Subcommittee on Core Curriculum Minutes 2013-10-23
Recorder:
A. Kay Anderson
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Meeting Date:
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Committee:
Subcommittee on the Core Curriculum
Minutes Text:
Call to Order
The meeting was called to order by John Swinton at 1:00 p.m. in Arts & Sciences Room 2-51.
Attendance
Voting Members Present: Mary Magoulick, Cara Meade, Yeprem Mehranian, Chavonda Mills, Amy Sumpter, John Swinton, Shaundra Walker
Non-Voting Member Present: Kay Anderson
Regrets: Scott Butler, Roberta Gorham
Approval of Minutes
The minutes from the October 16th meeting were approved with one clarification.
Action Items
GC1Y 1000 Swansonomics as an Area B1 Section
The committee discussed the course, particularly the learning beyond the classroom component.
Upon a vote, the committee approved the course with a vote of 7-0-0.
Discussion Item
John asked the committee for confirmation that the global overlay form that the committee piloted was ready for distribution. Feedback thus far has been positive. The committee agreed that they wanted to continue use of this form. John will distribute this to deans and chairs and share it with University Senate during their meeting on Friday.
John spoke with Aran McKinnon last week about some of the concerns the History & Geography department has expressed regarding the Gc2Y and global overlay courses. Aran suggested that the committee post syllabi so people can see the types of courses that have been approved. History & Geography also expressed a concern that they were requiring more of their students in these classes than other departments were and that more students were either registering for their courses later in the process and/or dropping them more frequently as a result. Aran asked the committee to address issues of workload for both faculty and students. The faculty also expressed a concern about what content qualified as global, and John provided them with clarification about the type of content was expected from a global course.
As a follow-up, the committee discussed whether or not there needed to be some measures in place to help address consistency across sections, such as guidelines for the amount of reading or writing that should be included in the course or some standard questions on SOS for each of these sections.
Cara asked for information for the website.
Next Meeting
The committee’s next meeting, if needed, will be Wednesday, October 30, at 1:00 p.m. in Arts & Sciences Room 2-51.
Adjournment
The committee adjourned at 2:00 p.m.
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