Liberal

Studies CT Log


Date of Meeting: 9/19/13
Log Completed By: Melanie Borrego
Agenda Items
Discussion and Decisions
Item 1: Title Change, ENGU
Confusing title has Critical Thinking in the title,
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this is causing strange substitution requests.
Item 2: BA in Applied Studies History of program, discussion of what the CT
Program Review
would like to see this program evolve into. Faculty
would like to see the flexibility offered by this
program available to more students.
Item 3: Course Review
Faculty organized the list of courses for which they
Rotation
are responsible, and we created a master list of
review per year.
Item 4: Multiple Subjects
Brandi Davis went through PLOs and CLOs, team
offered suggestions
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Date of Meeting: 9/20/13
Log Completed By: Melanie Borrego
Agenda Items
Discussion and Decisions
Item 1: Multiple Subjects
Brandi Davis went through CLOs and required
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courses, team offered suggestions
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Forward to Jeremy and Ellen the catalog
change from Critical Thinking and
Writing About Literature to Writing
About Literature.
Will wait for the numbers and review of
courses, but LBSU 305 and 487 are
likely to be revised.
Rotation completed, sent to Jeremy Korr
and Ellen Derwin.
Brandi will take suggestions back to her
EDUU/SAS team.






Next Actions
Brandi will take suggestions back to her
EDUU/SAS team.





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Date of Meeting: 10/8/2013
Log Completed By: Melanie Borrego
Agenda Items
Discussion and Decisions
Item 1: LBSU 300
Follow up on how the course is working.

Ned explained that John is making suggestions to
tweak the course, Leigh Ann is speaking with those
at her campus who are teaching the course. Some
adjuncts are asking about the workload. So its an
ongoing process of improvement.

At Fall Adjunct meeting in Riverside, two adjuncts
asked for more guidance about the purpose of the
course. They had general questions about the book
and the course. Perhaps we need to reinforce for
adjuncts that they can contact the course developer.
(This is true for all of our courses).

John says hes shortening some of the assignments,
but by and large keeping them. Hes making some
adjustments in terms of aligning readings and
assignments, and is adding some electronic sources.
He is very appreciative of the lectures that begin
each week.

Item 2: In-Course Instructor Faculty asked about data from in-course surveys.
Surveys
Are adjuncts completing them?
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John is sending feedback to Ned on an
ongoing basis as he teaches the course.

Melanie will gather names of LBSU 300
instructors and send them to Ned, who
can schedule a brief Questions session
in Adobe Connect.

If needed, Ned can work on an FAQ
document for LBSU 300.

Melanie will inquire.

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Date of Meeting: 12/10/2013
Log Completed By: Melanie Borrego
Agenda Items
Discussion and Decisions
Item 1: Faculty asked about

data from in-course surveys.
Are adjuncts completing
them?
Item 2: LBSU 300 Instructors
for Neds List
Item 3: Update on Multiple
Credential Program, ENGU
471/ENGU 420

Item 4: Update on Multiple

Credential Program, LBSU
402/403

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Date of Meeting: 1/14/2014
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Agenda Items
Item 1: Updates on Multiple
Credential Program; ENGU
471/ENGU 420

Brandi explained that ENGU 420 will cover

language acquisition, which is more relevant for
multiple subjects students. The CT discussed
whether or not ENGU 471, which covers basic
linguistics, would be phased out after ENGU 420 is
introduced in Fall I 2014. There was concern about
articulations for ENGU 471.
Brandi explained that a new course, LBSU 403, is
being developed to replace LBSU 402 for multiple
subjects students. LBSU 402 was originally written
as a capstone for LBSU and Media and Cultural
Studies students, but to this point, it has been used
as a capstone for the multiple subjects students as
well. The fate of LBSU 402 is unclear

Discussion and Decisions
The objectives and signature assignments are being
discussed, which includes Leigh Ann and Rachel.
John is working on the LBSU 250 course.

Next Actions
Murphy is working on putting the
information in a readable format; Ellen
will update the ADs at LT next Monday.
Ned and the other ADs now have access
to Argos and can pull lists of both online
and campus instructors by class.
The CT will revisit this issue in January
when we are looking at catalog changes.

The CT will revist for future updates.

Next Actions
Because of the number of LBSU CT
members who are already on the multiple
credential team(and due to timing), it will
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Item 2: RTA (Ellen)

All curriculum teams are working on a project to

create criteria for hiring faculty for each particular
course. Theres a file now, but it covers primarily
thenewer courses. This will aid both the Associate
Deans and campus directors in their recruitment of
adjunct faculty with appropriate credentials.

Item 3: Catalog Changes (Ellen) Anything requiring a catalog change needs to be to
Ellen before March 1.

Item 4: Leigh Ann Updates on The Team reviewed the course templates for HISU
History Course Revisions
358: United States History and Democracy and HISU

360: World History & Geography.The Team was
concerned about
the ability of faculty to cover the amount of material
addressed
by the current draft of HISU 358 in an eight-week
session, particularly with the constitutional
requirement also being addressed. Additionally, there
was some question as to the alignment of the course
description to the CLOS.
The Team thought that HISU 360, while still covering a
lot of ground for the eight weeks, might be focused
enough by its geographical emphasis to make it
feasible. There was a question about the phrase land
use in the course description.
Ellen went over the process for approval of these
Courses.

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not be necessary to take any further

changesto the full LBSU CT
for approval

Melanie will send out assignments for
courses/faculty.

Brandi will take these concerns back to
the LBSU Multiple Credential team.

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Date of Meeting: 2/11/14
Log Completed By: Melanie Borrego
Agenda Items
Discussion and Decisions
Item 1:ADA Review of Quant. Informational, Brandi noted that once MATU 206
Reasoning Requirement
and 207 are added officially, the review will not be
necessary each year.
Item 2: LBSU 300 ILOs
Ellen and Brandi explained that we will be looking
at the course for GET as a place where an I
(Introduction) to all of our ILOs can be mapped.
The plan is to the add the P (Practice) to the
courses already mapped for M (Mastery).
Item 3: RTA/Coursefinder
A gentle reminder about the Coursefinder project.
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None.
Brandi and Ned will meet during the
May retreat to go over any necessary
changes to the class, these are expected
to be minor.

All LBSU faculty will be responsible for

completing the coursefinder document
for courses currently assigned to them
as course custodians. If there are any
orphan classes, Melanie will send out
assignments.

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