General Education Committee 

2011-12 Report 

 

The committee approved and forwarded the following curricular proposals: 

 

new course for goal 13: GNED 400: Exploring Public Issues Through Writing (approved by 
EPC, approved by Faculty Senate) 

 

guidelines for GNED-prefixed courses (approved by EPC, amended and approved by 
Faculty Senate): 

 

GNED-prefixed Courses (as approved by Faculty Senate October 13, 2011) 

Courses with the GNED prefix provide opportunities for faculty collaboration—in 
particular, team teaching across disciplines—and interdisciplinary approaches to 
subject matter. At the same time, since they do not reside in a specific department 
and may be staffed by faculty members coming from different departments, they 
do not have the oversight that a department exercises over the sections of its 
courses. These guidelines are meant both to encourage the development of 
GNED-prefixed courses and to address this question of oversight: 

1. Courses offered or proposed with the GNED prefix should promote 
faculty collaboration and must involve interdisciplinary approaches or 
subject matter. 

2. Once a GNED-prefixed course is approved, the course will be listed in the 
General Education section of the catalog. 

3. Individual sections of the course may be offered only with the approval of 
the Director of General Education. Before offering a section of the course 
for the first time, faculty members shall participate in a GNED-prefixed 
course faculty development seminar. 

4. The Director of General Education is responsible for approving sections 
before they are added to the schedule, and then collecting a syllabus for 
each section. He or she will also receive the assessment findings collected 
by the instructors of each section (following the assessment plan approved 
with the course) and enter them into WEAVEonline. 

 

 

deletion of PHYS 101 and 201 as general education courses and addition of an exemption 
statement to goal 6, whereby students who complete PHYS 102 or 202 are exempt from the 
goal (approved by EPC, approved by Faculty Senate) 

 

change of title for HLTH 210 to Global Health (approved by EPC, approved by Faculty 
Senate) 

 

designation of MANG 474, a goal 12 course, as writing intensive (approved by EPC) 

 

new course for goal 5: FINA 250 (pending in EPC) 

 

The committee reviewed the 2010-11 general education course assessment 
departments entered into WEAVEonline. 

The committee sent an e-mail to each department listing which of its courses had complete 
assessment (including action plan), which courses had complete assessment except for action 


plan, and which courses had incomplete or unclear assessment (with the category specified in 
parentheses). The table below shows aggregate information: 

 

Review rubric for assessment of general education courses# Reviewer: GEC 
Date: 11/21/2011 

 

Course: ALL 

 

No 

 

Unclear 

 

Yes 

 

Comments 

The mission is the 
catalog description of 
the course. 

 

 

 

82% 

 

The goal for which the 
course has been 
designated is properly 
identified. 

 

 

 

92% 

 

The outcomes for the 
corresponding goal are 
all listed. 

 

 

 

92% 

 

For each outcome, 
“associations” are made 
to the Strategic Plan, 
Standards, and SCHEV 
competencies based on 
the curriculum map.* 

 

 

 

 

A direct measure 
(assessment 
instrument) for student 
learning is identified for 
each outcome. The 
measure will yield 
information that can 
lead to changes. 

 

 

 

 

 

68% 

 

Each measure includes a 
target for student 
achievement. 

 

 

 

49% 

Several departments were 
using 2010-11 findings as a 
baseline to help set targets 

Findings that provide 
specific and meaningful 
information have been 
entered for each 
measure. 

 

 

 

54% 

 

An action plan informed 
by assessment results 
and linked to specific 
findings is present. 

 

 

 

 

 

41% 

 



*not expected in 2011-12; for future reference #doesn’t include courses not offered since 2009 

 

 


For action plans (check all that apply): 

The 
action 
plan 
includes 
changes 
in: 

course 
design 

instructional delivery 

assessment 
methodology 

achievement 
targets 

faculty 
development 
/ training 

other 

Comments 

BIOL 101 
CHEM 101 
FREN 342 
GEOG 220 
MATH 121 
MUSC 222 
MATH 171 
PHED 101 
POSC 150 
POSC 331 
POSC 332 

BIOL 101 
CHEM 101 
GEOG 220 
HLTH 210 
LSEM 100 
MATH 121 
MATH 171 
MUSC 222 
PHED 101 
POSC 150 
POSC 255 
POSC 331 
POSC 332 

CHEM 101 
COMM 400 
ENGL 201 
ENGL 202 
ENGL 203 
ENGL 400 
HIST 100 
HIST 110 
HIST 200 
HIST 221 
HIST 222 
HLTH 210 
LSEM 100 
MATH 121 
MATH 171 
PHED 101 
PSYC 101 

CMSC 121 
ENGL 400 
HIST 100 
HIST 110 
HIST 200 
LSEM 100 
MATH 114 
MATH 121 
MATH 131 
MATH 171 
MATH/CMSC 350 
PSYC 101 

LSEM 100 

CMSC 121 
MATH 114 
MATH 121 
MATH 131 
MATH 171 


 



 

The committee discussed whether the procedure it uses to do next year’s review should be 
any different. Members agreed that the procedure used this year should be followed again. 

 

The committee received a report on the progress and procedures for assessment of 
the SCHEV competencies. 

 

Also, the committee recognizes and thanks David Shoenthal and Melissa Panzarello for their 
work in organizing the General Education Film Series this year and thanks the faculty 
members who introduced the films: 

 

 

Title 

Introduce 

Garbage Dreams 

Carl Riden 

Catfish 

Pam Tracy 

Let the Right One In 

David Magill 

My Dog Tulip 

Derek Taylor 

-------------- 

 

The Illusionist 

Wade Edwards 

The English Surgeon 

Melissa Panzarello 

The First Movie 

Jeff Halliday 

Meek's Cutoff 

Lara Fergeson 

Exit Through the Gift Shop 

Alex Grabiec 



 

 

 

Committee members: Mc Amoss (chair), Chrys Kosarchyn, Pat Lust, Pam Tracy, Linda 
Wright, Chris McGee (ex officio), Larissa Fergeson (ex officio) with help from Linda 
Townsend (Coordinator of Assessment) and Susan May