Professor Hartman reported on the meeting with knowledge area 5 faculty. Students will be asked to write an essay. Those who attended the meeting were asked to suggest wording of the essay question and to provide recommendations as to how the essays will be assessed. Members discussed a problem forwarded to the Committee by Professor Cheryl Mares. She reported that a new edition of Rules for Writers has come out.
Some students have the old edition, some the new.
This causes problems in the seminars. Professor Killiam will check with first-year seminar instructors to see how many need the new edition. Ms. Lewis reported that PALS will not be assigned to first-year seminars unless requested by the instructor. Professor Hartman reported that she talked to Professor Stanton, Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, about assessing knowledge area 3 next year. Professor Hartman expects that the language faculty will choose to embed some assessment questions in the 102 exams.