Coastline Community College Humanities Program Review

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Coastline Community College Humanities Program
Review

• April 2005

Review Team Marilyn Fry, Department Chair Shanon
Christiansen, Ph.D., Dean of Instruction Professor
Robert Covert, Ph.D. Professor Glenn Harwood,
Ph.D. Professor Ken Leighton Professor Catherine
T. Palmer Professor Toni Shuit, Ph.D. Librarian
Cheryl Stewart Professor Esther Terry
Strauss-Thacker
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Executive Summary

• The Coastline Humanities Program
• is very healthy
• FTES generation has grown each year since 2001for
  local and distant students
• Enrollments in contract education have increased
  significantly
• A greater number of incarcerated students are
  being served through telecourses

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• The Humanities Program has a stable,
  experienced cadre of faculty
• 5 faculty have Ph.D.s 1 has an Ed.D.
• 4 full-time faculty are associated with the
  program
• 20 part-time faculty, most of whom teach full
  part-time load of 9 LHEs

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• The major change in the program has been the
  shift from classroom-based courses to distance
  learning courses.
• Humanities, Communications and Philosophy are
  almost entirely taught through telecourse, cable
  course, online (WWW)
• English now teaches over half of its course
  offerings online
• A CD-ROM Communications course and three online
  Literature classes are currently in development.

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• Another change is that the program has added
  one study abroad course, Humanities 114 (Critical
  Studies in Humanities), that is taught each
  spring and each summer.
• In addition, English 180 (Shakespeare) is
  currently being revised by instructor Linda
  Carpenter to be a study abroad course.

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• It is interesting to note that students
  enrolled in the Humanities Program differ
  somewhat from the students in the college as a
  whole
• Coastline Humanities Program
• White 43 30.64
• Vietnamese 25 31.99
• Other Asian 6.06
• Hispanic 11 14.81
• Black 4 3.37

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Student Elements Based on student responses to
the Program Review survey, almost 88 of the
students taking courses in the Humanities Program
are between 18 and 45 years of age. The majority
of students (56.86) are between 18-30.
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Women outnumber men in Humanities courses, 56.38
to 43.62.
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The majority of students (69.8) enrolled in
Humanities courses indicated that a high school
diploma is the highest degree they hold. Almost
18 have an associates degree, and just over
8.5 have a bachelors or graduate degree.
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More than three quarters of the Humanities
students are working part or full time. Only
19.33 are not working outside the home.
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1. Need
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2. Student Learning Outcomes
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3. Student Satisfaction
In response to a question about satisfaction with
the quality of instruction, 299 students
responded, and 202 of them (67.56) said that
they were very satisfied, and 82 (27.42) said
that they were somewhat satisfied. Only 6
(2.01) said that they were somewhat dissatisfied
with 2 dissatisfied (0.67) and 7 (2/34) who
didn't know.
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In response to the question about satisfaction
with the feedback and guidance by the instructor
they received, 201 (67.22) of the 299
respondents were very satisfied 79 (26.42) were
somewhat satisfied 10 (3.34) were somewhat
dissatisfied 2 (.067) were very dissatisfied
and 7 (2.34) didn't know. The high "don't know"
response may have been because the surveys were
given during the first six weeks of the new
semester, before midterm exams
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Satisfaction with the overall quality of the
program was very high of 298 students, 170
(57.05) were very satisfied, and 101 (33.89)
were very satisfied. Only 12 (4.03) were
somewhat dissatisfied, and 2 (0.67) were very
dissatisfied only 13 (4.36) didn't know.
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The majority of the students were satisfied with
the amount of interaction they had with their
instructor and with their fellow students in
their distance learning classes 27 of 93
respondents (27.96) strongly agreed 54 (58.06)
agreed 7 (7.53) disagreed 6 (6.45) strongly
disagreed. Several commented that they did not
have much interaction, but they didn't care.
Several said that they did not have much
interaction with their teachers but that, what
was more important, their teachers were
accessible when they needed help, that they can
telephone or e-mail their instructors at any time.
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4. Program Resources
Blackboard and chalk Whiteboard and
markers Overhead projects Smart podiums DVD
VHS Players
Coastline Computer Server Network Course
Management Software
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5. Partnerships

• With UCIs Informatics B.S. Degree Program for
  seamless, guaranteed transfer.
• With High School Districts to encourage students
  to enroll in our Access Program.
• With Huntington Beach Union High School in the
  CALPASS Program to coordinate communication
  between high school and Coastline faculty.

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6. Professional Development
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7. Diversity
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8. Five-year Goals Recommendations

• By December 2005, review and revise all course
  outlines.
• Identify courses that meet the Global and
  Multicultural Studies A.A. degree requirement
  for inclusion in the 2005-2006 catalog.
• Continue to expand student awareness and use of
  the Coastline Virtual Library.
• Continue to develop and improve distance learning
  courses, including hybrid.
• Continue to lobby for adequate pay for online
  instructors teaching military students.
• Continue to encourage smaller class sizes in
  English and Speech.
• By 2009, develop a comprehensive Humanities
  Program Web site with individual Web pages for
  each individual instructor.
• By 2007, create a basic skills and ESL practice
  lab at the new Westminster Center.
• By 2007, reestablish a reading program.