Curriculum Committee Minutes September 11, 2012 Los Angeles Southwest College Meeting attended by: Absent from meeting: Tangelia Alfred; Stephanie Brasley; Elmer Bugg; Darren Ciffarelli; James Hicks; Tamura Howard; Patrick Jefferson; Reggie Morris; Angelica Ramirez; Zakerias Dammena; Kristine Wright; Glenn Yoshida Catherine Azubuike; Lashawn Brinson; Shauna Carter; Al Cowart; Phillip Jones Thomas; Neil Mantena; Kimberly McBride; Celeste Phelps; Marian Ruane; Roxanna Sanchez; Trudy Walton; Shelley Werts; Vacant: ASO Student Representative; Academic Senate President Guests: Date: Time: Location: Minutes submitted by: Agenda Topics None 9/11/12 1:00 pm -2:00 pm (Meeting began a 1:15 ) SSEC 309 A. Ramirez Agenda Topic #1: Call to Order Duration/People Responsible/ Deadline By Kristine Wright @ 1:15 Agenda Topic #2: Welcome & Introductions Welcome to first meeting in Academic year 2012-2013. Introductions done. Announced New meeting schedule: 2nd Tuesday @ 1pm & 4th Thursday @11am Duration: 7 minutes Agenda Topic #3: Approval of today’s agenda and minutes from May 24, 2012 meeting Add: “ESL DE addendum was tabled” & Remove Lisa Ford from committee list- Dr. Alfred is her replacement. Committee discussed the need for minutes to reflect discussion and resolution/action for each item on agenda. M&P after corrections listed above Duration: 7 minutes Agenda Topic #4: ReportsNONE- Scheduled for Next meeting Duration: 0 Agenda Topic #5: Old Business--- Duration: approx 10 minutes ECD routing    If routing has glitch, EMAIL K. Wright ECD with status report. She can correct routing manually. For all courses being ARCHIVED, please forward signed original “Course Archive Request Form” to K. Wright ASAP via Campus Mail or drop off at SSEC 216N. K. Wright has a number of ECDs to route through system and will work on that this month, including CC approved courses ASL 3 (reinstate), SOC 4 (new), PSYCH 92 (new) and many COR updates. Curriculum Committee Minutes, 9-11-12 1    J. Hicks is now in system as Business department chair P. Jefferson is now in system as Curriculum Dean P. Jones-Thomas is in system as Acting Senate President Discussion Process a. ECD Routing change is needed so that Personal Dev outlines are rerouted from BEH chair to Counseling Chair. b. In the next 2-3 weeks, items pending on K. Wright’s ECD queue from Spring/summer should be cleared. c. R Morris brought up Child Dev pre-reqs which are pending and that there are discrepancies between catalog and ECD. d. Committee discussed the need for catalog to be updated and uploaded online ASAP with accurate information for students and counseling staff. e. Committee discussed Catalog Rights and whether change of Prerequisite would impact students who have older catalog rights. Students’ grandfathered rights mean that as long as the student retains his/her catalog year, they are not subject to changes in prerequisites (i.e. prerequisite used should be the one in place during the student’s catalog year). The committee discussed how, Dept chairs would determine what catalog year apply to individual students. The consensus was to refer students to Counseling. Agenda Topic #6: New Business a. CORs and Compliance – discussion and action item  See CORslist_f12.xls (emailed)  Program viability studies – see spreadsheet S b. Duration: approx 45 minutes DE Form – discussion and action item- TABLED PENDING DE committee response.  New form to expedite process  Need all DE classes updated.  Form emailed and attached. Discussion Process  Issue: We need to determine what % of classes are offered as DE (Distance Education) courses at the college as a whole and in program level.  K. Wright previous to meeting sent out a list of DE classes through 2010.  K. Wright reviewed minutes from 2011/2012 and only Eng 21 had a DE addendum approved. K. Wright also reviewed Etudes for a list of possible DE classes  T. Howard indicated that if class has an Etude resource site or other web material, then these are hybrid classes and should have a DE addendum.  If you students do not do any work online, if instructor is posting handouts, syllabi, materials online and students need to sign in to access content, then class is considered a hybrid and should have DE addendum.  Committee discussed that using this definition would make over 80% of our classes Distance Ed.  T Howard suggested curriculum committee request definition of what classes qualify as Distance Ed classes so that definition can be used.  T Alfred read definition of Distance Education found in DE manual Curriculum Committee Minutes, 9-11-12 2 “Distance education is defined, for the purpose of accreditation review as a formal interaction which uses one or more technologies to deliver instruction to students who are separated from the instructor and which supports regular and substantive interaction between the students and instructor, either synchronously or asynchronously. Distance education often incorporates technologies such as the internet; one-way and two-way transmissions through open broadcast, closed circuit, cable, microwave, broadband lines, fiber optics, satellite, or wireless communications devices; audio conferencing; or video cassettes, DVDs, and CD-ROMs, in conjunction with any of the other technologies.  Committee discussed that Substantive change is it required if we consider all classes with interaction using technology. Almost all classes in 21st century would be hybrid/ Distance Ed classes based on technology enhancement. Action Items  Curriculum committee recommends that DE committee define hybrid, DE, and technology-enhanced courses. As well as provide examples of these. K. Wright will contact DE committee.  Committee will also review what other colleges in our district do. c. Stand Alone Certification – discussion and action item. Discussion Process  KW sent relevant information via email prior to meeting. Committee was asked to review materials sent.  Summary of information is that we “can’t have stand alone classes.”  When a new program is developed, classes need to be developed before hand. These classes are considered stand alone at first but need to show that program/major in being developed at same time for them to be approved.  Journalism classes need to have journalism program created.  DC already submitted paperwork to create program.  M/P -Committee trained and approved signing of certification. Action Items  Committee should review materials sent via email.  Committee trained and approved signing of certification. d. NEW COR Active sheet – discussion Discussion Process  Department chairs and Deans need to review your areas carefully and determine whether COR need to be updated.  CORs should be updated each 5 years.  Each dept chair and dean also received a report showing status of COR for courses in each area. Red on report list indicates classes that need updating.  Some may still be pending on ECD  This is a title 5 compliance issue. Classes with outdated COR should not be offered. EVP previously indicated classes would be pulled from schedule.  Reviewed COR updating and ECD approval process with Chair Hicks. T. Howard and Curriculum Committee Minutes, 9-11-12 3 C. Wright offered to walk J. Hicks through process. Action Items Review and update COR Review report and if you identify courses that are not being currently worked, inform K Wright so they can be removed form Curriculum list (esp 2008/2009 pending items.) e. PHYS ED to KIN – discussion  See list emailed prior to meeting  All CORs in this area need to be updated.  Per K. W right all PE COR are archived. ECD not showing any active PE classes. Classes being kept need to be copied and changed to KIN discipline.  Question: If conversion taking place Fall 2013, will this result in scheduling problems in Spring 2013? f. SPEECH to COMM – discussion – TABLED  See list  All CORs need to be updated. g. TMCs – discussion item  See relevant email for information. Discussion Process  T. Alfred emailed samples. 9 pages are required for TMCs. We can not develop new degrees but instead need to develop approved TMCs and courses required.  Chairs should review and produce TCMs and get them signed. Submit to Dr. Jefferson so that they can be approved. All courses have been previously developed somewhere in district so it should be easy to follow.  CalStates are not going to take students unless they have transfer degrees  Currently Alfred is writing emails for students indicating that students meet requirements but college does not have transfer degree.  80% of degrees need to be transfer degrees by Fall 2013 h. Repeatability – discussion item  See attached list. Discussion Process  District is going to clear all repeatability so that no classes will be repeatable. Classes can be leveled and show different objectives for each level. This deed to be done so that it can take effect by Fall 2013 Curriculum Committee Minutes, 9-11-12 4 Agenda Topic #7: Resources a. Curriculum page – when will new website be launched? Information pending. b. Angelica is now responsible for CC mtg minutes. Will Angelica also update website? No. Information pending. Agenda Topic #8: Announcements a. Lunch – if committee would like to have lunch brought in for meetings, a collection fund will be started. K.Wright will send an email with details. Agenda Topic #9: Public Speakers Duration: approx 1 minute Duration: approx 1 minute Duration: 0 NONE Next meeting Thursday, September 27, 2012 Time: 11:00am Place: SSEC 309 Meeting adjourned at 2:35 P.M. CC approved: 9/27/12 Curriculum Committee Minutes, 9-11-12 5