Curriculum Institute 2004 Program
and Presentations
General
Information
The Curriculum Institute provides faculty curriculum
chairs, chief instructional officers, and faculty
members involved in new program development, program
revision, or technology curriculum development
with training on curriculum development. Participants
in attendance learn good curriculum committee
practices including how to write integrated course
outlines. Additionally, participants learn about
separate course approval for online, distance
technology, technology-mediated courses, and effective
instructor-student contact and about course transfer
and articulation. The Curriculum Institute provides
curriculum specialist for special assistance to
all in attendance. This Institute offers a unique
opportunity for campuses to send teams to participate
in the very important process of curriculum development.
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Thursday, July 15
1:00 p.m. Opening General
Session and Welcome The 2003-04 Curriculum Committee:
Jane Patton (chair), Carole Bennett, Jane de Leon,
Richard Mahon, Zwi Reznick and Sandy Warmington
Curriculum Committee members
will provide a brief overview of the 2004 Curriculum
Institute
Steering the Ship: Academic
Directions and Curriculum Decisions Kate Clark, President, Academic
Senate
Jane Patton, Curriculum Committee Chair
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2:00
p.m. Concurrent Breakout Sessions
ABCs: The Roles and Responsibilities
of Curriculum Committees Carole Bennett, Deb Parziale,
Jane Patton, and Jim Wilczak
What makes an ideal committee
member? An ideal committee? What are best practices
for writing course outlines? This session will
bring you up-to-speed about those questions, as
well as clarify what is currently in and out of
the control of the curriculum committee and what
resources are available to new committee members.
Please bring your Institute Binder to this breakout
session.
Coordinating Curriculum in
a Multi-College District John Clerx, Karen Kunimura,
Phil Smith and Sandy Warmington
Curriculum development in a single college can
be difficult, but try to accomplish the task with
multiple colleges. How can the process be smooth
and efficient, while maintaining the academic
integrity of each college? What is the difference
between the roles of the district curriculum committee
and the college curriculum committee? Learn from
the faculty experts who work through the process
in their districts.
Transfer and Articulation
Basics and Issues Clyde Brewer, Kate Clark,
Bernie Day, Yula Flournoy and Richard Mahon
This breakout will offer a review of the intersegmental
factors that affect curriculum approval: IGETC,
the CAN processes, and IMPAC, the intersegmental
discussions of coursework for major preparation.
Opportunity for audience questions and discussion
will be provided.
3:15 p.m. Break, Lower Level
Lobby
3:30 p.m. General Session
OSCAR and ASSIST Eric Taggart, ASSIST Director
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The Articulation System Stimulating
Inter-institutional Student Transfer (ASSIST)
is a computerized information system that operates
as California’s official source for course
articulation. ASSIST is a suite of web sites and
services to facilitate student transfer planning
and course articulation. OSCAR is the web-based
system that facilitates the review of course
outlines for articulation. The director of
ASSIST will demystify these acronyms and explain
how these services work as a support to our curriculum
and articulation processes.
4:45 p.m. General Session
Math/English Associate Degree Requirements
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The Senate’s Curriculum
Committee will present the status of the statewide
discussions about the math and English associate
degree requirements. Then the attendees will meet
in small groups (facilitated by Curriculum and
Executive Committee members) to discuss the issues
and options that are before the Academic Senate
and the possible next steps.
6:15 p.m. Free Time
6:30 p.m. No Host Reception
Join your colleagues for refreshments before
dinner.
7:00 p.m. Dinner
Friday, July 16
6:30 a.m. Breakfast Breakfast will be served from 6:30 a.m. to
8:25 a.m. Dine at your convenience, but please
don’t be late for the opening presentation!
8:30 a.m. General Session:
Student Learning Outcomes Claire Biancalana, Marcy
Alan Craig and Greg Gilbert
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This presentation will explain
the fundamentals of SLOs including why they are
needed, and how they vary across disciplines;
it will also provide guidance for overcoming fear
about them and the resistance to them among some
faculty members.
10:00 a.m. Concurrent
Breakout Sessions (These sessions will
be repeated at 11:30 a.m.)
Curriculum Clarifications,
Dona Boatright, Bernie Day,
Jane Patton and Jim Wilczak There are sometimes confusing issues facing
curriculm committees. This session will allow
opportunity to clarify such issues as: repeatability,
overlap, lab vs. lecture, upper/lower division;
breadth, zero unit labs, accelerated courses.
Please bring your Institute Binder to this breakout
session.
Pre-requisites
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Jane de Leon,
Yula Flournoy and Chini Johnson-Taylor What are the best practices for establishing
pre-requisites? What are the validation requirements,
and what resources are available to curriculum
writers and committees? This session will offer
the ABCs of pre-requisites and opportunity for
questions.
Using Technology for Curriculum
Management and Committees Carole Bennett and Lynne
Welch Have you killed a forest of trees providing
curriculum packets for your committee members?
Two different colleges will share how they are
addressing the challenges of needing to process
information faster, to communicate more consistently
and clearly, to operate on minimal budgets, to use
various technologies, and to take advantage of
available resources—including locally-developed
processes and commercial programs such as CurricUNet.
11:15 a.m. Break
11:30
a.m. Concurrent Breakout Sessions (Repeated
from 10:00 a.m.)
Curriculum Clarifications
Dona Boatright, Bernie
Day, Jane Patton and Jim Wilczak There are sometimes confusing issues facing
curriculm committees. This session will allow
opportunity to clarify such issues as: repeatability,
overlap, lab vs. lecture, upper/lower division;
breadth, zero unit labs, accelerated courses.
Please bring your Institute Binder to this breakout
session.
Pre-requisites
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Jane
de Leon, Yula Flournoy and Chini Johnson-Taylor
What are the best practices for establishing
pre-requisites? What are the validation requirements,
and what resources are available to curriculum
writers and committees? This session will offer
the ABCs of pre-requisites and opportunity for
questions.
Using Technology for Curriculum
Management and Committees (Repeated topic with different presenters) Bill Karns and Phil Smith Faculty and staff at the four Los Rios
colleges have been developing SOCRATES, an in-house,
web-based curriculum management system that allows
faculty originators to develop course outlines
over the web from any Internet-connected computer.
This presentation includes a demonstration of
the SOCRATES Curriculum System and describes the
colleges’ development process.
12:45-1:45 p.m. Luncheon:
A Networking Opportunity
2:00
p.m. Concurrent Breakout Sessions
Assigning Courses to Disciplines
Richard Mahon and Mark Snowhite Who “owns” a course? Who gets
to teach what? This session will discuss why these
questions are critical to curriculum committees,
how ignoring these questions causes problems down
the road, and how committees can find answers
to these questions.
How it Can Work: Working
with Vice Presidents of Instruction Jaima Bennett, Wes Bryan,
Sue Lorimer and Dianne McKay When there is a difference of opinion between
faculty and administrators, a curriculum committee’s
work can suffer. A panel of Vice Presidents of
Instruction and Curriculum Chairs will discuss
their tips for effective working relationships
between curriculum committee and administrators.
Student Learning Outcomes
101 (Will be repeated at 3:15) Janet Fulks and Kate Pluta
This breakout is a work session—where you
can practice writing SLOs by rolling up your sleeves
and writing! You will have a chance to learn from
the experts how to write different kinds of SLOs
and will have examples to take back to your college.
3:15
p.m. Concurrent Breakout Sessions
Program Development, Continuance
and Discontinuance—Issues and Options Kim Holland, Dianne McKay,
and Shaaron Vogel As colleges consider which programs should
be developed, continued or discontinued, especially
in times of budget constraints, faculty should
know the role of the senates and curriculum committees
in such discussions. Vocational programs are often
targeted for reductions. How should decisions
be made? This session will provide guidance and
examples of model local policies that ensure faculty—and
student—participation.
Student Learning Outcomes
101 (Repeated from 2:00) Janet Fulks and Kate Pluta
This is a work session—where you can practice
writing SLOs by rolling up your sleeves and writing!
You will have a chance to learn from the experts
how to write different kinds of SLOs and will
have examples to take back to your college.
Hot Topics Kate Clark, Greg Gilbert,
Richard Mahon and Mark Snowhite A group of Executive and Curriculum Committee
members will engage in a discussion with the audience
about the hot topics facing curriculum committees
today. This is your chance to pursue answers to
those burning issues your college faces.
4:30 p.m. Free Time We will also provide suggestions for relaxing
or energizing activities as well as provide opportunities
for you to network with people from other colleges
6:00 p.m. Hosted Mixer After a full day of activities, you deserve
an opportunity to relax. This one’s on us.
Dinner is on your own, and we will provide opportunities
to meet with others.
Saturday, July 17
6:30 a.m. Breakfast Breakfast will be served from 6:30 a.m. to
8:25 a.m. Dine at your convenience but please
don’t be late for the opening presentation!
Room Checkout Room check out is at 12:00 p.m. However, you
are encouraged to check out during this time and
store your luggage at the front desk.
10:00 a.m. General Session:
Learning by Distance
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Bob
Grill, Pat James Hanz and Jane Patton This session will present information about
the Hot Topics in Distance Education, the publications
that can help you, the newly revised Distance
Education guidelines, accommodation strategies
and requirements and curriculum review of distance
courses. Participants will have an opportunity
to ask questions.
11:15 a.m. General Session:
Where to from Here? Members of the Curriculum Committee will lead
the participants though a review of what we have
collectively learned and what we can do with that
new information at our colleges. This session
will help you discover what you can take back
and how you can help your curriculum committee
in the fall.
