Systemic Resilience: COTA Meta-Strategy, 2021-2025
Systemic Resilience: COTA Meta-Strategy, 2021-2025

Implementation

Pillar II: Adaptive and Distinctive Curricula

The college, through its curriculum, demonstrates its commitment to educate students towards clear outcomes. 

Implementation Highlights

YEAR 1  |  COMPLETED
  1. Make all necessary adjustments to ensure health, safety, and quality curricular delivery. Safe, high-quality instruction continued despite COVID-19 pandemic. AEI curriculum audit undertaken by CAM. Significantly revised undergraduate studio art curriculum in SAAH approved. Significantly revised dance curricula in SOTD approved. New music curricula in Music Business and Entrepreneurship and new music ensembles in African Popular Music and Brass Band created in SOM. DW implemented restructured BA in DAS program for improved four-year student experience, and refined the minor in DAS to include new course offerings and streamlined student advising approval process. 
YEAR 2  |  COMPLETED
  1. Develop COTA Universal Learning Outcomes (ULOs). COTA Universal Learning Outcomes Working Group convened, solicited feedback from stakeholder groups (including current students, faculty, and alumni via Qualtrics surveys) and drafted preliminary ULO document. This document included a shift in terminology from Universal Learning Outcomes to Common Learning Goals, to better reflect the intent of the working group. 
  2. Develop frames by which academic units engage in program-level analysis. Safe, high-quality instruction continued despite COVID-19 pandemic. In SAAH, new Studio undergraduate curriculum began implementation and new Graphic Design BA and significant revisions to Graphic Design BFA approved in unit. Gary R. Libby University Galleries began 3-year partnership with Institute for Studies in Latin American Art (ISLAA). Engaged Jeremy Mikolajczak, MFA in Art alum and Director of the Tucson Museum of Art, for the second iteration of a pilot program to invite a Guest Curator to work with students, faculty, and the Gary R. Libby University Galleries to produce the MFA Thesis Exhibitions. In School of Music, complete revision of undergraduate music history curriculum approved by faculty, greatly broadening content while reducing the overall number of courses by one. SOM Council of Representatives and full faculty officially endorsed the preliminary work necessary for the forthcoming BS Music Business/Entrepreneurship degree proposal, which will be submitted to the Provost for inclusion in UF’s 2022 Accountability Plan to the BOG. In SOTD, year one of new Dance BFA/BA/Minor curriculum began, and BFA Performance and BFA Production Proposals approved in unit. In DW, Digital Arts and Sciences Minor for UF Online and two new course requests submitted to UF Curriculum Committee. 
YEAR 3 | IN PROGRESS
  1. Design and implement a curricula-focused communications strategy.
  2. Develop frames by which academic units engage in program level analysis.  
  3. Systematically review and, as appropriate, restructure the Curricular Approval Process. 
Year 4
  1. Systematically review and, as appropriate, restructure the Curricular Approval Process. 
  2. Design and implement a curricula-focused communications strategy.
Year 5
  1. Design and implement a curricula-focused communications strategy.