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, D. Daugherty, S. Eveland, J. Farmer, D. Garza, M. Mayfield, T. Mendoza, M. Oja, T. Payne, J. Rangel-Escobedo, K. Richards, 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 10, 2024

 

SUBJECT:             Next Meeting’s Agenda

A Curriculum and General Education Committee meeting will be held on

Friday May 17, 2024, from 9:10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in the Cougar Room, Taft College,

29 Cougar Ct., Taft CA 93268

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

      A. Minutes from the April 26, 2024, Curriculum & Gen. Ed. Meeting

 

III.           ACTION ITEMS: NEW COURSES – TABLED FROM THE APRIL C & GE MEETING:

1. Social and Behavioral Science Division
2. POSC 1513      Political Science Work Experience

 

1. Allied Health/Applied Tech.
2. HLED 1600       Paramedic I
3. HLED 1601       Paramedic I Laboratory
4. HLED 1602       Advanced Paramedic
5. MEDA 1101       Introduction to Health Careers
6. MEDA 1102       Communication in Healthcare
7. MEDA 1103       Medical Law, Ethics, and IT Security
8. MEDA 1104       Electronic Health Record              
9. MEDA 1105       Medical Office Procedures          
10. MEDA 1106       Basic Medical Insurance and Billing
11. MEDA 1107       Basic ICD and CPT Coding             
12. MEDA 1108       Medication Administration for Medical Assisting
13. MEDA 1109       Clinical Medical Assisting with Laboratory I
14. MEDA 1110       Clinical Medical Assisting II with Laboratory
15. MEDA 1201       Administrative Medical Assistant Externship
16. MEDA 1301       Clinical Medical Assistant Externship

 

1. New Programs:
2. COA Administrative and Clinical Medical Assisting
3. COA Paramedic
4. CONSENT ITEMS:

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. Course Revisions:

Science and Math Division:

1. CHEM 1510      Introductory College Chemistry
2. CHEM 2211       General Chemistry I
3. CHEM 2212       General Chemistry II
4. COSC 1545       Programming Concepts and Methods II with Lab

 

Business Arts and Humanities:

1. ART 1650       Watercolor Painting       
2. DRAM 1510 Introduction to Theatre

 

Learning Support Division:

1. STSU 1500       Strategies for College and Life Management
2. DS 1504       Cultural Competency Towards Disabilities

 

                 Allied Health/Applied Tech. Division:

1. WELD 1500      Welding Processes
2. WELD 1510      Shielded Metal Arc Welding (SMAW)
3. WELD 1520      Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW) and Flux Core Arc Welding (FCAW)
4. WELD 1530      Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW)
5. WELD 1540      Pipe Welding
6. WELD 1560      Blueprint Reading

 

1. Distance Ed./Learning:
   1. ART 1650      Watercolor Painting

 

1. DISCUSSION ITEMS

1. Other
2. ADJOURNMENT

NEXT MEETING: August 2024 TBD

*Program Status, please see the table below:

* New Program

 

Minutes

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