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Attendance
Present: Indira Nair, Jean Vettel, Kenya Dworkin, Scott Sandage, Erika Linke, Kristina Straub, Janet Stocks
Absent: Jeff Walch, Denise Wittkofski, Laura Lee, Anne Ray
Fall 2000 Meeting Times
Thursday, October 13 Minutes
Thursday, November 9 Minutes
Thursday, December 7, 9:30AM-10:30AM, Class of '87
Room (University Center)
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| Three Big Tasks |
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Seed Funding
evolution of the next round of multi-disciplinary funding
how they can eventually work into the general education requirements
Recast General Education
frame each of the categories as an aspect of the human condition
general education requirements should be real knowledge about the student and his place in the world
accomplish in baby steps: think up categories and map current courses under these new headings
Evaluating Courses
talked about "Lessons Learned" Handout (Denise's paper); faculty interviews;
idea of a concept map: link to an intro to concept mapping site
how to measure the success of a student: articulate what they learn from multi-d course that they didn't understand before...
this type of evaluation will also be needed to report the success/failures of the exploratory seed funding
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| Category Brainstorming |
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Revisit the Hour Glass Model in Strategic Plan
a discipline is a pathology: enables the divide and conquer approach
the cylinder part of the hourglass (2nd and 3rd years) is disciplinary; we hope to make the first and four years
multi-d by reshaping the GenEds for the 1st year and have broadening courses for 4th year; addressed Indira's
"New Minds for a New World" seminar class for the spring
an interdisciplinary class: count as science req for humanities students and humanities req for science students
GenEd Category Discussion
thinking that 4-6 categories is good amount
courses for any given category should not all be from the same discipline
ensure that a discipline can map into all of the GenEd categories
class could approach one text from multiple disciplines (Copernicus as literary work and science text)
Initial Category Ideas
Environment
Population & Hunger
Industry, Technology, and Economy
Want to capture the idea of "Language Based Humanities" not "Computational Linguistics" :: Society & Arts,
Cultural Production, Language & Culture, Language & Communication, Language & Ethics, Culture & Aesthetics, Language & Community
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| Next Round of RFPs |
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Team Teaching among Junior Faculty
encourage multi-d classes among junior faculty; captured in an email from Scott to Dean Stearns several semesters ago
remove the "sustainability within in department" aspect from last year's RFP
expect that faculty would plan Fall 2000 and spring 2001; implement courses Fall 2001
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| Allocated Tasks and Agenda for Next Meeting |
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Allocated Tasks
Scott will look for his old email about junior faculty/team teaching/multi-d courses
Indira will recast the RFP from last year to reflect the team teaching for next round
All committee members will ponder GenEd categories which reflect the Human Condition as the meta-category
Scott and Kenya will start to draft some description for the "Language & Community" Category
Next Time
establish a list of categories (to begin the process of mapping current courses) and identify a description for each
further discussion about multi-d course evaluation methods
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