CAPC Minutes 04/06/2012

Curriculum and Assessment Policy Committee Minutes

4/6/12

Present:  Ryan Brown, Alex Blazer, John Swinton, Cara Meade, Susan Steele, Beth Broyles, Carol Bader, Karen Bendersky, Diane Gregg

Regrets: Kay Anderson, Fadhili Mshana, Beauty Bragg

Guests: Jim Winchester, Warner Belanger

I) Approval of agenda: Today’s agenda unanimously approved.

Minutes:  February and March minutes approved with the addition that John Swinton sent regrets for the March meeting.

II) New Business:  

I)  Proposal for a new concentration in philosophy:  BA in Philosophy - Religion

Jim Winchester provided some background for the proposal.

Q- Would this in any way qualify students for graduate seminary work?

A- We don't know.  Could be a possibility.  Depends on the graduate school (where the student would potentially attend) and their requirements.

Q- Is this a first step towards a religion major?

A- That would be a great idea and wonderful for this campus.  Ideally we would like to have a religion major.  It may not happen any time soon but would be a nice option for our students.

Q- Is there a reason why there isn't a course available to address the religion of Christianity?

A- We don't have faculty qualified to teach Christianity Studies. There is an adjunct that teaches for GC every semester and he brings a new and different perspective but we'd need a full-time person.  We would love to add that as a set of courses into this concentration.

Q- Can you have multiple courses with the same number?  Not sure you can do this.

A- That is the way it has been done with the Philosophy concentration.  

Suggestion - Should probably look into having the special topics courses having different numbers. Work with Kay to check these logistics.

Unanimously approved.

None opposed.

Next step, this will be sent on to Senate.

II) Information item:  

New courses in Kinesiology.  Brief discussion.  This was an information item only so no vote was needed.

III)  UCC Committee Report:

John shared files of sections approved. Files are available for committee members to review if interested.  Now moving focus to assessment of the core.  UCC will meet again in 2 weeks. That will most likely be the last meeting of the semester unless another meeting is needed prior to the end of the semester.

IV) Other:

Recognition of Service - Certificates presented to select committee members (volunteer senators) for recognition of their service on this committee and to the University Senate.

Meeting adjourned.