Baccalaureate Core Committee

Voting members present: Aidas Banaitis, Kathy Becker-Blease, Kelsey Emard, Daniel Faltesek, Andrew Harker, McKenzie Huber, Jack Istok, Lori McGraw, Rene Reitsma, David Roundy, Rorie Solberg, Kaplan Yalcin
Voting members absent: Heather Arbuckle, Matthew Kennedy
Ex-Officio members present: Academic Programs & Assessment – Heath Henry; WIC Director – Sarah Tinker Perrault; Ecampus – Karren Watte
Guests present: Meilianty Gunawan, Janice Nave-Abele

Expedited Course Proposal Policy – Meilianty Gunawan, Janice Nave-Abele

• Courses being added to other modalities can skip the Baccalaureate Core (BC) check if the course exists on the Corvallis campus. These syllabi tend to have quite a lot of course drift and don’t necessarily meet all the BC requirements. The hope is to add a checkpoint in the expedited proposal process for the Baccalaureate Core Committee (BCC) to check the course.
• Any changes to policy must go through Curriculum Council for approval. The BCC would like to be added as an approval step.
  • Does the BCC need the entire form or just the syllabus?
  • Do they need rollback capability? It will mean other units/committees will need to have rollback capabilities.
    • Changing things to match the BC requirements would impact other aspects of the proposal
      • It is not necessarily a change to the course, it is simply asking them to show that the course meets the same outcomes as the original course.
      • If a course is added to Ecampus and has too much drift, when it comes around to the review process, it could cause the entire course, regardless of modality, to be decertified.
• Adding this check-in step with the BC would slow down the expedited process.
  • The BCC does not believe BC courses should be part of the expedited process.
    • Are there other ways to build oversight that doesn’t add to the responsibilities of the BCC and doesn’t slow down the expedited process?
      • There is no institutional process; current practices vary from unit to unit and depend somewhat on personal connections and willingness between campuses to connect.
    • Is there a way that the BCC could be integrated into the process at the same time Ecampus is developing a course?
• There are no checks that insure the course being expedited even matches the current existing course.
  • It was a policy implemented to remain competitive
• Can this be for everything except WIC since WIC is a major requirement?
• Do units on Corvallis campus have any say in whether a modality is added?
  • Yes, there is some oversight.
• The committee will discuss whether they want to continue with this during another meeting.

Synthesis Graduate Teaching Assistant Ratios for Course Capacities Over 70

• Will be discussed at the next meeting.

Category Review – Contemporary Global Issues

• Discussion Needed
  • SOC 480
    • Motion to approve but send back notes with concerns listed in the reviewer form; seconded. Motion passes 10 in favor, none against. None abstaining.

Course Proposals

• MUS 200 – Western Culture
  • Nothing was changed in the revisions. They only sent a response defending their position that every assignment assesses all learning outcomes.
  • They need more assessment details.
  • The only unique aspect is folklore, but it is not covered in depth. Is another Western Culture course necessary if it does not add anything particularly unique?
    • It does fit the category, it just does not add anything new. The assessment piece is the biggest issue.
      • Motion to send back with notes asking them to explain in a clear way in the syllabus how the assignments are assessed and request it explains how it adds something new to the category; seconded. Motion passes with 10 in favor, none against. There is one abstention
• AG 455/555 – Social Processes & Institutions
  • Is a very nice looking syllabus.
  • It is not clear how it
  • The course will be discussed further at the next meeting.
• REL/PHL 308 – Cultural Diversity
  • Will be discussed at the next meeting.