Voting members present: Heather Arbuckle, Ivan Arismendi, Aidas Banaitis, Geoffrey Barstow, Daniel Faltesek, Kelsey Emard, Jack Istok, Lori McGraw, Rene Reitsma, Randy Rosenberger, Justin St. Germain, Kaplan Yalcin
Voting members absent: Matthew Kennedy, Kyle Niemeyer
Ex-officio members present: Ecampus – Karen Watte, Office of Undergraduate Education – Heath Henry, WIC – Sarah Perrault
Guests: Funmi Amobi, McKenzie Huber, Dwaine Plaza
Category Reviews – Science, Technology & Society
Action: Motion to decertify – verbatim statement, shift the final writing assignment to meet the requirement as it is not the criticism paper and does not require sources; motion seconded and passed with 11 votes in favor, 0 votes in opposition and 0 votes in abstention.
Action: Motion to decertify – lacks essential elements including a reflection on the discipline of entomology, the evolution of this science and related technology, and the writing assignment does not meet the category; motion seconded and passed with 10 votes in favor, 0 votes in opposition and 1 vote in abstention.
Action: Motion to decertify – to decertify for missing connections LO1 and 2, missing proper LO 3; needs to envision the evolution of humanitarian engineering, major revisions; motion seconded and passed with 11 votes in favor, 0 votes in opposition and 0 votes in abstention.
Action: Motion to decertify – the syllabus provided is not one for a BC course, as such there is no attempt to evaluate LO 1 or 2; there was no meaningful attempt to assess the category, the paper prompt does not engage the requirements; the social dimension of the category is absent, this reflects the aggregate conditions by which we live and are organized, not merely a description of humans or their impact; motion seconded and passed with 11 votes in favor, 0 votes in opposition and 0 votes in abstention.
Action: Motion to decertify – the course is a major course it is not a critical investigation of the production of occupational health it is a normative major course in occupational health; needs to assess LO1 and LO2; there is no social dimension investigation. Paper needs to be rethought as a critical project, not a normative description; motion seconded and passed with 11 votes in favor, 0 votes in opposition and 0 votes in abstention.
Action: Motion to recertify and to encourage instructor to check their syllabi for modality statements and consistency in writing assignments; motion seconded and passed with 11 votes in favor, 0 votes in opposition and 0 votes in abstention.
Action: Motion to decertify and require a more systematic investigation of the dimension of science and technology, including specific details about science and technology that explain and engage the technical and scientific contexts in question to balance an integrate with the critical dimension; motion seconded and passed with 11 votes in favor, 0 votes in opposition and 0 votes in abstention.
Action: Motion to decertify – lack of assessment information in the syllabus, there is a non-syllabus table that includes relevant information but that is not enough; it is clear that this is an excellent majors course in this sense it does not meet any of the three outcomes; motion seconded and passed with 12 votes in favor, 0 votes in opposition and 0 votes in abstention.
Action: Motion to decertify to develop the interdisciplinary nature of the course such as politics/education/others mentioned and to be specific about the science/technology in question; motion seconded and passed with 12 votes in favor, 0 votes in opposition and 0 votes in abstention.