Members Present: J. Carter,
Members Excused/Absent: A. Harrison, C. Jacobson, D. Micus, A. Walker-Andrews
Ex-Officio Present:
Guest: Allen Szalda-Petree, ASCRC Chair
The minutes from 3/23/07 were approved.
Communications:
Professor Szalda-Petree explained the difficulties with revisions to
general education. ASCRC is very appreciative of the work the committee has done
on the writing course guidelines document.
Work on the general education model has been a trying process and has
required compromises at every step. This
spring ASCRC has met with many departments and has made changes to the model to
accommodate them. Most of the
difficulties have been with credit heavy programs with accrediting bodies where
an additional three credit course would be a hardship to their students. The
general education program needs to be flexible to meet the needs of a diverse
campus.
He offered a compromise to the committee of requiring one approved lower-division
writing course with a provision that departments with an acceptable
justification may be granted exception to remove the lower-division restriction
on this writing course. The difficulty
will be in the implementation. The
committee unanimously approved the language.
The writing committee
previously discussed the possibility of amendments to the writing course
document to accommodate the upper-division writing expectation.
· Upper-division writing requirement consisting of one of the following options
o One upper-division writing course (numbered 300-400), with a grade of C or better
o Upper-division writing expectation defined by the department and approved by the ASCRC Writing Committee
There will be one last
meeting next week to elect a chair for next year.
The meeting was adjourned at 2:00
p.m.