MINUTES: Graduate Council – January 26, 2004,1:15 p.m., East Tennessee Room – DP Culp

ATTENDEES: Barrett, Taylor, Champney, Hoover, Scheuerman, Ellis, Bitter, Pike, Dixon, Brown, Marrs, Pointer, Powers-Beck, Tedesco,

Whitson

ABSENT: Davis, Music, Kimberly Norris-Thompson, Whitson

GUEST: Cornett, Halverson, J. Huang,

I. Approval of Minutes – November 24, 2003

Action taken by Council: Approved with the addition of Tuition Scholarship discussion under Paragraph IV. Old Business, Item C.

II. Curriculum Sub-Committee – Lee Pike, Chair

A. College of Arts & Sciences

1. Department of Criminal Justice – Addition of one new

course:

a. CJCR 5500 – Topical Seminar – 3 credit hours

Action taken by Council: Approved.

2. Department of Mathematics – Addition of four dual listed

4xx7/5xx7 classes;

a. MATH 4027/5027 – Introduction to Applied Mathematics

(3 CH)

b. MATH 4327/5327 – Time Series Analysis (3 CH)

c. MATH 4357/5357 – Introduction to Topology (3 CH)

d. MATH 42137/5137 Introduction to Modern Algebra II

(3 CH)

Action taken by Council: Approved.

3. Department of Social Work

A. Addition of Three new courses:

1. SOWK 5266 – Gerontological Social Work (3 CH)

2. SOWK 5306 – Advanced Field Practicum (4 CH)

3. SOWK 5403 – Administrative Practices in Human Service Organizations – (3 CH)

B. Deletion of one course:

1. SOWK 5416 – Integrated Field Seminar

C. Curriculum Revision

a. Include three modified courses:

1. SOWK 5208

2. SOWK 5313

3. SOWK 5323

B: Include three new courses listed above.

C. Delete one course listed above.

Action taken by Council: Approved.

B. College Business and Technology – Substantive Curriculum Change Proposal in the Digital Media Concentration of the Technology M.S. Program.

a. Replace two (2) courses in required core:

1. Add: DIGM 5820 New Media Communication and

Research

Delete: DIGM 5831 Interactive Multimedia

2. Add: ENTC 5640 Innovative Entrepreneurship OR

ENTC 5630 Project

Delete: MGMT 5010 Essentials of Management

b. Eliminate specialization options (Multimedia,

Visualization, Hypermedia, Product Design.

c. Addition of one (1) new four (4) credit hour graduate

courses and one (1) new three (3) credit hour course:

1. DIGM 5820 New Media Communication and Research (3)

2. DIGM 5821 Digital Media as an Art Form (4)

d. Addition of three (3) new three (3) credit hour graduate

courses:

1. DIGM 5910 Experimental Media I

2. DIGM 5915 Experimental Media II

3. DIGM 5970 Digital Media Research Project

e. Addition of three (3) new DIGM courses to replace

equivalent ENTC courses and one (1) ENTC course:

1. DIGM 5957 Topics in Digital Media

2. DIGM 5960 Thesis

3. DIGM 5970 Digital Media Research

4. ENTC 5990 Readings and Research

f. Addition of three (3)new and eight (8) replacements

three (3)credit hour dual listed xxx7 courses:

A. Three New Courses:

1. DIGM 4617/5617 Advanced Raster-Based Imaging

2. DIGM 4147/5147 Fundamentals of Character

Animation

3. DIGM 4627/5627 Compositing

B. Eight Replacement Courses:

1. DIGM 4637/5637 Advanced Integration Design

Formerly DIGM 4837/5837 Advanced Multimedia

2. DIGM 4647/5647 Advanced Animation

Formerly DIGM 4847/5847 Advanced Visualization

3. DIGM 4657/5657 Advanced Web Design

Formerly DIGM 4657/5657 Advanced Hypermedia

4. DIGM 4667/5667 Advanced Product Design

Formerly DIGM 4867/5867 Advanced Product Design

5. DIGM 4817/5817 3D Effects Animation

Formerly DIGM 5842 Digital Effects Animation

6. DIGM 4827/5827 Experimental Digital Video

Formerly DIGM 5830 Digital Video

7. DIGM 4877/5877 Advanced Modeling & Lighting

Formerly DIGM 5840 Advanced Modeling &

Lighting

8. DIGM 4887/5887 Technical Direction for

Animation

Formerly DIGM 5841 Character Animation

g. Delete 5 courses:

1. DIGM 4177/5177 Computer Graphics

2. DIGM 5830 Digital Video

3. DIGM 5840 Advanced Modeling & Lighting

4. DIGM 5841 Character Animation

5. DIGM 5842 Digital Effects Animation

h. Addition of 11 new one (1)credit hour graduate lab

courses to support advanced 5xx7 courses:

1. DIGM 5148 Character Animation Graduate Laboratory

2. DIGM 5618 Raster-Based Imaging Graduate Laboratory

3. DIGM 5628 Compositing Graduate Laboratory

4. DIGM 5638 Interaction Graduate Laboratory

5. DIGM 5648 Animation Graduate Laboratory

6. DIGM 5658 Web Design Graduate Laboratory

7. DIGM 5668 Product Design Graduate Laboratory

8. DIGM 5818 3D Effects Animation Graduate Laboratory

9. DIGM 5828 Experimental Digital Video Graduate Laboratory

10. DIGM 5878 Modeling & Lighting Graduate Laboratory

11. DIGM 5888 Technical Direction Graduate Laboratory

i. Change the culminating experience requirement for the

non-thesis option:

1. Add DIGM 5970 Digital Media Research Project, and

2. Delete ENTC 5800 Strategic Experience

j. Revise the guided electives list in catalog to include

only DIGM options

Action Taken by Council: Approved and forwarded to Academic Council for approval.

III. Graduate Faculty Sub-Committee – Wallace Dixon,Chair

A. Appointments:

1. C. Lindsey King - Sociology/Anthropology

Recommend - Interim

2. Joel Ryman - Management and Marketing

Recommend - Full Membership

Action Taken by Council: Approved.

B. Re-Appointments:

1. William D. Burgess, Jr. - History

Associate Membership Expires - Spring, 2004