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REQUEST FOR CORE COURSE DISCIPLINE ADVISORS
The Curriculum Committee has been working on a process for implementing the
approved core course criteria for Quantitative/Symbolic Reasoning, Multicultural
Understanding, and Communication. As part of the review process for any
proposed core course we would like to have input from colleagues with expertise
in each of these areas. If you are interested in becoming a Core Course
Discipline Advisor for any of these three areas, please email your name and
short description outlining your qualifications to John Backes in the Office of
Instruction by Tuesday November 13th. The VPAA and the Dean Team will be
responsible for evaluating and selecting between 3 and 5 discipline experts for
each of the three core course areas. As of last week, 5 people have volunteered
for Quantitative/Symbolic Reasoning, 1 person has volunteered for Multicultural
Understanding (though 4 people have recently expressed an interest), and 1
person has volunteered for Communication.
We are currently envisioning that a selected discipline advisor would review
proposed MCOs relative to the core course criteria (see the Curriculum Committee
web site on the SCC Intranet for a listing of the criteria) and make a
recommendation as to whether a proposed course satisfies the criteria or not.
This MCO review and recommendation could all be done electronically and at this
point, we are not planning on creating a committee of advisors that would need
to meet formally, though advisors could choose to do this on their own if they
wished. The recommendations of these selected advisors would then be passed on
to the curriculum committee. The curriculum committee would then make a formal
recommendation to the VPAA after taking all input into account. In instances
where there are disagreements, the Curriculum Committee would request that the
advisor either attend the next curriculum committee meeting to clarify their
positions in person or submit a written explanatio
n for their decision. The services of selected advisors will be on an
as-needed basis.
If you have any other questions about what this responsibility would entail,
please feel free to contact Don Christensen or Susan Hoyne. Thanks!
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