OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT OF INSTRUCTION

CURRICULUM AND GENERAL EDUCATION COMMITTEE

Memorandum

TO:                       Curriculum and General Education Committee

1. Bandy, A. Bledsoe, B. Devine, J. Farmer, M. Mayfield, T. Mendoza, M. Oja, T. Payne, J. Rangel-Escobedo, A. Rashvand, D. Vohnout, N. Woodall, B. Young, ASO Representative, and PTK Representative

FROM:                 Dr. Vicki Jacobi, Vice President Academic Senate, Co-Chairperson

Dr. Leslie Minor, Vice President of Instruction, Co-Chairperson

DATE:                  October 14, 2022

SUBJECT:             Next Meeting’s Agenda 

A Curriculum and General Education Committee meeting will be held on

Friday October 14, 2022, from 10:10 p.m. to 11:30 a.m. in the Cougar Conference Room, Taft College,

29 Cougar Ct., Taft CA 93268

Curriculum & General Education Committee

AGENDA

CALL TO ORDER

1. PUBLIC COMMENTARY

The Committee welcomes participation at Curriculum Committee Meetings. Members of the public may address the Committee. For everyone to be heard, please limit your comments to 5 minutes or less.

1. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: ACTION ITEM
2. September 9, 2022, Curriculum & General Education meeting (3)

• ACTION ITEM

Items listed under the CONSENT ITEMS are considered routine and are acted on by the Committee in one motion. There is no discussion of these items before the Committee vote unless a member of the Committee, staff, or public requests specific items be discussed and/or removed from the Consent Agenda. Any person can pull items from the consent agenda and move to new business, to be discussed and voted on individually. Items typically on consent are course outline of record under five-year review, renewal of distance learning modality or inactivation of course (removal from Chancellor Office Inventory of Courses).

1. New Courses – Math and Science
2. MATH 1500C   Support for Math for a Modern Society
3. MATH 1505C   Support for Mathematical Concepts for Elementary Teachers
4. MATH 1510C   Support for College Algebra
5. MATH 1520C   Support for Finite Mathematics
6. MATH 1530C   Support for Plane Trigonometry
7. MATH 1540C   Support for Precalculus
8. BIOL 1520      The Biology of Food and Cooking
9. COSC 1545      Programming Concepts and Methods II with Lab
10. COSC 2000      Computer Architecture and Organization
11. COSC 2100      Discrete Structures

1. CONSENT ITEMS
2. Course Revisions – Social Science Division
3. PSYC 1501      Crisis Intervention

1. Distance Learning Approvals
2. MATH 1500C   Support for Math for a Modern Society
3. MATH 1505C   Support for Mathematical Concepts for Elementary Teachers
4. MATH 1510C   Support for College Algebra
5. MATH 1520C   Support for Finite Mathematics
6. MATH 1530C   Support for Plane Trigonometry
7. MATH 1540C   Support for Precalculus
8. BIOL 1520      The Biology of Food and Cooking
9. HIST 2000      Critical Thinking and the Historian’s Craft
10. HIST 2216      History of Latin America
11. COMM  1510      Introduction to Mass Communications

1. 2022-2023 C & GE Charter

1. DISCUSSION ITEMS:
2. Student Involvement
3. Local Gen. Ed. Pattern
4. Timeline for CAL-GETC implementation
5. MATH Graduation requirements
6. AB – 1705

1. AJOURNMENT

• NEXT MEETING: November 18, 2022, in the Cougar Conference Room.

*Program Status, please see the table below:

* New Program