Curriculum Committee

The Curriculum Committee, a standing subcommittee of the Faculty Senate, reviews and makes recommendations on proposals for adding, expanding, deleting, or modifying programs and courses offered by the College. All Academic Divisions have a minimum of one faculty representative and there are 2 voting student members. The Vice President, Academic Affairs; Vice President, Student Services; Division Deans; and Director of Curriculum and Scheduling are non-voting members.

Faculty have two-year appointments, which are staggered to provide for continuity from year to year. The chairperson is an elected faculty member who served on the committee the previous year.

This Committee meets the first and third Monday of each month from 3:00pm to 5:00pm - first Monday of the month will be the approvals, issues and open session for discussion and dialog and third Monday will be designated for screening of all new and revised courses.

Contact Information

Rachel Sherman
Curriculum Committee Chair
rsherman@ohlone.edu

Committee Goals/Guidelines

• 2009-2010 Curriculum Committee Goals (PDF)
• 2008-2009 Curriculum Committee Goals (PDF)
• 2007-2008 Curriculum Committee Goals (PDF)
• 2006-2007 Curriculum Committee Goals Reviewed (PDF)
• 2005-2006 Year-End Accomplishments (PDF)
• 2005-2006 CAPAC Goals (PDF)
• Committee Guidelines (PDF)

Meetings and Deadlines

• Fall 2009/Spring 2010 Curriculum Committee Calendar (PDF)
• Agenda and Minutes

Membership List 2009-2010

• 2009-2010 Membership and Subcommittee Membership List (PDF) (updated September 9, 2009)

Subcommittees

• Cultural Diversity
• Distance Learning
• General Education
• Information Competency
• Student Learning Outcomes & Assessment

Tools for Creating an Effective Course Outline

1. Creating/Revising a Course in CurricUNET (PDF)
2. Integrated Course Outline (PDF)
3. PE Example (PDF)
4. English Example (PDF)
5. Bloom's - CurricUNET (PDF)
6. Integrated Student Centered Curriculum (PowerPoint)
7. Student Learning Outcomes - Course Level (PowerPoint)
8. Ohlone Workshop by Norton Grubb - A Student Learning Outcomes Assessment Cycle - 4 documents: PPT 1, PPT 2, PPT 3, Ohlone Worksheets (PDF)

Course Review

• Six-Year Course Review Cycle (PDF) (posted September 11, 2008)

GE Additional Approvals Requirements 2008-2009

• Administration of Justice (PDF)
• Art (PDF)
• Athletics (PDF)
• Consumer Family Sciences (PDF)
• Early Childhood Science (PDF)
• Graphic Arts (PDF)
• Interior Design (PDF)
• Journalism (PDF)
• Kinesiology (PDF)
• Multimedia (PDF)
• Speech and Communication Studies (PDF)

Local Approval of Stand-Alone Courses

• Handout 1 - 55100 (PDF)
• Handout 2 - FAQ (PDF)
• Handout 3 - Examples of denial (PDF)
• Handout 4 - 55002 (PDF)
• PowerPoint slides 6/page (PDF)

Program and Services Review

Program and Services Review information and schedules, etc. are available on the Office of Academic Affairs website.

Technology Mediated Courses

• Policy for Approval of Online Courses

Curriculum Committee Policy

• Program Approval Process
• Procedure for Name Change for State Approved Programs or Academic Disciplines
• Policy for Adding or Removing Certificates of Completion from the Catalog

CurricUNET

• Ohlone's CurricUNET website is at http://www.curricunet.com/ohlone/ (use the Internet Explorer web browser!)
• CurricUNET Outcomes
• Guidelines to Originate a Course Proposal using CurricUNET (PDF)
• CurricUNET User's Guide is available on Ohlone's CurricUNET website

Curriculum Web Pages

• Curriculum Web Pages
• CA Bureau of Labor Statistics
• US Bureau of Labor Statistics

Distance Education

Important DE Activiy for Year 2009-2010

• The goal this year is to process the 90+ courses, which are converting TBA labs to Hybrid.
• Use the following guides for modifying the COR for your course, being converted from TBA to Hybrid:
  • http://toolkit.cs.ohlone.edu/~jond/ohlone/DE/
    TBA_Lab_Hybrid_Conversion_Instructions_f09.doc (MS Word)
  • http://toolkit.cs.ohlone.edu/~jond/ohlone/DE/
    TBA_Hybrid_COR_Example/
    TBA_Hybrid_COR_Example.html
  • http://projects.cs.ohlone.edu/~jond/ohlone/
    TBA_2_Hybrid_workshop_notes.html

Please email jdegallier@ohlone.edu if in need of captioning.

For more information, go to the DL Committee Wiki: Going the Distance.

See also the DL Committee website.

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