Liberal Learning Program Council: Most Recent Minutes
October 21, 2009
Present: Robert Anderson (secretary), Mary Biggs, Dan Frieri, John Laughton, Nancy Lasher (Chair), Romula Ochoa, Amy Ogbonna, Catie Rosemurgy, John Ruscio, Monisha Pulimood, Philip Sanders, Glenn Steinberg, Karen Yan
- The Minutes from September 16th were approved as submitted.
- Bob Anderson agreed to fix the confusion engendered by the fact that the left and center areas of the website offer conflicting 'advice' on new course proposals and how to present them.
- ECO 120, European Economic History was approved for social change in historical perspectives. The vote was 10 in favor, one abstention, and none opposed.
- A preliminary discussion of ANT 111, Introduction to Physical Anthropology was held. LLPC members indicated appreciation of the course in concept, but recommend that a fully developed syllabus be created with an explicit rationale for its category (non-lab natural science) following the check list on our approval process. Interest was expressed in seeing the texts for the course. Questions concerning the role of hypothesis testing in the course were raised. A discussion of the nature of 'natural science' did not rule out the possibility of physical anthropology being included within that category.
- Bob Anderson, in the interests of forest preservation and carbon neutrality, agreed to bring only six copies of each document to meetings.
- Adjournment was at 2:35.
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