Minutes of the General Education Committee
Friday, September 5, 2003
4 p.m. in the Plains Room of the Memorial Union

Members present: Virginia Clark Johnson, Philippe d’Anjou, Bob Harrold, Kate Haugen, Ranelle Ingalls, Larry Peterson, Doug Rymph, Grant Striemer, Orven Swenson, Kristi Wold-McCormick.

Members unable to attend: Phil McClean, Char Myhre, Stephen O’Rourke, Justin Wageman.

Larry Peterson convened the meeting at 4 p.m. and called for nominations for chair of this committee. A motion to cast a unanimous ballot for Larry Peterson (Harrold/Swenson) was approved. Bob Harrold agreed to serve as recorder for this meeting.

The following student petitions were presented by Ranelle Ingalls and Kristi Wold-McCormick:
- Student 1: STAT 331 as Science and Technology. Approved and the
Office of the Registrar was provided authority for administrative approval of
similar petitions.
- Student 2: Waive requirement for UNIV 189. Denied
- Student 3: Use UNIV 499 as Science and Technology. Denied
- Student 4: Waive 3 credits of Science and Technology. Denied
- Student 5: Waive UNIV 189. Denied
- Student 6: Consider HIST 196 as Humanities. Approved
- Student 7: Use extensive overseas military service as Cultural Diversity. Approved
- Student 8: Substitute gen ed course from UNI. Approved
- Student 9: Use Study Abroad as Cultural Diversity. Administrative Approval

After discussion of whether PLSC 110 contained an embedded laboratory, a motion to approve as containing an embedded laboratory (Haugen/Swenson) was approved with a request that the catalog description be clarified for the 2004 - 2006 (and future) editions.

Larry distributed Five-Year Review materials that had been received over the summer and adjourned the meeting at 5:05 p.m.

Agenda items to carry forward:
1) Review of tasks not completed previously
2) Establish timelines for this academic year
3) Form subcommittees

Respectfully submitted: Bob Harrold