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Program Committee Meeting Minutes
PROGRAM: ART (Academic)
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PROGRAM COORDINATOR: Jason Kishell, HCC-Southwest
MEETING DATE: January 10, 2014
MEETING TIME: 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
RECORDER: Michael Gonzales, NW
MEMBERS PRESENT:
Only ART program members present
Name and Title
Name and Title
MEETING PLACE: HCC Central Fine
Arts Building
PREVIOUS MEETING: August 2013, on
HCC Instructional Conference Day
OTHERS PRESENT: None
Name and Title
Justin Varner, SE
June Woest, SE
Lisa Wildermuth, SE
Maryellen Hill, SW
David Swaim, NW
Corey Ackelmire, CEN
Scott Carothers, CEN
Serge Kovalchuk, CEN
Gladys Bel, CEN
Steven Potter, SW
Bryan Bauhs, NE
Stanley Kaminski, NW
Pat Porcynaluk, SW
Michael Golden, CEN
Tina Kotrla, NE
Bennie Ansell, CEN
Cynthia Millis, SW
Katherine Fields, CEN
Jason Kishell, Program Leader, SW
Michael Gonzales, NW
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Agenda Item
Action/Discussion/Information
Old Business:
Continuing Business:
Annual Learning Assessment Report
comments from previous year:
-- Two assessments must be performed
every year.
-- Level II Gallery Assessment needs to be
done again.
-- Need volunteers to create a new
assessment and rubric.
Core Curriculum Update:
-- All Level I studio course accepted into
the new Core by HCC.
New Business:
Summer 2014 Textbook Adoption form:
-- Summer 2014 adoption form due Jan
15th . Fall 2014 adoption form due
March 23rd.
-- Do we need to continue using all 6
textbook options for ‘A World of Art, 7th
ed.’, by Sayre, that we have been using
for Textbook Adoption form?
-- What textbook options to use for
Distance Education and Hybrid offerings
of ARTS 1301 Art Appreciation?
Annual Planning Report due in Feb. 15
Responsibility
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HCC Course Descriptions:
-- Corrections for ARTS 1303 and ARTS
1304 regarding time periods of art
covered & prerequisite for ARTS 1304.
Associates Degree in ARTS presented
Articulation Agreements with 4-year
colleges
Curriculum Decisions:
Gallery Assessment:
-- Motions proposed, and seconded, to
change criteria that evaluates the
“exhibition quality” of student artworks
in gallery assessment to evaluating the
“exhibition readiness” of artworks.
Summer 2014 Textbook Adoption form:
-- Option (4), CourseSmart eText only
offering, will be not be included in
Summer 2014 ordering for ‘A World of
Art, 7th ed.’, by Sayre.
-- Motion proposed, and seconded, to
make ARTS 1301 textbook ‘optional’
for D.E., Hybrid, Web-Enhanced and
Face-to-Face sections: 18 members
‘for’ and 2 members ‘against’ motion.
Motion passes.
HCC Course Descriptions:
-- Motion made, and seconded, to change
wording for course description of ARTS
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1303 Art History I to “…related arts
covering the Prehistoric through Gothic
periods” and to change wording for
course description of ARTS 1304 Art
History II to “…related arts covering
the Renaissance period to Present.”
Motion unanimously passed.
-- Motion made, and seconded, to change
course description of ARTS 1304 Art
History II to clarify that ARTS 1303
does not have to taken before ARTS
1304; to change wording of ARTS 1304
descriptions to say “…there is no
prerequisite for Art History II.” Motion
passed unanimously.
ARTS Associates Degree:
-- Motion proposed, and seconded, to
approve the presented Associates
Degree in studio ART (with corrected
course title for ARTS 2341) for the HCC
Core Curriculum. Motion passes
unanimously.
Other:
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MINUTES
Key Discussion Points
Discussion
Old Business:
Continuing Business:
Annual Learning Assessment Report:
New Business:
-- Mixed bag of comments from HCC Administration regarding last two previous assessments
-- Administration concerned that last Level II Gallery Assessment Rubric does not measure
identifiable criteria
-- Assessments need to include what changes ARTS program is going to make as result of
assessments. The last two assessments reports were not clear on this; and ARTS needs to be
specific on what were results of changes made based upon previous assessment results.
Colleges must follow up on comments and results of tested PSLOs, and yet, the system does not
provide examples of this for us to follow.
-- Two assessments must be performed every year, but compile them in one submitted report.
-- Program members feel Gallery Assessment Rubric criteria that evaluates the “exhibition quality”
of student artworks in gallery assessment should be changed to evaluating the “exhibition
readiness” of artworks instead.
-- Level II Gallery assessment must be redone.
-- Need volunteers for a new Assessment committee to create next assessment and rubric:
Steven Potter (SW), Brian Bauhs (NE), Lisa Wildermuth (SE), Bennie Ansell (CEN) volunteer
Textbook Adoption: (Regarding ‘A World of Art, 7th ed.’ by Sayre)
-- There are several versions by which ARTS 1301 textbook is furnished.
-- Do our students use all these versions? Do we need them all?
-- Most popular formats are (1) Bound textbook w/MyArtsLab and (2) Loose Leaf w/MyArts Lab
-- Program decides Option (4), CourseSmart eText only offering, will be not be included in Summer
2014 ordering
-- Question of how to designate ARTS 1301 textbook for Distance Education (D.E.) and Hybrid
sections of ARTS 1301. Shall it be designated as ‘Required’, ‘Optional’ or ‘Recommended?’
-- All instructors of D.E. and Hybrid courses must offer same book options to students.
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-- ARTS1301 model D.E. courses were created because it was felt that HCC was going bookless.
-- If a program adopts an open source course, then it must change the information every semester
because you cannot follow the same lines of discussion as the publisher; you cannot be too
similar to publisher content.
-- The system does not want testing in D.E. courses. ARTS1301 D.E. course largely involves
exercises given to students. The final exam for ARTS1301 D.E. is essentially a paper.
-- Is there really enough content in ARTS1301 D.E. course to sustain a ‘face-to-face’ lecture course
offering?
-- Should there be more activities in a ‘face-to-face’ lecture course of ARTS 1301 rather than all
lecture?
-- Motion proposed, and seconded, to make ARTS 1301 textbook ‘optional’ for D.E., Hybrid, WebEnhanced and Face-to-Face sections: 18 members ‘for’ and 2 members ‘against’ motion.
Motion passes.
Annual Planning Report:
-- Needs to be worked on and submitted this semester. Chair has a representative from each college
that can help with report.
ART Associate Degree Plan:
-- Goal is for all HCC programs to have an Associate’s degree specific to their area.
-- ARTS Associates Degree Plan presented to ARTS members.
-- Proposed plan will transfer completely for ARTS major at most/all Texas public university ARTS
programs.
-- Mark Tengler feels that ARTS Associates Degree could begin in fall 2014
-- Need to correctly list ARTS 2341 as Metalsmithing/Jewelry I and Metalsmithing/Jewelry II in
student and faculty PeopleSoft listings.
-- Need to change course description for ARTS 1303 Art History I to include art from “prehistoric
through Gothic periods.”
-- Need to change course description for ARTS 1304 Art History II to include art from
“Renaissance period to present.”
-- Need to to change wording of ARTS 1304 descriptions to say “…there is no prerequisite for Art
History II.”
-- ARTS may want a 2-D and 3-D track and an Art Education track.
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-- HCC ARTS does not have enough Art History classes for an Art History track.
-- For an Art Education degree plan, the ARTS Program needs to create a Design III course and
possibly a color class for junior standing transfer.
-- Motion proposed, and seconded, to approve the presented Associates Degree in studio ART (with
corrected course title for ARTS 2341) for the HCC Core Curriculum. Motion passes
unanimously.
Articulation Agreement with 4-year colleges
HCC system is encouraging articulation agreements between itself and 4-year colleges in Texas.
Volunteers requested among our program members to contact 4-year institutions to set up
articulation agreements. Such agreements establish what and how HCC courses are accepted as
credit at 4-year institutions; articulation agreements would mean that students who earn HCC ARTS
Associate Degree Plan would automatically be juniors at a 4-year institution.
-- Both community colleges and four-year institutions are being encouraged by their administrations
to establish articulation agreements.
-- We do NOT need the ARTS Associates Degree in place to begin seeking articulation agreements.
-- UT Austin and Lamar have already approached us.
-- We are encouraged to do one or two a year, or all at once.
-- Let’s start with a couple and see how it goes; focus on most common transfer schools for ARTS.
-- Focus on ARTS wish for the whole degree plan to transfer and count toward the BFA (or other)
pathway
Just In Time Orientation (JITO)
-- For all new adjuncts.
-- It is an online professional development resource to help part-time faculty become quickly
acclimated to HCC.
-- This is a resource site, not a training site.
-- Visit http://ctle.hccs.edu/jito/
Core Curriculum Update:
-- All Level I studio course accepted into the new Core by HCC.
-- You can get a sample syllabus and assessment plan for every core course at
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http://ctle.hccs.edu/corecurriculum/index.html
-- HCC is adding the new core objectives to every core course by August 2014
-- We will need to create an assessment plan and how to implement it in every core course by
August 2014.
-- Make sure that our part-time faculty, dual credit faculty and distance education faculty know that
if they are teaching a core course, their course must change too and the assessment plan must be
implemented.
Faculty Workload Changes effective spring 2014:
-- Lecture, lab, and prep time will all be recognized on a 1 = 1 basis for workload.
-- Part-time faculty limit = 9.75 contact hours (inclusive of lecture and lab hours)
-- When multiplied by two to allow for equal prep hours, 9.75 x 2 = 19.5 hours per week
-- Departments may still request “exceptions” via vc.workload@hccs.edu
-- Full time faculty teaching overload, and all adjunct faculty, will continue to have their lab contact
hours paid at 75% of lecture contact hour pay.
--While adjunct load and FT overload is limited to 9.75 contact hours per semester, that number can
be exceeded once in an academic year.
Curriculum Decisions:
Other:
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DATE:
NEXT MEETING:
Fall 2014 HCC Instructional
Conference Day