Graduate Studies Committee
Minutes of April 10, 2012
Members present: Owen Doonan, Leilani Hall, Richard Moore, Jared Rappaport,
Jennifer Romack, Abraham Rutchick, Merril Simon, Jackie Stallcup, Mary-Pat Stein,
Mary Woodley
Excused: Craig Finney, Bruno Osorno
Executive Secretary: Mack Johnson
Guests: Kamiran Badrkhan, Nagwa Bekir, Beverly Cabello, Darrick Danta, Robert
Espinoza, Marilynn Filbeck, Robert Kent, Henrik Minassians, Juana Mora, Maureen
Rubin, Zeynep Toker
Staff: Gloria Roberts
I.
Call to Order
The meeting was called to order at 2:02 p.m.
II.
Approval of Minutes
Minutes of the March 13th meeting were approved.
III.
Announcements
Mary Woodley reported that the Extended Learning Committee withdrew the
revisions to the Certificate in Advanced Professional Development section of
the Policy on Certificates approved by the Senate in 2009.
Gloria Roberts announced that CSU, Northridge is among the nine CSU
campuses that will not be open for Spring 2013 admissions. The information
is from a memo dated March 13, 2012 from the Chancellor’s Office.
Merril Simon reported that she requested data from Bettina Huber from
Institutional Research in regards to GRE and UDWPE scores. She explained
that the results of the data would assist the committee to create an alternative
to the UPWPE for graduate students. The results of the data will be discussed
at the next meeting.
In addition, Simon announced that she is serving on the curriculum forms
subcommittee. The committee is currently in the process of revising the
forms and discussing how to improve forms. Simon also reported that a
committee of Associate Deans is continuing to work on revising the internship
policy for graduate students and will share their draft when available.
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IV.
Curriculum Review
A. College of Education
Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
1. Program modification proposal for the M.A. in Educational Leadership to
add a dual masters degree with Shanghai Normal University was tabled.
Beverly Cabello reported that Shanghai Normal is on CSUN’s list of approved
international universities. She explained that the international students would
be able to apply to the regular M.A. in Educational Leadership and transfer
nine units of credit from Shanghai Normal University.
Maureen Rubin discussed the issues with developing individualized programs
with international universities. She requested for some GSC members to
serve on a committee with the associate deans to collaborate and create
international program models across disciplines. Richard Moore and Merril
Simon agreed to serve on the committee.
B. College of Health and Human Development
Health Sciences
1. Course modification proposal in HSCI 693A-Supervised Field Training to
change the catalog description and requisites was approved.
2. Course modification proposal in HSCI 693C-Supervised Field Training to
change the course classification, catalog description, and requisites was
approved.
C. College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Anthropology
1. New course proposals in ANTH 432-Environmental Justice and Health and
ANTH 468-Cultural Heritage were approved.
2. New course proposal in ANTH 693-Teaching Anthropology was tabled for
consultation with the College of Education Credential Program.
Sociology
1. New course proposal in SOC 484-Progressive Community Organizing was
approved.
Urban Studies and Planning
1. New program proposal for the Master in Urban Planning was approved.
2. New courses for the Master in Urban Planning in URBS 615-Analytical
Principles and Practices in Urban Planning, URBS 650-Policy Analysis and
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Implementation, URBS 660-Planning Law, URBS 670-Visual
Communication Skills for Urban Planners, URBS 680-Quantitative Analysis
in Urban Planning, URBS 685-Qualitative Research in Urban Planning, and
URBS 698-Professional Project were approved.
V.
Program Reviews
Abraham Rutchick attended the Biology program review and he reported that
the external reviewers comments were highly positive. Jackie Stallcup
attended the Mechanical Engineering MOU meeting and Jared Rappaport
attended the Manufacturing Systems Engineering MOU meeting. Both GSC
members reported that the external reviewers had minor recommendations,
but the comments were overall very positive.
VI.
Adjournment
The meeting was adjourned at 3:20 p.m.
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