Undergraduate Curriculum Forum
MINUTES
Adanti Student Center, Room 301A
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Present: M. Hartog, K. McGill, R. Vaters-Carr, M. Das, S. Grace, G. Kowalczyk, S. Felsenfeld, S. Kopaczewski, L. Lancor, S. Grubacic, N. Marano, L. Bower, M. McClain, J. Fullmer, M. Fede, C. Hannah, B. Nakamura, J. Liu, C. Simoneau, J. Hong, J. Fields, C. Dellinger-Pate, M. Cohen, G. Brady, J. Irving, J. Strawn, K. Lacey, M. Vancour, S. Bernard, K. Gatzke, H. Lockwood, K. Cummings, J. O'hara, P. Kahlbaugh, D. Smith, G. Adams, E. Keenan, S. Latorre, K. Barnett, G. Cochenet, S. Graves, M. Shea, L. Lancor, S. Clerc, K. Laing, N. Moniello, C. Klatt
Absent: M. Narumanchi, L. Foss, E. West, R. Kustin, J. Tait, M. Kiarie, W. Elwood, J. McGinn, J. Mielczarski, B. Glynn, D. Bentley-Drobish
I. The meeting was called to order at 9:37am.
Quorum (50% + 1) was reached with 29 voting members at 9:49am
II. Announcements
a. Kim Laing - 1) Audits for May 2011 will be sent today to departments; 2) registration begins on November 2nd with matriculated seniors; and 3) the deadline to apply for spring, summer and fall 2012 will be April 15, 2011.
b. Kim Lacey - The writing contest will be announced within the next couple of weeks, so faculty should be recommending that their students submit their work.
c. Cindy Simoneau - JRN 350 will be bringing high school students to campus on Friday, October 22 at 11am to hear Paul Vass present on on-line forums.
d. Marty Hartog - Faculty Senate had a special meeting on the future of the CSU system office and the presidential search. At that meeting, Mike Shea urged faculty to attend the BOT meeting on October 21 at WCSU when the search for SCSU president will be on the agenda. ; Todd Rofuth presented technology issues to Wendy Chang and is awaiting her reply; Marianne Kennedy informed Marty that the university has purchased new software with capabilities to share info from FAARs for departments use; Gene Brady wrote-in as candidate by many UCF members, but was not on the ballot when it came out - Marty will follow up with Matthew Rothbard to see what happened, so we can move forward and vote.
e. Mike Shea - Mike Shea announced that there would be an AAUP Meeting, Thursday, October 14, from 11:30am - 1pm in the ASC Theater.
III. Approval of UCF minutes of September 30, 2010
a. Approved unanimously
IV. Standing Committee Reports
a. NPIC
i. Discussion of 10/7 meeting
1. The following courses were logged:
a. ART 398 History of Russian Modernism
b. COM 498 Current Issues in A&P
c. HIS 298 The Era of Lincoln
d. JRN 398 Courts & Time
e. PHI 398 Philosophy of Mind
ii. Minutes of 10/7 received
b. NMC
i. Discussion of 10/7 meeting
1. NMC planning to streamline flow of proposals while maintaining rigor in review to accommodate influx of LEP proposals.
2. Motion to accept the following new/revised courses and revised program proposals:
a. (NEW) MDS 101 Media Persuasion and Everyday Life
b. (REV) WLL 452 Secondary School Teaching
3. Motion approved with one abstention
ii. Minutes of 10/7 received
c. PRAC
i. Discussion of 10/7 meeting
1. The committee reviewed PRAC's checklist.
ii. Minutes of 10/7 received
d. UWIC
i. Discussion of 10/7 meeting
1. Motion to accept the following new Tier I LEP Course Proposal:
a. (LEP-CT) MDS 101 Media Persuasion and Everyday Life
2. Motion approved with one abstention
ii. Minutes of 10/7 received
e. WACC
i. Discussion of 10/7 meeting
1. Tom Ferrucci is providing presentations in INQ courses on plagiarism.
2. Motion to approve 4 W-course sections: SOC 370 Methods in Social Research (G. Walker); HIS 353 Roots of Modern America 1828 to 1865 (T. Rondinone); ESC 303 Environmental Earth Science (J. Rumrill); and PHY 398 Special Topics in Physics: Astrophysics (E. Horch); SWK 491 Field Seminar II (D. Sneider)
3. Motion approved with one abstention
ii. Minutes of 10/7 received
f. LEPC
i. Discussion of 9/22 and 9/29 meetings
a. Congratulations to MDS for the first LEP-approved course (MDS 101).
b. Departmental prefixes will be preserved, but there will be an attribute code for students to search and identify courses in banner (modeled after ECSU system).
c. Richard Kustin (School of Business) and Debra Weiss (School of Health and Human Resources) were welcomed to LEPC.
d. Reusing old course numbers is allowed only if course hasn't been taught for 10 years or more.
e. LEPs courses can only fulfill one Tier.
f. LEP approved courses not instructors. All courses approved must always meet LEP requirements.
g. Departments can have several approved courses under the same Tier and Category (e.g. Mind and Body).
h. Course outlines are used as evidence/examples in LEP proposals.
i. Enrollment may eventually be restricted to students who did not fulfill their "CT" requirement yet (seats will be reserved for freshmen initially to control access).
j. There are restrictions on how many Tier 1 and 2 courses students can take from one department.
k. Students have three semesters to complete their Technological Fluency requirements.
l. CT prerequisite for all Tier II now, but as LEP transitions, exceptions to the prerequisite may be granted. LEPC is discussing this now.
m. Incoming freshman in fall 2011 will be given a written supplement containing the approved LEP courses.
n. The Provost has inquired about the costs associated with the LEP transition, a result of the 15% cut that wasn't anticipated. A question of what happened to the full administrative support initially granted was raised.
o. K. Cummings stated that some departments may be able to work with caps of more that 20 students.
p. Recommend that Tier I courses be 3-credits, but proposals for 4-credit courses will be reviewed.
q. World Language sequence and proficiency test, which can be taken at any time the student chooses, was proposed for all students after completion of their courses. If students pass, they stop; if they do not pass, they may take a 300-level course. The process can result in some students taking 5 WLL courses, a worst case scenario. Under LEP, WLL will require all students to have a 200-level competency regardless of degree (BA/BS).
r. Incentive for faculty teach two courses in Links/INQ = three credits reassigned time. Marty will check to see if this will continue.
ii. Goal for every department on campus to offer a CT or TF course
1. Deadlines for proposals extended - proposals are needed, and the sooner the better - Faculty should not wait until April 2011 to get proposals submitted or they may not be approved.
iii. Old business - MO: New and revised LEP courses shall be approved for a period of time and are subject to revalidation under a standard schedule to be devised by the LEPC and approved by UCF
1. Discussion continued on the motion with concern about the open-ended nature of the motion. Marty took a straw poll on whether the body felt that some form of validation should be approved. All but three votes were in favor of revalidation of some kind.
2. Motion Tabled to 10/28 UCF meeting
iv. Minutes of 9/22 and 9/29 received
V. Old Business
a. UCF Revised By-Laws Tabled to 10/28 UCF meeting
Meeting adjourned at 10:50 a.m.
These minutes are respectfully submitted by Michele Vancour.
