MISSION COLLEGE

CURRICULUM REVIEW COMITTEE

Summary of Meeting – February 24, 2003

1. Call to Order - Chairperson Alex Braun called the meeting to order at 2:11 p.m. Those in attendance were:

Member	P	A	Member	P	A
Commercial Services - A. Braun, Chairperson	X		Technologies - J. Halasa	X
Applied Sciences - L. Zummo	X		Instruction – D. McKay		X
Communications - B. Ensminger	X
CATA - A. Szabados	X		Non-Voting Members/Guests
ESL – K. Dworak		X	D. Cordero, Articulation Officer		X
Math – L. Retterath	X		C. Olson, Research		X
Natural Sci. – C. Moyers	X		J. Patton, Academic Senate Pres.		X
Social Sci. - C. Moyers	X		D. Matarangas		X
Student Dev. – Y. Coleman		X	Chau Nguyen, IIS	X

2. Approval of Agenda

Packets have not been submitted for the following agenda items: 4.b.1; 4.c.1-4, 5,8-9; 5.a.1. These items will remain on the agenda until paperwork is received. Don Cordero requested via email that CSU American Institutions be added under Future Agenda as a reminder of the deadline. It was MSC (Zummo/Halasa) to approve the agenda as revised.

Chau Nguyen is a guest from Institute for International Students.

3. Approval of Summary Minutes – February 3, 2003
It was MSC (Ensminger/Szabados) to approve the summary minutes of February 3, 2003.

4. Course Approvals

a. New Courses – First Reading

(1) ACCTG*040 – Introduction to Personal Financial Planning – DL – 1.0 Unit
Betty stated that all three of the ACCTG DL courses have the same justification. Discussion ensued about the 36 additional hours for student assignments and the class size. Committee reviewed distance learning outline, course will go forward for second reading.

(2) ACCTG*042 – Investment Planning – DL – 1.0 Unit
Committee reviewed distance learning outline, course will go forward for second reading.

(3) ACCTG*044 – Retirement Planning – DL – 1.0 Unit
Committee reviewed distance learning outline, course will go forward for second reading. Discussion ensued about the method of evaluation policies of online courses. It was MSC (Moyers/Szabados) that this will be added under future agenda items permanently until this item is resolved.

(4) ANTHR*001L – Physical Anthropology Lab – 1.0 Unit
Ruth Laird presented the reason for the addition of this course and explained some of the exercises the students will work on during the lab. Hoan came into explain why Datatel can not handle prerequisite/corequisite. Committee changed the corequisite to “enrollment in ANTHR*001” rather than “completion of or concurrent enrollment in…” Committee reviewed distance learning outline, course will go forward for second reading.

(5) COMM*005 – Mass Communication and Society – 3.0 Unit
The number should have been updated to be COMM*025. The course number was revised on the course outline. May need to add more outside assignments. Committee reviewed distance learning outline, course will go forward for second reading.

b. New Courses – Second Reading

(1) CIS*049A – Client-Side Web Programming – 3.0 Units
Paperwork was not submitted for CIS*049A. Will remain on the agenda. Jason will follow up on the paperwork.

c. Revision of Courses

(1) ACCTG*040 – Introduction to Personal Financial Planning – 1.0 Unit
Paperwork was not submitted for ACCTG*040. Will remain on the agenda.

(2) ACCTG*042 – Investment Planning – 1.0 Unit
Paperwork was not submitted for ACCTG*042. Will remain on the agenda.

(3) ACCTG*044 – Retirement Planning – 1.0 Unit
Paperwork was not submitted for ACCTG*044. Will remain on the agenda.

(4) ANTHRO*001 – Physical Anthropology – 3.0 Units
Paperwork was not submitted for ANTHR*001. Will remain on the agenda.

(5) CIS*002 – Introduction to Computer Programming Using Visual Basic.NET – 3.0 Units
It was MSC (Ensminger/Moyers) to approve revisions to CIS*002.

(6) CIS*031A – Fundamentals of Microsoft VB.Net – 3.0 Units
Paperwork was not submitted for CIS*031A. Will remain on the agenda. Jason will follow up on the paperwork.

(7) CIS*180 – Computer Lab: Visual Basic.NET (VB.NET) – 1.0 Unit
It was MSC (Ensminger/Halasa) to approve revisions to CIS*180.

(8) PT*068 – Medical Surgical Nursing Theory – 7.0 Units
Paperwork was not submitted for PT*068. Will remain on the agenda.

(9) VN*55A2 – Medical Surgical Nursing Theory – 4.0 Units
Paperwork was not submitted for PT*068. Will remain on the agenda.

d. Administrative Changes

None

5. Certificates/Degrees

a. New Certificates/Degrees

(1) Java Programming Certificate – 17 Units
Paperwork was not submitted for the Java Programming Certificate. Will remain on the agenda. Jason will follow up on the paperwork.

b. Revision to Certificates/Degrees

(1) Mathematics AA Degree – 28-31 Units
Linda explained the changes in regards to the computer classes. It was MSC (Zummo/Halasa) to approve revisions to the Mathematics AA Degree.

5. New Business

a. Honors
Chris Moyers stated that last semester, she distributed some information that essentially states we have had requests from many students who want to take a course for honors so they will have an advantage when they transfer. What honors means was investigated and how other colleges work with this was researched. West Valley has an honors program comprised of certain honors course sections. During the committee’s previous discussion, it was determined that this was not the way Mission wanted to handle honors. At Cabrillo, they have honor students that enroll in regular sections and the honors option says if the student completes a certain amount of extra work then they will receive honors credit. The paperwork is handled like a contract between the instructor and the student. This program can be used for any subject. It would be up to the individual instructor to flush out their regular existing course so now the course would qualify as honors. It was suggested that we ‘invite’ honor-level students using a form letter. A question came up about how instructors would be compensated for the additional work. Honors would be listed on the student’s transcript with an “H” next to the course. It was suggested that this proposal be taken back to the departments. Chris will wordsmith the proposal for representatives to review with their departments.

7. Old Business

8. Future Agenda

a. Pre/Co-Requisite Datatel Colleague Issue

b. Pre-requisite Discussion

c. Reactivating Inactive Courses (using the same course number)

d. CRC Meeting Schedule for 2003-2004 (Compressed Calendar)

e. CRC Meeting Efficiency

9. Adjournment

Meeting was adjourned at 3:39 p.m.