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Undergraduate Curriculum Forum

Notifications Management Committee
Minutes September 6, 2001


Present: Jon P. Bloch (chair), Kathy Mauro, Nancy Disbrow, Vince Breslin, Beena Achhpal, Dan Soneson, Joe Fields, George Puerschner

Recorder: K. Mauro

 

  • Jon P. Bloch was re-elected NMC Chair by a vote of 7-0-0.
  • CHE 120-121 General Chemistry I-II  Dan made a motion to accept and Kathy seconded it. Motion approved 7-0-0.
  • CSC 208- Internet Programming I: Discussion of minor grammatical changes, outline inconsistencies and typos in the description of the learning objectives. George made a motion to accept pending minor changes and Dan seconded it. Motion approved 7-0-0. 
  • CSC 306- Internet Multimedia: minor change to description of learning objectives and bibliography. Need to clarify catalogue description. George made a motion to accept with changes and Vince seconded it.   As this was the first meeting of the year,  the NMC had not had a chance to look at these proposals in advance, and so it was discovered that the catalogue description was the same as for CSC 307.   George rescinded his motion to accept CSC 306 and Vince rescinded his second. The course approval was tabled until we had revised documentation on the course.
  • CSC 307 - Internet Programming II: Discussion took place and it was decided that the course proposal be tabled until we receive additional information since the catalogue description was the same as CSC 306.
  • FLA 315 - Foundation of Bilingual Studies: Discussion took place. George made a motion to accept and Dan seconded it. Motion passed 6-0-1.
  • FLA 332 -Assessment for English Language Learners: Discussion followed about the lack of a pre-requisite. George made a motion for the NMC to be given clarification on this  before voting on acceptance, and Dan seconded it.  Motion passed 7-0-0.
  • FLA 420-ESL Methods in content Instruction: Discussion took place. George made a motion to accept it and Nancy seconded it. There was 1 abstention.

Questions were raised as to why there was no signature from the Chair of the School Curriculum Committee on these FLA proposals.  Jon said he would mention this to the contact person, to see if it was merely a clerical oversight, or some other matter.

As directed by the UCF Steering Committee, NMC members volunteered to prepare short statements on  online courses:  Are they new/revised courses, or existing courses?   George will compose a statement arguing that they are new/revised courses; Nancy will compose a statement that they are existing courses.   Other members of the NMC were invited to contact Nancy and George if they would like to help articulate either argument.  


Meeting adjourned at 11:00 am.

Next meeting 9/20/01 at 9:35 in the Alumni room.