Jms 480 Project Proposal Notes

JMS 480 Project Proposal Notes: Center for Teaching and Learning New set of compliance for the GE curriculum There are new statements of what students will learn in the GE requirements 7 essential capacities: they’re viewed by the academic senate They’re not at the level of students being able to analyze They’re designed to be applicable to all GE requirements Professors are required to put what capacities are going to be taught 1.) Construct analyze and communicate arguments 2.) Apply theoretical models to the real world 3.) Contextualize phenomenon (when we see something happen and how we understand it in it’s natural context) 4.) Negotiate differences (to negotiate differences in opinions, goals, needs, perspectives, etc) – like political differences 5.) Integrated global and local perspectives 6.) Illustrate the relevance of concepts across boundaries – see how things are related, like PR being related to politics 7.) Evaluate the consequences of actions Problem is that our faculty are not familiar with this. Most don’t know how they’re going to incorporate that in their course. They have to use at least 3 and a lot of the GE professors use this. To make the directions more explicit on how to incorporate into the course. To help the students on what they’re supposed to learn in the course. To explain what they’re supposed to gain from taking the course. Hidden consumer of hidden graduate consumer (parents) To explain why you’re doing this or that as a major To give them a clearer idea on what the objectives are at SDSU Ideas = It’s likely that President Weber should give a speech on the new capacities To go to President Weber on writing the speech, Special lunch or ceremony. Use his endorsement and use that to pump through conduits To get news on this Every meeting in September for Faculty, talk about it from Weber to a large number of faculty. Video tapes his speech? Using the President, he has the ability to get the resources for the message. Why he would be more likely to do this? At the most recent graduation, he gave a charge to the students and he got up to give a charge to the students.

Unknowns – Product endorser (Weber). A plan on how his speech will be impactful. What is the research? How do we use these instruments of communication? Mostly a campaign to raise awareness. How do you help people develop and aware and an idealism of these values? Team’s goal are what we need to research about this and what potentials avenues can we use to implement this. This is a particular target initiative but we’re trying to create a broader understanding on the learning outcomes to describe expectations of students in a classroom. One of the lunch series: Architecture of the Curriculum A series that was devoted to this issue (30 to 40 faculty, when there’s about 1600-1700 faculty) – most of the faculty are lecturers. Try to increase the general awareness of what the general outcomes are and why it’s important for us to be aware. If we had a piece that went into the 360 magazine, or press release, news coverage. A much larger campaign, to let students know what they are working on. To know what they are going to learn in their course work. Rhetorical frame: it’s about empowering. Descriptions on empowering students, empowering people over the people you’ve taken responsibility over. Students are NOT ready when they graduate and go out into the real world. Thomas Friedman – The World is Flat GE learning requirement just for SDSU or for CSU? - Look at 1990 placement capacities “integrate, etc” - Almost every university has this issue, what are GEs? Approved by a special task force, academic senate a year ago. SDSU faculty (version of AS) Publics: students, teachers, faculty, parents IE. One of the biggest arguments in the engineering dept is that the

newer graduates do not know how to work in teams Faculty: find a way to say that this isn’t something more it’s something you’re already doing or making adjustments, clarity about the expectations of a class How do we take this and change the culture? How can this been seen as something “cool”? What techniques do you use? KNOWLEDGE (awareness), ATTITUDE (thinking), BEHAVIOR (and actually doing, there’s already a guide for this already). The lunch series is how to take the 7 strategies and how to incorporate it into the course. Response & Measure: Lunches for 5 years Evaluations = what is the likely hood of what you learned will influence your teaching? Discussion with colleague? Benefit the university? If we get President Weber, costs will be invisible for them. Able to do a good campaign, if using the school’s resources. We have to be prepared for faculty that is going to resist. If you’re clear, you can prioritize. Is there a campaign-estimated budget?

Nothing.

There are problems still when it is currently being implemented. Some professors are out of the loops. Try to get more awareness in lecturers. During budget cuts, tenure staff members mostly teach things. Dr. Kathy Williams – [email protected] Associate dean of undergraduate students Field research, is seeing if one of the reasons to why we tuition is increasing