2024 Bachelor of Arts (General) Cyclical Program Review Implementation Plan Update of Cycle 2

Implementation Plan

Recommendation Proposed Follow-up Responsibility for Leading Follow-up Timeline for Addressing Recommendation

1. Better integration of the BA(Gen) program within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
  1. Reassess the RMC Online Coordinator’s impact on the BA(Gen)
  2. Add a paragraph detailing the specific characteristics of the BA(Gen) program to the newly published Instructor Guide for Online teaching

Program Chair (both sub-items)
  1. Beginning of the 2025-2026 academic year.
  2. Fall 2024

 

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2. Expand access to Dual Delivery courses for BA (Gen) students.
  1. Through DL Coordinator, ensure that all faculty teaching DD courses get their 1,5 credits per course
  2. Coordinate with the RMC Online Coordinator to remind RMC Room Booking of the importance of assigning multimedia classes to DD courses.
  3. In coordination with RMC Online Coordinator, during the Heads+ meeting, meet with each of the ten departments to present the program, the students and the options available, in order to familiarize instructors with our program and encourage more DD offering.
  4. Investigate the possibility of using DD courses toincrease the frequency of courses in the BA(Gen) program that currently have low availability
  1. Program Chair (coordinate with CMRC)
  2. Program Chair (coordinate with CMRC)
  3. Program Chair (coordinate with CMRC)
  4. Program Chair and program representative
  1. Winter 2025, just before teaching plans are due to the Dean
  2. Fall 2024
  3. Fall 2024
  4. Fall 2024
3. Establish guidelines and policies concerning the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in the classroom, with a focus on this degree program in particular. In coordination with RMC Online Coordinator, ensure links to the documents produced by the Gen AI committee that pertain to students be added to the RMC Online webpage. Program Chair, in coord with VPA (to ensure streamlining of policies across the College) Fall 2024
4. Grow the program and increasing its diversity and inclusion by further considering the potential appeal of this flexible, online degree to two (overlapping) population groups: military spouses, presumably mostly women, and people with disabilities both in the military and in civilian defence.
  1. Investigate the possibility of military spouses and all public servants within the Government of Canada being allowed to register in the BA(Gen) program.
  2. Send a program representative to military/career fairs to promote the BA(Gen)

Program Chair (both sub-items)
  1. A/Y 2024/2025
    - Mfrc’s for advertising
    - PSO’s (mixed understanding of RMC).
  2. Fall 2024
5. Consider ways to make the program more ‘Student Friendly’ that go beyond the points raised in other recommendations and work towards establishing a stronger ‘Learning Community.
  1. In coordination with RMC Online Coordinator, create of a start-of-the-year greeting from the Dean, Program Chair and Program Representative. This could be in the form of a short, 10-minute video.
  2. In coordination with RMC Online Coordinator, add to the Online instructors guide a suggestion to create short “Meet your instructor” videos to be posted at the start of each course on Moodle.
    1. Look into the possibility of creating certificates or awards to be given to students as they progress towards their degree.
  3. Coordinate with the DL coordinator to see if the RMC Online webpage could include an online hub for the program, and/or contact Trevor Wilson (responsible for Moodle at RMC) to create a Moodle page specifically for the BA(Gen) Program.

Program Chair (all sub-items)

Fall 2024 (all sub-items)

 

 
6. Pay more attention to the as-taught courses offered in the BA (Gen) Degree. In particular, resources available for online teaching have expanded in recent years (e.g., breakout rooms with synchronous online lectures and tutorial sessions or asynchronous group work and written community contributions). In coordination with RMC Online Coordinator and the RMC Teaching and Learning Group, offer workshops that could be useful for our instructors and to professors who would like to teach DD courses. Program Chair Fall 2024
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