COMMITTEE:
MEETING
DATE: February 6, 2006
PERSON
PRESIDING: George Bailey
REGULAR
MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE: Bailey,
Decker, McConnell, Richardson, Smith-Carter
EX-OFFICIO
MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE: Brown,
OTHERS
IN ATTENDANCE: see
below
CALLED
TO ORDER:
ACTIONS
OF MEETING
Agenda
Item: Minutes of Nov. 21, 2005
Action
Taken:
approved
Agenda
Item: HIST 3820: Presented by Dr. Kenneth
Wilburn
Discussion: meets requirements
Action
Taken:
approved
Agenda
Item: HIST 3830: Presented by Dr. Kenneth
Wilburn
Discussion: meets requirements
Action
Taken:
approved
Agenda
Item: SOCI 4400: No representative
present
Discussion: The ASC needs a representative present
to answer questions whenever a course is brought to the ASC to consider the
proposed course for Foundations Credit
Action
Taken:
tabled
Agenda
Item: ENGL 3770: No representative
present
Action
Taken:
tabled
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Agenda
Item: FORL 2700: not listed for GE credit, was it
listed for GE at one time, or should it be?
Discussion: not under the purview of the
ASC
Action
Taken:
tabled
Assigned
additional duties to: none
Agenda
Item: Consideration of whether there must be a
proposal to ASC to remove GE credit for a course come before the
ASC
Discussion: to remove GE credit from a course should
require the same action as being granted credit, this action would protect
students’ rights for access to GE credit, and allow discussion of such a request
to remove GE credit
Action
Taken:
affirm that there must be a
proposal to ASC to remove GE credit for a course come before the
ASC
Agenda
Item: Economics asks for information or direction on
whether a lab section receives academic credit
Discussion: Outside of the natural and physical
sciences, the issue of lab credit is not well defined, but there is a precedent
in Psychology, where the laboratory credit is embedded in the course
credit.
Action
Taken:
tabled
Agenda
Item: which terminology to use for the new catalog to
replace GE credit
Discussion: the changes in defining GE credit to
more of the liberal arts or Foundations Credit need to go into the new catalog,
which is being modified now for 2006-2007
Action
Taken:
Suggest changing GE credit
to Foundations Credit, or FC
Assigned
additional duties to: Linner Griffin to convey change from GE
to FC to catalog committee
Agenda
Item: College Learning Assessment, how to pilot an
assessment for a critical thinking component at ECU
Discussion: ASC needs to know: (1) what, precisely,
will be assessed, and (2) if this is for the new Liberal Arts Foundation
Curriculum goals, what are the intentions of the assessment committee for
aligning the proposed assessment with the current Foundations Curriculum
goals? Furthermore, there needs to
be a dedicated committee (either Administrative or Faculty Senate, which also
needs to be determined) that will have as its purview the assessment of
institutional effectiveness
Action
Taken:
tabled
ADJOURNED:
3:10 pm
NEXT
MEETING: To be
determined
ITEMS
TO BE DISCUSSED: To be determined