Agenda

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OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT OF INSTRUCTION

CURRICULUM AND GENERAL EDUCATION COMMITTEE

 

Memorandum

TO:                         Curriculum and General Education Committee

1. Bandy, A. Bledsoe, B. Devine, J. Farmer, D. Garza, M. Mayfield, T. Mendoza, M. Oja, T. Payne, J. Rangel-Escobedo, A. Rashvand, N. Woodall, ASO Representative, and PTK Representative

 

FROM:                  Dr. Vicki Jacobi, Vice President Academic Senate, Co-Chairperson

                                Dr. Leslie Minor, Vice President of Instruction, Co-Chairperson

 

DATE:                   May 5, 2023

 

SUBJECT:             Next Meeting’s Agenda

A Curriculum and General Education Committee meeting will be held on

Thursday May 11th, 2023, from 1:10 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the Cougar Room, Taft College,

29 Cougar Ct., Taft CA 93268

 

Curriculum & General Education Committee

 

AGENDA

CALL TO ORDER                                                                                                 

 

1. PUBLIC COMMENTARY

The Committee welcomes participation at Curriculum Committee Meetings. Members of the public may address the Committee. For everyone to be heard, please limit your comments to 5 minutes or less.

 

1. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: ACTION ITEM
2. April 2023, Curriculum & General Education meeting (3)

 

• ACTION ITEM

Items listed under the CONSENT ITEMS are considered routine and are acted on by the Committee in one motion. There is no discussion of these items before the Committee vote unless a member of the Committee, staff, or public requests specific items be discussed and/or removed from the Consent Agenda. Any person can pull items from the consent agenda and move to new business, to be discussed and voted on individually. Items typically on consent are course outline of record under five-year review, renewal of distance learning modality or inactivation of course (removal from Chancellor Office Inventory of Courses).

 

1. New Program – Business, Arts and Humanities
2. Graphic Design: Certificate of Achievement

 

1. New Program/Program Revision - Allied Health/Applied Tech
2. Kinesiology

 

1. New Course – Allied Health/Applied Tech

 

1. KINE 1530       Women in Sports

 

1. CONSENT ITEM
2. Course Revision –
3. BUSN 1500      Introduction to Business
4. HUM 1500       Introduction to the Humanities
5. MUSC 1500       Music Appreciation
6. HIST 2212       World Civilization since 1500
7. HIST 2231       History of the US to 1877
8. SOC        2038      Gender Studies
9. SOC        2120       American Social Problems
10. BIOL       2370       Nutrition Science
11. MATH   1510       College Algebra for Liberal Arts
12. MATH   1520       Finite Mathematics
13. MATH   1530       Analytic Geometry and Calculus III
14. MATH   2140       Ordinary Differential Equations
15. STAT      1510       Elementary Statistics

 

1. Distance Learning Approvals

 

1. Discussion Items:
2. Academic Senate Resolutions passed in Spring Plenary

1.05—American Institutions

4.01—High school articulation agreements

4.02 –Golden four

6.05--Associate degree

6.06--Bachelor degree

7.05--Remediation

7.07—Ethnic Studies

7.08—Prerequisite Validation

7.09-- Academic Freedom

9.01—Ethnic Studies

10.01—Ethnic Studies

13.04—Academic Freedom

13.05—Artificial Intelligence

15.01—Logic courses

15.02--Lifelong learning

 

1. Local General Education Pattern
2. DEIAA
3. General Education Learning Outcomes
4. Ethnic Studies
5. Revisions to Title IV
6. Academic Senate Resolutions

 

1. AJOURNMENT

 

• NEXT MEETING: Fall 2023.

 

*Program Status, please see the table below:

* New Program

Minutes

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OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT OF INSTRUCTION

CURRICULUM AND GENERAL EDUCATION COMMITTEE

 

Minutes of the Curriculum and General Education Committee Meeting

 

Present:                K. Bandy, A. Bledsoe, B. Devine, D. Garza, V. Jacobi, L. Minor, M. Mayfield, T. Mendoza, L. Minor, M. Oja, J. Ranger-Escobedo, I. Santiesteban, T. Payne, and N. Woodall

 

Absent:                 J. Farmer

 

Guest:                   D. Doughtery

 

Recorder:             N. Lopez

MINUTES

CALL TO ORDER

Meeting called to order @ 1:38 p.m.

 

1. PUBLIC COMMENTARY

The Committee welcomes participation at Curriculum Committee Meetings. Members of the public may address the Committee. For everyone to be heard, please limit your comments to 5 minutes or less.

 

No Public commentary.

 

1. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: ACTION ITEM
2. April 2023, Curriculum & General Education meeting (3)

On a motion by J. Rangel-Escobedo, seconded by T. Mendoza, and unanimously carried by all, the minutes were approved.

 

• ACTION ITEM

Items listed under the CONSENT ITEMS are considered routine and are acted on by the Committee in one motion. There is no discussion of these items before the Committee vote unless a member of the Committee, staff, or public requests specific items be discussed and/or removed from the Consent Agenda. Any person can pull items from the consent agenda and move to new business, to be discussed and voted on individually. Items typically on consent are course outline of record under five-year review, renewal of distance learning modality or inactivation of course (removal from Chancellor Office Inventory of Courses).

 

1. New Program – Business, Arts and Humanities
2. Graphic Design: Certificate of Achievement

On a motion by M. Oja, seconded by M. Mayfield, and unanimously carried by all, the new Certificate was approved. With a minor correction to the Distance Learning percentage.

1. New Program/Program Revision - Allied Health/Applied Tech
2. Kinesiology ADT – Program Revision
3. Bandy introduced the Divisions KINE proposals. They are bringing forward an ADT as well as an AA in KINE. On a motion by M. Mayfield, seconded by A. Bledsoe, and unanimously carried by all, the ADT was approved.

                                    Kinesiology A.A – New program

On a motion by A. Bledsoe, seconded by T. Payne, and unanimously carried by all, the AA in KINE was approved.

 

1. New Course – Allied Health/Applied Tech
2. KINE 1530       Women in Sports

On a motion by M. Mayfield, seconded by B. Devine, and unanimously carried by all, the new course was approved.

 

1. CONSENT ITEM

MUSC 1500, SOC 2038, 2120, and MATH 1510 were pulled from consent.

 

1. Course Revision –
2. BUSN 1500      Introduction to Business
3. HUM 1500       Introduction to the Humanities
4. MUSC 1500       Music Appreciation

A brief discussion regarding the C-ID descriptor was had. On a motion by K. Bandy, seconded by B. Devine, and unanimously carried by all, the MUSC course was approved.

 

4. HIST 2212       World Civilization since 1500
5. HIST 2231       History of the US to 1877
6. SOC        2038      Gender Studies
7. SOC        2120       American Social Problems

A brief discussion was had regarding CSLO’s on CORs. Social Science has included an example for future consideration. On a motion by T. Mendoza, seconded by M. Oja, and unanimously carried, by all, the revisions were approved.

 

8. BIOL       2370       Nutrition Science
9. MATH   1510       College Algebra for Liberal Arts

The Science and Math Division have assigned “MATH” as the discipline for MATH 1510 . On a motion by K. Bandy, seconded by M. Oja, and unanimously carried by all, MATH 1510 was approved.

 

10. MATH   1520       Finite Mathematics
11. MATH   1530       Analytic Geometry and Calculus III
12. MATH   2140       Ordinary Differential Equations
13. STAT      1510       Elementary Statistics

 

1. Distance Learning Approvals

On a motion by J. Rangel Escobedo, seconded by K. Bandy, and unanimously carried by all, the consent items were approved.

 

1. Discussion Items:
2. Academic Senate Resolutions passed in Spring Plenary

1.05—American Institutions

4.01—High school articulation agreements

4.02 –Golden four

6.05--Associate degree

6.06--Bachelor degree

7.05--Remediation

7.07—Ethnic Studies

7.08—Prerequisite Validation

7.09-- Academic Freedom

9.01—Ethnic Studies

10.01—Ethnic Studies

13.04—Academic Freedom

13.05—Artificial Intelligence

15.01—Logic courses

15.02--Lifelong learning

Jacobi gave an update on resolutions passed in the Spring. She went one-by-one and gave a brief description of the update. V. Jacobi thanked everyone involved.

1. Local General Education Pattern
2. DEIAA
3. General Education Learning Outcomes
4. Ethnic Studies

California legislators are trying to define “Active engagement”. More info will be shared as soon as it becomes available.

1. Revisions to Title IV
2. Academic Senate Resolutions

Talks of “one GE requirement for all CCC’s” are in development (with the State). More info will be shared as soon as it’s available.

 

1. AJOURNMENT

@ 3:03 P.M.

• NEXT MEETING: Fall 2023.

 

*Program Status, please see the table below:

* New Program