total number of semester credit hours in a non-required component area, or change the total number of semester credit hours required in its core curriculum: (1)submit to the Board a letter documenting each change to be made, the component area(s) affected, and a rationale for the change; (2)requests that involve changing the overall number of semester credit hours in the core curriculum or the number in a given component area require documentation of prior approval by the institution's governing board; (3)the institution shall receive a letter from the Board staff giving notice of acceptance of the proposed changes and/or indicating any changes that do not meet Board-approved criteria. (c)Upon receiving an approval letter from Board staff, the institution shall make any required changes to its core curriculum and will document those changes in institutional publications.
This agency hereby certifies that the proposal has been reviewed
by legal counsel and found to be within the agency's legal authority to adopt.
Filed with the Office of
the Secretary of State on February 12, 2003
TRD-200301040 Jan Greenberg
General Counsel
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
Proposed date of
adoption: April 24, 2003
For further information, please call: (512) 427-6162
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