Meeting Minutes
April 18, 2013
2:00 – 5:00 PM
Meeting Location: Hibbs Hall, Room 308
Attendees: Deirdre Arrington, Beth Bader, Etti Baranoff, Kathleen Blankenship, Mark
Crosthwaite, Teri Dunnivant, Herschell Emery, Cliff Fox, Patty Gray, Sybil Halloran, Amber Hill,
Meghan Homer, Benjamin Kimball, Susan Johnson, Karen Kester, Edna Rae McBeth, Marianne
Miller, Jeff Murray, Ananda Newmark, Scott Oates, Susan Schuld, Kristin Smith, Seth Sykes,
James Wiznerowicz, Linda Zyzniewski
Guests: Ryan Cales, University College; Susan Iverson, Craft/Material Studies, School of the Arts;
Melissa Johnson, University College; Jake Khoury, University College; Andrew Marx, University
College; James Mays, Humanities and Sciences; Gerald Miller, Biomedical Engineering, School of
Engineering; Chip Minor, Management, School of Business; Janet Newland, University College;
Patty Strong, University College; Daphne Rankin, University College; CHS; Katherine Walker,
University College; Paul Wetzel, Biomedical Engineering, School of Engineering
Absent: Karen Cary, Patrick Dattalo, Bill Korzun, Nicole Koussa, Mark McHugh, Seth Sykes,
Wanyu Zhang
I.
Approval of March meeting minutes
II. Endorsement
The definition of a credit hour will come to the Academic Regulations Committee (ARC) this
April to be entered into the bulletin. This is coming to the UUCC for an endorsement to request
the ARC to approve of this definition that establishes the minimum contact time per credit hour.
Discussion: A question was asked regarding whether we are endorsing a definition that we don’t
currently meet (i.e. 50 minutes is not equal to an hour). A suggestion was made to endorse this
definition as is and to request a future clarification of the definition of “hour”.
ENDORSED
III.
Previous proposals from March discussion
UUCC 03-21-13-020 – Social Work, Social Work, Course Proposal, New – Addition to
University Core, SLWK 200 Building a Just Society, Effective Date: Fall 2013
Reviewer: Meghan Homer
Second Reviewer: Cliff Fox
APPROVED
UUCC 03-21-13 – 021 – University College, Focused Inquiry, Course Proposal, Change to
existing course, New course title, UNIV 200 Inquiry and the Craft of Argument, The previous
course, Writing and Rhetoric Workshop II, was designed prior to the creation of the Core
Curriculum and the Focused Inquiry sequence. The new course was redesigned to better align
learning outcomes with the preceding courses as well as to address significant changes in the
writing and research needs of contemporary college students, Effective Date: Fall 2013
Reviewer: Meghan Homer
Second Reviewer: Cliff Fox
Discussion: Reviewers added several requests of the UC faculty: 1) UC will collect data
on how the DWF rate is affected by the changes; 2) UNIV 200 syllabus will explicitly state
that students must pass the final paper in order to pass the class; and 3) UC will do a
comprehensive review of VCU’s writing program. In addition, Patty Strong amended the
proposal to be effective Fall 2014.
APPROVED
UUCC 03-21-13 – 022 – University College, Focused Inquiry, Course Proposal, New,
UNIV 213 The Truth About Lying, Effective Date: Fall 2013
Reviewer: Cliff Fox
Second Reviewer: Meghan Homer
Discussion: A suggestion was made to remove a reference in the course description to
investigating “across disciplines”.
APPROVED pending changes
UUCC 03-21-13 – 023 – University College, Focused Inquiry, Course Proposal, New &
Addition to University Core, UNIV 299 What’s the Big Idea?, Effective Date: Fall 2013
Reviewer: Cliff Fox
Second Reviewer: Meghan Homer
APPROVED
UUCC 03-21-13– 024 – University College, Focused Inquiry, Course Proposal, New &
Addition to University Core, UNIV 222 Pseudoscience, Effective Date: Fall 2013
Reviewer: Cliff Fox
Second Reviewer: Meghan Homer
Discussion: A request was made to change the course description to match with the
learning objectives.
APPROVED pending changes
UUCC 03-21-13-025 – University College, Curriculum Proposal, Other: Update
University Core Curriculum, Effective Date: Fall 2013
Reviewer: Meghan Homer
Second Reviewer: Cliff Fox
Discussion: Curriculum needs to be amended to include the above voted-on new courses
and name change to UNIV 200 as well change Women’s Studies to GSWS.
APPROVED pending changes
IV.
Submissions
UUCC 04-18-13-001 – Arts, Craft/Material Studies, Course Proposal, Change to Existing
course, increase content covered and the credits of CRAF 282 Orientation to Craft and Material
Studies from one credit to three credits. In addition, change course title to Sophomore Seminar
and prerequisites. Effective Date: Fall 2013
Reviewer: Amber Hill
Secondary Reviewers: Herschell Emery
APPROVED
UUCC 04-18-13-002 – Arts, Craft/Material Studies, Course Proposal, Change to Existing
Course, increase content covered and the credits of CRAF 382 Intermediate Craft/Material
Studies Seminar from one credit to three credits. In addition change course title to Junior
Seminar and make UNIV 200 and CRAF 282 prerequisites for this course. Effective Date: Fall
2013
Reviewer: Amber Hill
Secondary Reviewers: Herschell Emery
APPROVED
UUCC 04-18-13-003 – Arts, Craft/Material Studies, Course Proposal, Change to Existing
Course, Increase content covered and credits of CRAF 482 Senior Seminar from two credit to
three credits and make CRAF 382 a prerequisite for the course. Effective Date: Fall 2013
Reviewer: Amber Hill
Secondary Reviewers: Herschell Emery
APPROVED
UUCC 04-18-13-004 – Arts, Craft/Material Studies, Curriculum Proposal, Revision – Major,
Add content to seminars course CRAF 282, CRAF 382, and CRAF 482 and required CRAF 382.
The change will also clearly designate 9 credits of general education course work in addition to
the 21 credits of core academics. Effective Date: Fall 2013
Reviewer: Amber Hill
Secondary Reviewers: Herschell Emery
APPROVED
UUCC 04-18-13-005 – Business, Accounting, Course Proposal – Change to Existing Course,
Minor change to course (ACCT 305), Deletes two topics covered in course, Effective Date: Fall
2013
Reviewer: Deidra Arrington
APPROVED
Secondary Reviewers: Susan Johnson
UUCC 04-18-13-006 – Business, Accounting, Course Proposal – Change to Existing Course,
Minor modification to ACCT 291 (Topics in Accounting) to change variable hours and
maximum hours allowed, Effective Date: Fall 2013
Reviewer: Deidra Arrington
Secondary Reviewers: Susan Johnson
Discussion: A question was asked regarding whether Business should have included learning
objectives. The answer was yes - all courses, including topic courses, should have learning
objectives. Another committee member stated this proposal was attempting to do 2 actions in 1
proposal. In addition, there was an issue of variable hours and variable credits. James W. said
he would speak with Carolyn Norman to make the necessary changes.
APPROVED pending changes
UUCC 04-18-13-008 – Business, Accounting, Curriculum Proposal, – Major, Make ACCT 481
(Law for Accountants) and MGMT 323 (Legal Environment of Business) both available to
accounting majors to match the Bulletin with current practice. Due to scheduling conflicts
accounting majors frequently take MGMT 323 rather than ACCT 481, Effective Date: Fall 2013
Reviewer: Deidra Arrington
Secondary Reviewers: Susan Johnson
APPROVED
UUCC 04-18-13-009 – Business, Finance, Insurance and Real Estate (FIRE), Curriculum
Proposal, Other: Suspension Post-baccalaureate undergraduate certificate, Suspension for
admission to post-baccalaureate undergraduate certificate in Real Estate and Urban Land
Development as we also offer a post-baccalaureate graduate certificate which is more meaningful
certificate for students with undergraduate degree. Effective Date: Summer 2013
Reviewer: Beth Bader
Secondary Reviewers: Linda Zyzniewski
Discussion: James W. clarified that we can suspend admission, but cannot remove the program
until the final student graduates.
APPROVED
UUCC 04-18-13-011 – Business, Management, Curriculum Proposal – New, Other: new track
within a concentration. A fourth track in Supply Chain Management is proposed. This proposal
is made in recognition of interest in this topic area has generated and employer demand.
Effective Date: Fall 2013
Reviewer: Beth Bader
Secondary Reviewers: Linda Zyzniewski
APPROVED
UUCC 04-18-13-012 – Engineering, Biomedical, Course Proposal, Change to existing course,
First course EGRB 215 must be taken during the sophomore year while the second course EGRB
315 (if approved) must be taken during junior year. To clearly convey two course sequence,
seek to rename EGRB 215: Computational Methods in Biomedical Engineering to EGRB 215:
Computational Methods in Biomedical Engineering I. Second course, EGRB 315, will be titled,
“Computational Methods in Biomedical Engineering II.”, Effective Date: Fall 2013
Reviewer: Patty Gray
Secondary Reviewers: Etti Baranoff and Ananda Newmark
APPROVED
UUCC 04-18-13-013 – Engineering, Biomedical, Course Proposal, New, Content related to use
of LabView removed from EGRB 215 such that the course be devoted to use of MatLab. Goal
of EGRB 315 is introduce students to use of LabView (data acquisition and control of systems
and/or devices) in more comprehensive manner than possible in previous version of EGRB 215.
Use of SolidWorks (mechanical design, modeling and analysis software application) will be
introduced, Effective Date: Fall 2013
Reviewer: Patty Gray
Secondary Reviewers: Etti Baranoff and Ananda Newmark
APPROVED
UUCC 04-18-13-014 – Engineering, Biomedical, Course Proposal, Change to Existing Course,
EGRB 301: Biomedical and Engineering Practicum II to EGRB 301: Biomedical Engineering
Design Practicum, Course title change requested to more accurately reflect and emphasize
concept of design. Request is to rename course only and does not affect course syllabus or
course content, Effective Date: Fall 2013
Reviewer: Patty Gray
Secondary Reviewers: Etti Baranoff and Ananda Newmark
APPROVED
UUCC 04-18-13-015 – Engineering, Biomedical, Course Proposal, Change to existing course,
Increase credit hours from 3 to 4 for EGRB 102 Introduction to Engineering to reflect the weekly
three hour lab session in the course, Effective Date: Fall 2013
Reviewer: Patty Gray
Secondary Reviewers: Etti Baranoff and Ananda Newmark
Discussion: A question was asked regarding to whom this change affects. Guest Gerald Miller
from Biomedical Engineering stated that the change only affects Fall 2013 incoming freshmen.
APPROVED
UUCC 04-18-13-016 - Engineering, Biomedical, Curriculum proposal, Change to existing
curriculum, changes reflect course title changes and the increase of credit hour of EGRB 102 to
result in increasing the overall credit total from 130 to 131, Effective Date: Fall 2013.
Reviewer: Patty Gray
Secondary Reviewers: Etti Baranoff and Ananda Newmark
Discussion: James W. reminds that the change must get approval from the Vice Presidents as
well. In addition, the language in the proposal needs to be cleaned up. Kristin Smith stated that
the Degree Office will need a new submission once the changes are made.
APPROVED
UUCC 04-18-13-017 – College of Humanities and Sciences, Curriculum proposal, Change to
Existing, proposal to change the general education requirements for the College of humanities
and Sciences to include current UNIV Core courses and future Core courses as an option of the
“Supporting courses” section and add ENVS 201 Earth System Science to the category Science
and technology of the general education program, Effective Date: Fall 2013.
Reviewer: Mark Crosthwaite
Secondary Reviewer: Susan Schuld
APPROVED
V.
Administrative Approvals
UUCC 04-18-13-AdminApp-001 – Engineering, Computer Engineering, Curriculum proposal,
Change to Existing, A request to remove the MGMT 325 Organizational Management as an
option alternating with SPCH 321 Speech for Business and Professionals. This action will align
the Computer Engineering degree with the Electrical Engineering, Effective Date: Fall 2013
UUCC 04-18-13-AdminApp-002 – College of Humanities and Sciences, Approval for WRLD
490 to be the capstone course for all Foreign Language concentrations, Effective Date: Fall 2013
UUCC 04-18-13-007 – Business, Accounting, Curriculum Proposal – Revision: Non-curricular
Bulletin copy revision, Accounting Department information to update content in the
Undergraduate Bulletin, Effective Date: Fall 2013