General Education Committee

Minutes of the March 8, 2006 GEC Meeting

GEC Members present:

Karl Fink (chair, HUM), Kathy Shea (NSM), Sherry Saterstrom (FA), Chris Chiappari (IGS), Xun Pomponio (SSF), Solveig Zempel (Associate Dean, IGS)--- ex-officio, Kathy Granquist (Registrars rep.)--- ex-officio,

The meeting was called to order at 3:30 p.m.

The minutes from the February 22 were approved.

Discussion and clarification followed on the course re-certification process for revised GEC attributes.

Approval of new courses:

Art 126 Visual Thinking --- ALS-A

Asian Studies 240 Talking in Japan and the U.S. ---HBS

ID 239 Peace Building and Conflict Management ---ORC (retroactive)

Tabled course:

IS 202 Top: Sports in Society--- tabled for more info on alignment with HBS

Meeting adjourned 4:30.

Next meeting March 22, 2006 at 3:30.