Curriculum Committee
March 19, 2013
Members Present:
Debbie Buti, Jane Church, Begoña Cirera-Perez, Luis Flores (ASCC), Dov
Hassan, Lynn Klein, Kent Uchiyama, Ernesto Victoria
Ex-Officio:
Kaaren Krueg
Guests:
Larry Leach, Eric Schultz
1.
Call to Order
The meeting was called to order at 2:11 by the chair, Jane Church.
2.
Minutes of March 12, 2013
Jane asked that the minutes be amended to include her request that the backup
documents to the list of repeatable music classes be held in the SOTA office and the
Office of Academic Services.
MSC (Buti/Uchiyama) to approve the minutes of March 12, 2013, as amended..
3.
Report from Deans’ Meeting: none.
4.
Consent Agenda
New Degrees
Administration of Justice (AS-T)
Art History (AA)
New Courses:
ATHL PRVB, Pre-Season Training for Women’s Intercollegiate Volleyball, 0.5-2
units
Communication Studies 70A, Introduction to Communication Tutor Training, 2 units
KINE POBB, Principles of Offensive Baseball, 2 units
Music (MUSA) 11, Jazz Improvisation, 1 unit
Music (MUSL) 42A, Jazz Theory I, 2 units
Music (MUSL) 42B, Jazz Theory II, 2 units
Music (MUSP) 14, Jazz Lab, 1 unit
PEAC ABBS, Advanced Baseball Skills, 0.5-2 units
PEAC HIP3, Intermediate Hip-hop Dance, 0.5-2 units
PEAC HIP4, Advanced Hip-hop Dance, 0.5-2 units
PEAC INSC, Indoor Soccer/Futsol, 0.5-2 units
PEAC JD1, Introduction to Jazz Dance, 0.5-2 units
PEAC JD2, Advanced Beginning Jazz Dance, 0.5-2 units
PEAC JD3, Intermediate Jazz Dance, 0.5-2 units
PEAC JD4, Advanced Jazz Dance, 0.5-2 units
PEAC PIL 2, Intermediate Pilates, 0.5 to 2 units
PEAC SBB2, Intermediate Sport-Specific Training – Baseball, 0.5-2 units
PEAC SBB3, Advanced Baseball Specific Training, 0.5-2 units
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Minor changes:
Administration of Justice 89, Family Violence, 3 units
Art 21, Individual Projects in Ceramic Sculpture, 3 units
Art 2B, Drawing and Composition, 3 units
Early Childhood Development 50, Early Childhood Principles and Practices, 3 units
Early Childhood Development 62, Child, Family and Community, 3 units
Early Childhood Development 63, Early Childhood Curriculum, 4 units
Early Childhood Development 79, Teaching in a Diverse Society, 3 units
Early Childhood Development 90, Practicum: Supervised Experience, 3 units
English 12A, Craft of Writing – Fiction, 3 units
Engineering 10, Introduction to Engineering, 2 units
Mathematics 16, Applied Calculus II, 3 units
Mathematics 33, Finite Mathematics, 4 units
Mathematics 122, Math Lab, 0.5-2 units
Nursing 54, Clinical Topics, 0.50 unit
Nursing 72, Work-Study Clinical Practicum, 0.5 to 2 units
Nursing 84, Prescriptive Clinical Nursing Skills Practice, 0.5 to 1 unit
Theater Arts 1, Introduction to Acting, 3 units
Theater Arts 2, Intermediate Acting, 3 units
Theater Arts 6, Movement for the Actor, 3 units
Theater Arts 8, Audition Technique, 3 units
Theater Arts 47A, Introduction to College Theater Acting, 3 units
Theater Arts 48A, College Theater Technical I, 1-6 units
A final performance will be added to Theater classes. MSC (Flores/Klein) to approve
the Consent Agenda.
5.
Update on progress of proposals
Jane reported that there are about 26 courses still at level 4, plus about 15 Theater and 10
Tutoring courses to come. She asked the voting members to please review program
proposals.
6.
Colloquia
Jane distributed draft guidelines for the future processing of colloquia, citing the posting
in the catalog of Film 9 and the existence of a course outline for this course as evidence
that it is, in fact, a viable course. She noted that each discipline may have only one “9”
class, and that the class is not repeatable. Dov spoke to the desire for flexibility in
subject matter. Jane suggested using experimental courses rather than colloquia. The
stand-alone issue will also need to be addressed.
Discussion tabled.
7.
Curriculum Calendar
Jane is planning on a meeting next week and then reverting to meeting the first and third
Tuesdays beginning on April 16.
9.
Good of the Order
Larry Leach explained his rationale for the two Journalism degrees, the AA and the
AA-T. Increasing the number of units in the AA gives students planning on looking for
work after graduation additional experience which will give them a competitive edge in
the job market. Those transferring to a 4-year university will receive that experience in
their upper-division coursework.
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Jane asked about the high unit major in Mass Communications. That course has been on
the books for a number of years. This year’s proposal was only to change the numbers
on a couple of revised courses. These are FYI changes.
Discussion included:
•
Separating the course into areas of emphasis (this would result in duplication of
the Journalism and Radio and Television programs);
•
Reducing units by changing the degree to an AS;
•
Reducing units by deleting advertising from the program; perhaps adding a
certificate to address that portion of the program.
Jane distributed documents from the State Chancellor’s Office dealing with course
repetition and course repeatability.
10.
kk 3/20/13
The meeting was adjourned at 3:45 PM.
Next meeting: March 26, 2013.
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