Minutes of the General Education Committee

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FRESNO
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Fresno, California 93740-8027
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Members Present: A. Lawson (Chair), Michelle Calvarese, B. Berrett, S. Lewis, D. Christensen, Sandra S Lee, Janell Tatsumura,

Members Absent: D. Nef (excused) D. Henriques (excused), Roksana Badruddoja, Serena Xiong (student), Selena Farnesi (student).

The meeting was called to order by Chair A. Lawson at 11:00 p.m. in Thomas Administration #117.

  1. Minutes. MSC to approve the Minutes of 12/04/09

  2. Agenda. MSC to approve the agenda as distributed.

  3. Communications and Announcements

    • GE assessment Meeting in Seattle Feb 18-20, 2010

  4. Area C2 Syllabi Review. – tabled until next meeting

    • Hum 15 tabled
    • Hum 20 tabled
    • Ital 1A - tabled
    • Ital 1B - tabled

    • Ital 2A – iterative component says 400-500 words – should be 500 min

      • No assignment and exam schedule
      • No subject to change
      • No course schedule
      • No honor code
      • Pg 6 has lots of typos
    • Ital 2B – exactly the same as 2A – need to differentiate

    • Japn 1A – iterative process is not explicit – no mention of faculty feedback on the draft (only self evaluation)

      • No honor code
      • No copyright statement
      • No subject to change clause (currently refers to schedule only)

    • Japn 1B - – iterative process is not explicit – no mention of faculty feedback on the draft (only self evaluation)

      • No honor code
      • No copyright statement
      • No subject to change clause (currently refers to schedule only)

    • Latin 1A – no prereqs

      • No subject to change clause

    • Latin 1B – no prereqs

      • No subject to change clause

    • Ling 10 – no prereqs

      • no course policies
      • no copyright policy
    • Phil 1 - approved
    • Phil 2 – approved
    • Phil 10 - approved
    • Phil 20 – iterative writing states 250 – 500 words, must be 500 words min.

    • Port 1A - no iterative component to the writing assignment

      • no prereqs

    • Port 1B – no iterative component to the writing assignment

      • no prereqs

    • Span 1B – requires sustained writing of 500 words and 1000 total – currently reads 3 250 word essays

      • No honor code
    • Span 2A - requires sustained writing of 500 words and 1000 total – currently reads 4 250 word essays
    • Span 2B - requires sustained writing of 500 words and 1000 total – currently reads 4 250 word essays

    • Span 3 - requires sustained writing of 500 words - currently has 5 essays of 200 words each. No mention of faculty feedback.

      • No subject to change clause
      • No honor code

    • Span 4A – no mention of iterative component, no word count

      • Prerequisite is missing – although it states the area, the word prerequisite is missing
      • Learning outcomes are unclear –not specifically stated

    • Span 4B - no mention of iterative component, no word count

      • Prerequisite is missing – although it states the area, the word prerequisite is missing
      • Learning outcomes are unclear -- not specifically stated

MSC to adjourn at 1:00 p.m.

The next scheduled meeting of the General Education Committee will be Feb 12, 2010.

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