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NPIC minutes for 9-20-01

Attendance: Fopiano, Hawley, Lukinbeal, Paddock (chair), Spence, Wieder.
Guest: Lorrie Verplaetse FLA

Special Topics courses

  • ESC 498 Groundwater
  • ITA 398 Love Books in Italian Literature
  • SPA 498 Survey of Puerto Rican Literature
  • JRN 398 Investigative Journalism

Note: There is an amendment to the minutes from 9-6-01 regarding Special Topics Courses.  ANT 298 (Doing archeology) would like to be resubmitted as ANT 398 and Cross-listed under geography. GEO 398 Geography of Film would like to be cross-listed under Anthropology. The department chairs of both ANT (Jackson) and GEO (Yacher) have given their consent.

 

The meeting was spent finishing the discussion regarding the FLA proposal.

At the end of the previous meeting the committee was left with the following questions:

The Proposed Catalogue Copy (p. 17 in the proposal) has under Important Notes: "The candidate must be a confirmed bilingual." How is this confirmed? And what about people who are not coming in bilingual, how do they become eligible? There was also some concern about the CPR form having FLA 101 as fulfilling the foreign language requirement. There was a question as to whether or not it should be higher?

On page 14 you note that scheduling constraints force you to offer 332 every other summer. Does this not create a potential backlog because every other summer you will have to groups of people vying for FLA 332, the juniors who just finished FLA 315 and 420 and the sophomores who are planning to take those 2 courses in the coming year.

There was a question as to whether or not one could require students to take a summer course. This is a special concern because so many of our students have to work in order to pay their way through college.

Perhaps even more important is the specter of faculty being forced to teach a summer course. The Collective Bargaining agreement forbids faculty being forced to teach summer courses.

Prof. Verplaetse was sent these questions via email. Her response was forwarded to the committee. Prof. Verplaetse was kind enough to meet with the committee in person to clarify some questions.

The committee then voted 6-0 to recommend the program for approval by the entire UCF pending a few minor revisions for clarity. The most important were to explain how students were to be confirmed bilingual. (This does not have to appear in the course catalog.) The second point was that the number of credits required to fulfill this program should be made apparent to the student immediately. The hope was also expressed that as the program became established that it might be possible to offer all courses during the academic year.

NPIC would like to go on record as commending Prof. Verplaetse for an excellently written proposal.

Submitted by

Troy Paddock