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General Education Committee
Approved Minutes
October 9, 2003
Present: Johnson Afolayan, Gretta Handke, Dick Liebendorfer, Ron Nickerson
(Chair) and Jim Rife.
1. The committee approved the minutes of September 18, 2003 as corrected.
2. Announcements
a. There was a reminder that the gathering for those interested in discussing
Writing Intensive courses will be 1:00 P.M. on November 14 in CSU 219a.
b. A meeting with the organizers of the Valley Writing Workshop has not yet
been arranged.
3. Old Business
a. Ron reported on membership of the Strategy V Task Force. The faculty
will have 12 representatives. Six of these representatives will be
from the colleges. The General Education Committee will be represented
by three members.
b. Since four members of this committee have expressed interest in serving
on this task force, it was agreed that the selection of General Education
representatives be postponed until a call was made for college representatives.
4. New Business
a. The committee discussed guidelines for preparing general education course
proposals (dated February 4, 1998), which Warren Sandmann brought to the
attention of the committee. These guidelines in some cases appeared
to conflict with current general education policy.
i. Section A.5. of the guidelines indicates that participation in the
General Education program could not be limited to specific sections of a
course. This could conflict with the use of courses given the “W” designation.
The committee agreed that courses with this designation were separate courses
from those without the “W” and not separate sections of the same course.
ii. There was a discussion of section A.6. of the guidelines and whether
a Writing Intensive course also had to have another general education component.
The committee moved, seconded and passed a motion that section A.6. be amended
to conclude with the following statement, “but any Writing Intensive course
must also satisfy some other General Education Category.” This was
the intention of the original general education committee and is consistent
with the section A.5. as it was written. There was discussion of a
computer science course that is in violation of this policy since it is only
approved for the Writing intensive Category.
iii. The committee will continue discussion of these guidelines in
a future meeting.
b. There was a consideration of course proposals.
i. The committee considered Philosophy 322, Ethical Theory. This
is a new course with proposed inclusion in General Education Categories 1c
(Writing Intensive), 6 (Humanities and Arts) and 9 (Ethical and Civic Responsibility).
There was a discussion of approving upper level general education courses.
The committee agreed that the policy was that upper level courses must be
recognized as providing the students with a broad, general rather than a
narrow, specific exposure and must meet the outcomes. The committee moved,
seconded and passed a motion that this course be approved in all three proposed
general education categories.
ii. The committee considered Sociology 101, Introduction to Sociology.
It was proposed that this course add General Education Category 1c (Writing
Intensive). The committee moved, seconded and passed a motion that
this addition be approved.
Respectfully submitted by,
James E. Rife
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