Basic Programs Committee meeting minutes:

March 24, 2005

 

Present: Olwell, Gorenflo, Lancaster, Faust, Bayee, Burke, McGinnis, Bishop, Burke, Yang, Harder

Proxies: Li, Fleischer

Guests: Palladino, Crary, Rockledge

 

1. Minutes approved from previous meeting, 9-0-0

2. Economics major changes for 7-12 education proposal tabled, 9-0-0. The committee discussed the possibility of economics becoming a minor for social studies majors. The economics department will discuss and return to the committee later this spring.

3. Emotional Impairment program changes for the major and Sem-T program were discussed and approved, 7 -1-1. Members of the committee raised concerns that the program had hidden prerequisites in mathematics, was dropping the requirement for physical education in the elementary education curriculum.