COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
COLLEGE ADVISORY COUNCIL
Arts Committee
MINUTES
February 9, 2012
3:30 p.m., Room 219, Pray Harrold
I. Call to Order
II. Minutes of the Meeting of January 12, 2012
Approved unanimously
III. Old Business
College of Arts and Sciences
(HIST & PHIL)
Proposal to Revise Program
Secondary Education Social Studies Major (SST)/Political Science Minor
[This proposal “remained on the table” in the New Business section of the minutes of the 1-12-12 meeting; no
mention was made of when it had been previously tabled.]
Approved unanimously
IV. New Business
A. College of Arts and Sciences
(HIST & PHIL)
1. Request for Course Revision
HIST 102 Western Civilization, 1648-World War I (title, description)
Approved unanimously
2. Requests for New Courses
PHIL 429w Topics in Environmental Philosophy
PHIL 481w Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Both approved unanimously
3. Proposal to Revise Program
Secondary Education Social Studies Major (SST)/History Minor
Approved unanimously with the following comment: “These cannot be taken separately in any way and form a single
integrated program of study” should be replaced by “These form a single independent program of study and cannot be
taken separately in any way.”
(PLSC)
Taken as a group, all the PLSC requests and proposals were approved unanimously
1. Requests for Course Revisions
PLSC 635 Public Policy Analysis Techniques and Applications (title)
PLSC 650 Urban Poverty Policy (title, description)
2. Request for New Course
PLSC 604 Historical and Philosophical Foundations of the Nonprofit Sector in the U.S.
3. Proposal to Revise (Delete) Program
Masters in Public Administration PADM
Masters in Public Administration PADM (second submission)
4. Proposals to Revise Programs
Masters in Public Administration PADM (change in the Nonprofit Administration program)
Masters in Public Administration PADM (changes in the Organization Management concentration) Nonprofit
Management Certificate Program (changes to the graduate certificate in nonprofit management (NPMG)
Graduate Certificate in Public Policy Management (PPA)
B. College of Health and Human Services
Request for New Course
DTC 258 American Regional Foods
Tabled unanimously. Comment: Anthropology might want to examine this proposal. The catalog description
should not simply reproduce the rationale.
C. College of Business
Proposals to Revise Programs
All of the following proposals were tabled by unanimous vote because they are incomplete. The MGA proposal includes
no description of the current program. The other two revisions were included on one form and neither provided
enough information about its relationship to the other.
MBA—Management Specialization
Graduate Certificate in Entrepreneurship and MBA Specialization in Entrepreneurship
V. Chair’s Remarks
VI. Adjournment