CHABOT COLLEGE
Curriculum Committee Minutes
November 3, 2009
Members Present:
Jaswinder Bhangal, Begoña Cirera-Perez, Barbara Ogman, Wayne Pitcher,
Patricia Shannon, Debbie Soares, Ernesto Victoria, Patricia Wu
Ex-Officio
Members Present:
Jane Church, Edna Danaher, Kaaren Krueg
Guests:
Nancy Cowan, Kim Cristobal, JoAnn Galliano, Dale Wagoner
1.
Call to Order
The meeting was called to order at 2:05 p.m. by committee chair Wayne Pitcher.
2.
Minutes of October 27, 2009
MSC (Cirera-Perez/Ogman) to approve the minutes of October 27, 2009, as presented.
3.
Nursing and Dental Hygiene Presentation
Wayne Pitcher distributed his list of comments to the packet.
DELETIONS
Dental Hygiene 74L, Dental Radiography Open Lab, .5 unit
Course is no longer being offered.
MSC (Soares/Bhangal) to approve deletion of the above course.
MINOR CHANGES (Consent or FYI changes)
DENTAL HYGIENE
JoAnn Galliano presented. These courses are being retitled and renumbered in
accordance with accrediting body regulations that state that courses designated as a “lab”
have a student teacher ration of 1:15, which does not apply to these supplemental
courses. .
Dental Hygiene 60S, Dental Anatomy and Morphology Independent Study,
1 unit; changed from Dental Anatomy and Morphology Lab, 1 unit
Dental Hygiene 61S, Head and Neck Anatomy Independent Study, 1 unit;
changed from Head and Neck Anatomy Lab, 1 unit
Dental Hygiene 71S, Pre-Clinical Dental Hygiene Independent Study, 1 unit;
changed from Pre-Clinical Dental Hygiene Lab, 1 unit
The following note was added to the 1992 text: “Standard textbook – content has
not changed. New edition is not available.”
NURSING – Nancy Cowan presented.
Nursing 58, Nursing Care for Patients with Infectious Disease, 1 unit
Needed:
• SLO forms
Nursing 61, Clinical Nutrition, 1.5 units
The date of the text was changed to 2009 at the meeting.
Curriculum Committee
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Nursing 64, Pharmacology for Professional Nurses, 2.5 units; changed from
Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, 2.5 units
Needed:
• SLO forms
Nursing 69, Gerontological Nursing, 1 unit
Minor Changes were approved by consent contingent upon changes being made as
noted on master packet and returned to the division.
MAJOR CHANGES
NURSING
Kim Cristobal introduced the following courses. These courses are restricted to Nursing
students and are taught by Nursing instructors. Having them in the Biology discipline
confuses students. Some have argued that because it is not a Nursing course it is not
required for graduation. Nancy Cowan added that we are one of only three community
colleges in the state who teach pathophysiology as part of our program. Most programs
teach it after transfer to a four-year school.
Discussion revealed that while Nursing 68L is a corequisite to Nursing 68, Nursing 68 is
not necessarily a corequisite to Nursing 68L.
Nursing 68, Pathophysiology, 3 units
Changed from Physiology 2, Pathophysiology, 3 units
Needed:
• SLO forms (Kim Cristobal will submit to Carole Splendore)
Nursing 68L, Physical Assessment, .5 – 1 unit
Changed from Physiology 2L, Physical Assessment, .5 - 1 unit
Wayne commented that the prerequisites seem to have changed from
Physiology 2L to Nursing 68L. Dale responded that it is a result of moving the
course from the third semester of the Nursing program to the second semester.
At the meeting, the catalog description was changed to read, “…and concurrent
enrollment in the second semester of the nursing program…”
Needed:
• SLO forms (Kim Cristobal will submit to Carole Splendore)
• Content review forms for the revised prerequisites
• Check pages 150-151 of the catalog to be sure revisions are not required.
MSC (Shannon, Ogman) to accept major changes in the Nursing discipline as
amended contingent upon changes being made as noted on master packet and returned to
the division.
Jane asked why she had done a Trans/Bacc form on Nursing 55, but it did not appear in
the packet. Nancy will check with faculty.
4.
Good of the Order
Patricia Shannon asked Kaaren Krueg to work out a system with the new Title III
administrative assistant, Debra Lovendusky, for sending electronic copies of SLO
worksheet included in the final packets to Carole Splendore.
Curriculum Committee
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It was noted that Computer Application Systems 102, approved at the October 27
meeting as a minor change was actually a major change due to a unit/hour revision.
MSC (Shannon/Ogman) to accept the revision of Computer Application Systems
102, from 1-3 units/3-9 hour to 1 unit/3 hours.
Wayne sent out an email asking for help in finding a remembered policy for dealing
with separating lecture and laboratory content in the arts. Jane reported that in
OSCAR there is a box that needs to be filled in if a course contains laboratory. On
occasion they have stated, “laboratory content contained in lecture,” but she does not
feel it makes a strong statement.
Patricia remembers a discussion when Ron Taylor was VP in which he stated that if
we were audited we would be in good shape if we could prove that we have actual
laboratory content.
Consensus was that we need to ask the School of the Arts faculty to separate their
course content into Course Content (Lecture) and Course Content (Laboratory).
Wayne will let them know of our decision and that we are inviting them to come
back with their revisions on December 1.
There was discussion on Spring presentations. Wayne will send an email reminding
faculty of the December cut off for CSU GE Breadth submissions.
Jane initiated a discussion on committee procedures when a motion initiated by one
division/discipline has been approved, and faculty in another division/discipline do not
agree with the decision. The second group feels that there was insufficient consultation
before the vote was taken. Because the course in question is an experimental course,
faculty have another opportunity to consult if/when the course comes back for a catalog
number.
Architecture 2A, Architectural Drawing and Graphics I, 3 units
This course was approved at the October 20 meeting with an advisory of Art 2A.
The discipline would like to change this to a prerequisite. Adrian Huang submitted a
revised rationale, course outline, and prerequisite content review form via email.
MSC (Ogman/Soares) to accept the change.
Wayne reported that the CurricUNET steering committee came back from last week’s
conference impressed by the Program Review Module, which could help us address
some of the accreditation team’s comments. Patricia added that now is the time to design
how our curriculum approval system will work. If you have suggestions for changing or
streamlining the process, please let the steering committee know.
5.
Next Meeting: November 10, 2009
6.
The meeting was adjourned at 3:40 p.m.
kk 11/4/09