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Curriculum Committee Meeting Minutes
November 24, 2009 and December 15, 2009
OC 213
Present: Kimberly Balcos, Amy Bruining, Brenda Armentrout, Rodney Jackson, Jack Monell,
James Bazan Nancy Knight, Gene Pease, Pat West
Absent: Kenneth Collins, Steve Gore, Leesa Whicker, Arlene Parrish, Gary Ritter, Marjorie
Wilson, Ron Williams
Guests: Mike McGee, Don Belle, Todd Koonts, Alberto Botero, Sally Whitten, Farhad Javadi,
Marc Tucker
Proposals / Requests Reviewed:
1. Sally Whitten discussed the institutional commitment to core competencies. She
requested that the Curriculum Committee add to the Request for Review form, a question
addressing core competencies within new courses.
2. The committee reviewed and approved four revisions to Diplomas under the CTI
curriculum:
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.NET Software Development, Diploma
SQL Server Administration, Diploma
JAVA Software Development, Diploma
Oracle Administration, Diploma
Cyber Crime & Digital Forensics, Diploma
3. The committee reviewed and approved one new Diplomas under the CTI curriculum:
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CTI with an Emphasis in Cyber Crime and IS Security
4. The committee reviewed and approved six Criminal Justice certificates:
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Criminal Justice Technology Certificate with a focus on the Essential Elements of
the Criminal Justice System (C55180-C3),
Criminal Justice Technology Certificate, Essentials of Police Operations (C55180C4),
Criminal Justice Technology Certificate, Courts and the Law (C55180-C5),
Criminal Justice Technology Certificate, Corrections (C55180-C6),
Criminal Justice Technology Certificate, Criminal Justice and Special Populations
(C55180-C7)
Criminal Justice Technology Certificate, Crime Scene and Criminal Investigations
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5. The committee reviewed and did not approve Program of Study changes to the Criminal
Justice curriculum.
6. The committee reviewed and approved the request to add a pre-requisite to CIS 110,
Introduction to Computers.
7. The committee reviewed and approved requests to add a pre-requisite to these Behavior
and Social Science courses:
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SOC 213, Sociology of the Family
POL 120, American Government
HIS 111, World Civilizations I
HIS 112, World Civilizations II
ANT 210, General Anthropology
PSY 150, General Psychology
8. The committee reviewed and approved requests from the Heavy Equipment and
Transport Technology:
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Curriculum standard change, to add RCT, Race Car Technology pre-fix.
Program of Study change, to add RCT 231, Race Car TIG Welding as an either or for
WLD 112, Basic Welding Processes.
9. The committee reviewed and approved a request to add a pre-requisite to MEC 250,
Statistics and Strengths of Materials.
10. The committee reviewed and approved two Program of Study change requests from
Surgical Technology:
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To remove ECO 151, Survey of Economics and BUS 137, Management
To add MED 121, Medical Terminology.
11. The committee reviewed and approved for Simulation and Game Development
curriculum:
 Revisions to thirteen current certificate
 Simulation and Game Development Certificate with a Specialization in SG
Character Development
 Simulation and Game Development Certificate with a Specialization in SG 3D
Animation
 Simulation and Game Development Certificate with a Specialization in SGD
Management
 Simulation and Game Development Certificate with a Specialization in
Physically-Based Modeling
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Pre-requisite changes for: SGD 124, MMO Programming, SGD 126, SG Engine
Design, SGD 285, SG Software Engineering and SGD 289, SGD Project
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Four new Diplomas:
Animation
Design
Modeling
Programming
12. At a special called Curriculum Committee meeting on December 15, 2010 the committee
reviewed and approved a new Curriculum: Mechatronics Engineering Technology.
Next meeting will be January 24, 2010 at 2:00.
Submitted,
Pat West Moreland, Chair Curriculum Committee