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Undergraduate Curriculum Forum

MINUTES - MEETING OF September 21, 2006

NPIC - New Programs and Innovations Committee

A meeting of NPIC was held on September 21, 2006.  The meeting was called to order at 9:35 AM.   The following committee members were present:
Deborah Weiss (Chair), Charlie Dellinger-Pate (Co-Chair), Adam Abugri, Tom Fleming, Joe Goralski

Three agenda items were addressed:

I. Notification of New Special Topics Courses - Six new Special Topics Courses were presented and logged.  Three courses required further clarification. 

Logged
Course Title - Course Number - Semester to be taught - Number of times taught
Evidence of Human Evolution - ANT 298 - Spring 2007 - 0
Doing Archaeology - ANT 398 - Spring 2007 - 1
Economics of Organization - ECO 398 (pending cross-listing with MGT 398) -  Spring 2007 - 0
Jewish Economic History - ECO 398 (pending cross-listing with JST 398) - Spring 2007 - Approved 3 times, but taught twice previously
Chinese II - FLA 298 - Spring 2007 - 0
Intro. Marine Environment - MAR 298 - Spring 2007 - 0

Further Information Required  
Course Title - Course Number - Semester to be taught Missing Information

Urban Sociology - URB 398 - Spring 2007 

  • Name of instructor, elective in which program?

Jewish Economic History - JST 398 (to be cross listed with ECO 398 above) - Spring 2007 

  • No form completed for JST cross-listing,

Economics of Organization - MGT 398 (to be cross-listed with ECO 398 above) - Spring 2007 

  • Missing signature of DCC

Descriptions of logged courses listed above:

ANT 298 - Evidence of Human Evolution - Students will critically examine the fossil evidence of human evolution over the last seven million years.  Recent discoveries and controversies in paleoanthropology are highlighted.

ANT 398 - Doing Archaeology - Students will learn the basic methods of archaeological curation and analysis through hands-on experience handling real artifacts in a lab setting.

ECO 398 Jewish Economic History - This course examines the evolution of Jewish civilization, thought and organization from the late Biblical period until now.  It explores the intersections among resource allocation, communal institutions, law and government. 

ECO 398 01 Economics of Organization - This course examines the problems encountered in organizing productive activities.  Students will learn about markets as well as forms of internal organization, including firms, professions and nonprofits.  The course also examines coordinating mechanisms such as contracts, asset specificity and profit-sharing plans.
FLA 298 - This course will allow students to study Chinese Level II. 

MAR 298 Intro. Marine Environment - Covers basic physical and living marine systems via exploration of complex marine environmental issues.  Such issues would include storm impacts and coastal erosion, hypoxia, oil spills and marine pollution, loss of coral reefs, impacts of over fishing, role of the oceans in climate change, and sea level rise, along with issues in marine resource management. 

II. By-Laws - A discussion of by-laws ensued.  It was decided that Adam Abugri would send the working document from last year to all committee members.  Committee members are asked to review the document, indicating recommended changes before the next meeting.

III. Special Topics Course Request Form - Deborah Weiss will present a draft version of the NPIC course request form before the next meeting.

IV. Election of Secretary - Nancy Bobrek was unanimously elected secretary of NPIC.

The meeting was adjourned at 10:30 AM

Respectfully submitted,

Deborah Weiss, Recorder