ASCRC Minutes 10/3/06
Members Present: B. Bach R. Browning, I. Crummy, J. Eglin, D. Duncan, V. Hedquist,
C. Henderson, J. Graham, J. Luckowski, A. Szalda-Petree, A. Tabibnejad, H. Thompson
Members Absent/Excused: R. Nalty, P. Silverman A. Walker-Andrews
Ex-Officio Present: D. Micus, M. Hoell
Guest: Associate Dean Tompkins
Chair Szalda-Petree called the meeting to order at 2:10 p.m.
The minutes from 9/26/06 were approved.
Communication
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Jon Graham was welcomed to the committee.
Curriculum proposals were disseminated to the various school subcommittee
chairs. Proposals from College of Arts and Science departments are still
trickling into the Senate Office. Camie will process these as soon as possible
at get them to the subcommittee chairs.
Data on MUS transfer students was provided to the committee for review.
The number of students eligible to utilize the MUS core is relatively low, thus
the transferability issue should not drive UM’s general education program.
Semester
Fall 06
Freshman
Sophomore
Junior
Senior
Montana
Transfers
Total U
enrollment
Total U
Transfers
137
37.43%
120
32.79%
76
20.77%
33
9.02%
366
3.22%
11368
831
7.31%
5
31.25%
5
31.25%
2
12.50%
4
25.00%
16
0.68%
2346
45
1.92%
Spring 06
51
48.57%
26
24.76%
18
17.14%
10
9.52%
105
0.98%
10740
306
2.85%
Fall 05
115
36.74%
105
33.55%
73
23.32%
20
6.39%
313
2.84%
11018
844
7.66%
20052006
171
39.40%
136
31.34%
93
21.43%
34
7.83%
434
1.80%
24104
962
3.99%
Sum 06
Unfinished Business
General Education Model
The committee continued discussion on retooling of the current program. The program
should be streamlined with new concise criteria/outcomes. In terms of implementation,
the committee could take an incremental approach and require perspective courses to reapply according to the review schedule.
There was concern that the plan specified a second lower-division writing course in the
major. Currently many programs meet this requirement with an upper-division writing
course that is also a major requirement. Class size is an issue with lower-division writing
courses in the major. The hope was that the foreign language competency would be met
at the high school level and students would test out. Over the past two years there were
only 302 students that tested out of the foreign language requirement. These credits will
be problematic for many programs that are credit heavy due to accreditation.
The committee voted on whether to continue to couple the foreign language competency
with symbolic systems (4 in favor, 8 against).
A vote was taken on whether to forward the model below (9 in favor, 3 against) to
departments and ECOS for consideration.
Competencies
English Writing Skills
6
ENEX 101
One approved writing course which may be a perspective course
Successfully pass the WPA
Math Literacy
3
Foreign Language
5
Perspectives
1. Expressive Arts
2. Literary & Artistic Studies
3. Historical & Cultural Studies
4. Social Sciences
5. Ethics and Human Values
6. Natural Science (Include one lab)
Diversity requirement to be defined.
All courses must be at the 100 or 200 level
All courses must be foundational
All courses must be at least 3 credits
The meeting was adjourned at 4:00 p.m.
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