Faculty Senate Curriculum Committee
Minutes from the April 13, 2005 Meeting
Present:
Jeff Durgee
Mike Goldenberg
Prabhat Hajela
Ted Krueger
Sharon Kunkel
Lois Peters
Lee Odell
Dick Smith
Dave Spooner
Christoph Steinbruchel, chair
John Schroeder
Sam Wait
1) The minutes from the meeting on March 30, 2005 were approved with one revision to #5,
the last paragraph that ties it to the fourth point in the Outcomes document.
2) School of Architecture-Ted Krueger presented 2 course changes for information: LGHT
4840 Human Factors in Lighting- term
LGHT 6760 Lighting Workshop- description, title and credit hours
3) School of Engineering- Dick Smith presented one course for information purposes:
DSES 6630 Continuous and Stochastic System Simulation, cross listed with MATH
4740/6740- title and description change
4) The Committee discussed the recent vote and actions of the Faculty Senate (FS). The FS
vote reaffirmed the depth requirement in Science and as well as the H&SS depth
requirement. The vote will be ratified by the FS at their next meeting. After some
discussion, the FSCC decided that some statement should be forwarded to the FS so it
becomes part of the record during the ratification process. The following motion was
approved unanimously.
We request that the Faculty Senate not ratify the vote on the depth core requirement because 1)
the way it was formulated did not follow established procedures for initiating any major
curricula change (for example, the ballot item was not presented to the Student Senate nor was it
presented at the general Faculty Senate meeting when the slate was presented
2) It was treated as 1 separate issue (depth requirement in H&SS and depth requirement in
science) instead of two issues
3) Established an unfortunate precedent by ignoring the unanimous recommendation from the
Faculty Senate Curriculum Committee
The motion was approved unanimously.
M. Goldenberg expressed concern that the depth requirement issues were not presented to the
Student Senate. He’d like to bring them forward to the Student Senate for discussion.
5) Core Outcomes Discussion continued- L. Peters will bring the information and suggested
wording on Organizations to the next meeting.
The Committee discussed the bullets under the heading of Thoroughness and agreed by
consensus on the following:
Information: Graduates will be able to evaluate, synthesize and apply information and concepts
from multiple disciplines in their intellectual, professional and community lives.
The 2nd and 3rd paragraphs under the sub-heading of Information were deleted.
The following statements were again agreed by consensus:
Communication: Graduates will
1) Be able to develop content and communicate it
2) Be able to communicate in ways that display organization of ideas, a command
of
style and “mechanics” and awareness of context and audience
3) Have the ability to assess and revise their own and others’ work
Research and Design –No changes to this section
Ethics- D. Smith will bring some wording that he has on this topic and bring it to the next meeting
Leadership and Outreach J. Durgee will bring information on these topics to the next meeting.