ASCRC Minutes 10/26/10
Members Present: B. Borrie, D. Dalenberg, C. Henderson, L. Higgins, S. Greymorning,
C. Knight, M. Grimes, P. Muench, J. Sanders, L. Sims, K. Spika, L. Tangedahl, E.
Uchimoto, J. Staub, A. Williams, K. Zoellner
Members Absent/Excused: M. Beebe-Frankenberger, S. O’Hare
Ex-Officio Present: B. Holzworth, E. Johnson, A. Walker-Andrews
Chair Knight called the meeting to order at 2:10 p.m.
The minutes from 10/19/10 were approved.
Communications:

There is an all faculty CAS meeting at 3:30 today, so ASCRC will end at 3:25 to
allow members to attend.

Chair Knight received a call from Professor Weix. She has concerns regarding Study
Tour courses being taught by agencies rather than UM faculty. She will be invited to
an ASCRC meeting after curriculum review is complete to discuss her concerns.

Professor Tangedahl will be replaced with Professor Manual after today’s meeting.
Professor Tangedahl has a conflict with the meeting time for the rest of the semester
due to a team-taught course. Professor Manual has served on ASCRC in the past and
is currently serving on the Business and Journalism Subcommittee.

There will not be a meeting next week due to Election Day.
Business Items:

Professor Tangedahl presented the consent agenda for the Business and Journalism
subcommittee (appended below). Follow-up is pending for several courses in
Business Technology. JOUR 431 and 432 were not approved because it is unclear
whether these courses should be UG.

Professor Muench presented the consent agenda for the Humanities subcommittee
(appended below). The new major in East and Asian Studies was discussed briefly.
It is not in compliance with the Board of Regents’ definition of a major which
requires at least half of the required courses be upper-division. Unfortunately, there
is a legitimate need for lower-division credits for majors that require a foreign
language. The program will be notified of the policy. ASCRC may decide to
approve the major on academic merit and suggest that the Board of Regents
reconsider its policy. Several items required further discussion, but were postponed
due to time constraints.
The meeting was adjourned at 3:25 PM.
Business and Journalism Consent agenda:
Accounting and Finance
ACTG 307
Corporate
Reporting III
ACTG 415
UG
Government
and
Nonprofit
Accounting I
ACTG 425
UG
State &
Local
Government
Accounting
ACTG 426
UG
Accounting
for Nonprofit
Organization
s
Change credits
from 3 to 2
This change will facilitate reducing the number of
accounting credits required and allowed, per our
accrediting body (AACSB). An accompanying
program change has been submitted. ACTG 307 will
be reduced to 2 credits, and approximately one-third
of the most complex material previously included in
the course will be moved to a graduate course (the
description has been modified accordingly). ACTG
307 will remain listed in the basket of electives from
which students select a total of 3 credits for
completion of their undergraduate accounting major.
Delete class,
replace with 2
unique courses
ACTG 415 Government/Nonprofit Acctg I (3 cr,
required) will be split up and replaced with two new
courses – ACTG 425 State & Local Gov’t Acctg (2
cr, required) and ACTG 426 Accounting for
Nonprofit Organizations (1 cr, elective) – both of
which will be unique in the MUS system.
Add course,
covers part of
the material
from deleted
ACTG 415
Add course,
covers part of
the material
from deleted
ACTG 415
Replaces part of ACTG 415 Government/Nonprofit
Acctg I (3 cr, required)
Replaces part of ACTG 415 Government/Nonprofit
Acctg I (3 cr, required)
Level I
Program
Form
Program
Modification
Certificate in
Accounting
Information
Systems
Add new AIS
certificate to
available
certificates
from SoBA
The Accounting Information Systems (AIS)
certificate prepares students for careers that bridge
accounting and management information systems,
such as consulting, internal audit, external audit, or
other positions where more than a basic knowledge
of either accounting or MIS is necessary. While most
appropriate for a student majoring in accounting or
MIS, this certificate is available to any undergraduate
business major. To obtain an AIS certificate, a
student must (1) complete the requirements for one of
the School of Business Administration’s majors, (2)
meet with an AIS certificate advisor, and (3)
complete the following courses, with an average
GPA of 3.0 or better in these 25 credits: ACTG 203,
ACTG 321, ACTG 305, ACTG 306, ACTG 411,
MIS 371, MIS 370, MIS 373, and MIS 479.
Dept. of
Accounting
& Finance
Modify
program
requirement
credits per
AACSB
recommendatio
ns
Changing list of required courses, changing list of
courses in elective basket, requiring 90 credits of
non-accounting coursework, per AACSB
recommendations
Management
Delete
requirement of
students of at
Event
least junior
MGMT 401
Management standing to
obtain
instructor
consent
Delete MGMT
402 as a
Principles of prerequisite
Entertainmen and remove
MGMT 403
t
consent of
Management instructor for
II
students of at
least junior
standing
Management Information Systems
MIS 370
Managing
Data and
Information
Change title,
description and
add
prerequisite
Change prerequisite: junior standing and consent of
instructor; to just junior standing;
Change prerequisite: junior standing, MGMT 402,
and consent of instructor; to just junior standing;
Change title: Database Management Systems to
Managing Data and Information. Add prerequisite:
MIS 371. Also change description.
MIS 372
Information
Infrastructure Change title
s: A Strategic and description
Perspective
Change title: Telecommunications Management to
Information Infrastructures: A Strategic Perspective .
Also change description
MIS 471 UG
Fundamental
s of Network
Management
Delete
prerequisite
Delete prerequisite: MIS 372.
Program
Modification
At least 50% of the credits in a student's major must
be earned at the University of Montana-Missoula. In
addition, each department may have specific
residency requirements. Once a student begins
coursework at the School of Business Administration,
upper-division credits applied toward the major must
be completed at the University of Montana-Missoula.
Students attending elsewhere on a universityapproved exchange program may apply appropriate
credits to this residency requirement with prior
written approval of the department chair of their
major. ... The capstone course must be completed at
the University of Montana-Missoula.
This course is designed to teach all students,
regardless of discipline, how to become more
discriminating news consumers at a time when the
digital revolution is spawning an unprecedented flood
of information and disinformation each day. We
introduced a section on news literacy into the Jour
100 curriculum, but quickly recognized that the
concept is so important, and of such interest to
students, that we needed a course that explors it fully.
It will still be touched on in Jour 100, but this will
give students a much deeper understanding of how to
critically analyze news media.
School of Business
Residency
Requirements
Journalism
JOUR 110
News Literacy
New course
JOUR 315
Feature Writing
change course ...move J415 to a 300-level course, changing the
number from
prerequisite to a 200-level course and removing the
JOUR 415 UG, UG designation.
Magazine
Freelance
Writing
The research and writing expectations in Magazine
change course Freelance are more appropriate for a 400-level
number from
course. We have made more specific the graduate
JOUR 333 UG, increment as well, in keeping with the new focus of
our graduate program.
JOUR 410
UG
JOUR 430
UG
Community
News Service
Delete
We plan to replace this course with two new courses
to better advertise the distinction between the fall’s
focus on election coverage and the spring’s focus on
legislative coverage.
New course ACTG 102
Accounting
Procedures II 4
cr.
Our Accounting II course was changed at the state
level to ACTG 201 Financial Accounting. This
change was not appropriate since it did not align with
UM’s accounting department’s ACTG 201 Financial
Accounting course. ACTG 201 would have to
include both Accounting I and Accounting II to be
appropriate. Since it did not meet these requirements
~ we agreed to drop ACTG 201 from our catalog ~
therefore requiring us to go back to ACTG 291
course rubric and number until we could resubmit
this course to ACTG 102.
Business Technology
ACTG 291
Accounting
Procedures II
Humanities Consent agenda
Course/Change
Title
Change
Subcommittee
Recommendation
Fathers and
Daughters in
Western Literary
Traditions
New course.
Approve.
Instructor would like
primary rubric to be LS.
Suggested LIT and WGS
crosslist #s:
LS 329z
WGS 329z
Liberal Studies
Minor
Modern and Classical Languages
Readings in
CHIN 388
Classical Chinese
GRMN 400
Introduction to
Linguistics of
German
New minor.
Approve.
Liberal Studies
LS 329/
LIT 329z
WGS 329z
Level I
Native American Studies
NAS 260
Sustained
Indigenous
Community
Development in
Approve.
New course.
Change title from Applied
Linguistics.
New course.
Approve.
Proposal is missing
old/new catalog
language.
Approve.
Mexico, Canada and
the United States
Philosophy
Program
Modification
PHL 210E
PHL 243 /237
PHL 321E
Major/minor
requirements;
definitions of 300and 400-level
courses; upperdivision course
prerequisites; and
program description.
Moral Philosophy
Philosophical
Reasoning
Philosophy and
Biomedical Ethics
Approve.
Catalog language was
updated at suggestion of
subcommittee.
Change course number from
311E, change prereqs. and
descr.
Delete.
Approve.
Change course number from
421E, change level from UG,
change title, change prereqs.
Approve.
Morality and the
Law
Aesthetics and the
Arts
Philosophy and
Feminism
Change prereqs.
Approve.
Last year the Department
of Philosophy applied to
have this course’s gen.
ed. Ethics designation
restored. In approving
this request, ASCRC
recommended that the
number be changed to the
300-level.
Approve.
Change prereqs.
Approve.
Change course number from
423, change level from UG,
change title, change prereqs.
PHL 370
Philosophy of
Religion
PHL 405 UG
Change course number from
470, change level from UG,
change title, change prereqs.
Change prereqs.
Approve.
Course is equivalent to
MSU’s PHL 351.
Suggested WGS crosslist
#:
WGS 351z
Approve.
20th Century
Analytic Philosophy
Contemporary Issues Change prereqs.
in Analytic
Philosophy
Ethics and Public
Change prereqs.
Affairs
Environmental
Change prereqs.
Philosophy
PHL 324
PHL 327
PHL 351/
WGS 351z
PHL 406 UG
PHL 412 UG
PHL 422E UG
Approve.
Approve.
Approve.
Approve.
PHL 427 UG
PHL 429 UG
PHL 445 UG
PHL 450 UG
PHL 455 UG
PHL 462 UG
PHL 464 UG
PHL 465 UG
PHL 466 UG
PHL 467 UG
PHL 468 UG
PHL 499
Writing Center
UNC 270
Topics in
Philosophy of Art
Philosophy in
Literature
Central Issues in
Philosophy of
Science
Contemporary Moral
and Political Theory
Philosophy of
Society and Culture
Early Modern
Philosophy
Kant
Plato
Aristotle
19th Century
Continental
Philosophy
20th Century
Continental
Philosophy
Senior Seminar
Change prereqs.
Approve.
Change prereqs.
Approve.
Change prereqs.
Approve.
Change prereqs.
Approve.
Change prereqs.
Approve.
Change prereqs.
Approve.
Change prereqs.
Change prereqs.
Change prereqs.
Change prereqs.
Approve.
Approve.
Approve.
Approve.
Change prereqs.
Approve.
Change prereqs.
Approve.
Critical Writing II
Delete. Overlaps with WRIT
201 and workshops offered by
the Writing Center.
Approve.