Minutes of the General Education Committee

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FRESNO
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December 5, 2008

Members Present: A. Lawson (Chair), S. Adisasmito-Smith,
D. Henriques, S. Lewis, D. Nef, A. Yamane.

Members Absent: B. Berrett (excused), D. Christensen (excused),
K. Miller (excused).

The meeting was called to order by Chair Lawson at 11:05 a.m. in University Center, room #203.

  1. Minutes. MSC to approve the Minutes of 11/21/08.
  2. Agenda. MSC to approve the Agenda.
  3. Communications and Announcements.
    • Upper Division General Education (GE) prerequisite
    enforcement may have a few technical difficulties with
    PeopleSoft, but these are likely to be overcome.
    • GE outcomes assessment team was named for spring 2009.
  4. Area IC syllabi revisions.
    1. ENGL 113
      • Add measureable learning outcomes and clarify
      integration of subareas in those outcomes.
      • Need linkage between points and letter grades.
    2. PHIL 120
      • Location must be added.
      • Bullets for C2 should be changed to “as an IC course,
      this course will” (the course is not C2, it is IC).
      • Learning objectives should be changed to measureable
      learning outcomes.
    3. PHIL 151
      • A friendly recommendation that the faculty consider
      the term paper (since writing is a major focus of the
      GE program) to be worth more than 5% (this is
      currently half the points available as extra credit). The
      committee members also had a difficult time in
      locating the elements within the syllabus and would
      recommend reorganization and streamlining of the
      syllabus.
      • Iterative writing component must incorporate faculty
      feedback not from a panel of readers as written.
      • Points for grading of course need to be more specific
      that 5% for paper and 95% for everything else.
    4. FREN 109
      • Statement on copyright is still missing.
      • Still need to add measureable student learning
      outcomes.
      • No copyright statement.
    5. FREN 149
      • The syllabus should clarify the nature of the feedback
      to the students so that the iterative component is clear
      (currently two drafts are required, but it is not clear
      that students get feedback from the instructor.
      • Still need to add measureable learning outcomes.
      • No copyright statement.
    6. SPAN 125
      • Approved as revised.
    7. SPAN 129
      • The iterative process is still unclear.
      The courses will be given until 30th of January to resubmit or the
      committee will recommend to the Provost that the courses be removed
      from GE.

MSC to adjourn at 12:30 p.m.

The next scheduled meeting of the General Education Committee will be
on Friday, January 30, 2009 at 11:00 a.m. in the University Center
#203.

Agenda.

  1. Approval of the Minutes of 12/05/2008.
  2. Approval of the Agenda.
  3. Communications and Announcements.
  4. Area IC syllabi revisions (round 2).
    1. AAIS 129
    2. ARM 148
    3. ENGL 102
    4. ENGL 114
    5. HUM 118
    6. MUSIC 187

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