Minutes of the General Education Committee

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FRESNO
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Fresno, California 93740-8023
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February 13, 2009

Members Present: A. Lawson (Chair), D. Christensen, D. Henriques,
S. Lewis, C. Torgerson, B. Sodini (student).

Members Absent: A. Yamane (excused).

The meeting was called to order by Chair Lawson at 12:10 a.m. in
University Center, room #203.

  1.  Minutes. MSC to approve the Minutes of 1/30/09.
  2. Agenda. MSC to approve the Agenda as distributed.
  3. Communications and Announcements.
  • Brett Sodini was introduced as the new student representative on the committee.
  • The invitation for the learning outcomes workshop for Area B to be held Feb 24th went out this week. A copy of the invitation will be sent to the General Education (GE) Committee

4. Area IC syllabi revisions (round 2).

  • HUM 110 – MSC to approve.
  • ENGL 101 – Iterative paper must be 1000 words minimum.
  • ENGL 112 - Iterative process appears optional – must be required.
  • ART 102 – MSC to approve.
  • Dance 171 – MSC to approve.
  • Drama 163
  • The iterative requirement for the paper is still not clear.
  • Student learning outcomes are still not there.
  • PHIL 120/AETH 100 – MSC to approve.
  • PHIL 151
  • The number of words required for the writing assignments
    must be stated (and iterative must be explicit).

The courses will be given until March 17th to resubmit or the committee
will recommend to the Provost that the courses be removed from GE.

MSC to adjourn at 12:55 p.m.

The next scheduled meeting of the General Education Committee will be
Friday, March 13th, 2009 at 11:00 a.m. in the University Center #203.

Agenda.

  1. Approval of the Minutes of 2/13/09.
  2. Approval of the Agenda.
  3. Communications and Announcements.
  4. Syllabi review process (including courses with multiple sections).
  5. Syllabi review ENGL 101, 112, 114, HUM 104, 108, SPAN 129.
  6. Writing Requirements.

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