Baccalaureate Core Committee

Voting members present: Kathy Becker-Blease, Daniel Faltesek, McKenzie Huber (remote), Filix Maisch, Bob Paasch, Weihong Qiu, Rorie Spill Solberg, Kaplan Yalcin
Anticipated absences: Pat Ball, Nancy Barbour, Natalie Dollar, Patrice Dragon, David Roundy, Dana Sanchez, Inara Scott
Ex-Officio members present: Faculty Affairs – Heath Henry; Ecampus – Craig Rademacher; WIC Director – Vicki Tolar Burton

Category Reviews

• PH 203
  • There are some typos on page six of the syllabus.
  • Are PH 201 or PH 211 pre-requisites?
    • There is a lab exception credit where people who passed these classes within the last 2 years with a D- or better.
    • Is this a rule from the instructor, the dean, the college?
  • Can’t fulfill the Baccalaureate Core (BC) requirement without the lab. PH 201 and 211 are both also BC courses.
  • There is a risk that this is considerable loophole. What if PH 201 and PH 211 are removed? There is no way to track that in the system.
  • The Disability Access Link is incorrect.
  • There is no credit number listed.
  • It is missing a Class Schedule.
  • The syllabus says the pre-requisites are enforced, but it doesn’t appear that way.
  • Students are primarily juniors and seniors and all are from the COS, so it is not currently servicing the purpose of the BC.
    • Decertify, unless they remove the prior lab exception.
• PH 106
  • Clarified a lot of questions the BC had during its previous submission.
  • Still missing a lot of minimum syllabus requirements.
    • Recertified with suggestions to meet the minimum syllabus requirements
• PH 206
  • The syllabus does not meet the minimum syllabus requirements and did not submit a Cascades campus syllabus
    • It was confirmed that Cascades will be using the same syllabus.
      • Recertified with suggestions to meet the minimum syllabus requirements.
• CH 232 
  • It is not clear how the assessments align with BC outcomes.
    • Decertify with opportunity to resubmit.

Category II Reviews

• MTH 338
  • Approved with no discussion needed
• GEO 430/530
  • Approved with no discussion needed
• ENG 109
  • Send back
• GEOG 323
  • The matrix is ‘what is being assessed’ and ‘how it is being assessed’ are copy pasted responses (the same).
    • Approve with notes
• GEO 306
  • No ecampus syllabus provided.
  • How are BC outcomes met? It’s a global statement that appears to read as ‘all assignments meet all the outcomes’.
    • The syllabus needs to be more specific.
      • Send back with suggestions for revisions.
• AG 445
  • Resubmitted without the WR II requirement but the BCC would like to know whether or not their approval is still required.
  • Waiting on an answer before approving.
• H 344
  • Needs a better explanation on how outcome two is met
    • Send back with request for more details.
• HIS 350
  • Much improved, table added and meets all requirements.
    • Approved with minor comments.