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December 12, 2016

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December 12, 2016

OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT OF INSTRUCTION

CURRICULUM AND GENERAL EDUCATION COMMITTEE

 

Minutes of the Curriculum and General Education Committee Meeting

Monday, December 12, 2016, 12:10 p.m., in the Cougar Room

 

Members Present:      A. Anderson, P. Arvizu, K. Bandy, S. Eastman, S. Eveland, T. Furman, D. Hall, V. Jacobi, J. Martinez, G. Golling for M. Mayfield, J. Rangel-Escobedo, M. Williams, B. Young and PTK Representative Westen Blair

 

Members Absent:       K. Carlson, ASB Representative

 

Guests:                        D. Thornsberry, S. Graham, Tony Cordova, and D. Vohnout

       

 

AGENDA

 

  1. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: From the November 14, 2016 Curriculum & General Education meeting

On a motion by P. Arvizu, seconded by T. Furman, and unanimously carried by all, the Curriculum and General Education minutes for November were approved.

 

 

  • Tabled from the November 14 Curriculum Meeting:

 

  1.  
  1. New Course

 

        1. ENER     1513       Environmental Awareness & Regulatory Compliance
  1. Course Revisions
  1. BUSN    1560       Business Capstone
  2. MGMT 1560       Management Capstone

 

On a motion by S. Eveland, seconded by K. Bandy, and unanimously carried by all, the above ENER course along with the BUSN and MGMT courses were tabled. The Applied Technologies division will meet to clarify a number of issues with these courses. They will make the corrections and re-submit when ready.

 

 

  •        NEW BUSINESS ITEMS

 

 

  1. New Courses

 

  1.        ENER     1610       Mechanical Systems

On a motion by T. Furman, seconded by J. Rangel-Escobedo, and unanimously carried by all, the above Energy course was approved to move forward to the January 11, 2017 District Board Meeting.

  1.         ENER     1620       Fundamentals of Instrumentation for Energy Industries
  2.        ENER     1640       Energy Analytics
  1. Course Revisions

 

  1. ENER 1025       Oil and Gas Laws and Regulations

 

On a motion by S. Eveland, seconded by J. Martinez, and unanimously carried by all, the initial approval of ENER 1610 was withdrawn. On a motion by T. Furman, seconded by K. Bandy, and unanimously carried by all, the above ENER courses were tabled. The Applied Technologies division will meet to clarify issues that came up during the meeting.

 

  1. PSYC 2050       Introduction to Biological Psychology

 

On a motion by T. Furman, seconded by G. Golling, and unanimously carried by all, the above PSYC 2050 course was approved to move forward to the January 11, 2017 District Board Meeting.

 

 

  1. Program Revision

 

        1. Occupational Health and Safety

On a motion by K. Bandy, seconded by S. Eveland, and unanimously carried by all, the above program revision was tabled. The Applied Technologies division is in the process of revising ENER 1513 which is part of the Occupational Health and Safety degree. This will be re-submitted by the division.

 

  1. New Program
  1.            AA-T      Spanish

On a motion by J. Rangel-Escobedo, seconded by S. Eveland, and unanimously carried by all, the new Spanish program was approved to move forward to the January 11, 2017 District Board Meeting.

 

 

  1. CONSENT ITEMS

 

  1. Course Revisions

 

  1. ENER     1510       Introduction to Energy
  2. ENER     1520       Introduction to Petroleum Technology
  3. PSYC      2200       Elementary Statistics for the Behavioral and Social Sciences
  1. Course Inactivations

 

  1.        ENER     1005       Energy Data Management and Analysis
  2.        ENER     1020       Introduction to the Petroleum Industry
  3.        ESL         0001       English as a Second Language Pre-level 1
  4.        ESL         0010       English as a Second Language Level 1
  5.        ESL         0020       English as a Second Language Level 2
  6.        ESL         0030       English as a Second Language Level 3

On a motion by S. Eveland, seconded by T. Furman, and unanimously carried by all, the above consent items were approved to move forward to the January 11, 2017 District Board Meeting.

 

  • DISCUSSION ITEMS
  • Other                                                               

 

    1.  
  • INFORMATIONAL ITEM:

 

 

  1. Program Status, please see the table below:

 

Program Tech Review Approved

C & GE

Approved

Board

Approved

State

Approved

 Revisions
AA Physical Education Under Review
AA Liberal Arts: Health and Physical Education Under Review
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 English 11/4/2014 11/12/2014 12/10/2014 Under Review
AA Multimedia Journalism 10/28/2014 3/9/2015 4/8/2015 Revision Requested
AA-T Psychology 12/16/2014 3/9/2015 4/8/2015 Under Review
AA-T History 4/7/15 5/11/15 6/10/15 Under Review
Administrative Services II 9/8/15 9/14/15 10/14/15 Under Review
AS Physical Science 3/8/16 5/9/2016 7/13/16 Under Review
Liberal Arts: Math and Science 3/8/16 5/9/2016 7/13/16 Under Review
Liberal Arts: Natural Science-Life Science 3/8/16 5/9/2016 7/13/16 Under Review
Liberal Arts: Natural Science- Physical Science 3/8/16 5/9/2016 7/13/16 Under Review
Life Science 3/8/16 5/9/2016 7/13/16 Under Review
Liberal Arts: Allied Health 3/8/16 5/9/2016 7/13/16 Under Review
*AS-T Biology 3/8/16 10/10/16 11/9/16 Preliminary Review
*AA-T Spanish 10/18/16 11/10/16

* New Program

 

 

VIII.        NEXT MEETING: TBD during January inservice.

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