Author: Helen

Agenda:

• Introductions
• Election of the co-chair
• Goals for the year
• Mason Core process and annual timeline
• Review of two proposals:

Category	Title
Literature	SEED 370: Young Adult Literature in Multicultural Settings
Capstone	GCH 466: Physical Activity in Public Health Capstone

Mason Core Committee Agenda

April 29, 2021

1:00-2:30pm

 

 

1:00- 1:20: Review Proposals

Literature	INTS 363: Social Justice Narratives
Capstone	GLOA 492: Honors Research Project in Global Affairs

 

1:20-1:40: Review and affirm on capstone/synthesis outcomes:

 

1:40-2:30: Discuss ARIE curriculum recommendations (guests: Lauren Cattaneo and Tehama Lopez Bunyasi)

Mason Core Committee Agenda

April 15, 2021

1:00-2:30pm

 

 

1:00- 1:30: Capstone/synthesis team meets

1:30-1:45: Discuss capstone/synthesis as group

1:45-2:00: Aysha Puhl- first year residential experience

2:00-2:15 Chris DiTeresi- COACHE Term Faculty Summary

2:15-2:30: review proposal

 

Category	Title
Arts	HIST 316: History of Modern Architecture

Mason Core Committee Agenda

March 25, 2021

1:00-2:30pm

1. Review proposals

 

Category	Proposal		Notes
CAP	ECON 460: Senior Seminar in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics		resubmit
SBS	LING 100: Human Language		new

 

1. Revisit outcomes conversation
   1. Bethany: overview themes from our last conversation
   2. Breakout rooms
      1. Write the outcomes that you see reflected in these themes
      2. Create a visual representation of how these fit together in the Mason Core
      3. Are these the right outcomes?  What is missing?
      4. How do these fit into a model for capstone/synthesis?
2. Discuss ARIE proposal (if time)
3. AAC&U summer institute—any interest?

Mason Core Committee Agenda

February 25, 2021

1:00-2:30pm

1. Review proposals
2. Workshop on Mason degree outcomes (will help lead to capstone/synthesis discussion
3. Capstone/synthesis outcomes (if there’s time)
   

   Category	Title
   CAP	ECED 492: Internship in Early Childhood Education (Non-Licensure)
   Arts	FAVS 204: Ways of Seeing: Perception, Form and Film
   GU	FAVS 320: Afrofuturism and Their Kin
   Arts	FAVS 280: Writing for the Moving Image
   NSNL	ASTR 303: Black Holes
   GU	GGS 317: Geography of China
   SBS	GGS 301: Political Geography

 

 

Mason Core Committee Agenda

February 11, 2021

1:00-2:30pm

 

1. Announcement: Mason Core charge update approved
2. Review proposals
3. Start talking about capstone/synthesis challenges and outcomes
4. Preview of Mason degree outcomes discussion

 

Category			NOTES
CAP	ARAB 355: Advanced Arabic Media: Debates & Context
GU	UNIV 381: Foundations for Building a Just Society
SBS	UNIV 381: Foundations for Building a Just Society
CAP	ARAB 351: Media Arabic II (Spoken Media)		removing capstone (Announcement only)
SYNTH	COS 310: Introduction to Science Policy
NSL	BIOL 105: Introductory Biology II Laboratory		note additional comments section in CIM
NSL	COS 301: Great Ideas in Science		only changing course prefix from PROV to COS
SBS	ANTH 121: People of the Earth: Humanity’s First Five Million Years
IT	SYST 130: Introduction to Computing for Digital Systems Engineering
NSNL	BIOL 103: Introductory Biology II-Survey of Cell and Molecular Biology		note additional comments section in CIM
NSNL	BIOL 102: Introductory Biology I-Survey of Biodiversity and Ecology		note additional comments section in CIM

 

Mason Core Meeting

January 28, 2021

1. Honors Curriculum Discussion (Guests: Jan Albeck and John Woolsey)
2. Proposals:

 

Category	Title
CAP	ECON 460: Senior Seminar in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
GU	EVPP 381: Nature and Culture in Global Wetlands
CAP	ECON 491: Capstone in Economics
CAP	ECON 493: Capstone Internship
CAP	ECON 495: RS: Honors Thesis in Economics
SBS	SOCI 371: The Individual and Society
SBS	SOCI 360: Youth Culture and Society
GU	FRLN 331: Topics in World Cinema
SBS	SOCI 308: Race and Ethnicity in a Changing World
GU	SOCI 330: US Immigrants and Immigration
GU	INTS 390: International Internship

Mason Core Meeting

December 10, 2020

1:00-2:30pm (Zoom)

Proposals:

Category	Title
IT and Computing	AVT 110: Digital Design Studio
Literature	RELI 271: The Bible as Literature
SBS	SOCW 200: Introduction to Social Work

 

Mason Core Committee Agenda

Thursday, November 9, 1:00-2:30pm

1.  Review Proposals

 

Category	Title		Notes
NSL	PHYS 170: Introductory and Modern Physics I		resubmit
NSL	PHYS 270: Introductory and Modern Physics II		resubmit
GU	RELI 212: Religions of Asia		resubmit

 

2. Assessment Task Force proposal discussion

 

3. ENGH 101 update from Courtney
4. Review Honors College articulation table

 

Mason Core Committee

Agenda

Thursday, October 22, 1:00-2:30pm

• Elect assessment task force
• Proposal announcements
  • ENGL 125T: Introduction to Engineering Methods
  • IT 304: IT in the Global Economy
• Review proposals
  • FRLN 331: Topics in World Cinema
  • NUTR 495: Nutrition and Food Studies Capstone
• ENGH 101 description revisions (Courtney)
• Update on ARIE (Melissa)
• Mason-Wide Learning Outcomes (Bethany)

 

Category	Title
GU	FRLN 331: Topics in World Cinema
Capstone	NUTR 495: Nutrition and Food Studies Capstone