Curriculum Committee
March 12, 2013
Members Present:
Debbie Buti, Jane Church, Begoña Cirera-Perez, Luis Flores (ASCC), Dov
Hassan, Lynn Klein, Wayne Pitcher, Ernesto Victoria
Ex-Officio:
Kaaren Krueg, Tram Vo-Kumamoto
Guests:
Larry Leach, Annie Roake, Eric Schultz, Clayton Theil
1.
Call to Order
The meeting was called to order at 2:15 by the chair, Jane Church.
2.
Minutes of March 5, 2013
MSC (Buti/Victoria) to approve the minutes of March 5, 2013, as presented.
3.
Report from Deans’ Meeting: none.
4.
Consent Agenda and FYI
Information Only: The following were presented as Information Only/No Action items
and were approved by consensus:
Astronomy 10, Introduction to Astronomy: The Solar System, 3 units
Astronomy 20, Introduction to Astronomy: Stars and the Universe, 3 units
Astronomy 30, Introduction to Astronomy Lab, 1 unit
Health 8, Human Sexuality, 3 units
Real Estate 80, Real Estate Principles, 3 units\
Real Estate 81A, Legal Aspects of Real Estate, 3 units
Real Estate 82A, Real Estate Appraisal, 3 units
Real Estate 90, Exam Preparation: State of California Real Estate Licensing
Exam, 2 units
New Courses:
ATHL PRSW, Pre-Season Training for Men’s and Women’s Intercollegiate
Swimming, 0.5-2 units
ATHL PRWR, Pre-Season Training for Competitive Wrestling, 0.5-2 units
ATHL PSGF, Pre-Season Training for Competitive Golf, 0.5-2 units
Communication Studies 70B, Experienced Communication Tutor Training, 23 units
English as a Second Language 115A, Writing Workshop for Non-Native
Speakers I, 0.5 unit
English as a Second Language 115B, Writing Workshop for Non-Native
Speakers II, 0.5 unit
English as a Second Language 116A, Introduction to Review of Basic English,
3 units
English as a Second Language 116B, Review of Basic English, 3 units
English as a Second Language 117A, Introduction to Reading and Writing,
3 units
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English as a Second Language 117B, Intermediate Reading and Writing, 3
units
Health 61, First Responder, 2.5 units
KINE 13R, American Red Cross Lifeguard Training Review, 1.5 units
KINE BBDT, Theory and Technique of Defensive Baseball, 2 units
KINE BBOT, Theory and Technique of Offensive Baseball, 2 units
KINE PDBB, Principles of Defensive Baseball, 2 units
PEAC HIP1, Introduction to Hip-hop Dance, 0.5-2 units
PEAC HIP2, Advanced Beginning Hip-hop Dance, 0.5-2 units
Tutoring 31A, ChabotLink Beginning Peer Advisor Training
Minor changes:
Art 2C, Individual Projects in Academic Realism Drawing, 3 units
Art 12A, Beginning Oil Painting, 3 units
Art 12B, Intermediate Oil Painting, 3 units
Art 12A, Advanced Oil Painting, 3 units
Art 18A, Wood and Stone Sculpture 1, 3 units
Art 20, All Media Sculpture, 3 units
Art 22, Metal Sculpture – Lost Wax Bronze Casting, 3 units
English 11A, Introduction to Creative Writing, 3 units
MSC (Flores/Hassan) to approve the Consent Agenda.
5.
Update on progress of proposals
Jane has been going through “stuck” items. She is referring authors to their division reps
for help. If reps are unable to help, please refer them to Jane immediately.
6.
Colloquia
At the present time, no course outlines are generated for colloquia, and they do not come
through the curriculum committee for approval. A quick review of Class Schedules
shows colloquia in English, Mathematics, Mass Communications, and Art.
Clayton Thiel led a discussion on the colloquium he conducts, which provides students
with one unit of credit for learning to hang an exhibit at an annual conference. Clayton
does not receive credit for teaching the class. He stated that it is possible that students
might do this on their own, but it is unlikely. Making it a “class” makes it happen. He
said that using colloquium was originally suggested by Elliott Charnow.
In a discussion of how to make this work, the following were addressed:
•
The lack of repeatability is worrisome
•
Possibility of creating individual “9’s” in different disciplines, such as Art 9A,
9B, 9C, 9D; English 9A, 9B, 9C, 9D; etc.
•
The committee will need a set of procedures for dealing with colloquia
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7.
Curriculum Calendar
Last year we were operating under the calendar that started in January 2012. We got no
proposals in spring. There was discussion on what affects deadlines, and why we have
gone so far past the November deadline we originally set.
8.
Families
Eric has faculty who want to see the ruling on families “in writing.” Jane will provide
the document.
The following music courses may be repeated three times because several universities
(San Jose State, Cal State East Bay, Humboldt State and UCLA) require them as lower
division preparation:
MUSA 40, Applied Lessons
MUSA 11, Jazz Improvisation
MUSP 12, Wind Ensemble
MUSP 13, Wind Symphony
MUSP 14, Jazz Lab
MUSP 15, Jazz Ensemble
MUSP 16, Jazz Orchestra
MUSP 18, Percussion Ensemble
MUSP 41, Chamber Winds
MUSP 44, Concert Choir
MUSP 45, Chamber Choir
MUSP 47, College Production – Music
Jane requested that this list be kept in the SOTA office and the Office of Academic
Services.
The Music Department provided a list of families, including input from LPC. Visual
Arts has not yet completed the LPC information on their families list.
9.
Good of the Order
Jane distributed a memo from the C-ID Advisory Committee stating that from
November 1, 2012 forward, at least one textbook on the course outline must be from the
last seven years. (For books that do not conform—classics, etc.—put justification on the
Rationale page in CurricUNET.)
Jane announced that we don’t have to submit the final Board List until March 22, so we
have one more week to finish items in the queue. We will submit a list of both
completed and pending items to Senate on March 14.
10.
kk 3/14/13
The meeting was adjourned at 3:50 PM.
Next meeting: March 19, 2013.
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