COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
GRADUATE FACULTY COMMITTEE MEETING
AGENDA
March 25, 2016
Immediately following Faculty Assembly
Kinard 018
I.
Approval of minutes of Graduate Faculty
Committee meeting of February 11, 2016 ...……….……………....…….. Amy Gerald
i. See appendix 1
II.
Introductory Remarks…………………………………………….……. Amy Gerald
III.
Report from CAS Committees
a. Curriculum Committee ………………………………………… Wendy Sellers
i. The following changes were approved at the March 8th meeting:
1. Modify course: BIOL 528, Biology of Bone.
2. Modify course: BIOL 529, Stem Cell Biology.
3. New course: ENGE 510, Topics in English Education.
4. Modify course: ENGL 501, Modern British Poetry.
5. Modify course: ENGL 504, Modern American Poetry.
6. Modify course: ENGL 505, American Romanticism.
7. Modify course: ENGL 507, History and Development of Modern English.
8. Modify course: ENGL 513, Milton.
9. Modify course: ENGL 515, Southern Literature.
10. Modify course: ENGL 520, 17th-Century English Literature.
11. Modify course: ENGL 521, Restoration and 18th-Century English
Literature.
12. Modify course: ENGL 525, Studies in Irish Literature.
13. Modify course: ENGL 527, English Romantic Poetry and Prose.
14. Modify course: ENGL 528, The African-American Novel.
15. Modify course: ENGL 529, 20th-Century American Fiction and Drama.
16. Modify course: ENGL 600, Introduction to English Studies.
17. Modify course: ENGL 602, Critical Theory.
18. Modify course: ENGL 611, Late 19th-Century American Literature.
19. Modify course: ENGL 612, 20th-Century British Fiction and Drama.
20. New course: ENGL 619, Seminar in Contemporary Literature.
21. New course: ENGL 621, New Directions in English Studies.
22. Modify course: WRIT 501, Writing for New Media.
23. Modify course: WRIT 502, Digital English Studies: Literature, Rhetoric,
and Technology.
24. Modify course: WRIT 507, Short Story Writing.
25. Modify course: WRIT 530, Script Writing.
26. Modify course: MAED 599, General Mathematics Education Elective.
27. Modify course: MAED 699, General Mathematics Education Elective.
28. Modify course: MATH 551, Algebraic Structures.
29. Modify course: MATH 599, General Mathematics Elective.
30. Modify course: MATH 699, General Mathematics Elective.
31. New course: NUTR 500, Research in Dietetics.
32. New course: NUTR 601, Graduate Research in Dietetics.
33. Modify course: PHIL 575, Business Ethics.
IV.
Old Business
V.
New Business
VI.
Announcements
VII.
Graduate Director’s Remarks ………………………………………… M. Gregory Oakes
VIII. Adjournment
Note: Quorum (35% of graduate faculty) is 25 faculty members. The minimum attendance to do
business (20% of graduate faculty) is 14 faculty members.
Appendix 1
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
Graduate Faculty Committee
MINUTES
February 11, 2016
Kinard Auditorium
11 a.m.
Immediately following the Arts and Sciences Faculty Assembly the meeting was called to order by Dr. Amy
Gerald, Chair. There were fewer than 25 faculty members in attendance, so there was a motion to do
business with 14 or more faculty members (seconded and approved).
I.
Approval of minutes
The minutes of the October 23rd meeting were approved with no corrections.
II.
Introductory Remarks
Dr. Gerald opened by introducing Dr. David Pretty, standing in for Dr. Wendy Sellers, for a report from the CAS
Curriculum Committee.
III.
Report from CAS Committees
Dr. Pretty described the following courses from the Curriculum Committee:
a. The following changes were approved on December 08 and January 12:
i. Modify course: NUTR 518, Medical Nutrition Therapy Laboratory.
ii. Modify course: NUTR 520, Sports Nutrition.
iii. Drop course: NUTR 520H, Sports Nutrition.
iv. Modify course: NUTR 521, Nutrition and Metabolism.
v. Modify course: NUTR 528, Dietetic Internship I
vi. Modify course: NUTR 529, Dietetic Internship II.
vii. Modify course: NUTR 530, Dietetic Internship III.
viii. Modify course: NUTR 531, Dietetic Internship IV.
ix. Modify course: NUTR 600, Seminar in Food and Nutrition.
x. Modify course: NUTR 604, Readings in Human Nutrition.
xi. Modify course: NUTR 610, Global Service Learning in Nutrition.
xii. Modify course: NUTR 611, Global Nutrition.
xiii. Modify course: NUTR 620, Maternal and Child Nutrition.
xiv. Modify course: NUTR 621, Nutrition and Aging.
xv. Modify course: NUTR 624, Vitamin Metabolism.
xvi. Drop course: NUTR 625, Abnormal Metabolism.
xvii. Modify course: NUTR 626, Mineral Metabolism.
xviii. Modify course: NUTR 627A, Recent Developments in Nutrition and Dietetics.
xix. Modify course: NUTR 627B, Recent Developments in Nutrition and Dietetics.
xx. Modify course: NUTR 627C, Recent Developments in Nutrition and Dietetics.
xxi. Modify program: MS in School Psychology.
xxii. Modify course: PSYC 690, Special Topics in Psychology.
xxiii. Add course: PSYC 503, Psychology of Gender and Sexuality.
xxiv. Add course: SCWK 671, Graduate Research in Social Work.
xxv. Add course: SCWK 672, Graduate Research in Social Work.
xxvi. Add course: SCWK 673, Graduate Research in Social Work.
Discussion: Dr. Gerald noted that many of the changes to Human Nutrition courses were about adding in the
requirement of a C- in prerequisites. Dr. Wanda Koszewski noted that NUTR 520H and NUTR 625 had either
not been taught or had not generated interest in some time. Dr. Gerald noted that the MS in School Psychology
was modified to better meet accreditation standards, and PSYC 690 was made into an independent study.
VIII. Adjournment.