General Education
Subcommittee Meeting 4-10-07
Attending:Margit Codispoti, Mark Masters,
Steve Sarratore, Ali Rassuli,
Jonathan Tankel
Visiting Erin Frew
Unable to attend:
Brenda Lundy, Hosni Abu-Mulaweh, John Hrehov
Discussion about
Gen Ed learning outcomes.
Linking outcomes to course goals
Request Area VI faculty to send Syllabi
for all area VI courses being taught.
Since Area VI has a final project, this would be an
appropriate artifact.
Next fall we need to produce a rubric
General Education
Subcommittee Meeting 3-27-07
Attending: Margit Codispoti, Mark
Masters, Steve Sarratore, Ali Rassuli,
Jonathan Tankel.
Visiting Erin Frew
Unable to attend:
Brenda Lundy, Hosni Abu-Mulaweh, John Hrehov
During the meeting we discussed Bio 127 course
proposal. There were a number of issues
with the proposal as it currently stands:
It does not discuss scientific inquiry.
It seems to be a list of diseases.
The requirements for research are not on syllabus.
Their goals are not clearly within the domain of Area II.
Too broad a coverage.
What they need is course learning objectives; scientific
inquiry.
Will they teach understanding - an ability to interpret the
data?
We also discussed assessment.
General Education
Subcommittee Meeting 3-13-07
Attending:Margit Codispoti, Mark Masters,
Steve Sarratore, Ali Rassuli,
Jonathan Tankel,
Visiting Erin Frew
Unable to attend:
Brenda Lundy, Hosni Abu-Mulaweh, John Hrehov
INFO: EPC meeting: Area VI proposal going to senate.
Discussion:
We discussed strategy: Steve was going to prepare a memo to
inform all faculty teaching general education courses
that outcomes must included on syllabi.
A second memo will be written to collect syllabi from area
VI for fall and give a heads up on the collection of artifacts
For Assessment we will
Collect artifacts from all area VI courses & every
student, and then randomly sample these.
Does the assignment represent the learning outcomes?
Agenda:
Work out area VI request
Work on rubric next.
Bio 127
General Education
Subcommittee Meeting 2-20-07
Attending:Margit Codispoti, Mark Masters, Jonathan Tankel,
Steve Sarratore, Ali Rassuli
Unable to attend:
Brenda Lundy, Hosni Abu-Mulaweh, John Hrehov,
Actions:
Briefed committee on ADP response to their proposal
Considering pedagogical framework
Remove principle 4 from application from Acquisition
Remove principle 3 from Personal values
Breaking the principles into sub sections
In acquisition keep 2a-d
In application of ... keep 3a & 3c
Personal & Prof. -nothing
A sense of community: GE 3b
Critical thinking: GE 3a 3c, 4
Communication; GE 2a, 3c
The meeting adjourned
General Education
Subcommittee Meeting 1-30-07
Attending:Margit Codispoti, Mark Masters, Jonathan Tankel,
Steve Sarratore, Ali Rassuli
Unable to attend:
Brenda Lundy, Hosni Abu-Mulaweh, John Hrehov,
Actions:
Talk about American Democracy project proposal.
The proposal is incomplete and is missing the list of
courses.
They are requesting that that we add to the core curriculum
which we are reluctant to do.
The other part of the proposal included courses to add to
the GenEd Area III.
However, these courses can be added by following the usual course
proposal method.
Overall, the committee was reluctant to change the General
Education program until assessment is complete and baccalaureate framework is
complete.
Consider Bio 127 as an Area II course.
The committee was ambivalent as to whether this is really a
Gen Ed course. The course seems to
include many different topics and be very focused with little or no relation to
the general.
There were concerns w/ Journal/Magazine requirements being improbable
or inaccessible.
We were concerned with the lack of the proposal on
addressing scientific thought.
General Education
Subcommittee Meeting 12-8-06
Attending:Margit Codispoti, Brenda Lundy, Mark
Masters, Jonathan Tankel
Unable to attend:
Hosni Abu-Mulaweh, John Hrehov,
Steve Sarratore, Ali Rassuli
Actions:
Talk about ordering of topics:
Pedagogical framework first. Then address
assessment.
Look at INTL209 area III course proposal
Course objectives are not supported from syllabus. How are these objectives met? In particular, bullets 2, 4
& 5.
The course goals are a direct copy from GenEd
guidelines.
The course seems to be too specific for GenEd
Send back to Roberts, justify/support the Course
objectives. Disconnect between syllabus
& objectives.
ECON 328 Area VI course proposal.
Game theory as a science?
Project is missing from course and the course overall seems
to be weak. More like a 100 level
course.
Where is the synthesis?
There is no apparent tie in to the movies.
No objectives, no outcomes.
Agenda for current meeting
Course Proposal for Bio 127
American Democracy Project proposal to
modify Area III.
Pedagogical Framework
Assessment
General Education
Subcommittee Meeting 11-10-06
Attending: Hosni Abu-Mulaweh,
Brenda Lundy, Mark Masters, Jonathan Tankel
Unable to attend: Margit Codispoti,
John Hrehov, Steve Sarratore,
Ali Rassuli
Actions: Minutes were approved
We considered changes to learning outcomes/Principles of
General Education made by EPC. These
were deemed non-significant changes. It
has passed EPC as it was presented.
EPC will be working on our proposed requirement that Area
VI courses be completed on campus.
We will be fitting gen-ed into
pedagogical framework for future work.
The meeting ended abruptly with a fire alarm.
Agenda
Course proposal Econ E328 Area VI
Course proposal INTL 209
Assessment
Pedagogical Framework
General Education Subcommittee for October 16, 2006
Attending: Margit Codispoti, Brenda Lundy, Mark Masters, Steve Sarratore
Not able to attend: John Hrehov, Ali Rassuli, Jonathan Tankel
We considered the following Course Proposals
CHM107 for Area II
PolySci Y360 for area VI
International Language and culture studies INTL 209
Y360 and CHM107 were accepted as general education courses.
INTL209 was not accepted because it lacks learning outcomes on the syllabus.
We discussed various topics on future work for the committee.
General Education Subcommittee for September 18, 2006
Attending: Brenda Lundy, Mark Masters, Steve Sarratore, Sami Tannous
Not able to attend: John Hrehov, Ali Rassuli, Jonathan Tankel, Margit Codispoti
Elected Mark Masters Chair by default yet again.
Considered I209 and sent it back to the author be revised so that the syllabus includes learning outcomes.