ASCRC Minutes 11/23/10
Members Present: B. Borrie, D. Dalenberg, L. Higgins, C. Knight, S. Greymorning, M.
Grimes, T. Manuel, J. Sanders, E. Uchimoto, J. Staub, A. Williams, K. Zoellner
Members Absent/Excused: M. Beebe-Frankenberger, C. Henderson, P. Muench, E.
Johnson, S. O’Hare, L. Sims, K. Spika
Ex-Officio Present: B. Holzworth, A. Walker-Andrews
Chair Knight called the meeting to order at 2:10 p.m.
The minutes from 11/16/10 were amended and approved.
Communications:

Associate Provost Walker-Andrews provided an update from the Board of Regents’
meeting. Program review is being scrutinized. The Regents are looking at numbers of
students in options and are particularly concerned about duplication. They
commented on the course additions without corresponding deletions. President
Engstrom explained that measures other than numbers should be considered in
determining the health of programs. In most cases, there is resource sharing among
options.
Business Items:

The Writing Committee’s Consent Agenda was presented by Professor Zoellner.
Follow-up is pending for a few upper-division writing courses. The items appended
were approved.

Education and Fine Arts Subcommittee Follow-up:
The Director of Film Studies, Sean O’Brien, was consulted about MAR 304
Introduction to the Modern Horror Film. Director O’Brien sent an email
confirmation that the program will be unaffected by the addition of the course. The
course was approved.

Science Subcommittee Follow-up:
A revised form was received for SCN 260N listing prerequisites. Geosciences
submitted a program modification to update graduation requirements and clarify the
changes made by the course forms. Forestry was consulted regarding the possible
overlap with GEO 421 UG Hydrology. Interim Dean Burchfield’s communication
confirmed that the College of Forestry and Conservation does not object to the
course. He further suggests that there is a need to address the scope and diversity of
instruction on water resources, hydrology, Geographic Information Systems and
Climate Change in order to coordinate complementary offerings. He will set up a
meeting after Thanksgiving break.
Follow-up communication was sent to the Instructor of CHEM 481 UG summarizing
ASCRC’s concerns. A response has not yet been received.

Professor Manuel summarized the remaining consent items for the Business and
Journalism Subcommittee. The subcommittee was concerned about the T designation
for BUS 210. It was taught experimentally with a T, but is proposed without the T
and is being considered for the writing and ethics designations as well. The T
designation definition for vocational technical courses was reviewed. Given that the
course is intended to transfer for either an Applied Arts or Baccalaureate degree it
should not have the T designation. Common-course numbering, in effect, is
removing the T for transferable courses.

Professor Dalenberg presented a few additional items from the Social Science
Subcommittee. He spoke with Communication Studies regarding the denial of
increasing the repeatability of COMM 360 Forensics. The program proposed a
compromise of 8 upper-division and 8 lower-division repeatable credits. This was
also not acceptable. The items appended below were approved.

The General Education Committee’s Consent Agenda (appended below) was
approved. Two courses submitted for Literary and Artistic Studies are still pending.
Professor Borrie provided additional information regarding RECM/FOR 246 Natural
History, Ecology & Environmental Management of South Queensland. It is a three
and a half week field course taught in Australia during summer session.

The Office for Student Success is working to improve the FIG program. In the future
there will likely be fewer courses that are thematically focused. Academic Affairs
has determined that the Library is not the appropriate academic home for the program
and is considering alternatives, including a Faculty Oversight Committee. The
courses will be transitioned to credit/no-credit. Additional changes will be
communicated to ASCRC once a decision has been made.
Good and Welfare

ASUM is involved with the nation-wide “It Gets Better” project. The project is a video
campaign that reaches out to at-risk youth with messages of hope. Gay or lesbian adults that
were bullied when they were young provide testimonials. ASUM is working with the UC
multi-cultural alliance and the administration on the project. The videos will be available
after the Thanksgiving Holiday.
The meeting was adjourned at 3:12 PM.
Writing Committee Consent Agenda
Writing Courses
Department
Course
Title
Anthropology
ANTH 326
Business
Technology
MCLL
BUS 210
Department
AAS
Communication
Studies
Forestry
History
History/ WGS
History
MCLG 195
Religious Belief Systems
*One-time only approval. Course was listed as a w
in the schedule in error. Several students enrolled in
the course due to the writing status and need the
course to graduate. They were informed by the
instructor of the error. The instructor submitted the
form to accommodate the students, but does not plan
to teach the course as a writing course in the future.
Critical Analysis for Business Professions
Environment and Nature in the Classical World
One-time-only approval / experimental course
Upper-division Writing Courses
Course
Title / Change
AAS 345 (415)
Black Radical Tradition
COMM 395 (413) Communication and Conflict-Writing
FOR 489E
HSTA 461 UG
HSTA/WGS 471
UG
HSTR 437 UG
Ethics, Conservation and Forestry
Remove writing designation, add to distributed
model
Research in Montana History
Writing Women's Lives
U.S. - Latin American Relations
Business and Journalism Consent Agenda
Business Technology
BUS 210
Critical Analysis for
Business
Program
Medical Information
Modification Technology / Medical
Administrative
Assisting Option
Program
Culinary Arts and
Modification Food Service
Management
Program
Administrative
Modification Management /
Customer Relations
MED 155T
Medical Software
Applications
Program
Administrative
Modification Management
New Course
changing BIOL 113 Intro to Human Form and
Function II to SCN 115 Anatomy
Change Math requirement
Allow students to choose between options
Change credits and descr
Allow students to choose between options
Program
Medical Information
Modification Technology / Health
Information Coding
Specialty Option
Update course offerings
Social Science Consent Agenda
Economics
ECNS 302
Remove M162 (calculus) prerequisite
ECNS 312
Intermediate
Macroeconomics
Labor Economics
ECNS 313
Money and Banking
Remove ECNS 201 prerequisite
ECNS 315
Remove ECNS 201 prerequisite
ECNS 320
History of Economic
Thought
Public Finance
ECNS 393
ECNS 405
Omnibus
Game Theory
Delete
Delete ECNS 202 prerequisite
ECNS 433
Environmental
Economics
Senior Seminar
Delete ECNS 202 prerequisite
ECNS 494
Social Work
Level I
School of Social Work
Bachelor’s of Social
Work Distance
Program
Remove ECNS 202 prerequisite
Remove ECNS 202 prerequisite
Change prerequisite for consistency with senior
research requirements and clarity
Change title from 2 + 2 Social Work Program with
Flathead Valley Community College
General Education Committee Consent Agenda
Department
Course
IV: Expressive Arts
Art
ART 215
Art
ART 223
Art
ART 229
Art
ART 235
Art
ART 240
Art
ART 233
Music
MUSI 304A
Title
Photography I
Fine Art
Ceramics I
Sculpture I
Painting I
Printmaking I
Sound in the Natural World
VI: Historical & Cultural
Anthropology SSEA 102
History
HSTA 370H/
LS 370Hz/
WGS 370Hz
History
HSTA 371H/
LS 371Hz/
WGS 371Hz
MCLL
MCLG 195
VIII: Ethics & Human Values
Anthropology ANTH 403
Forestry
FOR 489E
Davidson
HC 122 E
Honors
College
Davidson
HC 320 E
Honors
College
Philosophy
PHL 210E
IX: American & European
English
LIT 110
English
LIT 120
Journalism
JOUR 110
X: Indigenous & Global
Anthropology SSEA 102
MCLL
JPMN 150
XI: Natural Science Lab
Anthropology ANTH 215
Applied Arts SCN 260N
& Science
Forestry
RECM/FOR 246
Introduction to South and Southeast Asia
Women in America from the Colonial Era Through
the Civil War
Women in America from the Civil War to the
Present
Environment and Nature in the Classical World
Ethics and Anthropology
Ethics, Conservation , and Forestry
Ways of Knowing
Research Portfolio Seminar
Moral Philosophy
Introduction to Literature (Delete Designation)
Poetry (Delete Designation)
News Literacy
Introduction to South and Southeast Asia
Japanese Culture and Civilization
Introduction to Physical Anthropology Lab
The Biology of Behavior
Natural History, Ecology & Environmental
Management of South Queensland