Curriculum Committee Meeting
Minutes
October 26, 20152:00 p.m.
Cleveland Hall, Room 142
Members Present: Marilyn Angoli, Melissa Dover, Suzanne
Ellenberger, Tonia Faulling, Scott Harvey, Christy Lawless, Amoena Norcross,
Donna Palmer, Jason Poole, Amy Roberts, Sarah Shumpert, and John Woodson
Members Absent: Lacey Torge
1.
Review revised committee charter
Due
to reworking and reevaluating of the Curriculum Committee process, there have
not been any meetings. Sarah Shumpert
and Amoena Norcross are now working under the newly formed Curriculum and
Instructional Support Department. This
department will help faculty and provide administrative support to the curriculum
process. The purpose of the Curriculum
Committee is to be a peer review group.
John
noted the library would like to be involved so they can plan to have the
appropriate resources for courses offered.
Also, Gayle Arries would like to attend the meetings so her department will
be informed of changes in order to promote new courses/programs to the public. Scott noted that Marilyn will take over
Christy’s role in the curriculum process.
2.
Elect Chairperson-Elect
Suzanne
Ellenberger volunteered to be the next Chairperson. The Committee unanimously voted to elect her. Her term will begin in Fall 2016.
3.
Deleted Courses
There
are numerous courses that have been deleted prior to the meeting. These changes appear in the latest
catalog. Each division representative
should relay the changes to their respective divisions. Please refer to the deleted courses handout
that Sarah e-mailed.
4.
Added Courses
IDS
210 (Special Topics for Honors) is an elective course for honors students in
the honors program. In this course,
there will be a different special topic covered each semester. “Sociology in Sports” was chosen to be the
first topic. The Committee voted not to
add the course due to multiple reasons:
Spring 2016 registration is already underway; less than 30 students are
enrolled in the honors program, “Society in Sports” will be a new course added
in the near future, etc.
COL 120 (College and Career
Readiness) is a course that Galen DeHay has administratively approved. It is being presented as information
only. A request has been
made to add it to the CAC. This course
will target the population that has completed a high school diploma, but have
yet to pursue a post-secondary education.
5.
Pre-Dental
Hygiene Certificate
The
Pre-Dental Hygiene changes have already been made and are in the latest
catalog. These changes were made due to an articulation agreement with
Greenville Technical College. Please
refer to the handout e-mailed by Sarah.
6.
CRJ English
requirement change
The
Criminal Justice program would like to replace ENG 155 and ENG 156 with ENG 101
and SPC 205. They feel this makes the
degree more transfer friendly for the students who wish to transfer to a school
that has an articulation agreement with TCTC.
Also, this would raise the standards to meet competitor colleges and
other technical colleges. John will
contact Joan Kalley about the need for more ENG 101 and SPC 205 courses. This change is currently on hold until the
next meeting.
7.
Deletion of
Accounting Certificates
The
Accounting program would like to delete the Financial Accounting Certificate,
Managerial Accounting Certificate, and the Tax Accounting Certificate. They
would like to replace these certificates with a General Accounting Certificate. These changes do not affect other
departments. The General Accounting
Certificate has not gone through the process yet. John will follow up with the program. Scott needs to know a date to stop admitting
students and when the last date to graduate students. The dates cannot be within the same
semester.
John
would like for everyone to look at the changes that the Management program is
requesting. This has not been approved
through the state yet. This will be
voted on at a later date.
8.
Media Arts
Production
The Radio
and Television Broadcasting program is now Media Arts Production. John worked with the RTV program at Trident
Technical College, the only other college with the program in the state, to
agree upon a new name. The state has
approved the change and it is currently being added into the CAC.
9.
Next Meeting
The
next meeting will be in November. Donna
will follow up with the other Health Education programs that had changes
approved, but were not addressed at the meeting.
The meeting adjourned at 3:00
p.m.
