Present: Petry, Lowry, Childs, Collier, Andereck, Mockabee, Hobgood, Schoen, Mumy, Krissek, Lemberger, Vasey, Breitenberger, Smith, Adelson, Mercerhill, Moses, Seloni, Shelton, Wanzer
- Updates from the Chair:
- McHale Report – ASC Senate meeting minutes of discussion with Provost, Vice Provosts, and Brian McHale will be posted on the web
- PPM/Glenn Merger – passed Faculty Council, under consideration y CAA
- Undergraduate “With Distinction” – formally changed to “research distinction in (area/dept)”
- First of two ASC Forum was held 2-16. Faculty survey results were shared; discussion leaders Caroline Breitenberger and Susan Petry provided a summary of the forum. Minutes from the forums will be distributed to the CCI.
- The Curriculum Office is formalizing meeting minutes for all curriculum committees. They will need to be approved by the full CCI.
- Two meetings remain for the Quarter. 3/3 will be a discussion of drafts of college responses to McHale; 3/17 will be a discussion of a formal CCI response to McHale.
- Update on main topics discussed at ASC Forum – Susan Petry and Caroline Breitenberger (minutes will be posted by Katie Potterf)
- GEC requirements across the University- general feeling that the McHale report was missing data and the philosophy of the GEC.
- Reduction in credit – high school requirements and market for employment were discussed
- Communication to students regarding role of GEC needs to be improved.
- Internships – general feeling is that they should remain in the major.
- Popular Cultures Minor – guest: Jared Gardner, Associate Prof., Department of English
- Approved unanimously with the following contingencies:
i. ASC 264 syllabi to include the rationale statements included in the course proposal
ii. Removal of the two faculty names from courses in the proposal (Farrell and Kuusisto), and allow those courses to count through advising/DARS without being part of the core proposal
iii. model #2 does not have a pre-20th century course, one will be added
- Forensic Sciences Minor – guests: Terry Gustafson, Associate Professor, Chemistry; Sam Stout, Professor, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
- Approved unanimously with the following contingencies:
i. 211 - include information regarding teams teaching, including faculty background
- Several other Psychology courses were suggested and will be reviewed
- Discussion of Foreign Languages in McHale – guest: Diane Birckbickler, Chair, French & Italian
- Concern that McHale recommendation marginalizes Foreign Languages and counters national and state concerns for need of more foreign language study
- Committee discussed the need for languages to be more transparent in the fact that students are not expected to be fluent after 104 course work
- B.A./B.S. have proposed requirements that are different from each other, recognizes the demands of B.S. majors
- Freshman Book – guest: Michelle Herman
- Discussed changes to the program
- Proposed book for Fall ’06 – Old School by Tobias Wolff, approved by committee
- Discussion on programmatic changes will continue at a future meeting.