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Attendance
Present:
Indira Nair, Jean Vettel, Kenya Dworkin, Scott
Sandage,
Erika Linke,
Kristina
Straub,
Janet Stocks, Mark Egerman, Ashley Deal, Denise
Wittkofski, and
Tiffany Chang
Absent:
Laura
Lee, Susan Ambrose, Claudia
Kirkpatrick
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
Expected time for next meeting: beginning of Spring Break Week
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| General
Education courses should breakdown disciplinary chauvinism |
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Concerns about GenEd conceptualization
GenEd allows
students to explore a range of disciplines, learning about the
variety of methods and objects of study in different disciplinary domains
... must stress this point in our proposal
we don't
have a way to crack open the disciplinary requirements (thus ensuring
that adequate units will/can be dedicated to GenEd courses); however,
our goal is to make the GenEd curriculum an attractive offer. If
the community sees the GenEd courses as beneficial academic opportunities,
the departments and/or students will branch out and explore on their own
initiative/determination. Our goal is not implementation as much as subtle
persuasion...
need
to make a distinct attempt to show how the GenEd reframing fits into the
hourglass model... ensure committee work seems cohesive
to the outside
we need
to continually ask ourselves: what are we doing to make the breadth known?
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Assorted 'Goodies' from the Meeting
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"the
only thing that bridges two disciplines is language"
most closed
curriculum is drama with only 2 electives, while most open has been CIT
since 1991
drama students
do take history, but it is taught within the dept.. viewed as a way to
provide a skill to the students. Similar courses offered in history dept
are not seen as this skill acquisition and therefore not endorsed
98% of
design classes are design students... 97% of design students coursework
is in the design department
teaching
students for two consecutive semesters is like watching gravy.. just foggy
water until the 5th month when the gravy forms
76-101 and
its treacherous political waters... should teach a skill, namely how to
approach the writing process from draft to final revisions... it is the
first exposure non-H&SS freshman have to the humanities and the current
experience is, well, not known to be a positive one... perhaps fund an
experimental design..
most competitive
schools to ours, like MIT, Stanford, Columbia, have 3 english requirements..
not just one course to do it all in a mere semester
H&SS
freshman seminars are a good model for bringing diverse majors together
to explore disciplines
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| General
Plan of Action for Committee |
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Items
send any
thoughts about strategic action to Indira
produce
the necessary materials to present work to the UEC in April, as well as
the campus community soon -- I believe the brunt of this work is for Indira
and me..
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