Show iThe EagleXNbUXYJVumberil College of Eastern llth GE requirements drop from 63 to 47 for 391 freshmen Entering 1991 College of Eastern Utah freshmen will be required to register for less genual education requirements and take more requirements in their major field of study According to Vice President Robot Torgcrson the CEU curriculum and instruction committee has spent the past two years studying other college's genual education requirements and felt that with the implementation of CEU's new GE program that “we can get a better handle on developing effective ways of determining the educational goals we want for our students" "The new program clearly defines the educational expectations of the GE program It further develops the effectiveness of the GE core courses in achieving satisfactory levels of student learning of skills and knowledge" He felt that by scaling back the total number of GE requirements students will be able to put more emphasis into taking classes in their majors “CEU’s past GE requirements had grown to represent too great of a port of the students overall hours toward graduation Now a student will have to declare higher major soonu and take more classes toward the major emphasis for graduation" He added that CEU's GE classes meet the same general structure and are in line with the stale's are still re-lems solving scientific reasoning classes worth quired The sequence should develop and composition skills as appropri- college writing skills with essays r ate to the discipline and argumentative critical and re-The humanities distribution hours in search writing Torgcrson said that courses include there will possibly be some three separate disciplines They in- changes in the English 201 content elude history literature philosobefore the course is offered fall quar- - phy music art and theater ter Torgcrson said that the human- itics courses may not be ready to The science core would stress The committee wrote that the the scientific method key concepts fully integrate fail quarter and enter- nftpiircmcpty emphasise core and information within the earth skills and knowledge that are fun- ing freshmen will be offered the rethe and fine arts distribution humanities science damcntal to a liberally-educateper- - life and physical courses that are currently being son "The key goal of CEU is to laiionship of science to environand other mental energy crotempo- used assure that aM from our The social science courses in- associate of aris and science degree rary issues and values Scientific dude two introductory courses in reasoning critical thinking and programs have acquired those core emskills and knowledge The courses separate disciplines including eco- problem solving skills will be nomics political science anthro- eopimn courses matfry phaazed of skills that have been determined Entering freshmen will have to pology sociology and psychology it hours are required show an entry-lcv-d computational to be fundamental to a libcrally-ed- distribution core The sciace satisfacucated person" They fdt that stu- - proficiency equal to having in dents who raffiiiy complete torily completing two years of al- - includes an introductory course these courses will have mastered the gebra This can be documented with an ACT mathematic's score of 21 core skills and knowledge The suggested core courses and or higher and a high school 30 Legislators from Utah County in an have or credit hours include a hour grade point average higher agreed to stop the push to do who Students U intellectual traditions of Western change Utah Valley Community Algebra course school so thought course covering the major not have that level of mathematics College to a four-yesatto issue the be would can be restudied by the intellectual contributions of West-- proficiency required state Board of Regents era civilizations The course would isfactorily complete Math 101 Twelve legislators have agreed (intermediate algebra) or a more ad- emphasize critical thinking and to support a resolution that asks vanced mathematics course composition skills would courses distribution The The American history course regents to study the educational needs of Utah County determine would be and cover major allow students to explore several the costs of converting UVCC to historical political economic and disciplines of their choice in hu- four-yestatus and establish the inanities and fine aits social social developments in American circumstances that would warrant history The course would also ful- - sciences and sciences in greater ' fill the state's history requirement depth Courses would be expected such a change to reinforce critical thinking prob-Regents will report their find- Two English composition The new GE requirements were introduced to the faculty recently are subject to further review and revision before they will be imple-mented fall quarter Final approval of the requirements will be by the and I committee which is made up of faculty and student reprcsenta- - nine-cred- it d Ten-cred- itpp U ar r staff writer V A is currently working on two new displays The museum has obtained an allosauras trophy mount sculpted by internationally known David A Thomas and is also in the process of assembling a skeletal display Thomas' sculpture is a replica of an allosaurus excavated from the Qcveland-Lloy-d Dinosaur and Quarry currently on display at the CEU Prehistoric Museum Thomas is an internationally known artist and is the senior proprietor of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History According to museum curator Don Burge he is "one of the best artists for dinosaur reconstruction" Thomas is recognized for his scientific chas-mosaur- ‘V tccn-cred- ap-np- w ur yCOI ings to the Legislature prior to the 1992 General Session The decision to stop the push aborts Senate Bill 144 which would have been the fust step to upgrading UVCC The bill sponsored by Sen CE Peterson specifically called for UVCC to prepare a budget for the 1993-9- 4 school year as a four-yeinstitution The legislation infuriated re- gents who noted that the cost of upgrading the school is too high due to the state's financial situation vo ar accuracy and artistic excellence in The CEU Prehistoric Museum ' Fif-lio- adds two new displays by Melissa Grogan ' (introduction to geology or intro-an-d duction to geography) life science (principles of biology or heredity) and physical science (introduction to chemistry or physics) Introduc-- C tiro to astronomy may fit under an n earth or physical science field it hours are required The computer language or plication course will require one two-hoclass One of the new additions will be a substitution clause that says a student may enroll in a more ad- vanced course from a major instead of taking a distribution course An example would be a student en- rolling in chemistry 121 instead of chemistry 101 The new program requires 47 GE credit hours while the old pn- gram required 63 infill flftt JJU ar CEU Prehistoric Museum three areas including earth science - 'i This chasmosaurus skull Is part of a skeletal display being assembled at the CEU Prehistoric Museum as statues reconstructing his life-lik-e Thomas' work is on display in such museums as the New Mexia Museum of Natural History in Albuquerque The National Museum of Natural Science of Taiwan and the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman Montana The chasmosaurus skeletal display being assembled comes from a group of dinosaurs known as the ceratopsians They have four legs a collar around the neck and horns rathe head "Itisacrcataccous dinosaur foond in the local coal beds" Burge explained Dinosaur remains in the cool fields are rare because most coal fields the dinosaurs The chasmosaurus skull is currently on display at the museum pre-da- te |