General Education Committee Minutes, 3/28/12
Members present: S. Caro, J. DeBoer, J. Luckowski, J. Rabinovitch, D. Sloan, E. Uchimoto, N.
White
Members Absent: E. Adams, D. Klapmeier, A. Sillars
Ex-Officio Members Present: E. Johnson
Guest: S. Bradford
The minutes from 2/29/12 were approved.
Communication Items:
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The revised framework (No course may satisfy both Group IX and Group X) was approved
at the March Faculty Senate meeting. The framework was amended at the meeting to update
the ENEX rubric to WRIT in accordance with common course numbering.

ASCRC considered the motion to enforce extended major status for the symbolic systems
exception to the foreign language requirement. It prefers an incentive approach to
encouraging students to take a language that would be available to all students.
Business Items:

Professor Luckowski presented the consent agenda for the Ethics and Human Values course
review. Follow-up was requested for several courses based on the lack of theoretical
framework and/or readings. One course (WRIT 240E) was withdrawn from consideration
and a few (NAS 303 & RELS 381) elected to submit next fall due to time constraints. There
was no response from HHP 475. The list appended was approved.
ANTY 220 will be withdrawing its request for social science. The Ethics Subcommittee will
be proposing that general education courses only be allowed to meet two groups.
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The Graduation Appeals Committee has been overwhelmed with appeals due to the general
education transition. The challenge is that course must be listed both in the catalog and the
schedule. Students get caught when departments neglect to reapply to maintain general
education status. Most universities have a policy that the course must be in the catalog the
student graduate’s under. At UM students can use 6 different catalogs. Having the old
course numbers in the catalog with a general education letter can be confusing as well. If a
degree audit system is implemented, procedures will need to be standardized in order to be
coded in the system.
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Sample forms will be discussed at the next meeting.
The meeting was adjourned at 5:03 PM.
Department
Anthropology
Anthropology
Applied Computing &
Electronics
Computer Science
Curriculum & Instruction
Geosciences
Management
Native American Studies
Pharmacy Practice
Philosophy
Philosophy
Philosophy
Social Work
Course Number
ANTY 220
ANTY 326
CSCI 215E
CSCI 216
EDU 407
GEO 304
BGEN 320E
NASX 304
PHAR 514
PHL 110E
PHL 112E
PHL 114E
SC 410
Course Title
Culture and Society
Indigenous Peoples and Global Development
Social and Ethical Issues in Computer
Science
Technology, Ethics, and Society
Ethics and Policy Issues
Science and Society
Business Ethics and Social Responsibility
Native American Beliefs and Philosophy
Case Studies in Pharmacy Ethics
Introduction to Ethics
Introduction to Ethics and the Environment
Introduction to Political Ethics
Ethics in the Helping Professions