COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
COLLEGE ADVISORY COUNCIL
Arts Committee
MINUTES
24 January 2013, 15:30, Room 219, Pray Harrold
Present: Perry (AAS), Sacksteder (ART), Hammill (CMTA), Woodland (ECON), Dionne (ENGL), Dieterle (HIST/PHIL), Singh
(PLSC), Ensor (SAC), Vosteen (WL Chair), Higgins (WGST)
Ex Officio: Mehuron (CAS Dean’s Office)
I. Call to Order: 15:35
II. Minutes of the Meeting of 6 December 6 2012: Approved Unanimously
III. Old Business: none
IV. New Business:
A. College of Arts and Sciences
ART
Request for Course Revision
ARTH467 Art of East Asia (title, description, pre-/corequisite) Approved Unanimously
CMTA
The following CMTA two course revision, new course, and program revision proposals were Approved as a Package: 8 for, 0
against, 1 abstention.
1. Requests for Course Revisions
CTAC124 Fundamentals of Speech (title, description)
CTAC407 Directing the Secondary Communication and Theatre Co-curriculum (hours)
2. Request for New Course
CTAR 365 Costume Draping
3. Proposal to Revise Program
Major/Minor in Secondary Education in Communication, Media and Theatre Arts CTOA—CTAT
IESS Program
Proposal to Revise Program
IESS, Interdisciplinary Environmental Science and Society Approved Unanimously
B. College of Health and Human Services
School of Health Promotion and Human Performance
1. Requests for New Courses
The following School of Health Promotion and Human Performance new course proposals were Passed as a Package Unanimously.
HLED242 Theoretical Foundations of Health Behavior
HLED345 Community Health Education Methods and Materials
HLED371 Injury and Violence Protection
School of Nursing
Request for New Course
NURS369 Essentials of Poster, Podium and Paper Presentations
Tabled Unanimously: the presentation of the course suggests that 3 credits are too many, the content of presentations is
evaluated without instruction on content (e.g., research methods), there is no course bibliography, and no explanation for the
lack of prerequisites.
School of Health Sciences
Proposal for New Degree Program
Public Health—Bachelor of Science
Tabled Unanimously for discussion with AAS (regarding potential inclusion of AAS350 The Social Context of African
American Health), PHIL (regarding the potential inclusion of PHIL223 Medical Ethics), and SAC (regarding potential impacts
from including two of its courses, particularly SOCL345 Ethnographic Methods).
C. College of Technology
School of Technology Studies
1. Request for Course Deletion
BMMT364 Methods of Teaching General Business Subjects Passed Unanimously
2. Proposal to Revise Program
Industrial Distribution (ID) Passed Unanimously
V. Chair’s Remarks: none
VI. Adjournment: 16:10
Respectfully Submitted,
Bradley Ensor, recording secretary