WAC Minutes
Thursday, October 13th, 2011
Present: Rick Matthews, Abby Hanna, Kimberly Greene, Kathy Ryan, Chris Renaud, David Steege
I. Courses
MGT 3120 Principles of Management by William Matelski: passed
CHN/JPN 3070 Chinese/Japanese Culture and Language by Yan Wang: passed
MATH 2040 Linear Algebra by Michael Nicholas: passed
GRNL xxxx The Worlds of Risk: Bell Curves and Black Swans by Jim Peterson: passed
GRM 4010 Senior Seminar in German by Greg Baer: passed
PHYS 2300 Modern Physics by Brian Schwartz: passed
SPAN 3090 The Spanish Speaking World by Yin Yang: passed
II. Meeting in November
a. Nov. 10, 3-4 p.m. (Troha Board Room?)
III. Student Writing Outcomes on Course Proposal
Discussion ensued. New CPC form. What about writing outcomes? We do not determine specific writing outcomes. Could we modify form with 3 writing outcomes? If assessment is other than writing, then state it. Writing to learn content of course, then they have to do writing. The purpose of having writing outcomes on the course proposal is to encourage writing assessment, and to encourage departments to think about student learning outcomes for writing. Rick will prepare a description that includes some outcomes.
Within three years all proposals will have new writing outcomes.
IV. Petition issues
Person had taken workshop and walked into a class that in previous incarnation as WI but it was not approved in her name. Everyone thought they were doing a WI. [Was Rick’s adjunct.]
Abby and David reported there have been few student petitions for WI with SAR.
V. New Business
None