(Attending: Lars Lerup, John Casbarian, Gordon Wittenberg; for the committee: Hutchinson, Huston, Bidlack)

The view was expressed that Architecture is perhaps the sing lest greatest and most serious consumer of general education on campus. With many students but a small faculty, they are heavily dependent on the rest of the divisions for general education support. Architecture may be viewed as a model for the rest of campus in terms of their focus and interest in general education as part of their requirements.

A professional study, called the Boyer Report was cited, which specifically cited the need for architecture schools nationwide to build more connections to the rest of their universities.

Architecture requires general education courses from all three other divisions as part of their major requirements. A broad base in all areas is critical to an architect.

Architecture probably cannot offer general education courses on its own. However, it already collaborates with other divisions to offer courses and would be eager to do more. Currently, ARCH/CIVI 207 "Engineering Technologies and Structures" is offered by Wittenberg and Conte. Other course topics could include the impact of our environments on our lives, the impact of suburban living on life, the role of a building in the workplace, the need for "green" buildings and cycling as a culture.

The original HUMA course was to include components on Architecture, as well as Music, and the arch. faculty regard it as unfortunate that these components were dropped. Nevertheless, they like the HUMA course. They particularly like the team-taught nature of the course and the focus on group learning, small discussions, speaking, and writing. In their view, the failures of NSCI and SOSC are that they never brought in the focus on team-teaching and small group work, with writing and speaking. NSCI did not solve the needs of their students for science and mathematics background. They now require PHYS 125/126 but are unhappy with what is currently offered.

Architecture is currently working on setting up collaborations with the Jones school.

In terms of the freshman seminar concept, Architecture will soon begin requiring a "studio" course for all of their students, which will be a collaborative teamwork course in which students are challenged to actually "get something made."