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Attendance
Present:
Indira Nair, Jean Vettel, Kenya Dworkin, Erika Linke, Kristina
Straub,
Janet Stocks, Mark Egerman, Ashley Deal, and Claudia Kirkpatrick
Absent:
Scott
Sandage,
Laura
Lee, Susan Ambrose, Denise
Wittkofski
Fall 2000 Meeting Times
Thursday,
October 13 Minutes
Thursday,
November 9 Minutes
Thursday,
December 7 Minutes
Spring
2001 Meeting Times
Wednesday,
February 14 Minutes
Tuesday,
March 13 Minutes
Potential Meeting Times for next meeting: to be determined
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| Hand
in Hand: multidisciplinary framework nourishes the disciplinary mind |
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Sequence vs Cluster
instead
of a sequence of courses about the human condition (with the cumbersome
world of prerequisites), think in terms of a cluster of courses in a particular
aspect of the human condition
Categories of Human Meaning
the current
categories reflect the nature of disciplines, i.e., the creation and production
of knowledge
our
task is to reframe the categories to reflect the nature of the world,
i.e., the meaning and struggle of being human
Analytical
Skills
we need
to be careful to distinguish our focus on analytical skills from the current
focus on 'problem-solving,' since issues facing the human condition are
not always 'problems' nor do they always need a 'solution'
however,
we also need to remember our obligation as Carnegie Mellon to society,
namely, to 'produce' a particular set of professionals
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Our Process |
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Focus on a gradual, *evolution* of the general education
create 5
or so categories which capture elements of human meaning, the human condition
write descriptions
to convey the intended meaning to the audience (departments, advisors)
who implement the General Education requirements
map the
existing GenEd courses as well as the multiDisc seed funded courses under
these categories
expect
that the departments will adapt
these categories to their
current breadth requirements; we are not designing a universal
GenEd program for the university
consider
our goal as catalog copy.. documents shared with advisors, potentially
students..
Additional Aids of Communication..
Indira will
request time at each college mtg to share the model and ease the process
of adoption
we also
hope to convert Indira's presentation to the President's Council into
an article for FOCUS to share the motivation for the broadening education,
hourglass model
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| Allocated
Tasks and Agenda for Next Meeting |
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Allocated Tasks
All committee
members work on descriptions for as many of the new categories as possible:
- Environments
and Sustainability
- Mind,
Body, and Society ... or ... Mind and Society
- Economy
and Technology
- Creation,
Expression, and Communication
- Knowledge,
Culture, and Language ... or ... Knowledge and Language
fine tune
the category descriptions to present them to the UEC meeting in March
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