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Graduate Council Minutes 11/20/13
GBB 205, 12:10-1:00 p.m.
Members Present:, M. Alwell, D. Biehl, D. Campbell, I. Crummy, L. Frey, L. Gray, N. Hassanein, A.
Kinch, B. Klaasen, J. Johnson, S. Sprang, K. Swift
Members Absent/Excused: R. Arouca, A. McKeown, E. Stone, J. Laine
Ex Officio Members Present: M. Berthelson, B. Brown, N. Hinman, S. Ross
Guests: R. Hughes, R. Maclean, R. Squires
Approval of the 11/13/13 minutes was postponed. Several revisions were suggested.
Business Items
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The Professional Schools Curriculum items appended were approved. The Subcommittee
requested that the ART courses (with the exception of ART 410 UG) be removed from the
consent agenda until the program modification was received and reviewed.
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The two BMED courses will be sent to the Science Subcommittee for review. If possible the
subcommittee will send a recommendation to be voted on electronically in order for the items
to be on the Faculty Senate agenda for December 5th.
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The requests to waive the GRE from admissions requirements from Counselor Education and
Media Arts were approved.
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The Social Science Subcommittee is still in the process of reviewing the Program
Modification for Anthropology. It was noted that the language for the general option should
be parallel with Cultural Heritage and The Applied Options; specifically it should address the
number of required dissertation credits and UG courses. The Council was under the
impression that the Graduate School had a policy that limited the number of UG credits, but
it could not be easily found on the website. Dean Ross will research this and report back to
the committee. Chair Hassanein will contact the proposer. The Program Modification for
Sociology is not yet ready for approval.
The prerequisite change for GPHY 597, Professional Paper and ANTY 440 UG,
Contemporary Issues of South and Southeast Asia were approved. The Council discussed
the two Military Studies courses that are requesting a UG designation. It wasn’t clear from
the forms who would take the courses or whether the military instructors had appropriate
credentials. Camie will contact the requestor for a stronger rationale.
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In the last few minutes of the meeting, the Council considered a motion to approve the
Applied Online Technologies Program. It was requested that any action would be considered
conditional until the School of Business Dean and Chair of Management Information
Systems sign the proposal. The vote was 5 in favor, 4 against, with 2 abstentions.
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[There were several email communications after the meeting regarding the process. The final is below.
Dear Members of the Graduate Counsel:
With only four responses to my earlier email, three supportive and one somewhat ambiguous, there has
not been strong endorsement for reconsideration of the proposed Master’s program in Online
Technology.
Therefore, the vote of the Counsel taken at yesterday's meeting to approve the program shall stand.
I shall convey to Dean Maclean the results of the GC's vote, and apprise him of certain of the reservations
that members expressed about the proposed program, together with the suggestion that the name of
the program should be revised to more specifically reflect its purpose.
I agree that the Online Program represents, in some respects, represents a new model for a UM
professional graduate program. The demand for multi-disciplinary professional graduate programming,
involving cooperation among two or more academic units, is likely to increase. It will be difficult to
anticipate at the outset, let alone address, all of the challenges that both faculty and the administration
will encounter in developing and managing such programs. However, nothing can be achieved unless we
take the first steps.
The GC will next meet on December 4, to complete (I hope!) our review of graduate programs.
Subcommittee Chairs, please deliver your reviews to Camie by December 2nd, for distribution to the GC
at large.]
The meeting was adjourned at 1:00 p.m.
Professional Schools
College of Health Professions and Biomedical Sciences
PUBH 525
PUBH 530
Public Health
Multicultural and Native
American Health
Public Health
Administration and
Management
PUBH 531
Leadership in Public Health
P T 519 G
P T 527 G
P T 525 G
Change title from Native American
Public Health, change description
Change title from Administration and
Management in the U.S. Health Care
System, change description
Change number from 521, change
prerequisites
Physical Therapy
Musculoskeletal
Change description
Management I
Physical & Electrophys
Change title
Agents
Clin Med III
Change prereqs
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P T 568 G
P T 573 G
P T 626 G
Neurorehab. II
Musculoskeletal Mgt III
Clin Med IV
Change title
Change description
Change prereqs, title
College of Visual and Performing Arts
Creative Pulse
CP 588 G
TBD
Change credits
THTR 525 G
THTR 526 G
THTR 527 G
Theatre & Dance
Problems in Acting
Change description
Studio Training I
Change description
Studio Training II
Change description
College of Arts and Science
Anthropology
ANTY 440 UG
Contemporary Issues of
South and Southeast Asia
Change title, prereq, and discr
Geography
GPHY 597
Professional Paper
Change prerequisite