Undergraduate Curriculum Forum

NPIC - New Programs and Innovations Committee

MINUTES - Meeting of February 8, 2007

The following committee members were present:  Deborah Weiss (Chair), Charlie Dellinger-Pate (co-chair), Adam Abugri, Greg Cochenet, Tom Fleming, Joe Goralski
The following agenda items were addressed:

I. Notification of New Special Topics Courses - Five Special Topics Courses were presented and logged. 

Logged

Course Title - Course Number - Semester to be taught - Times taught
Vienna Yesterday and Today - GER 298 - Spring 2007 - 0
2000 Years of Art in Paris - ART 398 - Summer B 2007 - 1
Literacy for Speech-Lang Path - CMD 498 - Fall 2007 - 0
Modern Iraq -HIS 298 - Fall 2007 - 0
Coastal Environ & Processes - MAR 298 - Fall 2007 - 1

 
DESCRIPTIONS OF LOGGED COURSES:

GER 298 - Vienna Yesterday and Today
Exploration of the contemporary city of Vienna, Austria within its historical and cultural context.  The course includes a 10-day field study trip to Vienna to experience the language and culture firsthand.  Taught in German

ART 398 - 2000 Year of Art in Paris
This course will provide an overview of the history of art in Paris.  Relying on classroom lectures, discussions, and site visits to monuments and museums, it will examine the artistic heritage of Paris from the Roman period to the present day.  Meets in Paris, France, 40 hrs. on site in Paris.

CMD 498 -  Literacy for Speech-Lang Path - Reading and writing as these pertain to the knowledge needed by speech-language pathologists working with children and adolescents, kindergarten through high school.  Topics include team collaboration/consultation, the SLP role in Response to Intervention, development of language-literacy objectives, provision of language-literacy services in a continuum of service settings and managing behavior in these settings.

HIS 298 - Modern Iraq - History of Iraq from Ottoman times to the 1990s.

MAR 298 - Coastal Environ & Processes
Course covers basic coastal environments, e.g. estuaries, beaches, wetlands, rocky coasts, their mode of formation, the processes that modify them, the environmental problems characteristic of these environments and the policies enacted to address these issues.
 
II. Review of NPIC form from Ad Hoc Committee on Standards - NPIC appreciates the work that the ad hoc committee has invested in standardizing the UCF forms.  Several suggestions from NPIC committee members follow.  Refer to division of form into Boxes 1, 2 and 3.
A. Box 1 takes up too much space.  It could be reduced to half its size.
B. Box 2; Section title and Transcript title places should be switched.
C. Box 2; Section description space is too short - should be increased (space can be gained from Box 1 as described above and Special Conditions as described below).
D. Box 2; Special Conditions - only one line needed
E. Box 3; Change "Other approval, when needed" on the left to "Instructor approval."
F. Box 3; Signature lines can be longer if they are arranged more efficiently.
G. Box 3; There is limited height available for writing the Cross listed course code & number.
H. Box 3; There is limited height available for signature of Chair of NPIC or UCF.

Respectfully submitted,

Deborah Weiss