Baccalaureate Core Committee

Voting members present: Aidas Banaitis, Kathy Becker-Blease, Kelsey Emard, Daniel Faltesek, McKenzie Huber, Jack Istok, Lori McGraw, Rene Reitsma, David Roundy, Rorie Solberg, Kaplan Yalcin
Voting members absent: Heather Arbuckle, Matt Kennedy
Ex-Officio members present: DPD Director – Bradley Boovy; Academic Programs & Assessment – Heath Henry; WIC Director – Sarah Perrault Tinker; Ecampus– Karen Watte

1:00-1:20 – Course Proposals

• HEST 201 – Social Processes & Institutions (SPI)
  • Did not have enough social processes to meet the category
  • Cross listed with Anthropology
  • Reading list appears the same – based on design, not social processes.
    • They are arguing that communication between students during the design process is a social process
  • Probably better suited for Science, Technology and Society
  • They disagree with the committee’s points but have not offered any further rebuttal.
  • Any social impact does not necessarily equal social process.
    • Motion to roll back citing previous issues and concerns about the course not meeting the category; seconded. Motion passes with nine in favor; none against. Two abstaining.
• HEST 342 – Contemporary Global Issues
  • The rubric is not sufficient – there is nothing about the outcomes
  • For two outcomes – they state that they are addressed in pre-requisites. These prerequisites can be waived. The course otherwise does not address these two outcomes
    • The prerequisite is not in the Baccalaureate Core (BC) and is not part of the review process.
  • The instructor has been provided a matrix and has worked with APA and the BC but the course is still not meeting the outcomes.
  • Can you have a two-course sequence that meets the category? The trip abroad is largely focused on the research project
    • This would be the only course like this. There is no precedent.
      • Motion to roll back; seconded. Motion passes with 11 in favor; none against. None abstaining.
• MUS 200 – Western Cultures
  • Will be discussed during the next meeting.

Category Review – Contemporary Global Issues

• No Discussion Needed
  • WGSS 360
    • Will be discussed during the next meeting.

Dual-Listed Course Review

• HDFS 201 – Social Processes & Institutions/Difference, Power & Discrimination (DPD)
  • There appears to have been quite a lot of drift. All 3 syllabi differ in terms of content and it’s not clear how they meet the SPI requirements. The courses are incredibly different.
  • How they meet the outcomes is not clear in the syllabus.
  • They don’t adequately meeting learning criteria 9 – interactive learning
  • The text they are using at Cascades is old, outdated and normative. Corvallis uses a different text.
  • Has a very high enrollment – but they do have graduate support.
    • The high enrollment is an administrative decision
      • There is no criteria for enrollment caps like WIC.
  • As the course is currently written, it doesn’t not adequately meet either category.
    • Could be a better for DPD after some reworking.
  • There’s not enough substance in the syllabus and the survey to see how both categories are being met.
    • Motion to request they drop SPI and resubmit as DPD only, with revisions; seconded. Motion passed 10 in favor, none against. One abstaining.
• HST 201/202/203 – Western Culture/ Difference, Power & Discrimination
  • Seems like they’re leaning towards DPD, it may be best to drop WC.
  • Needs quite a bit of work to bring it up to DPD standards.
  • 201 did a good job with Western Culture but they are missing a syllabus.

203 needs work.

• 201
  • Discussed decertifying in DPD
• 202
  • Discussed recertifying for both
• 203
  • Needs to be rolled back and is in need of several revisions.
• All three will be further discussed in the next meeting.