Members: Gerald Adams, Mark Schneider, Pablo Silva, Elizabeth Dobbs, Josh Blue (01-53), Kendra Young (15-43), and George Carroll (03-08). Guest: Paula Smith
1. The minutes from the 1/22/01 meeting
were approved as corrected.
2. The committee reviewed the program outline
and the course offerings for our Grinnell-in-Washington program.
It was noted that this is an experimental program and we currently
have 6 or 7 applications for GIW.
3. The committee had a brief discussion
on the progress of the proposed American Studies Concentration.
Jim has appointed a committee to work on the concentration. The
committee has met once to outline the issues. A second meeting
will be held to work on what should be included in the concentration.
A third meeting will be held to pin down the details and then
it will be presented to the divisions for approval. At that point
it will come to the Curriculum Committee and then to the full
faculty for approval.
4. The representatives of the Humanities
and Social Studies Divisions will discuss with their respective
divisions what should be an appropriate title or titles for the
type of course work they would oversee during the summer. It
may be that we will need one or two titles to indicate the nature
of the work done during the summer. There was a general discussion
of the current course descriptions for 297, 387, and 397. It
was decided that for the present we would take the descriptions
from the current catalog, the descriptions from the application
forms, and the suggestions given to us by Helen Scott last fall
and blend them into a single set of descriptions for the catalog
for next year. This will not involve any revisions that will
need divisional approval. Once we have a single set of descriptions
the Committee will return to the issue of possibly making some
revisions of these descriptions.
5. The committee approved the formation
of a MW 8:00 - 9:50 am time block. It has been used experimentally
by a few faculty over the last two years and it has proven to
be acceptable to those who have used it and it has not interfered
with MWF 8:00-8:50 or 9:00-9:50 am classes.
6. The committee briefly reviewed the work
done by this committee regarding the course proposal process and
the catalog revision process. At our next meeting the committee
will examine the suggested changes in the process to see if they
make sense. It was suggested that changing the frequency of a
course offering should have both departmental and divisional approval.
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