COA Curriculum Committee Meeting Minutes

August 20, 2013

1:00-3:00pm p.m. in L-237

Present: R. Brem, E. Loretto, Dr. I. Stark, Dr. A. Montevirgen, M. Jones, M. Goldberg,

S. Lau, M. Wu, D. Sparks, M. Somma, P. Nelson, Y. Morrow-Reid,

T. Thompson, V. Virkkila and T. Singh (ASCOA).

Guests: D. Nguyen (DANCE) and M. Jordan (KIN/ATHL)

Meeting started at 1:05p.m.

·  MSU (Jones/Morrow-Reid) Approval of Agenda with spelling correction of

committee member’s name.

·  MSU (Jones/Morrow-Reid) Approval of 04/30/2013 meeting minutes.

·  Announcement: There are new library Resources online available to our students.

·  Curriculum Specialist Position Hiring Status: Academic Senate President Thompson to entertain two faculty members to serve on the search committee.

·  POSCI 8 will be resubmitted for September CIPD Approval.

·  Dance 61, “Combined Yoga and Pilates for Dance” which has never been offered at College of Alameda. The course number 61 was mistakenly reused for new course “Ballet II” last semester and Ballet II has already been approved by the State. VPI Stark and Chair Brem will consult with Curriculum Committee Chair Bohorquez at Laney College to make a final decision on whether we will remain using course number 61 for Ballet II at the state level.

·  KIN/ATHL Department Chair Jordan is currently working on the kinesiology Transfer Degree with Articulation Officer Lau.

·  Report from Curriculum Institute (Y. Morrow-Reid):

·  AllCORs must be approved by the local academic senate (Curriculum Committee) and the local governing board.

·  CORestablishes the content and rigor of a course and ensures consistency for students across all section offerings.

·  Prerequisites and Co-requisites must be reviewed every 6years (2 years for CTE)

·  Advisories must be reviewed every 6years

·  Any course that is part of CSU GE Breadth orIGETC must have a required textbook. Textbooks must have a publication date of more than seven years old. CORs submitted for C-ID approval must have been reviewed within the last sixyears.

·  Stand Alone Training

Meeting adjourned at 3:00p.m.