Provide a path for new multidisciplinary certificates and/or courses to be developed, vetted, and approved. The Associate Provost for Academic Innovation will help facilitate these new certificates and courses.
The course must contain content from at least 2 departments. The course could be taught by a faculty member from any of the departments or be co-taught by faculty from multiple departments. These multidisciplinary courses will be given a new “UVU” prefix.
The certificate must include mandatory courses from at least two departments or include a multidisciplinary course with the UVU prefix.
Courses and Certificates within the sandbox will be built by faculty.
Approval processes are proposed that align closely with existing processes and require approvals from faculty, deans, advisors, UCC, AAC, Grad Council, and any other external groups depending on the course or certificate.
If during the vetting process, additional departments would like to contribute to the core curriculum of a certificate, an assessment will be made regarding the value of the certificate as proposed. If it is valuable to students and employers, the certificate can continue through the approval process and additional programs can work to be integrated into the certificate in the future. If the certificate does not have sufficient value to students and employers, approval will be denied, and additional departments could participate before resubmitting a revised certificate proposal.
The Innovation Academy will work with relevant employers to provide feedback regarding the value of proposed certificates and courses.
Resources for UVU prefix courses will be provided by the Innovation Academy. Departments will receive adjunct-based release pay for faculty teaching UVU prefix courses. Relevant department chairs will approve these agreements each semester.
Examples of multidisciplinary certificates include:
Example of multidisciplinary course (with new UVU prefix):