UNDERGRADUATE COUNCIL MEETING                               

May 21, 2007

Rowe Conference Room

 

Present:

Dave Hubin, Dan Keller, Anne Laskaya, Steven Pologe, Ron Severson, Karen Sprague, Malcolm Wilson, Pat Bartlein, Paul Engelking, and Lyllye Parker,

 

Absent:

Andrew Bonamici, Herb Chereck, Hilary Gerdes, Dean Livelybrooks, Dan Patton, Martha Pitts, Ashley Rees, Kathy Roberts, Bill Ryan, Arkady Vaintrob, Kate Wagle, and Ken Calhoon

 

Minutes:

           

There were no minutes available for review.

 

Agenda

The only item of business for the Undergraduate Council was to continue with the review of multicultural courses.  Round 3 was discussed.

Prior to commencing the discussion, the Chair explained that there would be a Round 4 and a Round 5.  At the request of some Council members, some clarifying information was already being submitted by faculty whose syllabi were being reviewed.  The next step in the review process will take place in Fall 2007 when the Council will reexamine those courses that appeared not to fit the category in which they are presently offered. Some of these may be more appropriate for a different category.  The Council discussed briefly where their final recommendations should be directed. The current plan is to send the Council’s recommendations with regard to particular courses to the Inter-College General Education Review Committee (ICGER) for action.  It was suggested that the University Committee on Courses (UOCC) might be the more appropriate body to receive the UGC’s recommendations, since it is UOCC, rather than ICGER, that approves Multicultural courses to begin with.  Further discussion will occur in the Fall after the Council has completed the review of Multicultural courses.

 

The Council screened the tallied syllabi with three ratings:

“OK” means the course meets the current criteria for the category in which it is listed;

“R” means “Rereview”; the course appears not to meet the current criteria for the category in which it is designated as satisfying the Multicultural requirement; Council will rereview after both teams have looked at syllabus.

“I I” means there is Insufficient Information for making a judgment on the course.

 

The results of the initial screening were as follows:

 

ROUND 3 REVIEW:

            OK:  ES101; ES250; PS 449/549; ANTH326; ANTH327; ARH209; ARH343; DAN301; FR301; HIST105; HIST191; HIST397; HIST 415/515; IT301; IT303; JDST340; PS342; REL101; REL102; RUSS340; SCAN259; SPAN319; SPAN305; SPAN 490/590; ANTH315; CL314; FR497; HIST309; JDST213; LING 495/595; REL211; and REL233

 

            I I:  MUS 452/552

 

            R:  HIST273; COLT102; COLT206; INTL240; RUSS335; COLT101; and MUS250

 

             

     

Review of Round 3 was completed. The Chair distributed syllabi for Round 4 of the Multicultural course review.

 

 

The meeting was adjourned.

 

The next UGC meeting is scheduled forAugust 8, 2007ht Library.