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April 17, 2017

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April 17, 2017

OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT OF INSTRUCTION

CURRICULUM AND GENERAL EDUCATION COMMITTEE

 

Minutes of the Curriculum and General Education Committee Meeting

Monday April 17, 2017, 12:10 p.m., in T-13

 

Members Present:      A. Anderson, K. Bandy, K. Carlson, S. Eastman, S. Eveland, T. Furman, D. Hall, V. Jacobi, J. Martinez, M. Mayfield, J. Rangel-Escobedo, M. Williams and B. Young

 

Members Absent:       S. Balason, W. Blair, and ASB Representative

 

Guests:                                P. Arvizu, S. Graham, D. Vohnout, and P. Blake

       

 

 

 

The next meeting of the Curriculum and General Education Committee will be held on Monday April 17, 2017 from 12:10-1:30pm in T-13 Class Room.

 

AGENDA

 

  1. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: From the March 13, 2017 Curriculum & General Education meeting

On a motion by T. Furman, seconded by K. Bandy, and unanimously carried by all, the minutes from March’s Curriculum & General Education meeting were approved.

 

  • DISCUSSION ITEMS

 

  1.  
  • AP 4021 – Program Discontinuation

 

The group used the accounting degree as an example to see how it would move through the revised Program Discontinuation process. The group discussed a possible checklist to ensure all the bases are covered. Although great work has been done, the entire process still needs to address some issues. S. Eveland, K. Bandy, and M. Williams will discuss it further. This item has been tabled for a future meeting.

 

  • Catalog rights

 

The group discussed the current language in the catalog. Currently, a student can use the catalog they started with, the catalog they leave on or any catalog in between. A limit was discussed, possibly six years. This item is something for the entire group to think about. It will come back as a discussion item in the fall.

 

  • Additional Degrees

 

A discussion was had regarding the number of degrees with overlap. The group hopes to clean up this issue and asks the C & GE group to look into possible solutions. This item will come back in the fall.

 

  • One of three options to General Education

 

The group discussed giving students one of three options to General Education. This item will be brought back for further discussion in the fall.

 

  1. Tabled from March’s Curriculum Meeting:

Science and Mathematics:

 

  1. BIOL      2265      Human Pathophysiology

On a motion by T. Furman, seconded by J. Martinez, opposed by V. Jacobi and S. Eveland, ultimately carried, the above BIOL course was approved.

 

Applied Technologies:

 

        1. WELD    1510       Shielded Metal Arc Welding
        2. WELD    1520       Gas Metal Arc Welding and Flux Core Arc Welding
        3. WELD    1540       Pipe Welding
  1. WELD 1530       Gas Tungsten Arc Welding
  2. WELD 1500       Welding Processes

On a motion by S. Eveland, seconded by T. Furman, and unanimously carried by all, the above WELD courses were approved to move forward to May 10th’s District Board meeting.

On a motion by S. Eveland, seconded by K. Bandy and unanimously carried by all, the extensive labs for these courses were approved to move forward to May 10th’s District Board meeting.

 

  • CONSENT ITEMS: 
        1. BIOL       1500       Fundamentals of Biology
        2. BIOL      1510       Fundamentals of Biology with Lab
        3. ENGR    1500       Introduction to Engineering
        4. ENGR    1510       Engineering Graphics and Introduction to Design with Lab
        5. ENGR    1540       Introduction to Programming Concepts and Methodologies for                                                Engineers with Lab
        6. ENGR    1550       Computer Programming and Hardware Interface Controls
        7. ENGR    2000       Circuit Analysis with Lab

 

  1. Course Revisions:

 

Program Revisions:

 

  1. Court Reporting
  2. AS-T MATH

Distance Leaning Request:

Leaning Support:

 

  1. STSU      0205       Introduction to Campus Life

On a motion by S. Eveland, seconded by J. Rangel-Escobedo, and unanimously carried by all, the above consent items were approved to move forward to May 10th’s District Board meeting.

 

  1. NEW BUSINESS ITEMS

New Course:

Science and Math:

 

  1. PHED     2734       Offseason Advanced Intercollegiate Basketball and Physical Fitness

On a motion by S. Eveland, seconded by J. Rangel-Escobedo, and unanimously carried by all, the above new course was approved to move forward to May 10th’s District Board meeting.

 

Course Revisions:

Science and Math:

 

  1. PHED     1508       Women’s Intercollegiate Basketball
  2. PHED     2508       Advanced Women’s Intercollegiate Basketball
  3. ENGR    1520       Statics
  4. ENGR    1530       Materials Science and Engineering with Lab

On a motion by T. Furman, seconded by J. Martinez, and unanimously carried by all, the above course revisions were approved to move forward to May 10th’s District Board meeting.

 

New Program:

Liberal Arts:

 

  1. AA-T Journalism

On a motion by T. Furman, seconded by J. Martinez, and unanimously carried, the above new program was approved to move forward to May 10th’s District Board meeting. M. Williams asked for the group to not approve the degree, he discussed working with our current degrees, increasing our numbers rather than re-creating problems we are currently facing.

 

  • ADDITIONS TO LOCAL GENERAL EDUCATION PATTERN

 

 

  1. The Catalog Work group has suggested the following courses be added to the local General Education pattern:

 

  1. BIOL 2370- Health Education Requirement
  2. STSU 1500- Health Education Requirement
  3. SPAN 2500- Humanities
  4. CHEM 1520- Natural Science
  5. ADMJ 1501 and 1502- Social and Behavioral Sciences

These additions to the local Gen Ed pattern were tabled for May’s C&GE meeting.

 

  • ACTION ITEMS
        1. Recency of courses
        3. AB 1985

 

  1.  

The above action items were tabled for May’s C & GE meeting.

 

  • INFORMATIONAL ITEM:

 

 

  1. Program Status, please see the table below:

 

Program Tech Review Approved

C & GE

Approved

Board

Approved

State

Approved

 Revisions
AS & Certificate Disabilities Studies 11/19/2013 1/17/2014 2/12/2014 Returned to Division October 2014 for Revisions
*AA-T Elementary Teacher Education 2/24/2015 3/9/2015 4/8/2015 Returned to Division for Revisions
AA-T Kinesiology 3/8/2016 4/11/2016 6/28/2016 Revision Requested
*AA-T Spanish 10/18/16 11/10/16 12/14/16 Revision Requested

* New Program

 

 

  1. NEXT MEETING: May 8, 2017 from 12:10-1:30pm in the Cougar room.

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