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April 24 2025 Agenda

Mason Core Meeting

Thursday, April 24, 2025, from 1:30-3:00pm via Zoom

Welcome
Announcements
Proposals
Bylaws

Category	Title
Global Contexts	RELI 383: Holocaust: History and Meaning
Global Contexts	HIST 318: Holocaust: History and Meaning
Social and Behavioral Science	HIST 382: Law and History
Writing Intensive	KINE 605: Research Methods in Kinesiology
Mason Apex	COMM 457: Communicating Dissent: Revolutions and Social Movements
Mason Apex	COMM 459: Argument and Public Policy
Writing Intensive	RELI 300: Theories and Methods in Religious Studies
Mason Apex	LING 497: Linguistics Apex Research
Social and Behavioral Science	GGS 304: Population Geography

December Mason Core Agenda

November Mason Core Agenda

September 22, 2022 Agenda

Welcome

Introductions

Announcements

Meeting management

Agenda Items

Course Proposals

Category	Title
Synthesis	CHEM 460: Chemistry in the Kitchen
GU	GOVT 134: Grand Challenges to Human Security
NSL*	GEOL 103: Physical Geology Lab
NSNL*	GEOL 101: Physical Geology
NSNL*	GEOL 102: Historical Geology
GU	CULT 320: Globalization and Culture
Capstone	BAS 493: BAS Capstone
Capstone	HDFS 499: Advanced Internship and Analysis in Human Development and Family Science

*already Mason Core courses, sequencing discussion request from COS/catalog

Discussion

Retreat Recap
Capstone/Synthesis Taskforce
Strategy Session: communicating the value of Mason Core to faculty and students

February 24 Mason Core Agenda

Mason Core Committee Meeting   

February 24, 2022 

Announcements    

Meeting management
Mason Core Enhancement Survey
COACHE Presentation: Chris DiTeresi

Course Proposals    

#	Category	Title
1	Oral Communication	THR 401: Professional Presentation
2	Global Understanding	FOLK 100: Global Folklore
3	Capstone	HDFS 499: Advanced Internship and Analysis in Human Development and Family Science
4	Arts	AVT 105: Three-Dimensional Design and Beyond

February 10 Mason Core Agenda

January 2022 Mason Core Agenda

Mason Core Committee Meeting -January 27, 2022

Announcements 

Meeting management

Course Proposals 

Category	Title	Type
Synthesis	NEUR 473: Current Neuroscience Research in Germany	New Proposal
GU	RELI 358: Islamic Thought	Renumbering only
GU	RELI 310: Judaism	Renumbering only
GU	RELI 369: Religion and Revolution in Latin America	Renumbering only
Lit	RELI 339: The Bible as Literature	Renumbering only

Task Forces: updates from 3 existing task forces

Just Society
Global
History

ADVANCE and Mason Core Enhancements

Discussion

Preparation for Town Hall (January 28, 12-1:30pm)

December 09 Agenda

Mason Core Committee Meeting 

December 09, 2021 

Merten 1204 and Zoom

Announcements 

Meeting management

Discussion

AAC&U 2022 Conference on General Education, Pedagogy, and Assessment
Assessment updates from Gina Polychronopoulos (OIEP)
Enhanced Mason Core model to share with campus community

Plan for outreach and feedback, survey questions

Course Proposals 

Category	Title
Synthesis	NEUR 424: Sleep and Circadian Rhythms

Conclusion

Proposal #	Category	Title
1	Capstone	NURS 490: Health Policy and Advocacy in Nursing
2	Capstone	KORE 440: Special Topics in Translation of Korean
3	NSNL	PHIL 271: How Science Works
4	Literature	KORE 325: Major North and South Korean Writers
5	GU	HIST 315: STEM and Society: A History
6	NSNL	INTS 410 : Contemporary Health: Intersections in Science and Society
7	SBS	WMST 208: Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies

Category	Title
Quantitative Reasoning	BUS 210: Business Analytics I