Enhancement Menu and COMAR Regulations
Faculty must choose one or more of
the options listed in the Fulton Curriculum Reform Course
Enhancement Menu, which appears below and elsewhere on the
reform/new course model Web site:
One-credit Course Enhancements:
1. Increased course content and/or collateral
readings (e.g., more primary, secondary
and/or supplemental readings).
2. Undergraduate Research and Information
Literacy (e.g., assignments that fulfill
department programmatic approaches to undergraduate
research and information literacy, systematically
building students’ research and writing skills
throughout their majors).
3. Technology (e.g.,
instructor-developed content, commercially developed
course packs, digital audio—such as podcasting—video
demonstrations, chat rooms, course blogs, individual
WebCT tutoring, teleconferences with students at
other campuses or international groups, field
research, student-authored independent research).
4. Higher Level Critical Thinking Exercises (e.g.,
assignments that specifically develop analysis,
synthesis and evaluation, as opposed to lower-level
critical thinking exercises that target knowledge,
comprehension and application).
5. Service Learning/Civic Engagement (e.g.,
assignments which place students in leadership
positions to conceive of and implement programs that
they know will benefit others; assignments which
will involve students in developing good civic
dispositions, as suggested in the 2006 Middle
States Report).
6. International Education/Cultural Enrichment
(e.g., spring break study/experience abroad,
museum visits, cultural experiences within our
geographical area).
7. Additional hour(s) in class, lab or studio.
The Menu cannot be read, however, nor can one
consider which option(s) to choose, without also considering the
State of Maryland COMAR regulations that determine how much
student work/time is required in order to equal one additional
credit hour for your course. Those student work/time
requirements, as they correspond to each Enhancement Menu
Option, are listed below. Keep in mind that the “Requirements”
column speaks of the student work/time required for one credit,
so this work/time must be above and beyond what you would
currently require in the 3-credit version of your course. In
all but the last two categories listed below (additional class,
lab or studio time), the “additional hours” are out-of-class
hours (notice that Technology lists no particular timeframe;
Technology is most often employed as a vehicle for execution of
one of the other enhancement options).
|
Enhancement |
COMAR Regulation |
Requirements |
| Increased course content and/or
collateral readings |
(.16.C.1.c.) |
Additional 45 hours per semester of
supervised, documented learning. |
| Undergraduate Research and Information
Literacy |
(.16.C.1.c. and/or d.) |
Additional 45 hours per semester of
supervised, documented learning and/or supervised
instruction and documented learning through appropriate
technology mediums. |
| Technology |
(.16.C.1.d.) |
Supervised instruction and documented
learning through
appropriate technology mediums. |
| Higher Level Critical Thinking Exercises
(analysis, synthesis and evaluation) |
(.16.C.1.c. and/or d.) |
Additional 45 hours per semester of
supervised, documented learning and/or supervised
instruction and documented learning through appropriate
technology mediums. |
| Service Learning/Civic Engagement |
(.16.C.1.c.) |
Additional 45 hours per semester of
supervised, documented learning. |
| International Education/Cultural
Enrichment |
(.16.C.1.c.) |
Additional 45 hours per semester of
supervised, documented learning. |
| Additional hour(s) in class |
(.16.C.1.a.) |
Additional 15 hours per semester of
supervised, documented learning. |
| Additional hour(s) in lab or studio |
(.16.C.1.b.) |
Additional 30 hours per semester of
supervised, documented learning. |
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