3.1 PROGRAMS
3.1.3 PROGRESSIVE RIGOR OF ACADEMIC PROGRAMS
[US: 12/17/12]]
The Undergraduate Council, Graduate Council, the Health Care Colleges Council and the University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law Faculty Council shall propose criteria for evaluating the rigor and quality of academic programs and, upon final approval by the University Senate, apply these criteria in their approval processes, as provided below.
The approved criteria shall be posted on the website of each Council, as well as on the University Senate web site for curricular proposals and forms.
3.1.3.1 Undergraduate Council
The Undergraduate Council shall develop criteria for undergraduate degree program proposals that require a progression in complexity and mastery through the course of the degree. This includes examining courses in a program to ensure a progression of learning across a continuum from introductory to applied or theoretical courses from the first to fourth year. The evidence for progression should shall be illustrated by student learning outcomes for the program that are then mapped across the curriculum to show evidence of increased complexity and rigor as a student progresses. Points of assessment of these student learning outcomes across the curriculum shall also be evident in the curriculum map.
3.1.3.2 Graduate Council
The Graduate Council shall develop criteria to ensure that graduate degree programs, including professional degree programs, are differentiated in complexity and rigor from undergraduate degree programs. The Graduate Council must ensure that courses which have both graduates and undergraduates have clearly differentiated requirements that speak to levels of rigor and complexity. The Graduate Council shall establish criteria for the differentiation of master’s level and doctoral level rigor, as well as increasing complexity and mastery as a student progresses through the degree. [US: 3/19/2018]
3.1.3.3 Health Care Colleges Council
The Health Care Colleges Council shall develop criteria that ensure that the academic, professional and clinical experience of professional students is differentiated from that of undergraduate and graduate students and is at the appropriate and increasing levels of mastery and complexity for the colleges it represents. [US: 3/19/2018]
3.1.3.4 University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law Faculty Council
The University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law Faculty Council will shall establish criteria that ensure that the progression through the law degree is marked by increasing levels of rigor and complexity.
* After the College of Law faculty approves, pursuant to its established Rules, a proposal concerning a course (SR 3.2.4 below) or a change to an existing degree (SR 3.1.4 below), the College submits the proposal directly to the Senate Council for 10-day posting (SR 3.2.4.3.3.1; SR 3.1.4.3.3.2). Faculty-approved proposals concerning new degrees to be housed in the University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law are submitted by that college directly to the Senate Council for processing through the Senate, pursuant to SR 3.1.4.3.2.1. [SREC: 11/19/2015]