SENATE AGENDA ITEM III.G.1.
31 August 2010
Council for International Education Annual Report
This is the second year that CIE dealt with the procedures for implementing the
Foreign Language/Global Issues requirement. Overseeing FL/GI was a
responsibility that was given to CIE during the 2007-2008 academic year. During the
2008-2009 academic year CIE focused on understanding and clarifying its charge
regarding the approval of Global Issues courses. Much of the focus centered on how
many of the objectives a proposed course needed to meet and whether or not CIE
could specify that a course must meet specific objectives. While this was a necessary
growth step for CIE, it limited progress on approving courses during that academic
year.
Focus of the 2009-2010 Academic Year
One of the first tasks undertaken by CIE during the past academic year was to develop
a talking points document, which was further developed by some members into a
Q&A document for council members to take back to their respective colleges (see
attached). Each of the council members were charged with communicating with their
respective deans regarding the GI requirements, the council’s request for course
submissions, and the requirement for each department to determine how it was going
to meet the FLGI requirement.
During the past academic year, CIE recommended (and Senate has approved) 34
Discipline Specific Global Issues Courses and 12 General Education Global Issues
Courses (see attached list). While the implementation of the FLGI requirement was
scheduled to go into effect Fall 2010, several of these approvals did not happen until
later in the spring. Thus, there was concern at the Dean’s Council regarding there
being sufficient sections available for a Fall 2010 implementation. Given this concern,
implementation was delayed until Fall 2011. Given the amount of curriculum that CIE
reviewed during the past academic year, the council focused on little else.
One issue that did arise was how many credit hours were required to meet the GI
requirement for those choosing that option over the FL option. CIE reviewed all the
materials at its disposal and found only a limited reference to a requirement involving
study abroad courses that implied 3 credit hours. In consultation with the Senate
President, CIE recommend a 3 hour credit requirement and the Senate did approve
that request.
CIE has referred a number of courses back to departments for additional clarification
especially when there was, in the council’s opinion, a lack of connection between the
justification required on the course approval forms and the content of the course
syllabus. For the most part, departments have been receptive of the need for
clarification. CIE feels that this additional clarification will also assist CIE when it is
time for the status of GI approved courses to be reviewed.
CIE has resisted considering courses for approval for GI status that are not already
approved courses. We have, however, worked with departments in an informal
manner to provide guidance as they were preparing new courses for the normal
course approval process.
Degree and program approvals are primarily for tracking purposes. Most of the
questions associated with them were simply clerical in nature. The council did
however add a line for the dean’s signature on course approval forms. Our reasoning
is that there is the possibility of impacting the number of sections needed of a course
should it have a GI designation and thus it becomes a resource issue.
Ongoing Challenges
CIE has worked to be flexible with departments having special circumstances and or
needs. For example, meeting the GI requirement for Accounting in the Quad Cities
was going to be difficult at the current time with the current course offerings and
degree requirements so CIE worked with Accounting to meet their unique needs with
a discipline specific course – Accounting 441. However, non-residential students in
the Board of Trustees program will continue to have problems meeting this
requirement without a waiver until an appropriate number of on-line
courses/sections are available for that audience.
Scope of Work for the 2010-2011 Academic Year
CIE is scheduled to meet twice a month (1st and 3rd Thursdays at 4:00 p.m. in
Knoblauch 145) for the fall and spring semester. In is our intent to finish the course
approvals for the GI requirement this academic year and, as our workflow allows,
focus on our other charges including supporting international activities on campus.
Kevin Bacon will continue as Chair of CIE. A secretary will be selected at CIE’s first
meeting.
Kevin Bacon
Chair – CIE, 2009-2011
GLOBAL ISSUES COURSES APPROVED BY FACULTY SENATE
AND PROVOST AS OF 5-7-10
Discipline-Specific Global Issues
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ACCT 441, Advanced Financial/Governmental Accounting, 3 s.h.
BC 325, Comparative Broadcasting Systems, 3 s.h.
CS 320, Ethical, Social, and Legal Issues in the Digital World, 3 s.h.
CHEM 342, Fundamentals of Environmental Chemistry, 4 s.h.
ENG 350, Postcolonial Literature, 3 s.h.
ENG 357, Nation and Literature, 3 s.h.
ENG/REL 492, Religion, Literature, and Film, 3 s.h.
FIN 497, Seminar in Financial Management, 3 s.h.
HIST 346, History of Japan, 3 s.h.
HIST 304, United States Military History, 3 s.h.
HIST 312, Technology, Culture, and Society, 3 s.h.
HIST 401, American Diplomatic History, 3 s.h.
HIST 424, History of Flight Culture, 3 s.h.
HIST 445, History of Modern Asia, 3 s.h.
HRM 444, International Human Resource Management, 3 s.h.
INAG 361, International Agriculture Travel Study in the Western Hemisphere, 3 s.h.
INAG 362, International Agriculture Travel Study in the Eastern Hemisphere, 3 s.h.
JOUR 392, National Cinemas, 3 s.h.
JOUR 410, International Communication and the Foreign Press, 3 s.h.
JOUR 474, World Englishes, 3 s.h.
MKTG 317, International Business, 3 s.h.
MKTG 417, International Marketing, 3 s.h.
MGT 485, International Management, 3 s.h.
MUS 390, European Art Music I, 3 s.h.
MUS 391, European Art Music II, 3 s.h.
POLS 329, Political Systems of Latin America, 3 s.h.
POLS 331, United States Foreign Policy, 3 s.h.
POLS 334, Politics of the Global Economy, 3 s.h.
POLS 338, The United Nation and International Organization, 3 s.h.
POLS 353, Terrorism and Political Conflict, 3 s.h.
POLS 400, Comparative Public Policy, 3 s.h.
POLS 440, International Security and Arms Control, 3 s.h.
POLS 446, Conflict Resolution and International Peacekeeping, 3 s.h.
SCM 411, Global Supply Chain Management, 3 s.h.
General Education Global Issues
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HIST 125, Western Civilization to 1648, 3 s.h.
HIST 126, Western Civilization Since 1648, 3 s.h.
HIST 144, History of the Middle East, 3 s.h.
HIST 145, History of Asia, 3 s.h.
HIST/WS 318, Women and Gender in European History, 3 s.h.
HIST 341, Latin America Since 1860, 3 s.h.
HIST 344, Modern Middle East, 3 s.h.
INAG 310, International Agriculture in Developing Countries, 3 s.h.
IS 325, Global Social Networks, 3 s.h.
JOUR 358, Studies in Non-Western Literature, 3 s.h.
POLS 228, Fundamentals of International Relations, 3 s.h.
POLS 267, Introduction to Comparative Government and Politics, 3 s.h.