1. Call to Order - The chair, Kent Redding, called the meeting to order at 9:05 a.m. in Holton Hall 141.
   
   
2. Procedural Matters
1. Minutes #5 (December 5, 2003) - Jay Beder requested that the statement "It was suggested that a quantitative course would be more appropriate than a logic course for the B.S." be deleted and replaced by the following statement: "He proposed that the math requirements for the B.S. be changed to Math 211 or 231 or equivalent, plus one additional course at the 200 level or above chosen from the Mathematical Science or L&S statistics courses. The intent is to prevent Math 225 from being used in partial fulfillment, thus removing an inconsistency in the current requirement. It would also disallow use of a 200-level logic course to fulfill part of the requirement. Tom O'Bryan suggested that "or equivalent" be changed to a list of the specific courses intended, and that Math 225 be explicitly excluded."

   Josepha Lanters requested to have the statement "It was moved, seconded, and approved to recommend to the C&CC that the English requirement remain as is and that a writing center be established" to read that "It was moved, seconded, and approved to recommend to the C&CC that the English requirement remain as is with departments working more closely with the writing center to improve writing skills." With these changes, the amended minutes stand approved.

3. Old Business
1. Discussion of Committee Members' Reports - Sara Hoot handed out copies of the revised mission statement. Madeleine Velguth gave a brief summary of the language requirement. She suggested two proposals modifying the requirement. She suggested that there be a differentiation in the language requirements for the B.S. and B.A. After much discussion concerning increasing the requirements for foreign languages and the effects of that change to the College, members agreed that a competency test for foreign languages should be required for students who wish to be exempt from college-level language courses. It was moved, seconded and approved to recommend to the C&CC to modify the language requirement by deleting the C- requirement and adding that native speakers of a language be exempt. Students must take a placement test. Those students who place at a second semester level are required to take only one more course of a language to fulfill the language requirement.

   Madeleine Velguth gave a brief summary of the international requirement. She proposed that the requirement be renamed (as a world affairs requirement) and more clearly defined (over fifty percent course content must cover 1900 or after). She briefed members on the list of courses she prepared that would be likely to meet the world affairs requirement. The Committee suggested that departments submit courses to the C&CC for approval to meet the world affairs requirement. Madeleine stated that transfer students have a problem meeting the current nine credit requirement. She suggested that the requirement be lowered to six credits. Members discussed the proposed changes. It was moved and seconded to eliminate the International requirement and to substitute a World Affairs requirement of six credits. The motion was approved.

   Members discussed the acceptance of Military Science credits. It was moved, seconded, and approved to recommend to the C&CC that the College accept a maximum of six credits from Military Science courses in leaderships, history, management, or ethics.

   Connie Jo suggested that the special major be renamed to interdepartmental major. It was moved, seconded, and approved to rename special major to interdepartmental major.

   Connie reported that many faculty members feel strongly about enforcing the policy for students to declare a major. She explained that once students earn forty-five credits they can declare a major. Some departments would like to see students declare a major earlier. Members discussed a suggestion that students should be able to formally declare a major at fifteen credits instead of forty-five. There was discussion of a suggestion to put teeth into the requirement that students declare a major prior to earning seventy-five credits. Enforcing this requirement, however, is a problem. It was moved, seconded, and approved to recommend to the C&CC that students be permitted to declare a major when they have earned fifteen credits and to emphasize that formally declaring a major after earning seventy-five credits may delay graduation.

4. New Business
1. Review of C&CC Recommendations Concerning the Review - tabled
   
   
5. Adjournment - The meeting was adjourned at 10:45 a.m.
   
   
   

Respectfully submitted,

Denise Mueller
PA II, L&S Administration

Distribution: Dean G. Richard Meadows
Associate Deans Harris, Miller, Schuster

Minutes #6, 2003-2004 Degree Req Review comm