Undergraduate Curriculum Forum
Adanti Student Center, Room 301A
Minutes
Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009
Present: G. Cochenet, K. McGill, B. Phelan, R. Vaters-Carr, M. Das, O. Gulacar, A. Abugri, N. Marano, M. McClain, E. West, T. Radice, G. Bogel, C. Simoneau, J. Hong, M. Hartog, C. Dellinger-Pate, G. Brady, J. Irving, J. Strawn, D. Flynn, K. Gatzke, K. Marsland, P. Kahlbaugh, D. Smith, M. Kiarie, G. Adams, E. Keenan, W. Elwood, S. Latorre, E. Larkin, T. Lin, S. Graves, A. Marsoobian, M. Shea, S. Clerc, K. Laing, K. Rondinone
Absent: D. Weiss, M. Narumanchi, S. Felsenfeld, R. Glinka, I. Antonios, L. Foss, J. Fullmer, M. Fede, B. Nakamura, R. Kustin, K. Cummings, J. O'hara, J. Tait J. Mielczarski,, K. Barnett, P. Beals, D. Bentley-Drobish, B. Kalk, T. Hils
I. The meeting was called to order at 9:35 by Greg Cochenet, acting chair.
II. Announcements - While waiting for a quorum, we had several announcements:
• M. Shea announced the English Graduate Symposium today from 7:30-10pm in the English Department Common Room.
• The BSW social welfare group is holding a toddler/preschool clothing drive to send clothes to Ecuador.
• A library representative announced that the WestLaw is back at Buley and the library is working on Lexus Nexus.
• A. Marsoobian announced that the critical thinking component of LEP will be discussed Friday November 20th at 2pm in ENA 113.
• G. Cochenet reminded us of the Annual Pottery Sale Dec 9th and 10th from 11-5 in the Engelman Rotunda.
• K. Marsland reminded us of the Psychology Bake Sale in Adanti from 10-2pm today.
• T. Lin announced the screening of the movie "Pray the Devil Back to Hell" about women in Liberia on December 7th at 7:30 in Adanti Room 201.
• The theater representative announced the upcoming performance of student-directed plays.
• E. West announced the Geography Awareness Week events including the film "The Geography of Genocide in Bosnia: Redeeming the Earth," on November 19th from 1:50-3:30pm in the Adanti Student Center Theater.
• K. Marsland announced a winter clothing drive sponsored by the Psychology Club. Drop boxes will be available. Children's winter clothing is preferred.
• If there are no available sections of ENG 112, please send an email to M. Shea.
• Our next meeting will take place on December 10th.
III. UCF minutes of November 5, 2009, pending revisions, were approved by all with one abstention.
IV. Standing committee reports (minutes and committee motions)
a. NPIC
b. NMC
• New/revised proposals were submitted for approval:
NUR 444 - Leadership, Management and Health Care Issues in Nursing
New Course Proposal
HIS 378 - Early China
Revised Course Proposal
ANT 465 - Fieldwork Methods in Linguistic Anthropology
BIO 205 - Forensic Biology
FLA 204 - Language and Culture to WLL 204
FLA 211- Introduction to Linguistics to WLL 211
FLA 214 - American Tongues: Everyday Politics of Speaking to WLL 214
FLA 298 - Special Topics to WLL 298
FLA 374 - Language, Gender, and Sexuality to WLL 374
FLA 397- Internship to WLL 397
FLA 398 - Special Topics to WLL 398
FLA 403-Introduction to Second Language Acquisition to WLL 403
FLA 404 - Methods and Materials for Teaching Foreign Language at Elementary Schools to WLL 404
FLA 480 - Latin and Romance Languages to WLL 480
FLA 498 - Special Topics to WLL 498
FLA 315 - Foundations in Bilingual Education to TSL 315
FLA 321 - Assessment for English Language Learners to TSL 321
FLA 418 - ESL Methods in Content Instruction to TSL 418
Revised Program Proposal
B.S., Nursing
B.A., Anthropology
B.S., Anthropology, General Concentration
B.S., French
B.S., German
B.S., Italian
B.S., Spanish
• All were approved with no abstentions.
c. WACC
• K. Laing explained that when an advisor waives a course without the CRN number or section number, the student can enroll in any course, including W-sections. Please be aware of this when giving permissions.
• W-courses submitted for approval are:
Course: GEO 273 Land Use and Planning Faculty: P. Sakalowsky
Course: URB 200 Introduction to Urban Planning Faculty: P. Sakalowsky
• All approved courses.
d. PRAC - minutes accepted, no motions at this time.
e. UWIC - minutes accepted, no motions at this time.
V. Ad hoc reports (per committee request) - none at this time
VI. Old Business - Continued discussion of constitution of the LEPC
G. Cochenet - as the acting chair, reviewed all of the approved motions so far. This meeting focused on the elections motions. The Steering Committee presented its motion:
Elections
Every spring, three new members will be elected to three-year terms with terms beginning in the summer, if summer payment is available. Otherwise, terms will begin in the fall semester following the election. Working during the summer term is optional (based upon the CBA).
All elections for the LEPC shall be conducted during the regularly-scheduled spring university-wide elections administered by the Faculty Senate.
Interested faculty must declare their candidacy for either the school-specific or the at-large position.
For the school-specific positions, only members within that school may vote.
Members may run for consecutive terms.
Alternates who have replaced a member during a given year may run for election as a member.
Elections shall be held to fill positions that have become vacant prior to the completion of a term. The term of the newly elected member(s) shall be for the remaining number of year(s) in the original term(s).
Discussion ensued about the first item:
Are faculty allowed to start a term at the beginning of summer? Will this be confusing to newly elected members? Some non-tenured members may feel especially obligated to serve in the summer.
The wording was amended as follows:
Every spring, three new members will be elected to three-year terms with terms beginning in the fall.
This amendment was approved with no abstentions.
Discussion: It was recommended that the Steering Committee create a new motion for the summer work option for the committee. The committee members now serving will need to cover the 'gap' in the committee for this summer only.
The wording was changed in the third bullet to read:
Interested faculty must declare their candidacy for either a school-specific or an at-large position, but not both.
The new motion reads as:
Elections
Every spring, three new members will be elected to three-year terms with terms beginning in the fall.
All elections for the LEPC shall be conducted during the regularly-scheduled spring university-wide elections administered by the Faculty Senate.
Interested faculty must declare their candidacy for either a school-specific or a at-large position, but not both.
For the school-specific positions, only members within that school may vote.
Members may run for consecutive terms.
Alternates who have replaced a member during a given year may run for election as a member.
Elections shall be held to fill positions that have become vacant prior to the completion of a term. The term of the newly elected member(s) shall be for the remaining number of year(s) in the original term(s).
All approved this motion with 2 abstentions.
A new motion was brought to UCF:
The first election to the LEPC will take place in Spring 2010 during the university-wide elections administered by the Faculty Senate.
There was no discussion after the motion was announced. The motion passed with all approved and 2 abstentions.
K. Marsland wished to thank D. Weiss for all of her effort in organizing this meeting.
VII. New Business - no time for new business discussion.
VIII. The discussion Q & A regarding implementation of LEP was tabled for another meeting.
The meeting was adjourned at 10:50. These minutes have not yet been approved.
Respectfully submitted,
Kathleen Rondinon
