Graduate Studies Committee
Minutes of February 9, 2010
Members present: Thomas Devine, Leilani Hall, Vickie Jensen, Tina Kiesler, David
Moguel, Jared Rappaport, Jennifer Romack, Jackie Stallcup, Mary Woodley
Excused: Craig Finney, Bruno Osorno, Merril Simon
Executive Secretary: Mack Johnson
Guests: Elizabeth Adams, Deborah Cours, Robert Espinoza, Marilynn Filbeck, Lani
Kiapos, Christina von Mayrhauser
Staff: Hedy Carpenter, Gloria Roberts
I.
Call to Order
The meeting was called to order at 2:05 p.m.
II.
Approval of Minutes
Minutes of the December 8th meeting were approved.
III.
Announcements
Hedy Carpenter reminded the committee that the 14th Annual Student
Research and Creative Works Symposium will be held on Friday, February
12th. She reported that 110 undergraduate and graduate students will be
presenting and 45 faculty will judge. The overall event schedule and oral
session schedule are on the Graduate Studies website. Carpenter also reported
that she would send an email to graduate coordinators and department chairs
reminding them of the upcoming application deadline for the Chancellor’s
Doctoral Incentive Program and CA Pre-Doctoral Program.
IV.
Curriculum Assignments and Schedule
The committee received regular curriculum from six colleges. Consistent
with GSC practices, two members were assigned to lead the review and
discussion of curriculum from each of the colleges. Additionally, the
month/meeting of the review was determined. Following is a listing of the
colleges, GSC representatives, and month of review.
College of Education: Special Education (Attachments A-C and 400-level
courses – Bruno Osorno (Electrical & Computer Engineering) and Mary
Woodley (Oviatt Library) – March
College of Education: Special Education (Attachments A-C and 500/600level courses) – Thomas Devine (History) and Leilani Hall (English) –
March
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College of Humanities – Vickie Jensen (Sociology) and Jared Rappaport
(Cinema & Television Arts) – March
Colleges of Business & Economics, Science & Mathematics, and Social &
Behavioral Sciences – Craig Finney (Recreation & Tourism Management)
and David Moguel (Secondary Education) – March
College of Engineering & Computer Science – Tina Kiesler (Marketing)
and Jennifer Romack (Kinesiology) – April
V.
Experimental Topics Courses
GSC approved the following new and previously offered experimental topics
course proposals for Fall 2010:
College of Engineering and Computer Science
Computer Science
1. COMP 595OSE-Open Source Software Engineering (3rd offering)
College of Health and Human Development
Environmental and Occupational Health
1. EOH 595RT-Organ System, Developmental and Regulatory Toxicology
(3rd offering)
College of Humanities
Chicana/o Studies
1. CHS 595E-Seminar in Biography (2nd offering)
English
1. ENGL 595IC-Image of Children in Literature (3rd offering)
College of Science and Mathematics
Biology
1. BIOL 496MT-Marine Tetrapods (2nd offering)
2. BIOL 496MTL-Marine Tetrapods Lab (2nd offering)
3. BIOL 595DEV-Developmental Biology Lab (2nd offering)
Physics and Astronomy
1. PHYS 595F-Computational Materials Physics III (1st offering)
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VI.
Curriculum Review
A. College of Business and Economics
Accounting and Information Systems
1. Program modification proposal for the M.S. in Taxation has been
withdrawn because of consultation.
VII.
Discussion Items
Jackie Stallcup reported that the committee would be reviewing S-Factor
related curriculum proposals this semester for Fall 2010 implementation. She
explained that some proposals should be simple and easy to approve.
However, the complicated and problematic proposals will probably be
withdrawn and discussed further within their colleges and then brought back
to the GSC. Stallcup and Hillary Hertzog (EPC Chair) will send an email to
the associate deans requesting them to identify the simple and complicated SFactor proposals in order to get a better sense of how many proposals the
committee will have to review this semester. The GSC will review S-Factor
curriculum proposals in April and May and the majority of the regular
curriculum in March.
Carpenter reported that the Graduate Studies Office is in the process of
modifying the graduate section of the University printed catalog. She
explained that most of the modifications are minor and will not need to be
brought before the GSC. She distributed and requested feedback from the
GSC on a draft document to send to graduate coordinators in order to clarify
some confusion regarding enrollment of the comprehensive exam. Lani
Kiapos, the DARS Coordinator reported that departments have started to issue
an RP grade for students who have failed a portion or majority of the
comprehensive exam rather than giving a Fail or No Credit grade. An RP
grade is given so that students would not have to reenroll in 697 and would be
eligible to enroll in the Culminating Experience Enrollment. Kiapos
explained that there would be no record on the transcript that shows that the
student failed the comprehensive exam twice. The committee discussed the
issues and determined that the document addressing this issue should be sent
to graduate coordinators.
VIII. Adjournment
The meeting was adjourned at 2:45 p.m.
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