Illinois Articulation Initiative Implementation Policies
I. GENERAL EDUCATION: Summary of guidelines related to completion of General Education requirements at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for students entering college as freshmen effective Summer 1998 or after:
A. If the Illinois Articulation Initiative General Education Core Curriculum (IAI GECC) is completed prior to transfer to UIUC, a student's UIUC campus-wide lower division General Education requirements will be considered satisfied.
B. If the IAI GECC is not completed prior to transfer to UIUC, a student must complete UIUC campus-wide General Education requirements. IAI-approved General Education courses may be used to satisfy UIUC General Education requirements as described below.
- Though an IAI-approved GECC course may not articulate to a UIUC course in the same IAI General Education Core Curriculum field requirement, the IAI code will in most cases determine which UIUC General Education requirement will be satisfied. Colleges may make exceptions to benefit a student. Examples include some history courses, which may have been coded as social science courses by IAI but defined as humanities courses by the UIUC General Education Board.*
- Where the campus has no similar requirement for General Education, IAI-approved GECC courses will not be used to satisfy UIUC General Education requirements; however, the course credit will count toward hours for the degree. For example, UIUC does not have an oral communication requirement as part of campus-wide General Education although IAI does. Therefore, courses satisfying this IAI requirement would not satisfy a UIUC General Education requirement. Similarly, while IAI allows fourth-semester foreign language to be used to satisfy the humanities requirement, since UIUC has a foreign language requirement, these courses cannot be used to satisfy the General Education humanities requirement.*
C. Regardless of whether the IAI GECC is completed, a student may be required to complete additional campus-wide General Education requirements beyond the IAI GECC. These include: Advanced Composition; Cultural Studies (Western and Non-Western/US Minority Cultures); study of a single foreign language; and Quantitative Reasoning II. Students may also need to complete curricular requirements specific to the college in which they are enrolled.
* Where an IAI-approved GECC course articulates to a UIUC course not classified as college-level (e.g. UIUC's CHEM 100), the transfer course will be used to satisfy a similar UIUC General Education requirement; college policy will dictate if the transfer hours count toward graduation.
II. MAJORS: Summary of guidelines for the acceptance of Illinois Articulation Initiative Introductory Major courses toward major course work required at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:
A. UIUC will accept all transfer major courses as substitutable for UIUC major courses bearing the same IAI major code.
B. Wherever UIUC has no corresponding IAI-approved course, a transferred IAI-approved major course will count as an elective toward the UIUC major.
NOTE: To be eligible for transfer to a UIUC major, a student may be required to meet a course pattern for admission to the major, regardless of whether the IAI GECC and IAI major requirements are completed.
C. Status of UIUC participation in baccalaureate majors as of Fall 2000:
- Majors in which UIUC is participating: Agriculture; Art/Art Ed; Elementary Education; Engineering; Psychology; Secondary Education; Biological Sciences; Computer Science; Music/Music Ed; English; Mathematics; Special Education; Mass Communication; Speech Communication; and Theatre Arts.
- Because UIUC major courses are not IAI-approved, UIUC is not participating in the following IAI majors: Business and Early Childhood Education.
- The following IAI majors are not offered at UIUC: Clinical Lab Sciences, Criminal Justice, Manufacturing Technology/Machining, Nursing, and Social Work.
Revised 2/19/01