TO:  All Faculty
FROM: John Friedl


With good reason there continues to be some confusion about how UTC handles
certain kinds of transfer credit.  The statement below attempts to provide
some clarification of faculty and legislative decisions.

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On January 18, 2001, our Faculty Senate approved the following motion:

The UTC General Education Committee recommends that courses specifically
meeting common general education category requirements at Tennessee public
institutions satisfy the comparable general education category requirements
when transferring to UTC.  Required competencies including laboratory
science and unmet category requirements must still be satisfied.

Later that spring, the Tennessee Legislature approved a bill defining a
Transfer and Articulation Module of 60 hours that public universities in
Tennessee must accept as transferable from other public colleges and
universities in the state.

Fortunately, the common general education requirements for Tennessee Board
of Regents colleges and universities and the general education component of
the transfer module parallel our own requirements rather closely.  In most
of the general education categories, transfer of credit can be handled on
the basis of course equivalencies.  There are two categories, however, in
which a different approach is necessary:

(1) The transfer module includes two courses in mathematics, a category
which presumably includes courses in statistics.  UTC requires one course
in mathematics and one in statistics.  Students who transfer two
mathematics courses which meet the general education requirement at their
original institution must be given credit for meeting our requirements in
mathematics and statistics, though they may also need to take statistics to
meet the requirements of their major.

(2) The TBR general education core includes six hours in history and nine
in humanities and fine arts.  The transfer module includes fifteen hours in
history, humanities, and fine arts without mandating a distribution of
courses.  Students who have taken general education courses in history,
humanities, and fine arts at other public colleges and universities in
Tennessee must accordingly be given credit for them as meeting our
requirements in Cultures and Civilizations/Humanities and Fine Arts even if
these courses are not distributed as the UTC requirements specify.  Any
fifteen hours in history, humanities, and fine arts must be accepted as
meeting our General Education requirements.




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