[Agvisors] FW: Foundations Language Requirement

[Nancy Rodriguez Lorta]

Agvisors:

 

Please update your students on this policy enforcement. Short version of
policy: students need a grade of C or better to fulfill the 2nd language
requirement.  Students can still fulfill the requirement with the
proficiency test.

 

Best,

Nancy

 

 

From: Pardee, Celeste F - (cpardee) [mailto:cpardee at email.arizona.edu] 
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 10:07 AM
To: Hensley, Martin B - (hensleyb); Eaton, Kristin E - (sadue)
Cc: taf at as.arizona.edu; Roxie L. Catts; Alcorn, Michael R - (malcorn1);
Brady, Melanie A - (mabrady)
Subject: Foundations Language Requirement

 

Dear Brad and Kristin,

 

This week it was brought to the attention of the University-wide General
Education Committee (UWGEC) that the "C" grade needed to satisfy the Second
Language Requirement have not been enforced by the UAccess Student System.
See the BA Degree (#3) and Non-BA Degree (#2) Requirements in the current
Catalog, http://catalog.arizona.edu/2012-13/policies/secondlang.htm.   This
"C" grade requirement has been in the Catalog since 1998, but it hasn't been
programmed in our Academic Advisement Reports.  Those BS-Degree students who
earn a "D" in SPAN 102, for example, are satisfying the requirement.  The
UWGEC believes this is wrong-members want the "C" grade enforced per the
policy.

 

Before enforcement begins, members want to find out how many currently
enrolled students have satisfied the Second Language Requirement with a "D"
grade.  Would you please run a query on this for UWGEC?  

 

Those students who have already satisfied the requirement with a "D" should
NOT be penalized by the policy enforcement-effective with courses taken in
Fall 2013, regardless of the student's primary Catalog.  

 

UWGEC also wants to add the "C" grade requirement to the 4th semester-level
courses that satisfy the BA Degrees.  Members believe that this was an
oversight that needs rectifying.  Therefore, I'll add the "C" grade to the
BA Degree Requirement #2, effective with the 2013-14 Catalog, so this change
won't apply to currently enrolled students following earlier catalogs.

 

Roxie Catts will distribute this policy enforcement update to UAAC members,
who can then notify their students who haven't completed the Second Language
Requirement.  Non-BA Degree students who take the 2nd-semester course at UA
and earn a D in Summer 2013 should satisfy the requirement, as should BA
Degree students who take the 4th -semester course.

 

If you have questions about the enforcement of this policy, please let me
know.  

 

Thank you,

 

Celeste

 

..............

Celeste F. Pardee, Curriculum Associate

Curricular Affairs

University of Arizona

MLK Student Center, Room 322 

P.O. Box 210128

Tucson, AZ  85721-0128

520/621-5375

cpardee at u.arizona.edu

 

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