GE Meeting Notes February 6, 2015

GEGB Meeting Details

• Meeting Time:  10:10 am to 11:00 am
• Place:  180-110
• Date:  Friday, February 6, 2015
• Attendance:  Brenda Helmbrecht, Chair, Gary Laver, Helen Bailey, Camille O'Bryant, Emily Fogle, Greg Fiegel, Rachel Fernflores

Business

1. Discussion on ARCH R 131,132, 133:  Design and Visual Communication 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 
Course Appeal for GE D4: Self Development

Course Descriptions for 131, 132, 133
ARCH 131 - An introduction to the issues, concepts, processes and skills pertaining to two- and three-dimensional design and the freehand, constructed and digital representation and visual communication of ideas, objects and environments. Purchase of a laptop computer, software and peripherals is highly recommended to participate in this course. 4 laboratories. Concurrent: EDES 101.

ARCH 132 - Continuation of ARCH 131 plus the issues, concepts, processes and skills pertaining to color theory and the design and visual communication of architectural space. Purchase of a laptop computer, software and peripherals is highly recommended to participate in this course. 4 laboratories. Prerequisite: ARCH 131.

ARCH 133 - Continuation of ARCH 131 and ARCH 132 plus the issues, concepts, processes and skills pertaining to the analysis and design of architectural form, space and organizations. Purchase of a laptop computer, software and peripherals is highly recommended to participate in this course. 4 laboratories. Prerequisite: ARCH 132.

2. Discussion on NR 264 Natural Resources Economics
Course Appeal for GE D2: Political Economy

New Course Description for NR 264
Prerequisite: MATH 141, 161, 221 or equivalent college Calculus. Formerly NR 326. Macroeconomic and microeconomic concepts relating to natural resources management and the environment. Efficient use of natural resources, solutions to environmental problems, capitalization, risk and uncertainty. Economic theories and methods for management of minerals, water, air, forests, and wildlife/fisheries. 3 lectures, 1 activity.

Old Course Description for NR 326
Prerequisite: MATH 161 or MATH 221 or equivalent.
Recommended: GE Area D2 (ECON 201 recommended), AGB 212.
Theory of efficient use of renewable and nonrenewable natural resources, including methods for attaching value to marketable and non-market natural resources. Environmental economic theories and techniques to address allocation of water, timber, wildlife/fisheries, open space, and recreation. 3 lectures, 1 activity.

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Reference to EO 1065

• 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.