Academic Senate Meeting, April 1, 2016
AGENDA ITEM 4.1
College of the Redwoods
Summary of Course Changes
03.11.16
LEGEND
PREFIX = Course prefix; # = Course Number; TITLE = Course title or title change; NEW = New course or large format/distanced education proposal first
submission; REV = Revised course; REP = Replaces existing course; INA = Inactivated course; UNITS = Total Units and hours of new or revised course; UC = UC
transferable – indicate UC transfer status by placing an A for approved courses and a P for courses pending; CSU = CSU transferable – indicate CSU transfer
status by placing an A for approved courses and a P for courses pending CR GE = credits apply to CR General Education; underlined indicates new CR
GE and R for approval removed; COMMENTS = Review of outline changes, including prerequisites.
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College Success
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ADCT
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Intro to Addiction Studies
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ADCT
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Addictions & Co-Occurring Disorders in Special
Populations
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ADCT
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Addiction and the Family System
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ADCT
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Field Placement Seminar II
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EDUC
220
Career and College Foundations
HIST
20
World History: Prehistory to 1500 CE
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HIST
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World History: 1500 CE to Present
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Curriculum Committee Summary 03.11.16
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Comments/ Summary Changes
Discipline Code/ Prerequisite Change
Course approved for distance education: onlineinternet based, interactive-video based, and Hybrid
online-internet/classroom based.
Course approved for distance education:
interactive-video based.
Course approved for distance education:
interactive-video based.
X
Course approved for distance education:
interactive-video based.
Course approved for distance education:
interactive-video based.
Distance education renewed: interactive-video
based, hybrid online-internet/classroom based.
Course approved for distance education: onlineinternet based.
Course approved for distance education: onlineinternet based.
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Title/Title Change
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Discipline Code/ Prerequisite Change
Regularly scheduled revision: SLOs have been
reduced and reformatted
.Course Learning Outcomes
MUS
10
Music in History
Curriculum Committee Summary 03.11.16
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1. Define basic musical terminology and concepts.
2. Identify the historical periods of Western music history
by name and date; the characteristic aspects of musical
style of each historical period; the characteristic genres,
instruments, and performance forums of each historical
period; and the major composers of each historical
period, including region of origin and/or activity, typical
genres, and important innovations.
3. Aurally identify musical excerpts by historical period,
and, when applicable, by genre.
4. Analyze relationships between music of a given period
and contemporaneous art, architecture, and literature,
both in regards to aesthetics (i.e. common stylistic
properties) and worldview (common values/belief
systems conveyed).
5. Analyze the social context of music of a given
period/region, including (but not limited to) its role in
liturgy, its subject matter, its modes of dissemination
(publication, live performance, etc.), the patronage issues
surrounding it (who financed and consumed it, and for
what purposes), and the manner in which its innovations
in musical form and vocabulary encapsulate shifts in
worldview and values systems.
6. Analyze and evaluate musical performances.
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Discipline Code/ Prerequisite Change
Regularly scheduled revision: Catalog description
has been rewritten both to better describe the
course's scope and aim, and to demonstrate its
relevance to G.E. Area E, Multicultural
Understanding.
Course Learning Outcomes
MUS
MUS
12
22B
American Popular Music
Beginning Band Instruments: Brass
Curriculum Committee Summary 03.11.16
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1. Define basic musical terminology and concepts.
2. Identify important features of the major American
popular music traditions 1840-2000, including period and
(when applicable) region of popularity, primary audience
demographic, characteristic performance practices, and
cultural values conveyed through the music; analyze
interrelationships between the major American popular
music traditions, and the significance of stylistic changes
that took place over time in these traditions.
3. Identify, and evaluate the importance of, major figures
within these traditions.
4. Identify and describe important aspects of the
commercial music institutions surrounding American
popular music1840-2000; analyze the strategies of these
institutions; and evaluate changes in technology on the
creation, production, and dissemination of the music.
5. Aurally distinguish the music of different American
popular music traditions, and different styles and/or eras
within given traditions.
6. Analyze and evaluate musical performances.
Regularly scheduled revision.
Course Learning Outcomes
1. Demonstrate sufficient mastery of valve (or slide)
positions to play chromatically from lowest to
highest commonly-used notes on a given brass
instrument.
2. Produce acceptable tone on a given brass
instrument through employment of correct
embouchure and breath support techniques.
3. Accurately read basic music notation, including
commonly-used pitch, rhythm, and expression
symbols, and hold one's part in band music at the
Class D junior high/middle school level.
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22P
Title/Title Change
Beginning Band Instruments: Percussion
22W Beginning Band Instruments: Woodwinds
Curriculum Committee Summary 03.11.16
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Discipline Code/ Prerequisite Change
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Regularly scheduled revision: catalog description
rendered more concise.
Course Learning Outcomes
1. Demonstrate correct sticking technique in order
to play chromatically from lowest to highest
commonly-used notes (mallet percussion
instruments); demonstrate the ability to accurately
change drumhead pitch through pedal movement
(timpani).
2. Play essential snare drum rudiments (snare
drum).
3. Demonstrate acceptable tone production (all
percussion instruments).
4. Accurately read basic music notation, including
commonly-used pitch, rhythm, and expression
symbols, and hold one's part in band music at the
Class D junior high/middle school level.
A
Regularly scheduled revision: catalog description
rendered more concise.
Course Learning Outcomes
1. Demonstrate sufficient mastery of key positions
to play chromatically from lowest to highest
commonly-used notes on a given woodwind
instrument.
2. Produce acceptable tone on a given woodwind
instrument through employment of correct
embouchure and breath support techniques.
3. Accurately read basic music notation, including
commonly-used pitch, rhythm, and expression
symbols, and hold one's part in band music at the
Class D junior high/middle school level.
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26A
26B
27A
Title/Title Change
Beginning Class Voice I
Beginning Class Voice II
Intermediate Class Voice I
Curriculum Committee Summary 03.11.16
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Comments/ Summary Changes
Discipline Code/ Prerequisite Change
A
Regularly scheduled revision: catalog description
rendered more concise.
Course Learning Objectives
1. Using effective posture and breathing techniques,
develop a vocal range of one and a half octaves.
2. Recognize, and realize in performance, expression
directions.
3. Carry a vocal part individually in an a cappella
round or with piano accompaniment.
4. Sing foreign language songs with correct diction.
A
Regularly scheduled revision.
Course Learning Objectives
1. Using effective posture and breathing techniques,
develop a vocal range of two octaves.
2. Demonstrate mastery of performance practices
appropriate to specific vocal genres, including
specific approaches to phrasing, dynamics, and
diction.
3. Demonstrate presentation and characterization
skills in the context of live performance.
4. Demonstrate the ability to carry a vocal part in a
duet.
A
Regularly scheduled revision: catalog description
rendered more concise.
Course Learning Objectives
1. Demonstrate mastery of performance practices
appropriate to specific vocal genres, including
specific approaches to phrasing, dynamics, and
diction.
2. Through an analysis of song structure and lyrics,
create and convey a convincing presentation and
characterization in the context of live performance.
3. Demonstrate the ability to carry a part in a vocal
quartet.
4. Demonstrate mastery of international phonetic
alphabet (IPA).
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27B
100
Title/Title Change
Intermediate Class Voice II
Mandated Training
Curriculum Committee Summary 03.11.16
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Comments/ Summary Changes
Discipline Code/ Prerequisite Change
Regularly scheduled revision: catalog description
rendered more concise.
Course Learning Objectives
1. Through an analysis of style, genre, and historical
period, apply appropriate performance practices,
including specific
approaches to phrasing, dynamics, and diction.
2. Through an analysis of song structure and lyrics,
create and convey a convincing presentation and
characterization in the context of live performance.
3. Demonstrate the ability to carry a part in a vocal
ensemble.
4. Demonstrate mastery of international phonetic
alphabet (IPA).
5. Perform an audition repertoire that includes an
uptempo song and a ballad.
Regularly scheduled revision: updated Course
Learning Outcomed and Learning Objectives.
Course Learning Outcomes
1. Demonstrate a minimum standard of tactical
handgun proficiency with every technique, exercise,
or course-of-fire usedin instruction.
2. Demonstrate a minimum standard of arrest and
control skills with every technique and exercise
used in instruction.
3. Demonstrate a minimum standard of Driver
Training/Awareness psychomotor skills with every
technique and exercise used in instruction.
4. Demonstrate knowledge of the definitions of
racial profiling and racial diversity and how these
issues effect the community.
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Title/Title Change
KINS
68
Care and Prevention of Sports Injuries
PE
68
Care and Prevention of Sports Injuries
ART
1B
Art History: Renaissance to Contemporary
Curriculum Committee Summary 03.11.16
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Comments/ Summary Changes
Discipline Code/ Prerequisite Change
NEW course ID to replace PE 68, to better align with
CSU/UC curriculum. Updated SLOs.
Course Learning Outcomes
1. Identify and analyze the steps used for initial
assessment and treatment of sports injuries and
apply the appropriate
criteria used in making decisions towards the proper
care or referral.
2. Assess the appropriate application PRICE (Protect,
Rest, Ice, Compression, and Elevation) in the initial
care of
musculoskeletal injuries.
3. Identify the basic components and goals of a
prevention of sport injuries and rehabilitation from
sport injuries
program.
4. Demonstrate recognition of injury and apply
appropriate taping/wrapping techniques for specific
injuries (including
upper and lower body).
A
Inactivation - being replaced by KINS 68
Regularly scheduled revision: SLOs have been
updated to better map to assessment efforts; new
GE outcomes; ,maximum class size is being reduced
in response to increased scholarly rigor (especially
as regards writing assignments).
Course Learning Outcomes
1. Identify a broad range of processes and materials
used to create works of art from the Renaissance
through the postmodern period.
2. Analyze visual or formal structure in works of
two-dimensional and three-dimensional art and
architecture.
3. Identify subject matter and iconography in both
western and non-western works of art from the
Renaissance through the postmodern period.
4. Analyze, discuss and differentiate works of art
within their proper cultural context.
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Title/Title Change
Art Appreciation
Curriculum Committee Summary 03.11.16
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Comments/ Summary Changes
Discipline Code/ Prerequisite Change
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Regularly scheduled revision: correcting errors in
the last version, also updated SLOs and catalog
description to better align with C-ID descriptor.
Course Learning Outcomes
1.Evaluate and critique works of art and
architecture based on formal elements and
principles of design and employing appropriate art
historical terminology.
2. Analyze, evaluate, and distinguish materials and
techniques used for creating art and architecture.
3. Apply different methods of art historical analysis,
including formal, feminist and iconographic.
4. Identify, analyze, and discuss the functions of art
and architecture and the roles of artists in diverse
cultures.
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