Clas 275: Research Methods, Chris Von Dehsen
Engl 106: Interpreting Literature, Amy Bruning
Genl 691: Entrepreneurship in the Arts, Dimitri Shapovalov and Matt Boresi
Gifw 241: Foundations of the Natural Sciences, Brian Schwartz
Mgmt 490: Business Policy Seminar, Mary Krome
Phys 408: Observational Astrophysics, Doug Arion
Reli 100: Understandings of Religion, Chris Von Dehsen
Reli 275: Research Methods, Chris Von Dehsen
Soci 143: Cultural Anthropology, Mathew Somlai

Oct. 6, 2008 WAC committee meeting
Present: Mark Snavely, Ryan Ringhand, David Steege, Barbara Short, Rick Matthews, Ed Montanaro, Jonathan Marshall
1. Approval of Minutes
Approved as of what is on the web
2. Election of Committee Chair
Mark Snavely: chair continued: letting FEC know.
3. Approval of new course proposals
• Ellen Hauser: revised syllabus Theory of Women in Gender Studies WOGS 311: 40 % that is non-exams: approved. Spring 09
• Jean Preston and Ruth Fangmeier: Growing Old in America WOGS/ENG 271 Spring 09; approved
• Ruth Fangmeier: Social Work 471 Family Violence: Spring 09; approved
• Michelle Bonn: 2 sections EXSS 301 Tests and Measurements; Spring 09: approved
• Rick Matthews: SOC 499 Senior Seminar; Spring 09
4. Waiver Requests
• Dan Conder: Elementary major: asking to waiver college waiver. Denied because he will get his writing intensive courses through the dept.
• Alpha Sabbithi: Religion major: 2 more semesters: asking to waiver 4th WI class; Denied and encouraged to schedule a writing intensive class and resubmit if this isn’t possible later.
• Jason Ossobatto: marketing major, 5th year transfer: requesting one in the major being waived; scheduling conflicts; accepting
• Aaron Hill: International political economy and Asian Studies minor; asking writing course in major and outside waived; took Art Cyr class that he thought was approved; transfer student; POLS 405 is writing intensive in Spring 09; major denied. Outside the major POLS 205 fall 07 should have been writing intensive; accept the request.
5. Report on Fall 2008 WAC workshops: meet in two weeks to talk.
6. Form for departments to add WI designation to courses after they have been taught.
7. Unfinished Business
• Dept. Chairs need to flag writing intensive courses for each semester; JoDonna gets the information from dept. chairs for the schedule. Then Mark Snavely double checks the list. We need proposals by Oct. 15 this term for approval for next term. Please have advisors not tell students that courses are writing approved if they aren’t.
• Course information is stored on our computers and the data base.
• Whole class of POLS 205 gets WI credit: Ryan to check.
• Adult Education: getting adjuncts certified: Rick meeting with Mike.
8. New Business
WAC workshop report on Oct. 20 1-2pm
Rick meeting with Judith and webpages/background issues in the meantime.

WAC Meeting Agenda
Monday, September 15, 2008
1:00 to 2:00, CC 117
Attendance: Mark Snavely, Rick Matthews, Jonathan Marshall, David Steege, Anne Cassidy, Jean Preston, Barbara Short, Ryan Ringhand, Ed Montanaro.
I. Approval of Minutes from May 7 2008 meeting (https://wac.carthage.edu/)

II. Election of Committee Secretary – Congratulations Barb!

III. Approval of new course proposals (Mark Snavely)

Ellen Hauser: WOGS 311 doesn’t approve exams as writing: asking for revision; Rick is going to follow up with her. 20% meets the criteria that she set out. Not enough writing to learn. Revise and resubmit to the committee; term is not clear.

Julio Rivera and Patrick Pfaffle: GEOS and BIOL 471 Nicaragua: J-term; passed.

Steve Udry: HIST 220 for 2009-2010; passed.

Getting a proposal from Matt Zorn soon.

IV. Waiver Requests: put slides on the website to help to sort reasons for accepting or denying.

Daniel Borak: ENG 152.005: denied, not substituting or self designing, no faculty member signing.
Kimberly Randle: first class in 1999, free from writing intensive, doesn’t need WI course
Dan Conder: took 201 before it was listed. Mark is following up to see his major/minor. tabled pending more information.
Alpha Sabbithi: jr or sr; which courses do you need to take for your major or minor (open slots); tabled pending more information.
Gina Yi: accounting major, hasn’t taken sr. seminar yet, day school, advisor needs to be consulted, she is going to get a course and has time to get another course; denied.

V. Update on Writing Fellow certification (Jean Preston)
Writing tutors/fellows:
Training process meets criteria. 10 hrs. training and 20 hours of experience. We do 25 hrs. of training automatically. 10 hrs. of training in addition throughout the semester. Currently we have:
3 students at level II
4 students at level I

VI. Report on Fall 2008 WAC Workshops (Matthews)
Rick is putting together on workshops. First we offered two kinds of sections: certification and advanced with people already certified (a moment of growth). Poses new questions: organization, compensation, recommendations. We are becoming our own teachers. We should be ready to run all of the workshops ourselves this year; become self-sustaining for money reasons. Find ways to cultivate interest and become resources. Spread out among our colleagues.

VII. Unfinished Business
Passed proposals via email for this fall 2008 at the beginning of the semester. See summer notes for those courses.

VIII. New Business
Enrollment cap for team taught writing intensive courses: 30 for a trial
This number would work with lots of informal reflective writing, writing to reflect on what you have just been doing. Formal paper means revision for editing.

Meetings: Oct. 6 CC rm 117 1-2pm. We are all available. If we need an additional meeting, Rick will schedule additional ones and give us some notice.

Have to do something with the course updates. Timing is off. We need an update system. We can do that within the current system. When and how often we ask for the updates is the question. We need to know what courses are running.

Less immediate: instructor re-certification. Suggestions: teaching a WI course once a year. Workshops, point system, on or off campus.

Business and second general education courses are in short supply.

The following courses were approved as WI courses via e-mail ballot.

Esns 320: Development and Operation of Technology-Based Business, Doug Arion
Soci 141: Principles of Sociology, Rick Matthews
Soci 142: Sociology of Social Problems (ACE), Rick Matthews
Soci 227: Juvenile Delinquency, Rick Matthews
Csci 435: Software Design and Development, Mark Mahoney
Educ 325: Teaching Mathematics Effectively in Elementary and Middle School, Barb Short
Exss 270: Elementary Physical Education/Principles of Movement, Susanna Swenson
Math 103:  Applied Mathematics, Charlotte Chell
Geos 471: Senior Seminar in Geography, Matt Zorn

Respectfully submitted,
Mark Snavely

May 7, 2008

Present: Bonn, Short, Matthews, Montanaro, Wallace, Cassidy, Steege, Preston

1. WI proposals

From Biology: A proposal to allow two faculty to teach the senior seminar. Both faculty are WI approved. A request has been made to add WI designation to their sections of the senior seminar, even though neither one has submitted a proposal. They will be using the same syllabus created for another section of senior seminar that has been previously approved by the committee.
The consensus of the committee was as follows: when faculty who are not the original proposers of the course teach a WI course, they should submit both the form and syllabus (even if it is the same syllabus given to them by the course originator). The rationales behind this were as follows: even though this case involves full-time faculty, we do not want to set a precedent which would create potential problems of department chairs submitting syllabi for adjuncts in a similar situation. Second, and more importantly, the committee believed that the actual submitting of a proposal is necessary for both record keeping and a “contract” of sorts between faculty and the WAC committee, even if they intend to use someone else’s syllabus (which some members were not necessarily opposed to in principle, but uncomfortable). This is consistent with our policy of submitting the form again for an approved faculty member and course for renewal.
Faculty Member Dept. Course Action
Duncan English American Literary Traditions passed
Maria Carrig English Senior Seminar passed
Leslie Cameron Psychology Cognition passed
Renaud/Vogt Classics Race, Ethnicity and Gender in the Ancient World passed
2. Waivers
Ashley Ferrara, denied (transfer student, senior, but still has time to take a course outside her major next fall).

Melissa Hawn, granted (transfer student, no opportunity to take course before graduation).

3. August writing workshops draft—AW and RM

Alan gave an update on the August workshop, sessions are shaping up. He and Rick will continue to work on this through the summer.

4. Welcome to chair of WATF, Chris Renaud

5. Cassidy to talk with Heritage on them using workshop time for teaching writing specific to Heritage.

6. Plagiarism: Committee discussed using the Hacker text as a standard for WI courses, consensus was that we might want to issue some kind of statement that encourages faculty to use common source for definition, etc. More discussion to follow.

Meeting Adjourned at 1:07

April 23, 2008

Present: Steege, Snavely, Cassidy, Wallace, Montanaro, Matthews, Bonn

1. WI proposals.

Cassidy Art courses (Art 224 and Art 305) passed
Rothstein Modern Languages 471 (Topics) passed
Easley EDUC 322 Reading and Language Arts passed
Easley & Rieman EDUC 352 Developmental and Content Reading Area
Maleske PSYC 370 Thesis Development Tabled, Alan will talk with him

2. Waivers

Matthew Zielinski, chemistry approved because he’s a transfer student and no chemistry course will be offered before he graduates in spring 2009.

3. International WAC Conference—Rick

Matthews and Trautwein will attend, Matthews plans to attend a pre-session to have a team of experts give feedback on the development of WAC at Carthage. .

4. August writing workshops draft:

Alan and Rick are working together on the sessions for the August workshop.

Meeting adjourned at 1:00

WAC Committee Meeting Minutes – 4/09/08

The meeting was called to order at 12:00 with the following members present:
Mark Snavely, Alan Wallace, Rick Matthews, Barbara Short, Anne Cassidy, Ed Montanaro, Michelle Bonn, Jean Preston

The agenda was then addressed.

1. Proposals

The following WI proposals were presented for approval:

Julio Rivera – GEOG 373 (Urban Geography)
Approved as submitted
Erik Tou – MATH 322 (Abstract Algebra I)
Approved with the understanding that Mark Snavely will consult with Professor Tou regarding the implementation of the proposal.
Robert Grant – MGMT 490 (Business Policy Seminar
And
MKTG 490 (Marketing Research Seminar)
Both proposals approved with the understanding that Alan Wallace
will consult with Professor Grant regarding the implementation of the proposals.

2. Waiver Requests

There were no Waiver Requests

3. The two remaining meetings this term will be held on April 23rd and May 7th.

4. Rich Matthews will seek funding approval from Kurt Piepenburg for three people (Rich Matthews, Aaron Trautwein, and Jean Preston) to attend the International WAC Conference in Austin, Texas at the end of May.

5. Several pending issues were discussed, and will be addressed in some fashion at the August workshop:
– Refining WI guidelines and due dates
– Informing Department Chairs of W.I. guidelines, departmental requirements, and various due dates
– Preparing for departmental writing assessments

6. A draft of the August Workshop schedule has been/will be sent to committee members. We will have separate workshops for veterans and first-time participants.

7. The meeting was adjourned at 1:00 p.m.

The meeting was called to order at 12:00 with the following members present:
Mark Snavely, Alan Wallace, Rick Matthews, Barbara Short, Anne Cassidy, Ed Montanaro, Michelle Bonn, Jean Preston

The agenda was then addressed.

1. Proposals

The following WI proposals were approved:
Jeff Roberg – POLS 400
Elaine Radwanski – BIOL 251

The following WI proposals received retroactive approval:
Dan Miller – NEUR 250 for 2007-2008

WI status was removed from Cynthia Allen’s EXSS 235 course, now taught by Steve Domin.

2. Waiver Requests

There were no Waiver Requests

3. August Workshop

The workshop will be held on August 26, 27, and 28.

Marty Townsend will present for one day of the three-day workshop.

Please give some thought to the schedule of events and ideas for the workshop before the next WAC Committee meeting.

Along with this discussion, two issues were raised:
1) Must both faculty members of a team-taught WI course be certified for WI?
2) How will the committee deal with students in a WI course who must take the course to fulfill a minor requirement but are not ready for/do not need the course to be WI?

4. The International WAC Conference will be held in Austin, TX on May 28, 29 and 30th. Rich Matthews will attend, as well as another committee member and an additional faculty member not on the committee. Aaron Trautwein and Jacqueline Easley were suggested as possible choices for the non-committee attendee. Jean Preston offered to attend if no other committee member can attend.

The meeting was adjourned at 1:00 p.m. The next meeting will be held on April 9th.