Undergraduate Curriculum Forum
Minutes
Adanti Student Center, Room 301A
Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009
Present: D. Weiss, K. McGill, B. Phelan, M. Das, S. Grace, O. Gulacar, S. Felsenfeld, S. DiFrancesco, L. Foss, A. Abugri, N. Marano, M. McClain, J. Fullmer, M. Fede, D. Marino, E. West, B. Nakamura, G. Bogel, J. Hong, M. Hartog, C. Dellinger-Pate, G. Brady, J. Irving, J. Strawn, D. Flynn, R. Cain, K. Gatzke, K. Cummings, K. Marsland, P. Kahlbaugh, J. Tait, G. Adams, E. Keenan, S. Latorre, T. Lin, C. Michalski, G. Cochenet, S. Graves, K. Rondinone, P. Beals, S. Clerc, K. Laing, A. Fedak
Absent: M. Narumanchi, R. Glinka, I. Antonios, C. Simoneau, R. Kustin, J. O'hara, D. Smith, W. Elwood, K. Barnett, A. Marsoobian, M. Shea, D. Bentley-Drobish, B. Kalk, T. Hils
I. The meeting was called to order at 9:35am by Deborah Weiss, Chairperson.
II. Announcements
• J. Mielczarski reminded us that the Majors Expo in on October 28th from 12-3pm in Adanti Ballroom.
• D. Flynn announced the Work-Life Best Practices in Higher Ed conference from 8:30-2:30 in the Ballroom on Oct. 29th.
III. All approved of UCF minutes from September 24, 2009 with no abstentions.
IV. Standing committee reports (minutes and committee motions)
a. NPIC
b. NMC
• Motion to approve the following courses/programs as a block:
New Course Proposal
FIN 348 - Personal Financial Planning
POR 100 - Portuguese I
POR 101 - Portuguese II
Revised Course Proposal
MIS 371 - Information Systems Analysis and Design
MIS 375 - Decision Support Systems
MIS 385 - Designing and Managing Telecommunications
MIS 400 - Global Information Systems
MIS 470 - Management of Information Systems Design
SOC 316/WMS 316 - Women of the Third World (cross-listed course with WMS)
Revised Program Proposal
BS/BA English
BS/BA English
• All approved motion.
c. WACC
• Motion to approve courses.
Course: SOC 361- Urban Sociology Faculty: Shirley Jackson
Course: ILS 300 Literature for Children Faculty: Joan Stokes
Course: JST 101 Jewish Life and Civilization Faculty: Benjamin Scolnic
Course: REC 480 Philosophy of Recreation and Leisure Faculty: Jan Louise Jones
• All approved motion.
d. PRAC
• Motion to approve Political Science department with conditional approval.
• All approved motion with one abstention.
e. UWIC
• Motion to approve Portugese I as an AUR.
• All approved motion.
V. Ad hoc reports (per committee request)
VI. Old Business
GETF to LEPC transition:
Motion for discussion:
That the Liberal Education Program Committee:
2) be comprised of:
• 9 members, 1 from each school and the remainder at-large members with full voting rights,
• with no more than one person per department,
• and the following non-voting ex-officio members: UWIC chair, LEP director, Honors College Director, LINKS Director, FYE Director, representative from library.
3) not require members to have previous LEP teaching experience in order to serve on the committee.
D. Weiss reviewed the discussion from last time. Several members commented on the scheme for the members. Discussion was raised about the coordinators for Critical Thinking and Tech Fluency being ex-officio and also the WAC director. One suggested that the coordinators are standing committees of UWIC and as such are represented by the UWIC chair.
The majority of the discussion centered around the 9 voting members. Should they be all at-large members or should there be the requirement of one from each school. Voting for all at-large guarantees that interested parties will run and seats will be filled (a more 'coercive' approach to creating a committee). Some concerns for requiring one from each school are the increase in buy-in (all schools are part of the process) from departments and avoiding drift (that the LEP will shift to certain departments and away from a whole-school system). One member mentioned that requiring a member from each school is internally inconsistent with the LEP proposal.
VII. The meeting was adjourned at 11:00am.
These minutes are respectfully submitted by Kathleen Rondinone. These minutes were approved on 8/22/09.
