GE Meeting January 30, 2015

GEGB Meeting Details

• Time:  10:10 am to 11:00 am
• Place:  180-110
• Attendance:  Brenda Helmbrecht (GEGB Chair), John Bruno Giberti (CAED), Clare Battista (OCOB), Josh Machamer (CLA), Greg Fiegel (CENG), Camille Lethcoe (ASI), Rachel Fernflores

Business

Discussion of Academic Senate Curriculum Appeals Committee and Processes
(Reference to Academic Senate Resolution AS-711-10 PDF)

(Information Below from Procedural Guidelines February 2, 2015)

• Responsibilities The Curriculum Appeals Committee handles disputes about curriculum recommendations.  Members of this committee are required to understand the nature of disputes concerning curriculum recommendations pulled from the Academic Senate consent agenda. 
• Charge  The Curriculum Appeals Committee is charged with adjudicating in a timely manner on curriculum recommendations pulled from the Academic Senate consent agenda.  The Curriculum Appeals Committee approves, disapproves, or returns a curriculum recommendation to the committee.
• Membership  The Curriculum Appeals Committee is limited to three in total.  Members will need to be knowledgeable about the curriculum as a whole so they are nimble enough to understand disputed curriculum recommendations in the context of a major and minor affected programs.  Consequently, membership is limited to faculty with previously demonstrated curricular knowledge.  Eligible faculty for membership (per resolution AS-711-10) will be appointed by the Academic Senate Executive Committee for one-year or partial-year terms.
• Process  All curriculum recommendations, except new degree programs appear on the Academic Senate agenda as consent items.  Senators are given two-weeks' notice of the consent items and are expected to review the summaries posted on the Office of the Registrar's website.  Issues, concerns, and questions regarding curriculum recommendations are directed to the Chair of the Academic Senate Curriculum Committee by one week before the Senate meeting.  Items removed from the consent agenda will be placed on the Senate agenda as discussion items.  The Senate Chair (or designee) will invite representatives from the concerned departments and the members of the Academic Senate Curriculum Appeals Committee to be present at the meeting where pulled recommendations will be discussed.  It is recommended that the Senate Chair allow the Academic Senate Curriculum Appeals Committee freedom to ask questions at will, without needing to be on the speakers list.  Following discussion in the Senate, the Curriculum Appeals Committee will make the final decision to approve, disapprove, or return the items to committee (at any level) for further development.  Items not removed from the consent agenda are considered approved at the meeting date of the consent agenda.

Questions/Discussion on Course Appeal for ARCH R 131,132, 133: 
Design and Visual Communication 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 

Discussion will be on Tuesday, Feb 10 from 3 to 5 pm at the Academic Senate

• D4 - Language from EO 1065
  Area D Social Sciences
  Minimum of 12 semester units or 18 quarter units
  A minimum of twelve semester units or eighteen units dealing with human, political, and economic institutions and behavior and their historical background.
• Students learn from courses in multiple Area D disciplines that human, social, political and economic institutions are inextricably interwoven.  Through fulfillment of the Area D requirement, students will develop and understanding of problems and issues from the respective disciplinary perspectives and will examine issues in their contemporary as well as historical settings and in a variety of cultural contexts.  Students will explore the principles, methodologies, value systems and ethics employed in social scientific inquiry.  Courses that emphasize skills development and professional preparation are excluded from Area D.  Coursework taken in fulfillment of this requirement must include a reasonable distribution among the subareas specified, as opposed to restricting the entire number of units required to a single subarea.