Minutes of P.D.C. Meeting Feb. 2, 2001

Present: Jeffrey Friend, Diane Chidester, John Long, Darcy Coghan, Diane Calhoun-French, Joanna Morris, Peggy Cummings, Caroline Eddelman, John Limeberry, Rafe Johnson, Jim Thorne, Sheree Williams, Barry Motes

COM 299 Special Topics

This arrived too late for the committee to consider at this meeting. However, those that had received a copy did make the following comments:

Author needs to contact other colleges for support and comments.

Also needs more communication within the department.

There was a question concerning the variable credit but it was thought this was acceptable because this was a topics class.

Because the material arrived late further discussion was tabled until the next meeting.

Rafe Johnson is a member of the system PDC. He commented that the system PDC wants more widespread feed back from other community colleges. To facilitate this there is a listing of the members of the committee on the KCTCS web site. He suggested that new courses and materials should be sent to these members and they should forward it to the appropriate individuals within their college for feedback. Also authors should use the new format from the KCTCS web site.

Peggy Cummings proposed a rule for piloting new non-technical courses. At the system level there was objections to piloting non-technical courses but there was no mechanism in place. The language is very similar to the present rule on technical pilot classes. The committee passed this. Peggy will take it to the next rules meeting.

Phyllis Diedrich from respiratory care in Allied Health spoke to the committee about a new proposal for a Medical Coding Certificate embedded in the degree program. It needs to get through the system as quickly as possible. Jeff Tech has a similar program but it is physician focused and this is hospital focused. The committee agreed the timeline is too tight to bring before the February faculty meeting. She was encouraged to get the support of other community colleges.

Barry Motes brought ten new Art courses to the committee. Most of these were courses already offered but under different names and numbers. The new courses and names better coincide with name and content than the UK names and numbers. These were co-written with Paducah Community College. There was much discussion on each course. The main changes were format and typing/grammatical changes. The only major change was changing Art 240 to Art 140. After further consultation with Paducah CC it has been reversed back to Art 240. The following courses were passed contingent upon completing the changes: Art 110, Art120, Art130, Art200, Art210, Art 220, Art230, Art 240,

Art 250, Art 260

Next meeting will be March 2^nd at 10:00 A.M. at Quinlan Seminar Hall on the Southwest campus.

Respectfully submitted,

Jim Thorne