Subcommittee on Core Curriculum Minutes 2013-10-09

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: Scott Butler, Roberta Gorham, Mary Magoulick, Cara Meade, Yeprem Mehranian, Chavonda Mills, Amy Sumpter, John Swinton
Non-Voting Member Present: Kay Anderson
Regrets: Shaundra Walker

Approval of Minutes

The minutes from the October 2th meeting were approved.

Action Items

GC2Y 2000 Iranian Post-1979 Cinema as an Area B2 Section
Discussion followed. As this was the first submission received with the revised GC2Y approval form, the committee also discussed the value of the additional information received and agreed that this form provided much better information about the course. Upon a vote, this section was approved with a vote of 8-0-0.

Discussion Items

Web Site. Cara has a shell available on the assessment web site to post SoCC documents and forms. Please send her any information that needs to be included.

Encouraging Submission of Global Overlays. Kay noted that the first students on the new core are now juniors, and that many of them are struggling to find a third global overlay course to complete their global overlay requirement. We anticipated that each major would propose one-two regularly offered (preferably required) courses in their major to meet this need. Several departments do not have courses that fulfill this area, and we will need to address this, and its impact on students, soon. The committee discussed ways to help departments that are struggling to incorporate global perspectives in their courses, particularly due to accreditation or certification requirements, and how to encourage proposals from departments that have courses that would clearly meet the requirement. The committee also discussed how much of a course needs to be global to count in this area, the importance of international focus, and whether or not a course that was multicultural could potentially fulfill the requirement for our additional global requirement beyond the USG required global course. The committee concluded that this could be an appropriate path. John asked Cara to add this topic to the CAPC agenda for future discussion. John and/or Kay will take this concern to the Provost. The committee also brainstormed other possibilities, such as a non-credit course, that could be used to provide this exposure.

Next Meeting

The committee’s next meeting will be Wednesday, October 16, at 1:00 p.m. in Arts & Sciences Room 2-51.

Adjournment

The committee adjourned at 2:00 p.m.