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HEADS, DIVISIONAL CURRICULUM COMMITTEES
Thursday, June 26, 1975 - 2:00 p.m.
New Westminster Campus Boardroom
Present: W.L. Day, Chairman Regrets: Lillian Oatway
H.N. Andrews, ex-officio Ann Frost
W.N. Christensen
J.H. Finnbogason
T.D. Wilson C SOLLEGE LIBRARY
G. DellaMattia, ex-officio Se
G.J. Homer —
Minutes of MOVED by Bill Christensen and SECONDED by Des Wilson
beta THAT the minutes of the previous meeting of June 12,
9 be adopted as circulated.
CARRIED
Recommendation Gerry DellaMattia distributed, as requested by the Committee,
re Diploma his recommendation to the College Curriculum Committee regarding
System College Diplomas (attached).
0 Considerable discussion ensued, during which the Committee

reaffirmed its understandings regarding the implications,
desirabilities, and concerns regarding this proposed change
in the structure of Douglas College Diplomas -

A. It would allow for the combining into meaningful
curricular packages, hitherto separate or disjointed
parts of the curriculum.

B. It would provide for a systematic way for faculty
members within the College to combine development work
and to secure an appropriate level of information
giving and credibility for general fields of study.

C. It would make consistent a structure that at present
is inconsistent.

D. It would likely encourage a creative level of curriculum
change and development in areas outside the severely
occupationally oriented programs.

Concerns that were expressed, the validity of which were agreed
to by the Committee, and the solution of which was considered
to be one of the main tasks of the Committee, were as follows:

A. A proliferation of specifically named Diplomas could encourage
a narrownessand lack of communication between subject and
thematic fields within the College - a tendency that was
noted with some dismay to be already occurring in certain
fields of study within the College.

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