The QEP Development team continues to work on considering details of the plan, particularly on logistical, budgetary and assessment concerns. Feedback will continue to be solicited from the wider University community as well. In spring 2019 the plan will be reviewed SACSCOC reviewers and further revisions will be made in accordance with this feedback. By the end of the term, planning will be undertaken to begin a pilot of the project in fall 2019 beginning with the initial offering of a pilot section of HUM 101. During summer 2019 training will be offered to participating faculty. Professional development will continue to be offered as the other sections of the sequence are piloted.

Implementation will initially focus on offering pilot courses for the three-course sequence that will introduce the students to the skills mentioned in Aoun's theoretical framework. Lessons learned from offering these courses will be applied toward a broader transformation of learning in other classes, particularly those in the General Education core. These Humanics courses will serve as a required, general education focal point for instruction in and practice of these skills. The sequence will commence in fall 2019 with the initial pilot run of the first course in the three-course sequence, HUM 101, to be followed with HUM 201 in spring 2020, along with at least one additional section of HUM 101. The classes will eventually supersede, and initially be cross-listed with, existing required classes in Integrative Studies: IGS 200 and IGS 201. HUM 301 will be cross-listed with IGS 300 and will first be offered in fall 2020. With the cross-listing, students who are under the "old core" requirements will still be able to fulfill those requirements by taking the HUM sequence. At the end of the spring 2020 term, the program will be assessed for effectiveness so that the full implementation of the program in fall 2020, to include the capstone class (HUM 301), will reflect a year of development. Assessment will again be undertaken in spring 2021 to continue to monitor success of the program, including the project component and team-teaching aspect of HUM 301. Adjustments would be made as necessary.

HUM 101 would be offered as a pilot elective in fall 2019 and both HUM 101 and HUM 102 in spring 2020 before it is launched as a requirement the following fall, with each class counting as an equivalent course for its corresponding IGS class (HUM 101 would count for IGS 200; HUM 102 would count for IGS 201). HUM 301 would be offered for the first time in the fall and spring of 2020-21. For the first year, the University would offer both the new classes and their IGS counterparts; going forward, only the HUM classes would be offered. This would allow the University to make changes to the project based on actual data drawn from the student experience. Professional development would be offered to participating faculty prior to the launch of the courses in fall 2019.

The first two courses in the sequence would be taught by faculty from any discipline willing to engage in the faculty development necessary for developing the new approach. For instance, faculty who currently teach one or more courses in the Integrative Studies sequence might be interested in teaching one or more of the Humanics classes instead. Each HUM 301: Capstone class would be team-taught by a group of faculty with expertise in various fields, including STEM (sciences, math, agriculture, and computer science), business, humanities, social sciences, criminal justice, social work, or other fields. As with building teams of students with different abilities, this approach would offer know-how for diverse projects. Four to five faculty members would teach each course, perhaps spending two to three weeks on instruction in their respective fields. An English faculty member, for example, could help students with the necessary skills to write a strong final report, or a speech communications faculty member could help the students with the course's oral presentation of its findings. Faculty