GEGB Meeting May 12, 2015

GEGB Meeting Details

  • Meeting Time:  10:10 am to 11:00 am
  • Place:  180-110
  • Date:  Tuesday, April 7, 2015
  • Attendance:  Emily Fogle, Clare Battista, Gregg Fiegel, Neal MacDougall, Brenda Helmbrecht, Helen Bailey, Josh Machamer, John Jasbinek  Bruno Giberti, Rachel Fernflores

Business

Discussion on NR 264 appeal

Discussion/What is the Definition of a GE Class?

  • Should a percentage of the class be specifically for GE? 
  • GEGB should have a clear sense of the criteria. 
    Does the GE course provide enough breadth? 
    How can we be transparent in our criteria?
    How can we state the guiding principles? 
    How can we reclaim the term "breadth" to reach across disciplines? 
    What does an educated engineer look like?  GE is about career-readiness.
    By having the course open to all majors, it provides an interdisciplinary audience of students.   The onus should be put on the instructor to develop the learning outcomes related to what GE wants the course should represent. 
    The course could be reviewed evey six years.
    Why do we want GE courses to have a broad experience? 
    This is a huge benefit when students are from different disciplines. 
  • Reference to EO 1011 on Double Counting (page 4 of 20)
    General Education, Major, and Other Requirements
    Through a process of campus-wide curriculum review and approval, campuses may permit the "double-counting" of courses for General Education breadth with major requirements and prerequisites only after giving careful consideration to the impact of such actions on general education programs
  • Can we say that GE courses should be available for all students?  Should all students be able to take any course?  What percentage of students should be able to take a course?
  • In terms of diversity, students may achieve better results in these mixed groups
  • Flexibility is open to interpretation and the GEGB charge is primarily curricular.  Flexibility should be for students.   They should have a whole range of course choices.
  • Mission statement and Program Goals - review for next week, could be room to further develop idea
  • Develop a paragraph about GE that faculty could put in their syllabi. 
  • Is our job to approve the course or with the proposer?  The course should demonstrate the objectives and criteria.  It belongs to the department, not the instructor
  • Diversity of experience, limit on double-counting?  GE Breadth? 

 

 

 

 

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