University Requirements Curriculum Committee
Meeting Friday, February 17, 2012, 2:30-4:00, Room 62 Johnson
Minutes
Present: R. Lorenz, L. Hanson, R. Duncan, P. Lieske, V. Perera, M. Fisch, M.A. Haley, J. Folk, T.
Brewer, C. Uher, P. Evans, N. Caine-Bish
Not Present: J. Arhar, P. Buntin, K. Burhanna, A. Burns, F. Haldar, L. Hoeptner-Poling, A.
Jacobson, T. Janson, B. Jermon, T. Kandakai, D. Knapp, T. Motter, I. Netty, E. Robison, M. Rooks,
S. Stocker, C. Uher, J. VanGeest, R. Walker, D. Williams
1.
Call to Order at 2:34 by Natalie Caine-Bish
2.
Minutes of the January meeting: Approved as written except for the addition of attendance.
3.
Curricular Proposals
a. Kent Core-None
b. Writing Intensive Course Requirement
WIC limited to courses taken at Kent State (memo from Therese Tillett). The
discussion of requiring WIC to be taken at Kent State included the importance uniform
advising because of some rejected substitutions. It was also discussed that taking the WIC at
Kent was the original intention of URCC. It was also discussed that the Articulation
agreements with local community colleges allows students to take jr and sr level courses at
the community colleges at the 20000 level and it is important that it is required that the
student take the WIC at Kent State.
A motion was made and approved to include the following statement in the WIC
description: “This requirement must be fulfilled at Kent State”. Motion was approved.
c. Diversity Requirement-None
d. Experiential Learning Requirement-None
4.
Subcommittee reports
ELR –
• The non-course activity for the ELR is continuing through the process and it will be
able to be recorded in Banner.
• It was reiterated that single course sections do not have to go through URCC and
changes were made to the ELR section proposal cover sheet. The new paperwork to
go out to faculty on applying for ELR status will include the background and
definition of Experiential Learning from the document approved through faculty
senate.
• It was agreed by the subcommittee that this group would act as a review committee
and include constructive feedback on ELR issues.
WIC – None
DIV – None
Kent Core – None
5.
Other items
a. Some 30000 level courses are moving to the 20000 level for fall 2012, but they
are currently showing up on GPS as 30000 level courses this semester. This issue
also applies for courses from the 20000 level to the 30000 level.
b. It was noted that the DSCI course change below is limited to a change in
prerequisite, per the memo from Therese Tillett.
Meeting Adjourned. 3:18pm
Next meeting: Friday, March 16, 2012, 2:30-4:00 p.m.
The following course changes were approved by the co-chairs:
DSCI 31510, Global Project Management and Team Dynamics (WIC)
Change in prerequisite.
ARTH 12001, Art as a World Phenomenon (CORE)
Requesting change in schedule type (to lecture)
ECON 22060, Principles of Microeconomics (CORE)
Requesting change in prerequisite