Meeting Called to Order by Deborah at 3:36 PM

Guests in Attendance: Richard Marcus (IST); Elizabeth Dahab (CWL)

Meeting called to order by Deborah at 3:36 PM.

1. Approval of EPCC #16 minutes of Sept.23, 2013

Approved.

2. Announcements/Revisions

3. New Business

A. Comparative World Literature / Classics Department

· Elizabeth: introduction to the courses and reason for offering them; placing Nobel Prize/Process in historical and social context.

1) CWL 449A: New Type 3 Topic, Nobel Prize Laureates.

· Gabriel: Cover sheet – seems to be missing filename;

· Cherie/Deborah: No problem

· Teri: does this replace “Major Continental Writers”?

o Elizabeth: No, it’s a sub-category

o Cherie: Type 3 is a non-expiring topical course

· Danny: but could students still to take the generic 449? Is 449A the only option now?

o Cherie: there is no generic 449; it can only be taken with a particular topic

· Dave: Outcomes and Measurable Objectives –

o First sentence unnecessary

o Questionable objectives:

§ “Show self-consciousness” – delete

§ Delete grad student objectives and move to assessment section

· Teri: gave Elizabeth a sample of how to reformat

· Kris: Focus this section more and make the outcomes more specific

· Danny: 449 catalog description contains a line at the end about repeatability that is not included in this SCO description

o Cherie: 449A exists underneath the 449 description so it doesn’t need to repeat

o Mark: Can they repeat?

o Elizabeth: Yes, for different Nobel Laureates

· Teri: Methods of Assessment – tests only count 10%

o Elizabeth: they are actually 4-5 quizzes that will total to 10% (will clarify)

· Mark:

o Make syllabus consistent with policies on absences, disabilities, etc.

o Cut out all the extra information at the end.

Approved with suggested edits.

2) CWL 549A: New Type 3 Topic, Nobel Prize Laureates

· Same edits as above

Approved with above edits.

B. Geography Department

1) Minor in Geography: Program change removing ANTH 202 from approved statistics courses.

· Deborah: course no longer on the books – just cleaning up

Approved.

2) BA in Geography: Program change adding STAT 108 as optional replacement for GEOG 200; add and remove classes from concentrations.

· Deborah: have accepted this course in practice for years – just making it official;

· Mark: additional changes not listed: adding GEO 441 to one section and removing 322 from list of regional courses

Approved.

3) Informational only: Request to change classifications from 3 units at C3 and 1 unit at C13 to 4 units at C3 for14 classes: GEOG473, 475, 481, 482, 484, 485, 487A, 487B, 488, 584, 585, 587A, 587B, 588.

· Mark: same change for all courses – 4 units for both instructors and students

· Deborah: changing the numbers of contact hours to make courses more teachable and make it closer to how the classes are already being taught

Approved – allow Mark and Deborah to review.

C. International Studies Program

1) IST 222: New course, Global Leadership Skills and Methods 3 units at C22)

· Richard: discovered in self-assessment that IST not doing well on skill set development, so this course intended to create a global-centric skills course – not methods but almost “pre-methods” such as building a question, working in small groups; trying to build better habits that can be built on in later courses; quantitative/practical skills needed for “international affairs” programs which is a professional field, rather than merely academic.

· Teri: Are all 4-5 pages of objectives realistic?

o Richard: yes, because many of these things are so introductory, low benchmarks

o Kris: But wouldn’t narrowing and deepening the focus make it better in upper division courses?

§ Richard: might be overly ambitious but still want to introduce all these ideas; unsure how much of the course will need to be devoted to each skill until the course is taught; want to capture maximum; and some of the outcomes are integrated

o Deborah: Language at the top of the chart gives flexibility to instructors, but could that language be strengthened?

o Kris: Possibility of distinguishing between essential and optional skills?

§ Danny: Perhaps a ranking of these skills?

§ Richard: hesitant to rank, but open to distinguishing between essential vs. optional

o Gabriel: can some similar skills be grouped? E.g., teamwork

o Karen: methods of assessment actually does focus different percentages on different skills; and the breadth of the skills is what IST students need and want

o Deborah: new language: “instructors can draw upon the following competencies to develop the practical skills listed below”

o Dave:

§ Hard to see what ties the course together – lots of skills and methods, but not much “leadership” – change the course title?

§ “Mastering software” can’t be done in one week

§ Deborah: what about new title: “skills and methods for global leadership”?

· Dave: will share list of typos with Richard

· Danny/others: course description missing a word – “intercultural” what?

· Kris: extent and nature of technology – “should” or “may” include BB and web material?

o Richard: hard to teach without web material

o Mark: eliminate the flexibility with “will”

· Gabriel: small typo – definition of student self-reflection -- “student can envisions”

Approved with above revisions and amendments.

2) IST 480: New course, Foreign Coursework in the Curriculum 3 units at C2

· Richard: not an IST specific but particularly challenging for IST: students who study abroad via direct exchange they can use INTL designation to cover; but if not direct exchange, the course has to be equivalent to an existing CSULB course; this “dummy” (no units; no FTEs; course won’t be “offered”) course fixes the problem

· Jeffrey: can students in other departments use this course to cover the same problem?

o Richard: yes, but problem with measurement; IST is trying to develop ways to measure, but can’t do it with students in other departments.

o Deborah: could limit to IST students.

o Richard: don’t want any students to have to register in this course because they would need to pay twice for international courses.

o Teri: Quality control needed by other departments

o Richard: should there be a new line that only requires measurement for IST courses?

· Cherie: if the course will never be offered, it may drop out of the catalog eventually

o Mark: could get a “dispensation” for this one course.

o Richard/others: same model as INTL 400

o Danny: figure out how INTL model works

o Jeffrey: may need a system-wide solution

§ Richard: won’t work

o Deborah: table and talk to Cecile

§ Teri: Mark and Richard should go together

Tabled pending discussion with Cecile Lindsey.

3) Minor in International Studies: Change lower division course, eliminate Geographic Area concentration, and reduce units required from 24 to 18.

o Richard:

o Currently have a lower division “basket” relying on courses from other departments; but because the courses are always different, can’t build on knowledge; led to broader discussion of what needs to be taught in IST 222; IST 100 brought into major also;

o Elimination of geographic area concentration – only taken by people who are already getting info about geographical area; need to focus on what additional things IST can offer; will make most sense for language, POSC, HIST and a few other majors.

o Teri: Final page – wrong titles on courses

Approved with above edit.

4) BA in International Studies: Lower required units from 51 to 48, Lower division decrease to 15 units, adds IST 100 (to Global Citizenship) and IST 222 (to Global Leadership skills) as required; add and delete courses from elective choices, and added language requiring a ‘ C’ or better in all UD courses.

o Richard:

o Changes focused on lower division; catching up to changes in upper division; same problem with “basket” of courses from other departments

o Upper division changes are cleanup of “basket” – courses eliminated in other departments and courses that don’t match

o Danny: can departments require “C or better”?

o Teri/Richard: yes.

o Mark: do other departments know about this?

o Yes, some; but don’t have data yet on how this will affect course enrollments for other departments

o Gabriel:

o Do departments need to eliminate a course in order to add one?

§ Mark: recommended, but not required

o AIS 315 may not be taught; contact AIS chair

§ Richard: used old EPCC minutes to catch course drops, but can’t catch them all

o Cherie: ASAM 406A and B dropped, but cross-listed with WGSS courses

o Richard: need to consider and double-check – WGSS might not be taught any more

Approved with above amendments.

D. Journalism Department

1) BA in Journalism: Program change to add a new course, JOUR 485, to a choice of courses. Under the PR Specialization, remove JOUR 471 and 478 from UD required courses, and move to a new section “Take two of the following” as a choice. Added 485 to the list of classes requiring a “C” or better.

Tabled pending approval of next item.

o Danny: this course has always been substituted; but now it’s official

o Dave: Last page – 2 paragraphs up from signature: “2 of our courses” should read “2 Journalism courses”

o Mark: Catalog listing -- put the courses in numbered order

o Danny: the last several courses are public relations courses so they wanted to group them together

o Mark/Deborah: better to list in order

Approved with above edits.

2) JOUR 485: New Course, Public Relations Agency, 3 units at C5.

o Danny: Has been offered as CLA 490 but can only be done for a limited time; JOUR wants to make it official; need to put skills already learned into practice.

o Dave:

o Textbooks: need full references

o Weekly assigments (SCO pt. 5): difference between “brainstorming” and “strategizing”?

§ Danny: ideas vs. execution

o Deborah: same section of SCO – don’t need specifics on # of weeks since there is already language about flexibility, but doesn’t need to be removed.

Approved with above edits.

4. Adjourned at 5:00. J