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Undergraduate Curriculum Forum

Minutes February 1, 2007

Present
D. Wiess, Acting Chair, A. Abugri, S. Bourchain, N. Chrissidis, G. Cochenet, C. Dellinger-Pate, S. DiFrancesco, J. Feng, D. Flynn, M. Geelan, J. Goralski, M. Heidmann, R. Hunter, M. Kiarie, C. Kim, G. Kowalczyk, T. Lin, N. Marano, K. Marsland, R. Mugno, M. Narumanchi, D. Pettigrew, H. Podnar, K. Rondinone, E. Schmitt, R. Vaden-Carr, C. Weed and E. West.

I.    Call to order 9:35 a.m.

II.    Announcements

  • D. Wiess is the acting chair for today.
  • M. Heidmann - the writing workshop was cancelled due to snow in Missouri and will be rescheduled for possibly the first two days of Spring Break.

III.    Approval of minutes of 12/14/2006

  • unanimous approval of minutes from 12/14/06 with two abstentions.

IV.    Acceptance of standing committee minutes of 1/25/2007

  • NMC
  • Motions approved by UCF, unanimous approval with one abstention. Motions listed below minutes.
  • NPIC - no meeting, because there were no special topics
  • PRAC - looking for guest speakers
  • UWIC -
  • minutes read. Discussion ensued about UAR courses and changing requirements.
  • WACC - no minutes, the committee is in the process of creating by-laws for the committee
  • Discussion ensued about timetable for W courses. The chair mentioned that all should be online in about 4-6 weeks.

V. Other Reports 

  • Ad hoc Committee on Standards - minutes discussed. 
    *   The committee mentioned that bibliographies did not need to be attached to course forms from a UCF vote that everyone has ignored. More discussion ensued on different changes in course forms.
  • Gen. Ed. Task Force - no report filed
  • First Year Experience Committee
     *  Hoping to create three different FYE experiences for the fall semester. discussed several options.

VI. New Business

  • NPIC By-laws
    *  Friendly amendment to by-laws on section 1.A to read that membership will follow constitutional guidelines by UCF.
    *  Amendment accepted and the vote to accept NPIC by-laws was unanimous approval with 2 abstentions.
  • Suggestions from NMC regarding UCF By-laws
    *  Discussion ensued about the existing UCF by-laws and revisiting a revision of the by-laws and the constitution
    *  A motion was made:
  • "All subcommittees will complete their by-laws and the the UCF will set up a three-person ad hoc sub-committee to revise UCF constitution and by-laws."
    *  There was no time to discuss or vote on this motion.

VII. Adjournment 10:45 a.m due to fire alarm.


Motions from NMC:

  1. Motion to approve revised course proposal, REC 207, Adapting Recreational Games and Activities
  2. Motion to approve revised course proposal, CSC 152, Computer Programming 1
  3. Motion to approve revised course proposal, CSC 204, Web Technology
  4. Motion to approve new course proposal, ANT 320, Visual Anthropology