Cosumnes River College
(Approved 2/4/09)
CURRICULUM COMMITTEE MINUTES
January 21, 2009
COMMITTEE:
Faculty: (18)
Dan DuBray (Chair)
_____________ (Co-chair)
Cori Burns
Lynn Fowler
Cheri LaDue
Michael Lawlor
Lap Ly
Sue Palm
Lance Parks
Amanda Paskey (Wolcott)
Kathryn Smith
Chris Wagner
Jennifer Zmuda (adjunct)
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Administration: (4)
Whitney Yamamura (Executive Sec’t.) Pr
Judy Beachler
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Liz Belyea
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Classified: (2)
Janet Shaw
Pr
Student(s): (4)
John-Paul Pham
Pr
Guest(s): Hoyt Fong, Cheri Fortin, Miriam
Beloglovsky, Linn Violett, Matt McHugh
I.
CALL TO ORDER / APPROVAL OF MINUTES
Dan DuBray called the meeting to order at 3:05 p.m. in BS-148.
The minutes for December 3, 2008 were approved by consent.
II.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
A. Chair’s Report – The chair reported the following courses were approved by the
Competency Committee in December 2008:
Reading Competency: ENGRD 310, 312
Writing Competency: ENGWR 300; BUS 310
Mathematics Competency: MATH 110, 120, 125, 300, 310, 335, 340, 341, 343,
344, 350, 351, 370, 400, 401, 402, 410, 420 ; PSYC 330 ; STAT 300
B. Office of Instruction Report – no report
III.
CURRICULUM PROPOSALS
Distance Education – Course Proposals
It was M/S/P (Palm/Parks) to approve the following distance education proposals:
BUS 354, Students in Free Enterprise (Hybrid – Online and Onsite and Interactive Television)
COMM 321, Interpersonal Communication (Hybrid – Online and Onsite, Interactive
Television, Internet/Online, and Television)
ECE 312, Child Development (Hybrid – Online and Onsite)
TA 302, History and Theory of the Theatre I (Hybrid – Online and Onsite and
Internet/Online)
Requisite – Course Proposals - None at this time
Consent/FYI – Course Proposals
--Stage 2 Course or Program SLO Clean Up Consent Items: - None at this time
Consent/FYI:
The following course was approved by consent. The course will come back later for other
updates.
PHIL 360, Social/Political Philosophy
Collaboration Request - Title/Description
Second Reading – Course Proposals
It was M/S/P (Wagner/Burns) to approve the following course proposals with the amend to
BUS 354.
ACCT 107, Auditing
Advisory/Description
BIOL 300, The Foundations of Biology
Advisory
BIOL 307, Biology of Organisms
Advisory
BIOL 310, General Biology
Advisory
BIOL 342, The New Plagues: New and Ancient Infectious
Diseases Threatening World Health
Advisory
BIOL 350, Environmental Biology
Advisory
BIOL 470, Behavioral Biology
Advisory/Description
BUS 354, Students in Free Enterprise
New to College
CMT 112, Construction Estimating
Description
COMM 321, Interpersonal Communication
Prerequisite/Advisory/Description
COMM 361, The Communication Experience
Prerequisite/Advisory
ECE 326, Making Learning Visible Through Observation
and Documentation
Description
ECE 404, Children with Special Needs
Prerequisite
ECE 415, Children’s Health, Safety and Nutrition
Cross-listing and Advisory removed
ECE 424, Adult Supervision: Mentoring in a Collaborative
Learning Setting
Description
TA 302, History and Theory of the Theatre I
Advisory
It was M/S/P (Palm/Fowler) to approve the following two courses with the friendly
amendment to make the recommended edits.
EMT 100, Basic Emergency Medical Care
Title/Units/Prereq/Adv/Desc/Repeat/
(Formerly: Emergency Medical Technician – Basic)
Enrollment Limitation
EMT 102, Emergency Medical Care Refresher
Title/Units/Hours/Prereq/Desc/
(Formerly: Emergency Medical Technician – Basic Refresher) Credit Type-Pass/No Pass
Second Reading – Program Proposals
None at this time
First Reading – Course Proposals
BIOL 366, Introduction to Toxicology:
The Biology and Chemistry of Poisons
Advisory
ECE 430, Culture and Diversity in Early Childhood Education
Description
HSER 341, Physiology and Pharmacology: Alcohol & Other Drugs
New to College
HSER 342, Alcoholism: Intervention, Treatment & Recovery
New to College
PHOTO 280, Portfolio Development
Units/Hours/Repeat
PHOTO 350, Photojournalism
Units/Hours/Desc/Repeat
TA 340, Beginning Acting
Hours
First Reading – Program Proposals
DEGREE: A.A. – Early Childhood Education
DEGREE: A.A. – ECE, Site Supervisor
CERTIFICATE: ECE, Master Teacher
CERTIFICATE: ECE, Special Needs Family Support
CERTIFICATE: ECE, Teacher
CERTIFICATE: ECE, Assistant Teacher
CERTIFICATE: ECE, Associate Teacher
CERTIFICATE: ECE, Elementary School Teacher Assistant
CERTIFICATE: ECE, Home Early Care and Education
CERTIFICATE: ECE, Infant Specialist
Revision
Revision
Revision
Revision
Revision
Deletion
Revision
Revision
Revision
Revision
CERTIFICATE: ECE, Program Management
CERTIFICATE: ECE, School Age Child Care and Education
(Formerly: School Age Child Care)
IV.
Deletion
Title/Course Revisions
SUBCOMMITTEE REPORTS / DISCUSSION ITEMS
A. Subcommittee Reports
GE – Lap Ly and Lynn Fowler are now co-chairing the GE subcommittee. Lynn
presented the GE Subcommittee Recommendations for the 2009-10 Catalog (attached).
Lynn commented that she will add the rational to the recommendations.
Multi-Cultural – Discussion about multi-cultural proposals that have come through this
year.
DE – no report
Requisites – no report
Technical Review – no report
Curriculum Handbook Update – no report
Articulation Officer – CSU programs mandating a prerequisite for LDTP (ex: ECON
302 or 304)
Other – The chair will send out a campus-wide reminder about Phase I and II SLOs.
B. Other
1. Accreditation, mapping degrees and certificates to program SLOs
2. SLO clean up stage-2 proposals will continue in spring 09
3. A process for an addendum to the CRC Catalog
4. Collaboration request process on Socrates
5. Potential proliferation of courses designed to help students with basic skills per
discipline
Meeting adjourned at 5:08 p.m.
Submitted by Neva Conner