Baccalaureate Core Committee
May 25, 2000
Minutes
Members attending: Scanlan (Chr), Reddy, Snow, Peters, Avery, Lee, Tolar-Burton
Member absent: Jarvis
1. Amendments to/approval of minutes from 5/11/00 meeting will be delayed to include concerns
expressed by Bob Jarvis (email 5/15) regarding HST 111, 112, 113 and implicit guidelines committee
members are using to evaluate "primary focus" as it relates to Cultural Diversity criteria.
2. There is a question from Leslie Burns concerning the course description and prerequisite changes
(for publication in the General Catalog,). The committee noted that adding new prerequisites could
affect the accessibility of a course to a broad range of students. For that reason, we suggest these
changes be submitted for review by the Bac Core Committee. The committee did not see a need to
review proposals to remove prerequisites and/or to change the language of the course description.
3. Scanlan noted BA 465/Hort 490/H490 reviewed at length last year was adding a cross listing in
Engineering. The Committee agreed this change did not warrant a further review by this committee.
4. ART 469 (00-B008) was approved as an addition to the WIC course selection.
5. Vickie Tolar Burton suggested the committee consider undertaking a review of the WIC section of
the Baccalaureate Core next year.
6. The committee reviewed the redraft of the Fitness criteria. Changes will be forwarded to Tony Wilcox.
7. ENG 201, 202, 203 (5 year review): The supplemental information provided by the English Department,
answers the committee's questions regarding the breadth of this series of courses in relation to the
criteria for Western Cultures. While the specialist may find the relevance of a course self-evident, the
committee notes it can only act on the information it receives. In this case we regret the omission of a
more detailed course syllabus.
8. The committee completed its review of those Western Culture courses taught by Foreign Languages
at the 300 level in languages other than English. The enrollment summaries prepared by Bob Jarvis and
supplemental information provided by the Foreign Language Department affirm the accessibility of these
courses to lower division students and non-majors. The committee will address what it considers to be
the spirit of the "lower division" criteria at our next meeting and suggest revised wording.
9. Next meeting will be 6/8/00 in MU204. We will be reviewing the remaining Community College course
proposals and criterion 1 of the Perspectives category.
