2012-1026

2012 October 26 UG Committee

Summary of meeting and actions we've agreed to!

Resubmission of the gen ed courses

Phys 150, 150A, 180, 181, 162

Phys 210, 211, 253, 273

gen ed goals that we fit are typically a.iii and b.iv

deadline (next week hard deadline) so our actions need to be completed by Tuesday.

ACTION -Please read the templates (attached to bottom) - and sent comment/tweaks/acknowledgement to CT at latest by Tuesday. Earlier is better.

Vision 2020 - indicators (deadline for finished product to LA&S is in Dec)

Template for reporting action steps for LA&S

Eads - Topic one (Undergraduate Recuitment)

Fortner - Topic two (Engaged Learning)

Winkler/Chmaissem - Topic three (Classroom experience and curriculum)

Martin - Topic Four (Distributed learning)

ACTION - Please talk to faculty/etc and document in your template what we have relevant to these areas, and be ready with good ideas for additional effective actions department might support or encourage, particularly with respect to topic 1 and 2.

(10/26 I still need to get electronic copies. When I do I will post. Note hard copies were passed out in Oct 4 meeting)

Course catalog (easy fix up changes)

fix any reference to Phys 250A, 260, etc in the catalog (eliminate it)

- consensus was go ahead with this

remove Phys 252

- consensus was that we cannot do this yet

actions CT will talk again to chem/bio to warn them it is not being offered so they can change their catalog

department will not offer it next semester (for sure this time! in principle we had stopped offering it about a year ago but somehow it did not disappear from the listing)

course that will be specifically UG research - maybe use Phys 472(change description)

- this will help also keeping track of UG research experiences

Other business

- check into math courses topics - what we think we need for Phys 253/273 and what they are getting?

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Final action item

next meeting - November 30, 2-3pm (tentative)

note - agenda next meeting should include at least...

Vision 2020 templates (bring what you've done and ideas)

Freshman engagement - freshman seminar or other options

CT - bring draft copies of revised course descriptions as discussed this meeting

Ideas for gen ed - making it more transparent process for us