CHABOT COLLEGE
Curriculum Committee
October 16, 2012
Members Present:
Debbie Buti, Jane Church, Begoña Cirera-Perez, Donna Gibson, Dov Hassan,
Jay Mumford, Don Plondke, Linnea Wahamaki
Ex-Officio:
Edna Danaher, Kaaren Krueg
Guests:
Tom Clark
1.
Call to Order
The meeting was called to order at 2:15 by the chair, Jane Church. She thanked Linnea
Wahamaki for taking minutes at the last meeting.
2.
Minutes of September 18 and October 2, 2012
MSC (Hassan/Mumford) to approve the minutes of September 18 as presented.
Debbie noted the misspelling of her name in the minutes of October 2. It was also noted
that the Staff Development Day mentioned in Item 5 is on October 30, and that it is
important that we do a CurricUNET training on that day to help faculty meet the
November 30 curriculum deadline.
MSC (Cirera-Perez/Mumford) to approve the minutes of October 2 as corrected.
3.
October 30 Flex Day
Jane will work with the Staff Development Committee to place a training workshop on
the Flex Day schedule. She asked if Curriculum Committee reps feel comfortable in
their ability to train members of their divisions. They do. There was discussion on
whether or not we should ask for more than one computer lab. It was agreed that one
room would be sufficient.
4.
Moving Course Outlines Through the Queue
Jane would like to streamline the process of approving recent outlines on which the only
change is to remove repeatability. She asked reps to send her a list of those courses, and
she and Kaaren will make and approve the changes and bypass the rest of the queue.
(The dates on these outlines will be changed to Fall 2013.)
In other discussion on moving course outlines through the queue in a timely manner, it
was noted that several approvals are needed before the outline reaches the committee
review level. Jane demonstrated that the Course Comparison (CC) screen makes it clear
what changes have been made, and would aid Division Deans and Curriculum
Committee Reps in working through large lists of needed approvals.
Dov Hassan reported that he made an announcement that once his division members
receive CurricUNET email notification it is their responsibility to review and comment
on proposals within two weeks; at the end of that time, he will approve and send the
course on to the next level.
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Jane said that she established a rule that she will not add adjuncts to the lists of
Curricular Area Faculty without the Division Dean’s approval.
5.
Approval of ESL 127 and ESL 149O course proposals
Linnea presented.
ESL 127, ESL Pronunciation Lab, 0.5 unit.
Repeatability has been removed, assignments added, and software updated. This
course is taught in PATH. There is an instructor of record, but students work
independently, utilizing various resources via a BlackBoard shell. Discussion on
Methods of Evaluating Student Progress yielded the decision that “Portfolios” could
serve as the final project.
MSC (Mumford/Gibson) to approve ESL 127.
ESL 149O, Writing Workshop for Non-Native Speakers, 1 unit
This experimental course is funded through the BSI grant. It will be offered in
PATH, beginning two weeks into the Spring 2013 semester so that instructors have a
chance to get to know their students and recommend the class to those who might
benefit. Students earn grades by completing activities; a point system will be
established.
Needed: Add Methods of Evaluating Student Progress, H. Portfolio (see discussion
above.)
We will not vote on this proposal. When it works through the CurricUNET process
to the next “Hold” point, we can ask for this change and it will open the outline up so
that the originator can make the revision.
6.
Repeatability
Jane reported on a workshop she attended. Erik Shearer of Napa Valley college
simplified the situation by saying, “Nothing is repeatable; everything is in families.” In
fact, per Title 5, the only courses that are repeatable are
• those required to meet lower division standards for transfer to CSU/UC;
• vocational or academic competition courses (such as forensics);
• intercollegiate athletic courses.
Repeatability for career currency is handled by petition. A new petition form is being
developed.
7.
TMC Proposals
Jane has learned that 80% of existing AA/AS Degrees that could be AA/AS-T will be
expected to be submitted as such by Fall 2013. She distributed a sheet showing TMC
templates that have been developed and how our degrees fit into the list. According to
her calculations, we will need to develop 7 more AA/AS-Ts. She met with Keith Mehl
to work on an AS-T in Computer Science. They were able to fit our courses into the
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template for a total of 63 units; however the TMC must be no more that 60 units. In
order to propose this degree, some of our mathematics and computer science
courses/sequences would need to be rewritten at lower unit values.
8.
Good of the Order
Jane has spoken with Dr. Sperling about the need to have the VP Academic Services
more involved with the curriculum process. She also addressed the need for 2 CAH
release time for the CurricUNET chair.
9.
kk 10-18-12
The meeting was adjourned at 4:00 p.m.
Next meeting: November 6, 2012.
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