Members Present: J. Carter,
Members Excused/Absent: A. Harrison, D. Micus, E. Reimer, K. Ryan, A. Walker-Andrews
Ex-Officio Present: N. Mattina
The minutes from 2/27/07 and 3/9/07 were approved and the committee voted in favor of the changes made to the writing criteria document on 3/9/07.
Communications:
ECOS has not yet discussed the writing criteria document. However, several members suggested that it should
not go to the Faculty Senate until the General Education model does. The
current model under consideration includes ENEX 101, a writing course and the
upper-division writing requirement in the major as currently structured. The current upper-division requirement does
not have to be a course and there is no lower-division writing course
requirement. The Writing Committee will wait for ASCRC’s guidance in terms of
aligning the recommendations with the general education model.
Unfinished Business:
Chair Hinman referenced Graduate Council’s Graduate
Increment Guidelines as a model for how the informal writing information
document could be structured. There is an
introductory paragraph, identification of hallmarks of a successful increment,
and then provides examples. Professor
Medvetz volunteered to draft the introductory paragraph.
Any detailed discussion of implementation of the revisions will need to wait
until after the document has been approved by the Faculty Senate. However, Chair Hinman asked committee members
to think about what the changes will mean for departments. Resource issues are
going to surface and the committee needs to be able to work through them
collaboratively with departments.
The Committee revisited PSC300. It was
granted a year reprieve from the removal of the writing designation
4/6/06. Now that the revised writing
criteria have been considered it is clear that the course does not meet the
current or the proposed criteria and should no longer be offered. It functions
similar to an independent study and is not integrated into the course material.
When asked how the department might reconfigure this course to meet the
requirements, the committee suggested a 2 credit seminar add-on or
corequisite. Camie will notify the
Registrar to remove the course from the catalog and inform the department.
Discussion of ENEX 200 as a
placement option was postponed.
The meeting was adjourned at 2:00
p.m.