Core Committee Minutes
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Members Present: D.
Sandgren, M. Burchill, L. Sethre-Hofstad, A. Ingberg, G. Muilenburg, S.
Schwartz, D. Anderson
After introductions and a
welcome to our new member, M. Burchill suggested that current appeals be
discussed as the first item of business. Responsibility for keeping the Minutes
of the Core Committee will be shared by the members alphabetically beginning
with D. Anderson.
1)
Appeals
a) ***** – To allow integration course taken as
a sophomore to count toward core distribution integration credit– GRANTED.
b)
***** – World language exemption due to dyslexia– GRANTED, with
expectation that ***** take a world culture course in its place.
c)
***** – To
allow both the credit and the grade from IWC 120 to replace the grade/credit of
IWC 100. The English department has already compromised to allow the credit
from IWC 120 to count for IWC 100. The grade is an issue for the Registrar’s
Office, not Core Committee. No jurisdiction, so no action.
d)
***** – To substitute
World Discovery 380 for Scan 272E as an E distribution course and core
credit-GRANTED.
e)
***** –
Appeal was tabled due to insufficient information, no junior check sheet, no updated
degree audit.
2) Regarding new integration X distribution courses
There remain three spring semesters in which
integration X distribution courses need to be offered for current students to
complete the former core curriculum. Credo World Discovery 380 for Credo in
3) Education 425
and 439 as
Education 425 U and
Education 439 U, both 0.5 course credits, have U designation (U.S. Cultural
Diversity), thus together satisfy the U requirement of the new core, Becoming
Responsibly Engaged in the World. Since both are required courses for education
and secondary education majors, we do not feel a student will take only one and
expect to satisfy this core requirement. One full (1.0) course credit is
needed.
4) Email reminder of important submission dates
A Cobweb
Express email should be sent to all faculty with a link to the Core Committee
website, highlighting two key dates: September 25, by which all courses
applying for Exploration or Perspectives designation to be included in the
Spring 2008 class schedule for the first time need to be submitted using the
Standard Form; January 15, by which all courses previously granted provisional
approval on the Short Form need to be resubmitted using the Standard Form for
inclusion in future class schedules.
5) Inquiry seminars
There seems to be a need to
establish a mechanism whereby uniformity in “intensive writing” is attained in
Inq 100 Inquiry Seminar. If the task force headed by David Sprunger defines
writing intensive, who will oversee the implementation of the definition across
the inquiry seminar sections? Can Core Committee do this, or should there be a
Director of the First-Year Experience generally? When and to whom will inquiry
seminar course proposals be submitted?
6) Religion representation on the Core committee
As Religion II is an Exploration
area in the new core curriculum, we have discussed in the past the idea of
necessary legislation for a reconstitution of our committee’s makeup to allow
for representation by religion. Senate coordinating committee will be contacted
to pursue this idea.
The next meeting of the Core Committee will be
Tuesday, September 18 at 8:00 am in the executive conference room in
Lorentzsen.
Respectfully submitted,
Douglas Anderson