New_Core_Curriculum
Gordon Hilley
Fellow Chairs,
Just wanted to know if there are any other Kinesiology Departments fighting to stay in the core curriculum as a Component Area Option after the Co Board changes that are to be implemented in 2013. Presently, at Del Mar, our core curriculum requires 2 one-hour physical activity classes for Associate of Arts degrees. If you are currently engaged in staying in the core, please let me know how your department is approaching it. Hopefully, we can share some ideas.
Thank you.
Gordon M. Hilley, Ed.D.
Chair, Kinesiology Department
Del Mar College
East Campus
101 Baldwin Blvd.
Corpus Christi, TX 78404
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Knudson, Duane V
Colleagues. We have a department committee drafting a three-credit fitness/wellness class with activity to be proposed as an option in the component area. This class would be aligned with the behavioral sciences and the 21st century skills linked to that area by the politicians. What a mess.
Duane
Gordon Hilley
Duane,
Are you aligning that course with Life & Physical Sciences?
We are planning to propose each physical activity course to our Curriculum Committee.
You’re right, what a mess.
Gordon
Knudson, Duane V
No, but we think that the two main targets can be Physical and Life Sciences or Social and Behavioral Sciences. We like that the core objectives (21 century skills) attached to Life and Physical Sciences involved teamwork, critical thinking, communication, and quantitative problem solving. The pragmatics of our situation are that the Provost decided that only 3 unit classes would be allowed, so the sciences will likely not have as many labs.
Each department will need to see what area they can compete in best given the politics, finances, and facilities of that university.
Mel Finkenberg
Colleagues. We have a department committee drafting a three-credit fitness/wellness class with activity to be proposed as an option in the component area. This class would be aligned with the behavioral sciences and the 21st century skills linked to that area by the politicians. What a mess.Duane
Mel Finkenberg
No, but we think that the two main targets can be Physical and Life Sciences or Social and Behavioral Sciences. We like that the core objectives (21 century skills) attached to Life and Physical Sciences involved teamwork, critical thinking, communication, and quantitative problem solving. The pragmatics of our situation are that the Provost decided that only 3 unit classes would be allowed, so the sciences will likely not have as many labs.Each department will need to see what area they can compete in best given the politics, finances, and facilities of that university.Duane
Christopher M. Hearon
We’re actually looking to get BACK into the core with these new requirements.
-We will be proposing Sport & Global Society (3 hr) to count in both Social/Behavioral, and in the Component Area Option (CAO). This course is currently the only gen ed course we offer (Global Learning) and I expect it to stay in the core under both sections. Or at the very least in the CAO.
-From health we will also be proposing Fitness/Wellness (2 hr) and CPR/FA (1 hr) in the CAO section. I think both of these will make it in.
-From adventure ed, we will be proposing all of our courses (1-3 hr) in the CAO section. I think all of these will make it in as well.
-From aquatics, we will be proposing all of our courses (all 1 hr) in the CAO section. I doubt these will make it in.
-And, we will be proposing all of the general activity courses (all 1 hr) in the CAO section. I doubt these will make it in.
The reason I doubt the aquatics and general activities will make it in is because I have left it to the faculty who have expertise in these areas to complete the justifications to our gen ed curriculum committee. They of course have put in zero effort and I expect these courses to be denied. This is unfortunate because the gen ed committee desperately needs 1 hr courses in the COA section, because the 2 lab hours from the natural sciences will be allowed to come down and count for CAO. Leaving a lot of people needed a 1 hr course to complete their core.
Personally, I do not care if we are in the gen ed or not. I don’t have adequate faculty numbers to offer enough sections of my major courses. I have an intro to exercise science course being taught with 150 freshman in the class. Needless to say, there is not much engagement taking place in there. I have the largest major on campus, I’m fine not being in the gen ed business.
-CMH
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Christopher M. Hearon, Ph.D., FACSM
Professor and Department Chair
Coordinator, Human Performance Laboratory
Texas A&M University-Kingsville
Department of Health & Kinesiology
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Fellow Chairs,
Bonnette, Randy
I have done the same as Duane. We currently don’t have anything in the core, but the state forced us to drop down from 45 to 42. I’ve been on our university core committee for 10 years and have tried to get that done from day one. This was good for many reasons, but it made this committee take a class that I don’t think belonged in the core and made it an ‘either or’ option in the behavioral sciences. So, we have no set a precedent for having additional choices in this section IF it fits the criteria. Bank on it, my syllabus and course fits so I am hopeful to actually get a class just like Duane suggests in the core.
rb
Randy Bonnette
Chair, Kinesiology and Military Science
Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi
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Colleagues. We have a department committee drafting a three-credit fitness/wellness class with activity to be proposed as an option in the component area. This class would be aligned with the behavioral sciences and the 21st century skills linked to that area by the politicians. What a mess.
Almstedt, Richard H
We are fighting to keep our one activity requirement in the core. It has been a year-long process. The Kinesiology Curriculum Committee has been working on the defense of the program for over a year. They will present their arguments later this spring. They have put a tremendous amount of time and effort into the process. I am copying two of the team members on your email. They will be able to provide more insight into the outstanding work they have done in defense of our programs.
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Fellow Chairs,
Steven R. Snowden
Well before I took over as chair, Dr. Doyle Carter made an impassioned and articulate plea for keeping our courses as a part of the core to no avail. Like Christopher, we can barely offer the courses needed for our own majors so that has made it a moot point anyway.
SS
Steven R. Snowden
Associate Professor & Chair, Department of Kinesiology
Angelo State University
Member, Texas Tech University System
ASU Station #10903
San Angelo, TX 76909-0903
Phone: (325) 942-2173 Fax: (325) 942-2129
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Fellow Chairs,
Patty Donaldson
PHED Coordinator/Instructor
Angelina College
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Wittenburg, David K
We are in a similar situation as Chris. We currently do not have a course in the core. But there is some recent discussion at the college level of different programs with the College of Health Sciences proposing courses that could be offered within the core. We mentioned that we could probably offer a Fitness/Wellness type of course. This is still in the very early stages of discussion.
David
David Wittenburg, Ph.D.
Chair, Department of Kinesiology
Associate Professor
University of Texas at El Paso
500 W. University Avenue
El Paso, TX 79902
Phone: (915) 747-7208
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We’re actually looking to get BACK into the core with these new requirements.
Cox, Graeme
Colleagues,
Good to see this informative discussion. I have some hopefully good news for some of you. Obviously our schools are handling this in completely different ways and to me it looks like getting your other Divisions on board may be helpful. Currently we have 1 Kinesiology hour in the core and made the cut to 42 core hours a few years back so that’s one problem we’re avoiding. My goal was to keep the Activity program alive because it gives the students an opportunity to try a lifelong type activity for 4 months, with professional instruction, much cheaper that they could get at their local fitness center. Nothing wrong with the fitness/health theory classes but for most of our students it goes in one and out the other. At least the activity classes gets them off their butts, or at least moving.
Dr. Rex Peebles ( rpee...@midland.edu ) spoke to us at Professional Devp. Day in August and explained the Component Area Option as having 2 parts. 3 hours followed one of the Foundational Component Areas just as all the other classes. Up to 3 hours need to meet the Core Objectives of Critical Thinking, Communication and 1 other. My Dean explained this as a way to allow institutions to include Study Skills type classes or Cultural Anthropology that overlapped the other areas without being totally within them. That’s where we’re putting our Kinesiology hour. If you refer to slide 26 from the attached Powerpoint that is clearly shown (This PowerPoint is from another presentation my Dean attended recently in Austin).
We are integrating our Institutional Option (6 hours) into the core as such: Communication is going to 9 hours (including Speech), Life and Physical Sciences is going to 8 (keeping our labs), which leaves 1 hour for our Kinesiology Activity classes under the aforementioned criteria.
I have been meeting with my faculty to determine which other Core Objective we will meet. Initially we were going with Teamwork but how we are doing our assessment means we are going to take another look at Personal Responsibility. We are using the LEAP rubrics across the campus to meet our curriculum mapping requirements. Our goal is to develop assessments that can easily be carried out by our coaches and adjuncts. I would be happy to share any of our assessment methods or criteria with those of you who may be interested. This is still very much a work in progress and I am meeting with my faculty again in the morning.
I am attending the administrators breakfast at TAHPERD and look forward to sharing our experiences there. This is a critical time for our programs and the health of our students.
Graeme Cox
Division Chair
Kinesiology, Athletics and Wellness
Kinesiology Club: www.facebook.com/LeeCollegeKinesiologyClub
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Smith, Darla
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