November 23, 2004

Dear Colleagues:

With the endorsement of both the Faculty Senate Executive Committee, and the Provost’s office, the Undergraduate Studies Committee has extended the deadline for multicultural recertification, and has revised the criteria that will be used to judge recertification.

DEADLINE: Every unit with multicultural approved courses will be asked to submit half of those courses by 7 Jan ’05 for recertification, and the other half by 1 October ’05. The UGS Committee asks that the higher enrolling courses be submitted in the first half.

FIVE CRITERIA: Three of the following must be satisfied.

For the purposes of this review, culture includes but is not limited to ethnic and gender-related differences.

1. The course content provides significant opportunity for students to gain a greater understanding of the cultural diversity of the people of the United States.

2. The course content provides significant opportunity for students to gain a greater understanding of world cultures.

3. The course content provides significant opportunity for students to gain a greater understanding of the behavior of people within the culture(s) under study.

4. The course content provides significant opportunity for students to compare and contrast the culture(s) under study with their own.

5. The course content provides significant opportunity for students to use their understanding of cultural differences to inform their own behavior and decisions to a significantly greater degree.

The submission for recertification is done on-line, with the on-line application found at: http://www.udel.edu/registrar/mcrev.html

Questions regarding submission should be directed to the Registrar’s Office (Mary Jo Mankin at mjo@UDel.Edu), and other questions may be sent to me (Karren at karren@udel.edu).

Please circulate this notice to interested faculty.

Thank you,

Jeff Jordan

Jeff Jordan, Chair

Undergraduate Studies Committee, Faculty Senate