General Education Requirement Committee

Minutes

November 11, 2005

Adm 201

12:30 – 1:45 pm

  1. Roll

(X) Ben Curtis(X)Jackie Cason(X) Barbara Harville

(X)Gail Holtzman(X)Robin Wahto(X) Walter Olivares

(X)Len Smiley(X) Caedmon Liburd( ) COE Vacant ?

(X)Jack Pauli ( ) SOENGR Vacant

  1. Approval of the Agenda
  1. Approval of Meeting Summary for October 28, 2005

Approved unanimously

  1. Chair’s Report

Memo will be sent to Fine Arts again about the descriptor changes we made and ask for feedback on the changes.

  1. Course Action Requests

A.ARTS491 – Senior Seminar – Capstone GER - Tabled

VI. Old Business

  1. Fine Arts Theme descriptor

The Fine Arts (visual and performing arts) focus on the historical, aesthetic, critical, and creative approaches to understanding the context and production of art as academic and creative disciplines as opposed to those that emphasize acquisition of skills. Students who complete the Fine Arts requirements should be able to identify and describe works of art by reference to media employed, historical context and style, and structural principles of design and composition. They shoud be able to interpret the meaning or intent of works of art and assess their stylistic and cultural importance by reference to their historical significance, their relationship to earlier works and artists and their overall impact of subsequent artistic work.

Will be sent to Fine Arts for input. Approved for second reading

  1. New Business
  2. Quantitative Skills Area descriptor for Tier I Basic Skills

Quantitative skills courses increase the mathematical abilities of students in order to make them more adept and competent produces, and wiser consumers, of the mathematical, statistical and computational analyses which will dominate 21st century decision-making. In these courses, all baccalaureate students develop their algebraic, analytic and numeric skills, use them to solve problems and correctly explain their mathematical reasoning.

Approved for second reading.

Adjourned @ 1345

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