3:00 pm – 4:30 pm

October 24, 2023

D-322

Attendance: Rachel Ihara, Greg Bruno, Patricia George, Tony Iantosca, Megan O’Neill, Laura Nadel, Michael Rozza, Joshua Wright, Maxine Krenzel, MaryLynn Navarro, Dan Perrone, Steve Amarnick, Rob Cowan, Emily Schnee , Matthew Gartner, Tisha Ulmer

Initial business

• Minutes from September 19th meeting approved 
• Agenda approved
• Part time faculty please submit timesheets (paper or electronic) today
• Meetings will be shared as Googledocs and posted on the English Department website

Clarification of Mission Statement for ENG 2400 in relation to Course Description

• Critical literacy is something we do in both 12 and 24, so this mission statement could represent our composition program as a whole? 
• Mission statement: This is not a deliverable. It is not a CLO. It is not even a course description. 
• Key questions: Who is reading this? What is its purpose? 
• The reason the mission statement is relevant here is because some of the sticking points in our proposed CLOs come from this mission statement. 
• Social justice is a mission statement; Civic Engagement is a course designation;Public Writing is a Learning Outcome
• Important to remember that our Comp Sequence is the CUNY Pathways 
• 1200 is about the student as a writer; 2400 is about the writer in society 
• “Writing in society” is also a way of emphasizing both the “public” as well as a soft “interdisciplinarity.” 
• We may need a definition of “public writing” if we are going to rely on it as the distinguishing characteristic of ENG2400 OR a sample syllabus could make it clear what “public” writing means.

Questions about the role of Primary Research as a Distinguishing Aspect of 2400

• How do we distinguish the purpose or value of types of materials 
• It could be genre analysis 
• It could be an example of writing in a discipline (literature and/or history)

Revising “Reading, drafting, reviewing, collaborating, revising, rewriting, rereading, and editing” 

• Do we need to change in the Comp I description and CLOs?
• Can we revise to focus on research processes?

Voting on changes to Course Description

• We postponed this for now so people have time to think before we vote on particular suggested modifications at the next meeting

Workshopping the initial stages of a sample assignment sequence 

• How might “public” writing work out in practice?
• What does it mean for a student to be socially/politically/civically engaged?
• “Community” as a theme for connecting to students’ lived experiences and actual engagement with social settings or groups.