Graduate Studies Committee
Minutes of October 13, 2009
Members present: Thomas Devine, Craig Finney, David Moguel, Bruno Osorno,
Jennifer Romack, Merril Simon, Jackie Stallcup, Mary Woodley
Excused: Leilani Hall, Vickie Jensen, Tina Kiesler, Jared Rappaport
Executive Secretary: Mack Johnson
Guests: Elizabeth Adams, Deborah Cours, Evelyn McClave, David Rodriguez, Yarma
Velazquez, Christina von Mayrhauser
Staff: Gloria Roberts
I.
Call to Order
The meeting was called to order at 2:08 p.m.
II.
Approval of Minutes
Minutes of the September 15th meeting were approved.
III.
Announcement
Gloria Roberts reminded the committee that the 11th Annual Advancement to
Graduate Education (AGE) Conference would be held on November 21, 2009
and graduate coordinators were invited to attend or send a representative to
participate in the graduate fair.
IV.
Program Review
Mack Johnson attended the MOU meeting for the Communication Studies
Department. He reported that the external reviewers comments were positive.
However, the reviewers expressed some concern relative to the rigor of a few
courses in the program.
V.
Curriculum Review
A. College of Business and Economics
Accounting
1. New course proposal in ACCT 505-Financial and Managerial Accounting
in Industry was approved.
Finance, Real Estate and Insurance
1. New course proposal in FIN 638-MBA Portfolio Management was
approved.
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2. Course modification proposal in FIN 639-Seminar in Financial Problems to
change requisites was approved.
Master’s of Business Administration
1. Program modification proposal to create departmental admission
assessment to satisfy classification requirements in lieu of the GMAT for
GCBA students who have an undergraduate GPA of less than 3.0 was
approved with the following caveat:
 Revise item #4 on page one by inserting “each” so that students earn a
grade of B or better in each of the 5 courses in the GCBA.
B. College of Humanities
Chicana/o Studies
1. Course modification proposal in CHS 480-Chicana/o/Latina/o Children’s
Literature to change the course classification, course title, course abbreviation,
and course description was approved with the following caveat:
 Add “Available for graduate credit” to course description.
2. New course proposal in CHS 507-Seminar in Chicana/o Studies Research
Methods was approved.
English
1. Course modification proposal in ENGL 462-Contemporary British
Literature to change course description was approved with the following
caveat:
 Add “Available for graduate credit” to course description.
Linguistics
1. Course modification proposal in LING 427-Languages in Contact to
change course description was approved with the following caveat:
 Add “Available for graduate credit” to course description.
2. New course proposal in LING 530-Introduction to TESL was approved.
3. Program modification proposal for the M.A. in Linguistics, TESL Option
increase the total units in program from 30 to 45 units was approved.
VI.
Adjournment
The meeting was adjourned at 2:51 p.m.
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