General Education Committee Minutes, 11/2/11
Members present: M. Dazey, J. DeBoer, J. Luckowski, A. Sillars, D. Simpson, D. Sloan, J.
Rabinovitch, E. Uchimoto, N. White
Ex-Officio Members Present:
Members absent: E. Adams, E. Johnson
The minutes from 10/19/11 were amended and approved.
Communication:
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General Education Committee members are invited to the Global Leadership Initiative
Retreat on November 10th with Dr Carol Schneider, President of the Association of
American Colleges and Universities. There will be various working groups in the morning
and a talk and panel discussion with UM faculty members at 2:10 pm.
Business Items:
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The revised form for the Global Leadership Initiative Course BADM 191, Doing the Right
Thing: A Global Strategy for Good Business was reviewed by the subcommittee. The
course requires additional reading and academic rigor to meet the criteria for the Ethics
group. According to the syllabus the only reading is from the Wall Street Journal. The
subcommittee’s correspondence made specific recommendations regarding possible reading
material to bring the course into compliance. Chair DeBoer will communicate these to the
requestor.
It was noted that the course is listed in the spring schedule as fulfilling the Ethics group.
The Registrar and Associate Provost Walker Andrews will be notified that the course does
not meet the Ethics criteria and cannot be listed as an Ethics course in the schedule.
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COM 140, Introduction to Visual Rhetoric was approved as a Literary & Artistic Course.
The Committee discussed the MCLL courses proposed for the Historical & Cultural Studies
Courses. The learning outcomes were not on the syllabi and the justification was not
convincing in terms of the introductory and foundational content of upper-division courses.
The same justification was used for all the courses proposed by MCLL this fall. Because of
this last week’s decision to approve the MCLL courses for the American and European
perspective was rescinded. Chair DeBoer will follow-up with the requestor.
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It was noted that it will be necessary to have longer meetings in order to complete business.
The next meeting on November 16th will be from 4:10 to 5:30.
The meeting was adjourned at 5:05 PM.