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Graduate Council Minutes 11/6/13
GBB 205, 12:10-1:00 p.m.
Members Present:, D. Campbell, I. Crummy, L. Frey, L. Gray, N. Hassanein, A. Kinch, J.
Johnson, A. McKeown, S. Sprang, E. Stone, K. Swift
Members Absent/Excused: M. Alwell, M. Berthelson, B. Klaasen, D. Biehl, J. Laine
Ex Officio Members Present: B. Brown, R. Arouca, N. Hinman, S. Ross
The 10/30/13 minutes were approved.
Communications Item:
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Members were reminded that today is the Day of Dialogue and there are many events taking place on
campus.
Business Items
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The Social Science curriculum items appended below were approved. Follow-up is
pending for ANTY 440 and PSCI 480, as well as the Sociology program
modification. The e-Curr form/ syllabi for PSCI 437 will be updated in accordance
to the comments made by the department chair and the dean. The review of GPHY
597 and the program modification for Anthropology was postponed as the originals
were missing from the folder and the site was down.
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Members were reminded that program review documents should be reviewed by the
Council soon. The goal was that they should be completed prior to Thanksgiving.
After discussion it was agreed that the Council would not meet on November 20th to
allow subcommittees time to discuss the reviews. All review documents (EVST,
Geography, Public Health and Math) should be submitted for review prior to the
December 4th meeting.
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The Council discussed the proposed Master in Applied Online Technologies. There
were several concerns / questions. There are faculty members from the School of
Business listed in the proposal, but the Dean’s signature is missing. It will be sent for
approval. Representatives will be invited to next week’s meeting to address the
concerns listed below.
1) The name of the graduate program does not appear to describe its educational
content. "applied online technologies" is a very general term and can mean many
things.
2) Some GC members questioned whether the content of certain 500 courses (for
example "online learning platforms and devices) was consistent with a graduatelevel course.
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3) Perhaps the most significant concern was whether the program would have
sufficient resources, and commitment from the three major units involve, to be
sustainable. Faculty in Business, Media Arts and Education, will be instructors
in the new program. Presumably, unless these instructors are willing to increase
their teaching loads to accommodate the new program, some part of their FTE
will have to be replaced by their respective units. Is there commitment from the
participating schools to cover the costs of replacing the effort of faculty who will
be contributing to the on-line program. Has this been discussed with the deans of
the participating schools? Generally, the GC would like to see the funding model
for the proposed program.
The meeting was adjourned at 1:00 p.m.
Social Science
ANTY 476 UG
Anthropology
Methods for Native
Languages
Change repeatability
COMX 423 UG
COMX 512 G
Communication Studies
Org Comm Con & Train
Sem Comm Conflict
Change title
Change title
ENST 530 G
ENST 535 G
ENST 580 G
Environmental Studies
Greening Religion
Local Climate Solutions
Pol of Food
New course
New course
New course
GPHY 435 UG
Geography
Hazards and Planning
Delete course
PSCI 596 G
PSCI 437 UG
PSCI 433 UG
Political Science
Independent Study
Politics of the World
Economy
International Law & Org
Change repeatability
New course
Change prereqs
Psychology
PSYX 625 G
Clinical Assessment
Change credits, description,
learning outcome, title
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