Undergraduate Curriculum Forum
Minutes
Adanti Student Center, Room 301A
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Present: M. Hartog (Chair), K. McGill, R. Vaters-Carr, M. Das, S. Grace, G. Kowalczyk, D. Weiss, S. Kopaczewski, M. Bay, L. Lancor, S. Grubacic, N. Marano, N. Henderson, J. Fullmer, C. Hannah, B. Nakamura, T. Radice, C. Simoneau, J. Hong, J. Fields, C. Dellinger-Pate, M. Cohen, G. Brady, J. Irving, K. Lacey, M. Vancour, H. Lockwood, S. Creamer, P. Kahlbaugh, D. Smith, G. Adams, E. Keenan, S. Latorre, J. Mielczarski, K. Barnett, G. Cochenet, S. Graves, A. Marsoobian, M. Shea, P. Beals, L. Lancor, S. Clerc, N. Moniello, D. Bentley-Drobish, C. Klatt
Absent: M. Narumanchi, L. Foss, E. West, R. Kustin, K. Cummings, J. Tait, M. Kiarie, W. Elwood, J. McGinn, B. Glynn
I. The meeting was called to order at 9:35am.
Quorum (50% + 1) was reached with 31 voting members at 9:43am
II. Announcements
WACC workshops will be held in October and November and pizza will be served.
AAUP is sponsoring a Logo Contest for CSU students only with a prize of $500.
III. Approval of UCF minutes of September 16, 2010
a. Approved unanimously
IV. Standing Committee Reports
a. NPIC
i. Discussion of 9/16 meeting
1. Motion to accept MDS 298: Social Media: Public/Private and PHY 398: Astrophysics
2. Motion approved with one abstention and one no
ii. Minutes of 9/16 received
b. NMC
i. Discussion of 9/16 meeting
1. Motion to accept the following new/revised courses and revised program proposals:
a. (NEW) ESC 492 Undergraduate Thesis Proposal; ESC 493 Undergraduate Thesis
b. (REV) ESC 210 Principles of Astronomy; ESC 350 Structural Geology; ESC 420 Economic Geology; EDU 453 Student Teaching Seminar; EDU 455 Secondary School Student Teaching; GER 201 Continuing German: Contemporary German Culture; GER 202 Continuing German: Exploring a German City; GER 203 Continuing German: Exploring German Culture; SPA 101 Spanish II; SPA 200 Spanish III; SPA 210 Spanish IV
c. (Revised Program Proposals) BA Earth Science, BS Earth Science/Concentration Secondary Education Certification; BS Earth Science/Concentration Environmental Earth Science; Minor in Earth Science
2. Motion approved with one abstention
ii. Minutes of 9/16 received
c. PRAC
i. Discussion of 9/16 meeting
1. The committee discussed the revised self-study report submitted by the Marketing program. This report was originally reviewed by PRAC at the end of Spring 2010, but due to time constraints PRAC had not examined revisions offered by Marketing before the semester ended. The Marketing self-study has conditional approval, meaning the Marketing will have 11 months to revise their program review.
2. Motion approved unanimously
ii. Minutes of 9/16 received
d. UWIC
i. Discussion of 9/16 meeting
1. The standing committee continued discussion and review of its guidelines for evaluating Tier 1 course proposals for critical thinking and technological fluency classes.
2. No motions
ii. Minutes of 9/16 received
e. WACC
i. Discussion of 9/16 meeting
1. See minutes - reviewing approval process to consider approval for a time; impact of LEP on WACC - gen ed approved courses and transition, LEP becoming w-courses, ENG being a co v. prerequisite, Scott will meet with Polly to discuss
2. Motion to approve 8 W-course sections: ENG 460 Queer Theory, ENG 461 The Beat Movement, ENG 462 Gay and Lesbian Film Literature, LIT/JST 300 The Literature of the Hebrew Bible, HST 398 Topics in Feminist Biblical Interpretation: Sex, Slavery and Sexuality - C. Blackmer; PHI 420 American Philosophy - A. Marsoobian; SOC 360 Social Change, SOC 370 Methods of Social Research - J. Block; and CHEM 261 Organic Chemistry II - A. Karatjas
3. Motion approved unanimously
ii. Minutes of 9/16 received
V. CHAIR'S REPORT (LEPC report follows)
M. Hartog reported on the following points:
a. Status of Special Election
i. LEPC
1. Richard Kustin is running for School of Business.
2. Deb Weiss is running for School of Health & Human.
ii. WACC -
1. Jim Rauschenbach from Exercise Science is running as an at-large member.
2. No one running from - School of Business
a. Gene Brady offered to be a write-in candidate.
b. Changes to bylaws made last year will be distributed for review and approval.
c. Bruce Kalk is in charge of LEPC scheduling and considering the following:
i. Class caps projected between 20 and 25 for LEP courses.
ii. Transfer students equivalency into LEP
iii. The number of high tech rooms needed for TF
d. LEPC Chair will have 3 credits release time this semester - approved by Provost Selase Williams
e. Thanked Rachel Vaters-Carr for suggesting UCF discuss online storage and collection of materials for assessment procedures. Discussion raised the following issues:
i. Redundancy in collection processes for assessment/accreditation
ii. Online storage for archival and backing up archives - need long term strategy
iii. Patricia Kahlbaugh shared:
1. SCSU Fact Book has department-specific data (accuracy questioned but Richard Riccardi says info is correct)
2. Suggests contacting Stan Walonowski regarding archival
iv. Deb Weiss recommended contacting Wendy Chang regarding issue of memory
v. Further comments around financial support for departments memory storage systems, funding from FDAC for PRAC memory storage related items, security issues, and OIT failing to recognize technology challenges and limitations with retrieval and servers
vi. Liz Keenan recommended contacting Faculty Senate Technology Committee since they are discussing issues relative to technology and costs and Nicole Henderson recommended UCF report on how these issues affect curriculum for the Technology Committee
VI. LEPC
i. Discussion of minutes from 9/15 and 9/22* (*not in packet)
1. Lisa confirmed LEPC will be in place for fall 2011
2. Mike Shea and Jim Tait will be voting members until new members are elected from School of Health and Human Services and School of Business
3. LEPC developed checklists for UWIC for CT and TF course proposals, which will be posted under LEP on UCF site
4. LEPC retracted motion from the minutes of 9/8 regarding CT and TF transition course approval.
ii. Minutes of 9/15 received
iii. Old LEPC business (sunset provision) Motion: New and revised LEP courses shall be approved for 5 years and are subject to revalidation through a process to be devised by the LEPC and approved by UCF
1. Friendly amendment in bold - New and revised LEP courses shall be approved for 5 - 7 years and are subject to revalidation through a process to be devised by the LEPC and approved by UCF
2. Friendly amendment in bold - 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.
a. Recommendation from Patricia Kahlbaugh: Add affinity groups (LEP) as part of the review under PRAC.
3. Cynthia Simoneau - Called the Question, Nicole Henderson 2nd . Motion to call the question did not pass. Motion tabled.
iv. MO: Proposal for Course Prefixes and Banner Codes (tabled)
Meeting adjourned at 10:50am.
These minutes are respectfully submitted by Michele Vancour.
