Curriculum Advisory Committee
Present: Dennis
Coffey, Linda Doran, Paul Hayes, Hal Knight, Katy Libby,
Gene McCoy, Jamie McGill, Larry
Prather, Terry Tollefson
Absent: Lois
Lowery, Elwood Watson
I.
The meeting was called to order at 2:00 p.m. by the Chair,
Katy Libby.
II.
The minutes from the January 23 meeting were approved as
amended.
III.
Paul Hayes distributed editorial changes.
IV.
Proposal from Department of Physical Therapy. Presented by Ms. Susan Epps with Dr. Duane
Williams also present. The department
proposed the creation of a new course:
PHYT 2000 Introduction to Physical Therapy. Hal Knight made the motion to approve; Gene McCoy seconded the
motion. The proposal was approved with
minor changes.
V.
Proposal from the Department of Biological Sciences.
Presented by Dr. Richard Kopp. The proposal was to require either BIOL 4147
Biochemistry of Macromolecules or BIOL 4167 Biochemistry of Metabolism for
students completing the ACS concentration in Chemistry. Larry Prather made the motion to approve;
Hal Knight seconded the motion. The
proposal was approved with minor clarifications and the addition of a rationale.
VI.
Proposal from the Department of Economics, Finance, and
Urban Studies. Presented by Dr. Larry
Prather. A new course, FNCE 4697/5697
International Investments, was proposed.
Dennis Coffey made the motion to approve, Hal Knight seconded the
motion. The proposal was approved with
minor changes.
VII.
Proposal from the Department of Computer and Information
Sciences. Presented by Mr. Bob
Riser. The department proposed
modifications in the Information Systems Science concentration of the major in
computer and information sciences. They
were as follows:
·
Delete the following courses from ‘CSCI Requirements’:
CSCI 2160 Assembly Language Programming, CSCI 2230 File Processing, CSCI 4717
Computer Architecture, CSCI 4727 Operating Systems, and a CSCI elective
·
Add the following courses to ‘CSCI Requirements’: CSCI 1710 WWW – Design & Creation, CSCI
2235 Introduction to Unix, CSCI 2910 Client & Server Side Prog, CSCI 4227
Advanced Database Systems, and CSCI 4417 System Administration
·
Delete the following courses from ‘Other major
requirements’: MATH 1850 Integral
Calculus for Technology, ACCT 2010 Accounting I, ACCT 2020 Accounting II, MGMT
3000 Organizational Management, and FNCE 3220 Business Finance
·
Add the following course option to ‘Other Major
Requirements’: MATH 1910 Calculus I as
an option with MATH 1840 Analytical Geometry and Differential Calculus
·
Create five areas of emphasis within the concentration:
accountancy; criminal justice and criminology; geography, geology, and
geomatics; management, and urban and regional studies
The
motion to approve was made by Terry Tollefson and seconded by Dennis
Coffey. The proposal was approved. The committee recommended that the
department emphasize, in its student advisement, that the areas of emphasis were
equivalent to minors in each area.
VIII.
Proposals from the Division of Cross-Disciplinary Studies,
School of Continuing Studies. Presented
by Ms. Pam Murray with Dr. Michael Blankenship. The proposals included the creation of two new courses BGSD 2100
Successful Online Learning and BGSD 2300 Building Web Content and the
modification of an existing course, BGSD 2200 Using Information Technology in
General Studies. The motion was made by
Larry Prather and seconded by Terry Tollefson to approve BGSD 2100 and the
modifications in BGSD 2200 (title, content, and catalog description). The proposals were approved with minor
changes. The proposal to establish BGSD
2300 was deferred until the department conferred with the Department of
Computer and Information Sciences about the content and title of the proposed
course.
IX.
The committee continued a discussion of some of the
problems with the Curriculum Proposal Manual on the Web. Paul Hayes informed the committee that Marsh
Grube was working with staff to break down the manual into more easily downloadable
pieces. Gene McCoy reported having
problems with pages that would not download and with some inconsistencies in
directions. Katie Libby talked about
several inconsistencies in the forms and problems with them downloading without
imbedded codes. Dennis Coffey suggested
that the committee might explore the use of software like Formfiller or
something similar.
X.
Dr. Doran reminded the committee of the upcoming SACS
visit next week.
XI. The meeting adjourned at 2:45 pm. The
next meeting is February 27 at 2:00 pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Hal Knight, Secretary