LAS Curriculum and Requirements Committee
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
NEW PERMENANT MEETING LOCATION: CoH 3022
MINUTES
A.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES – October 16, 2013
B.
OLD BUSINESS 1. New Course Proposal:
C.
UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED
WEST 2070 Foundations in Native American
Studies
(Janice Gould)
UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED
NEW BUSINESS –
2. New Course Proposals
ANTH 2310 Human Reproduction
ANTH 3380 Evolutionary Medicine
(Linda Watts) (SS area requirement request removed)
UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED
3. New Course Proposals:
ECON 3870 Behavioral Economics
ECON 6060 Teaching Personal Financial Literacy
in the Elementary Grades
(John Brock)
UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED
4. (a) Course Revision:
BIOL 1300 General Biology I: Organismic Biology
Lecture
split Lecture from Laboratory and create BIOL 1310 General Biology I: Organismic Biology
Laboratory
(b) New Course Proposal:
5. (a) Course Revision:
(b) New Course Proposal:
BIOL 1350 General Biology II: Introduction to the
Cell Lecture
split Lecture from Laboratory and create BIOL 1360 General Biology II: Introduction to the
Cell Laboratory
(Lisa Hines)
4-5 UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED as a bundle
6. New Course Proposal:
7. (a) Course Revision:
(b) New Course Proposal:
CHEM 2904 Research: Lower Division (lower
Division counterpart to CHEM 4904)
(David Anderson)
CHEM 4001 Analytical Chemistry Lecture
split Lecture from Laboratory and create CHEM 4002 Analytical Chemistry Laboratory
(David Anderson)
6-7 UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED as a bundle
8. New Course Proposal:
CHEM 4251Current Perspectives in Science and
Medicine
(David Anderson)
NO VOTE – will revise and resubmit at
December 2013 meeting
9. Course Revision and Global
Awareness Requirement Request:
CHEM 4521 Environmental Chemistry
(David Anderson)
10. New Course Proposal:
CHEM 5521 Environmental Chemistry
(David Anderson)
CHEM 4905 Internship: Undergraduate
CHEM 5905 Internship: Graduate (research
practicum)
(David Anderson)
9-11 UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED as a bundle
11. (a) Course Revision:
(b) New Course Proposal:
12. New Course Proposals:
HIST 3995 Undergraduate Internship in History
HIST 6955 Graduate Internship in History
(Paul Harvey)
UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED
13. Course Revisions:
ID 1010 Freshman Seminar (multiple sectionsgo to www.uccs.edu/~freshsem/ to Studio A link)
(Connie Staley)
UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED
Motion made by Steve Jennings:
“Move to discuss at our C&R December
meeting the concerns revolving around the
qualifications of those who teach GPS 1010.”
Motion received a second.
Motion to postpone action on this motion until
December was made by the Chair.
Motion to postpone passed unanimously.
14. (a) Add to Global Awareness Requirement: SOC 2220 Communities in a Global Environment
(c) Add to Global Awareness Requirement: SOC 4380 Globalization and Development
(a)&(c) UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED as a bundle
(b) Add to Cultural Diversity Requirement:
SOC 3220 Urban and Community Sociology
(Lori Guasta/Aditi Mitra/Heather Albanesi)
UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED
15. New Course Proposal:
AH/VAPA 3920 Folk Arts, Folk Expressions and
Folkscapes
(Suzanne MacAulay)
Postponed until December 2013 meeting
16. Review of GE submissions:
See attached spreadsheet.
93 courses* UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED to be
forwarded to the Compass Curriculum Review
Committee
*25 on-line submissions; 68 hard copies
D.
ADJOURN
Future meetings:
December 18
January 22
February 19
March 19
April 16
May 21