Curriculum Committee Minutes
Sept. 18, 2012
3:00 PM
HCC 550
Chair: Daphne Selbert
Present: Clare Banks, Darl Biniaz, Robert Carlson, Leonor Ceballos, Ami Comeford, Cheri Crenshaw, Cari Heizer, Mark Houser, Randy Jasmine, Gordon Jolley, David Jones,
Ellie Jones, Dannelle Larsen-Rife, Sharon Lee, Rick Palmer, Brandon Price, Bart Stander, Phyllis Swift, Martha Talman, Pete VanValkenburg, Glenn Webb, Kyle Wells,
Linda Wright, Brent Yergensen
Absent: J.D. Robertson, Joe Pate, Chizu Matsubara (excused), Deborah Connolly
Visitors: Assunta Hardy, Victor Hasfurther, Kimberly Welch, Joan Runs Through, Virginia Hughes, Rob Snow
Curriculum Items
MINUTES
Motions
Vote Results
Action/Discussion
M: Glenn Webb
S: Randy Jasmine
APPROVED
M: Mark Houser
S: Pete VanValkenburg
M: Mark Houser
S: Randy Jasmine
APPROVED
M: Glenn Webb
S: Mark Houser
APPROVED (vote
included both MUSC
3670 and MUSC 4640)
Course additions, effective Spring 2013. Correction on 3670 course. It has
been sent to GE Committee for approval for GE GLOCUP and is currently
“pending” in that committee. This will come forward again with the
request for approval for GE status. This course is currently the trend on
campuses across the nation and is an important course to add for the NASM
Accreditation.
Course addition, effective Spring 2013. This course matches Vocal, Piano,
and String Pedagogy/Literature courses already in inventory.
ESOL 1001: International First Year
Experience
M: Leonor Ceballos
S: Glenn Webb
APPROVED
Course addition, effective Spring 2013.
ESOL COURSE ADDITIONS (Effective:
Spring 2013)
ESOL 0165: Introductory Integrated
English Skills Lab
ESOL 0365: Basic Integrated English
Skills Lab
ESOL 0565: Intermediate Integrated
English Skills Lab
ESOL 0765: Advanced Integrated English
Skills Lab
SPAN 3080: Spanish Phonetics &
Pronunciation
M: Leonor Ceballos
S: David Jones
APPROVED (all ESOL
lab courses)
Course additions, effective Spring 2013. Kimberly Welch, ESOL instructor,
represented these course additions. Fee to be charged because no textbook
will be used, but Rosetta Stone or other software is. The cost of the
software for the Basic and Introductory levels will be supplemented by the
department. Rosetta Stone will be required for the Intermediate and
Advanced levels, and the cost is equivalent to the $50 fee.
M: Leonor Ceballos
S: Randy Jasmine
Course addition, effective: Spring 2013.
SPAN 4700: Teaching Modern Language:
M: Leonor Ceballos
APPROVED (vote
taken on both Spanish
courses)
APPROVED
April 17, 2012
Aug. 17, 2012
School of Arts & Letters
ART 1001: Art First Year Experience
Effective: Fall 2012
ART 4000: Ceramic Technology
ARTH 4200: Ceramic History &
Contemporary Trends
MUSC 3670: World Music
APPROVED
MUSC 4640: Percussion Pedagogy &
Literature
Curriculum Committee, Sept.18, 2012
Housekeeping. Needed the form for course description and to have a paper
trail for the course.
Course additions, effective Spring 2013. Courses needed for spring for
students to advance quicker towards degree completion.
Elective in future Spanish degree program. Course addition, effective:
Curriculum Items
Motions
Spanish
S: Glenn Webb
PSY 3712: Human Learning & Memory
M: Dannelle Larsen-Rife
S: Glenn Webb
Vote Results
APPROVED (vote
taken on both PSY
courses)
PSY 4145: Cognitive Neuroscience of
Attention
SOC 3111: Research Methods
SOC 3112: Social Statistics
SOC 3140: Sociological Theory
SOC 3560: Deviance & Social Control
Action/Discussion
Spring 2013. This course is K-12 Methods because we have a lot dualversion schools here so it’s not just secondary methods.
Course Additions, effective Spring 2013. Electives in Psychology degree.
Unusual at the undergraduate level. Do we have the resources to support it?
Robert Carlson indicated that the only thing unusual about it is when it’s a
class on attention, it’s in either attention disorders from the clinical
perspective or developmental perspective, or it’s from normal functioning
attention from the cognitive psychology perspective. Textbook was found
that addresses a wide range of topics that can be covered, and he has some
research experience on both sides. A class is occasionally taught at the
undergraduate level but is usually in a non-descript seminar.
All courses will go with the Integrated Studies: Sociology Emphasis.
Pending additional SOC hires we do not have enough faculty to teach these.
Chair indicated the “portal concept” would be used to offer these courses on
an interim basis.
M: Dannelle Larsen-Rife
S: David Jones
APPROVED (vote
taken on all Sociology
courses)
M: Linda Wright
S: Darl Biniaz
M: Linda Wright
S: Darl Biniaz
APPROVED
Course addition, effective Spring 2013.
APPROVED with one
abstained vote.
Course additions, effective Spring 2013. All to go into the Integrated
Studies: Recreation Emphasis. Faculty to teach these? Administration has
been discussing hires for the emphasis.
M: Gordon Jolley
S: Linda Wright
APPROVED
As we go to University status, we compared courses to other universities for
Student Leadership development. This course is specifically geared to
Student Government students, but is open enrollment for all. Three
institutions in the state offer these as a minor in what is essentially Student
Government (Student Leadership). Each course is repeatable up to 4
credits each. Instructors will not receive compensation for these courses;
they will be taught as part of their staff of executive duties.
M: Phyllis Swift
S: Brent Yergensen
APPROVED (vote
taken on Deletions and
Virginia Hughes, Medical Laboratory Sciences, represented these courses.
These were offered in conjunction with Weber State and were taught once.
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
PEHR 1528: Rock Climbing II
PEHR COURSE ADDITIONS:
PEHR 2500: Introduction to Recreation
PEHR 2700: Recreation Program
Planning/Facilities Management
PEHR 3010: Special Event
Administration/Management
PEHR 3220: Legal Foundations in
Recreation & Leisure Services
PEHR 3310: Leisure Behavior & Human
Diversity
PEHR 3430: Community & Commercial
Recreation
PEHR 3780: Issues & Assessment in
Recreation
PEHR 4010: Administration,
Management, and Finance in Recreation
SSC 2500R: Emerging Leaders
SSC 2600R: Student Leadership
Development
SCHOOL OF NURSING &
ALLIED HEALTH
Course Deletions:
CLS 1113: Intro to Medical Lab Practice
Curriculum Committee, Sept.18, 2012
Curriculum Items
Motions
CLS 1123: Hematology & Hemostasis Lab
Vote Results
Action/Discussion
on addition of MLS
1123)
APPROVED
We no longer teach with Weber State and are developing our own program
so these courses will be ended.
Course addition, effective Spring 2013.
APPROVED
Course deletion.
APPROVED
Course offers a lot to practitioners (bed-side manners) for doctor/nurse
patient interaction. BSN students need often more upper-division or more
residential credit because they’ve received their RN degrees elsewhere.
Will be dual-listed with COMM 3230. This course is geared more to a
Comm Theory approach to health professions, and will be in an online
format by COMM faculty.
M: David Jones
S: Leonor Ceballos
APPROVED
Fee increases: BIOL 1105 from $50 to $70; BIOL 4205 from $15 to $45. Field
trips, lab books, instructor notes will come from the fees.
M: David Jones
S: Ami Jo Comeford
M: Pete VanValkenburg
S: Darl Biniaz
M: Pete VanValkenburg
S: Randy Jasmine
APPROVED
Course has been taught previously as a seminar course (4990) and has good
enrollments. This was brought forward to receive its own number.
GE status (PS/GLOCUP) status still pending in GE Committee. Will be a
prerequisite course in a new program yet to be created.
All courses will be included in the Integrated Studies: Earth Science
Emphasis and Environmental Science Program they’re hoping to get.
COMM 4920R: DOCUTAH Dimension
of Documentary Film
M: Brent Yergensen
S: Randy Jasmine
APPROVED
COMM 3230: Health Communication
COMM 3460: Content & Rhetorical
Analysis
M: Brent Yergensen
S: Mark Houser
APPROVED (vote
taken on COMM 3230
and COMM 3460)
COMM 4460: Quantitative Research
Methods
COMM 4470: Qualitative Research
Methods
COMM 4480: Critical Research Methods
COMM 4980: Senior Seminar
M: Brent Yergensen
S: Mark Houser
APPROVED (vote
taken on these three
courses)
M: Brent Yergensen
S: Mark Houser
APPROVED
MLS 1123: Principles of Hematology &
Hemostasis
NURS 2250: Pediatric Nursing II
HLOC 3230: Health Communication
M: Phyllis Swift
S: Randy Jasmine
M: Phyllis Swift
S: Glenn Webb
M: Phyllis Swift
S: Randy Jasmine
SCHOOL OF SCIENCE &
TECHNOLOGY
Course Modifications:
BIOL 1105: General Botany Lab
BIOL 4205: Plant Taxonomy Lab
Course Addition:
BIOL 4240: Virology
ENVS 1010: Intro to Environmental
Science
GEO 3180: Paleontology
GEO 3400: Water Resources
GEO 3550: Sedimentology &
Stratigraphy
APPROVED
APPROVED
SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
Curriculum Committee, Sept.18, 2012
Number should include “R” as the course is repeatable (4920R). This
course had been offered twice under a seminar number, which is the limit,
and seminar series courses (X990) are not repeatable courses.
Course modifications. COMM 3230: dual list with HLOC 3230; COMM
3460, remove prerequisite and improve course description to reflect the
change, and reflect what is actually being taught. Question was asked
regarding dropping ALL prerequisites. How do you ensure that students
have any preparation for this course? COMM department regularly
overrides prerequisites for almost all courses, so prerequisites do not seem
to be an issue for them.
Put on hiatus and remove rotations. These were put together to give
specialized training. The challenge is why we are offering specialized
method when students haven’t had a day of general methods or
introduction to all of them. COMM 4450 meets the graduation
requirements for students at this time.
Change schedule type from INV to LEC. Independent study format was
formed when there was only about 80 majors. They now are pushing 500
majors. Instructors are teaching their 27 units of credits each year AND
taking on handfuls of individual project students. Needs to be delivered as a
course now. Too many incompletes and fails. Why 4 credits? Other
Curriculum Items
Motions
Vote Results
Action/Discussion
courses are 3.0 credits. Nature of work of drawn-out research projects and
is reflective of a thesis-type project. This is COMM’s Capstone course.
It was recommended that chairs get together to discuss similar courses
and adequate enrollment numbers. Right now class max enrollment
numbers are chosen by each department.
ACTION ITEMS
CJ Certificates in Digital Forensics
Basics
Integrated Studies: Earth Science
Emphasis
Integrated Studies: Recreation
Emphasis
Curriculum Committee, Sept.18, 2012
M: Leonor Ceballos
S: Randy Jasmine
APPROVED
M: Darl Biniaz
S: Glenn Webb
APPROVED (with one
abstained vote)
Joan Runs Through represented this Certificate to the committee. Courses
to be taught in a online “condensed” version. Grant pays for the courses to
be put in ONLINE format—3 stackable certificates with one final certificate
for all three. Requested that the courses be given a different number
because these currently have 6 hrs of lab per week. ONLINE won’t have the
6 hrs of labs.
Two issues: two courses somewhat identical, and which courses count
towards certificate. Curricular reasons are that they are different courses.
IF a student takes this online, is there any verification that the students
have actually completed the lab hours. If the student is physically able to
come to campus, they will be able to use lab equipment. If they can’t, the
student will be using software based similar equipment.
Skills learning courses don’t translate seamlessly into online classes. How
do we verify the skill learning is equivalent in the ONLINE courses vs the
lecture course? Joan says there’ll be practical exercises and tutorials and
packets/mailings with hands-on labs. Two proctored “activities” will have
to be set up and the difficulty of proctoring will be more complicated than
traditional proctoring, but the program will ensure that it is completed by
each student. Proctored activities are to demonstrate that the student has
actually done the work and not someone else. The proctor needs to make
sure they are who they say they are, and places need to be set up to
administer those activities.
This needs to go to Regional CTE Committee.
Will faculty will be provided for staffing these courses as well as GE
Physical Science courses? What are your projections in getting through
the curriculum? Right now we have the teachers (Physical Sciences). Will
there be enough sections of INTS Capstone? With more programs added,
are there enough sections to accommodate the demand? Darl has asked
administrators for more faculty but has had no luck. He recognizes it’s
a problem.
Concern was expressed for the Recreation Emphasis. It has the potential
of being a high-enrollment emphasis, and we’ll be unprepared for it.
Concern was expressed about the potential benefit of using Integrated
Studies as an “incubation” part of the development of programs, but if it
isn’t done with enough resources to be effective, then it will be problematic
for students and the institution. Darl mentioned the problems INTS
incurred with staffing and offering upper-division Spanish courses when
the emphasis was first approved. Darl expressed the need for more than one
faculty member to teach in the program.
Question was raised as to how the emphasis relates to a full major
program in REC eligible for accreditation. Minimum of 3 full-time faculty
Curriculum Items
Motions
Vote Results
Action/Discussion
and 12 internship credits would be required to be an accredited program.
DISCUSSION ITEMS
Curriculum Forms – Martha Talman
Course Change Form
New Course Addendum
General Education Addendum
Adjourned: 4:45 PM
Curriculum Committee, Sept.18, 2012
Three forms were presented for the committee to review. 1) The new course
change form is printed in Portrait; the course rotation is now added since
we seem to forget that part of the course description; 2), rather than
requiring a syllabus, the New Course Addendum form has less information
and is easier to fill out; 3) General Education Addendum will be required
for each course requesting GE status. A form for every GE request needs be
filled out (i.e., a course requesting GE and GLOCUP status fills out two GE
Addendum forms). Adjustments to the New Course Addendum were made
to accommodate faculty concerns about the amount of information
required: 1) the word “General” to be added in the (General Outline of
course content) section, Methods of Student Assessment section will
include “e.g.” (e.g., type, number, percent); 3) Use Possible Text rather than
Tentative Text.
M: Glenn Webb
S: Robert Carlson