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Undergraduate Curriculum Forum

Minutes

Adanti Student Center, Room 301
Thursday, March 1, 2007

I.    Call to order 9:35 a.m.

II.    Announcements

  • S. Williams is present for the First-Year Experience (FYE) discussion.
  • D. Pettigrew announced a University-wide lecture by Tom Parker on March 5 at noon.
  • Cinema du Monde screened "White" and will be screening "Welcome to Sarajevo" Wednesday, March 14 at 7:30.  Film announcements are available under SCSU events under films.
  • M. Heidmann said the writing workshop is postponed until August.
  • E. Schmidt announced the lecture on childhood bilingualism
  • N. Henderson announced a lecture on the transition between high school and college.
  • M. Shea announced his talk on writing workshops from the Faculty Development Office, Mar 4 at noon in EN B253.
  • T. Lin announced the 64 Days of Violence.  Next week, the lecture on Toilet-training, gender-neutral bathrooms, March 5 at 7:30 in EN C112. Check the Women's Studies website for more details.
  • J. Fields mentioned A. Schlessinger passed away.  Also, a total lunar eclipse will happen Saturday around sunset and barring weather, telescopes will be set up at Southern.
  • Town Hall Meeting from 1-3 (Friday) the pre-ultimate draft.

III.    Approval of minutes of 2/01/2007. (Note: no Meeting 2/15/07).

  • unanimous approval of minutes from 2/01/07 with one abstention.
  • Due to the visit from Provost Williams, the minutes will be moved to address FYE first.

IV.    Other Reports 

  • First Year Experience Committee
  • Discussion ensued about the last FYE meeting.  They discussed the four options: Honors College, LINKS, and two new versions, a common theme and a disciplined-based model. Questions arose about credit for students. S. Williams mentioned they are trying to implement faculty incentives (release time) for future semesters.

V.    Acceptance of standing committee minutes of 2/08/2007 and 2/22/2007.

  • NMC - minutes accepted
    Motions:
  1. Motion to approve revised program proposal, BA-HIS, BS-HIS (with teacher certification),
  2. Motion to approve revised course proposal, HIS 330, Religion and Society in the Byzantine Empire, and
  3. Motion to approve revised course proposal, HIS 343, Modern Eastern Europe

All approved with one abstention.

  • NPIC - minutes accepted
  • PRAC - minutes accepted
  • UWIC
    Motion:

HIS 313 is removed from the list of courses satisfying the AUR in World Civilizations.

All approved with one abstention.

Motion

Revised course proposal HIS 242 is accepted.
This motion was not voted on.

  • WACC - no votes made during the meeting due to lack of time.
     Motion: Henceforth, committee minutes will be approved by the WACC prior to  submission to UCF. The motion was passed unanimously.

 Motion: The WACC Writing Contest will be suspended this year.

New Motion: The WACC requested that motions approved of during WACC sub-committee meeting be accepted without needing to be approved by UCF.

  • Discussion ensued.  UCF rules dictate that all sub-committee motions must go through the main UCF body.
  • No vote was conducted.

VI. Adjournment 10:50 a.m