Undergraduate Curriculum Forum
Minutes
Adanti Student Center, Room 301A
Thursday, April 15, 2010
I. The meeting was called to order at 9:42am.
II. Announcements
• D. Flynn announced that A. Marsoobian was being interviewed on NPR this morning about the Armenian genocide.
• WAC will sponsor a W-proposal workshop on Wednesday, 4/21 at 1PM in the English Department library.
III. Approval of UCF minutes of April 1, 2010
• All approved minutes with corrections
IV. Standing committee reports (minutes and committee motions)
a. NPIC - minutes received
b. NMC - minutes received
• Motion to approve the following proposals:
New Course Proposals
WLL 401 - Language Teaching and Technology
Revised Course Proposal
PHI 325 - Bio-Ethics of the Life Sciences *
PSY 320 - Abnormal Child Psychology
PSY 321 - Abnormal Psychology
PSY 474 - Seminar in Behavior Theory and Practice
Revised Program Proposals
BS Anthropology - Concentration: Biological**
*Note: A discussion ensued about concerns the impact of changing a non-lab course to 4 credits to 3 might have on the larger community. For example, how does it impact faculty load and course scheduling? Are there guidelines that help to determine credits? UWIC has been requested to add the topic to its list for future discussion, and then to present its conclusion to the full UCF in the future.
**Note: A discussion ensued about concerns that a revised program proposal with 4 credits is being taught as a 3 credit. Addressed to Anthropology Department they determined not necessary.
• All approved motion
c. PRAC - minutes received
• Motion to accept PRAC report that Computer Science is recommended for continuing approval.
• All approved motion
d. UWIC - minutes received
• Motion to approve the new courses HON 494 and HON 495 that will replace any honors classes in each department.
• Discussion: Since this is done at the University-level, no department will need to submit a program revision. These classes will also still be credited to the department in which they are taken. A professor teaching either of these courses will get .5 credit for that course.
• All approved motion.
e. WACC - minutes received
• Motion to approve the following W courses:
Course: SOC 298 Special Topics: Population & Society Faculty: Justin Buszin
Course: JRN 298 Opinion & Column Writing Faculty: F. Harris
Course: MIS 400 Global Information Systems Faculty: R. Mullen
• All approved motion.
V. Ad hoc reports - GETF minutes - Polly Beals
• The GETF will submit forms for Tier 1 and Tier 2 courses to UCF for approval.
VI. Old Business - Discussion Q & A regarding implementation of LEP - Polly Beals
Discussion: SCSU will be meeting with Gateway to discuss transfer issues with the new LEP courses. Mike Shea indicated that CCSU is also beginning to revamp its LEP program, so we will be working with them on transfer issues as well. P. Beals indicated that student advising about LEP will be through the INQ course and during the orientation. Also mentioned was the 'compact agreement' between community colleges. If a student, within the first 15 credits of taking courses at a community college, selects a CSU university and graduates from the community college with a minimum GPA of 2.0, the student will have automatic admission to the chosen university and 30 credits will transfer. Only those students will be able to transfer in with the original AUR courses.
A Teaching Academy is scheduled for June 2, 3, and 4. June 4 will be set aside for LEP course development, with special focus on Technological Fluency (TF) and Critical Thinking (CT) courses.
VII. New Business - UCF Constitution revision
Discussion began on the constitution revisions and will continue in the next UCF meeting.
VIII. Adjournment - the meeting was adjourned at 10:51am.
These minutes are respectfully submitted by Kathleen Rondinone
