Graduate Council Meeting Minutes
October 27, 2010
GBB 202, 12:10-1:00 p.m.
Members Present:, A. Borgmann, K. Canty, M. Ehrman, D. Erickson, J. Hirstein, J.
Hodgin, N. Moisey, J. Olson, C. Palmer, G. Quintero, W. Shields, R. Shortbull, S. Sprang
Members Absent/Excused:
Ex-officio members Present: S. Ross
The meeting was called to order at 12:10 p.m.
The 10/19/10 minutes were approved.
Communications

Chair Hirstein thanked Professor Quintero for chairing last week’s meeting.
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The IIP Oversight Committee will meet next Monday at 12:10 in the Faculty
Senate Office, UH 221.
Business Items
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The Humanities consent agenda (below) was approved. THTR 506 is pending
follow-up.
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Professional Schools Follow-up: Forms were submitted to remove the G from
FOR 425 and 475. Therefore, the corresponding co-convened courses 524
and 575 were approved. The Schools subcommittee requested syllabi for the
400 level courses associated with the co-convened courses to assure the coconvened courses required higher level course work. If this is going to be
standard practice, the course form will need to be revised to specify the
requirement.
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Social Schools Follow-up: IYFD 510 was withdrawn.
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The Council continued discussion regarding review of the MIS and IIP.
Students should be included in the review process. Associate Dean Ross will
provide the Council a list of MIS and IIP students. Since the interdisciplinary
programs do not have academic homes, additional consideration is required by
Graduate Council, analogous to the internal review component of program
review. According to the Council’s charge it is responsible for supervising
interdisciplinary graduate programs.
The IIP and MIS should have parallel governing structures. In the past the
Dean of the Graduate School coordinated the administration of the MIS. It is
unclear who is currently responsible for the MIS. In the past the Graduate
School had discretional TAs, but this has changed. There is concern that if the
program is administered by the Graduate School it has an unfair advantage in
terms of competition for resources.
Further discussion regarding the future of the program should be postponed
until the Associate Provost of Graduate Studies has been appointed and can be
included. He should meet with the Provost to inquire whether financial
support is feasible, and then the Council can proceed with making
recommendations.
The meeting was adjourned at 1:00 p.m.
Humanities Consent Agenda
Course /
Change
English
ENT 553
ENT 556
ENT 557
History
HSTA 461 UG
HSTA 501
HSTA 502
HSTA/WGS/LS
471 UG
HSTR 418 UG
HSTR 437 UG
Media Arts
MAR 470 UG
MAR 557
MAR 595
Music
MUSI 420 UG
MUSI 422 UG
Title
Change
Native Voices & Writing
Change title, and descr
Implementing Indian Education for All
through Writing
New course
Worlds Apart But Not Strangers:
Holocaust Education and Indian
Education for All
New course
Research in Montana History
Readings in Early American History
Readings in Modern American History
Writing Women's Lives
New course
New course
New course
New course
Research Seminar: Britain in the Long
Eighteenth Century
U.S. - Latin American Relations
New course
Advanced Acting for Film
Advanced Post- Production
Graduate Practicum
New course
New course
New course
Jazz Pedagogy
Jazz Arranging and Composition
New course
New course
New course
MUSI 467
MUST 427
Philosophy
PHL 405 UG
PHL 406 UG
PHL 412 UG
PHL 422E UG
PHL 427 UG
PHL 427 UG
PHL 445 UG
PHL 450 UG
Techniques
Composers' Workshop II
Mountain Electroacoustic Laptop
Ensemble
20th Century Analytic Philosophy
Contemporary Issues in Analytic
Philosophy
Ethics and Public Affairs
Environmental Philosophy
Topics in Philosophy of Art
Philosophy in Literature
Central Issues in Philosophy of
Science
Contemporary Moral and Political
Theory
Philosophy of Society and Culture
Early Morning Philosophy
Kant
Plato
Aristotle
19th Century Continental Philosophy
20th Century Continental Philosophy
PHL 455 UG
PHL 462 Ug
PHL 464 UG
PHL 465 UG
PHL 466 UG
PHL 467 UG
PHL 468 UG
Theatre and Dance
DANC 280 UG Dance Conditioning: Pilates
DANC 320 UG Intermediate Composition
DANC 405 UG Advanced Improvisation
DANC 410 UG
THTR 510
THTR 523
THTR 570
Ballet IV
Graduate Singing for Actors
Studio Training for the Actor
Graduate Stage Management
Change level to UG
Change level to UG
Change Prereqs
Change Prereqs
Change Prereqs
Change Prereqs
Change Prereqs
Change Prereqs
Change Prereqs
Change Prereqs
Change Prereqs
Change Prereqs
Change Prereqs
Change Prereqs
Change Prereqs
Change Prereqs
Change Prereqs
Change level
Change level and descr
Lowering number of
credits
Revising description
New course
Revising number of credits
Lowering number of
credits