University Requirements Curriculum Committee
Minutes, January 11, 2013
Members Present: Joanne Arhar, Pamela Evans, Michael Fisch, Harold Fry, Fran Haldar, Mary Ann Haley, LuEtt
Hanson, Jeremy Jarzembak, Tina Kandakai, Ralph Lorenz, Tracey Motter, Donald Palmer, Elizabeth SinclairColando
Members Absent: Thomas Brewer, Kenneth Burhanna, Natalie Caine-Bish, Jessie Carduner, Rozell Duncan,
Robert Faley, Linda Hoeptner-Poling, I. Richmond Nettey, Elwin Robison, Clarence Uher, Jonathan VanGeest,
Robert Walker, Deidre Warren, Clarence Wunderlin, Breanne Yonkof
Guest: Therese Tillett
The meeting was called to order at 2:33 PM by Chairperson Palmer..
The minutes of the meeting of December 7, 2012 were approved without revision.
The first item for discussion concerned specific questions regarding the Diversity Requirement. Therese Tillett
reminded the URCC of four guidelines in Policy #4(iii) for the diversity requirement (below).
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As part of the requirements for any bachelor's degree, all students must satisfy the diversity requirement. Normally a
student must complete two courses chosen from the diversity course list.
Students are required to take one course addressing domestic (U.S.) issues and one course addressing global
issues.
At least one course must be taken as part of the Kent Core.
Students may satisfy the second diversity requirement in one of three ways:
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They may complete a second diversity course from the Kent Core, which also will count toward fulfilling the Kent Core.
They may complete any non-Kent Core diversity course. This course may also count toward major or minor program
requirements or may be used as an elective.
They may, with the approval of their dean, satisfy the second diversity requirement by completing one semester of study in
another country.
The URCC considered the following questions have come from advisors:
(a) Can veterans who were stationed abroad (and who document their experience immersed in the
culture) be able to apply this satisfy the global requirement?
Discussion here focused on the documentation of the experience of immersion in the culture and
not upon the fact of being stationed in the foreign country. It was unanimously agreed that it is up to
the dean or the dean’s designee to evaluate the documentation and make the decision with regard to
the student’s having satisfied the requirement.
(b) Can international students satisfy the requirement (global or domestic?) for their study here, which is
another country?
The URCC was unanimous in the opinion that international students may satisfy the requirement
by their study in the United States.
(c) Can a student fulfill the requirement with study in another country that does not last a full semester?
The discussion here was wide ranging and covered the questions of whether informal travel could
qualify in this case and the amount of time that was necessary to meet the
4. Discussion of exception forms to use NURS 60101 in place of WIC course NURS 40005. (see JMCgraduate-WIC pdf posted on the URCC website as an example of how this has been handled in the past)
5. Discussion of the intentions of the ELR - Ralph Lorenz
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The following Curricular Proposals were approved
Kent Core Assessment Plans
Honors College
HONR 10197 – Colloquium
HONR 10297 – Colloquium
Kent Core
Kent Core
College of Education, Health, and Human Services
ATTR 25057 – Anatomy and Physiology I
ATTR 25058 – Anatomy and Physiology II
Kent Core
Kent Core
EXSC 25057 – Anatomy and Physiology I
EXSC 25058 – Anatomy and Physiology II
Kent Core
Kent Core
Engineering Technology
PHY 12201, 12202 Technical Physics I, II as approved substitutions to the Kent Core Basic
Sciences. These courses will appear in the paragraph above the list of Basic Sciences courses,
included among beginning major sequences courses in physics.
Writing Intensive courses
College of Education, Health, and Human Services
ATTR 43018, Ethics for Allied health Professionals, Writing Intensive Course.
7. There being no other business, the meeting was adjourned at 4:10 PM