Time: 9:00a.m.-11:00a.m.
Location: 4187 Smith Lab
Agenda:
1. Approval of 1-7-08 minutes (see attached)
2. 9:10-9:30am Discussion of grand funding for interdisciplinary teaching initiatives (Guest: Associate Dean Mark Fullerton)
3. 9:30-10:00am Discussion with Kelly Stevelt Kaser, Director of Urban Arts Space about 2008-09 curricular initiatives and upcoming events
4. Music 730 series (tentative, but attached)
5. Review of draft of revised guidelines for submission of GEC courses (see attached)
College of the Arts Curriculum Committee
Approved Minutes 01-28-08
Present: Haase, Mockabee, Thompson, Mudrak, Giffin, Wyszomirski, Fox, Harvey, Simcox, Lee, Ward, Guest: Mark Fullerton
1. Funding for interdisciplinary teaching initiatives--
- buying out time for course structure and course development
- ASC 750 – good example grad class, but it would probably cost the department money
- classes that bring students from outside the college generate revenue
- Haase: Cross-departmental courses would be the most interesting. The difficult part is how to get the initiatives to work. Such courses do not require a curriculum for entire 10-weeks, and its interdisciplinary nature/components can benefit the students and the departments.
- Mockabee: Creating little modules/components to drop into different courses. It could grow into a bigger system.
- Mudrak: Should have a faculty coordinator to invite professors from different departments to come in different weeks.
- Mark Fullerton: Were the lecturers compensated? Mudrak: Yes. It cost about $2000 for the course.
- Fox: there are resources at
Wexner
Center
available for research.
- Wyszomirski: Program management- public response/ aesthetic response, have 5 different modules and get 5 different perspectives.
-
Harvey
: Team teaching could be another possibility.
- Giffin: Example/experience of team teaching btw Dance and Theater. Not easily made but beneficial. Such courses generate different research projects as well.
- Mudrak: how to propose a course like that?
Fullerton
: There is no resource for a course like that right now. Val: Start with syllabus, get support letters. Talk to your Chair first.
- Haase: Another good example is an overseas two-week program, a project that brought in students and faculty from different countries. It was a big international workshop with a variety of related topics. That model can be thought of with different curricular way for writing, discussion, publishing. Also a great way for grad students to make ties/network with interdisciplinary people.
- Fox: Expanding on that idea, maybe multiple courses can happen in the two week span, all coming together at the COTA Chatauqua space (
City
Center
).
- Wyszomirski: Management students could help with one coordinator guiding.
- Giffin: Urban Center should be the clearing house for coordination.
- Mockabee: Yes, and Kelly and Karen would like to help.
- Haase: These courses/initiatives would bring a lot of publicity.
2. Approval of minutes of 01-7-08 meeting – Unanimously approved with some changes
3. GEC guideline revisions
i. intro by Val
ii. less than 8 questions for each category
iii. changes on the Breadth & VPA guideline recorded and will be done by Val
1-07-08 Minutes were revised after 1-28 meeting. See attached.