Core Committee – April 1, 2008

Members Present: Gregg Muilenburg, Alfhild Ingberg, Madelyn Burchill, Lisa Sethre-Hofstad, David Sandgren, Doug Anderson and Sara Schwartz

The committee worked on drafting an application for the Inquiry Seminars. There was much discussion on what needed to be included.

Four parts of application for Inquiry Seminars:

1. Goals- Liberal Leaning

2. Criteria

3. Outcomes

4. Necessary Components

Application includes goals because there is not currently a complete document listing goals for Inquiry Seminars.

Inquiry Seminar Application

• Description- taken from catalog

• Goals – Goals for Liberal Learning

- Instructors will introduce, but won’t necessarily achieve all goals in course

• Objectives- measure a few of the goals depending on each course

• Criteria

The committee likes the overall themes of: awareness, understanding and ability,

• Outcomes will provide direction to instructors teaching Inquiry Seminars and provide a way for future Core Committees a way to evaluate Inquiry Seminars.

Instructors should refer to Intensive- Writing document and the goals/ criteria document on the Core webpage.

Possibly invite David Sprunger to a meeting to discuss Writing-Across-the-Core and Intensive- Writing.

Core Committee will announce to Department Chairs that each department needs to develop a statement on writing in their discipline, as per the suggestions of the Writing Working Group. M. Burchill will notify department chairs of this request and that it must be submitted in order for future courses to be considered. Document will also be put on the Core webpage. Future course applications will address Writing-Across-the-Core.

The work on the Inquiry form will continue at the next meeting, Thursday, April 3, 2008 at 8 AM.

Notes taken by- Sara Schwartz