CURRICULUM COMMITTEE MINUTES
August 29, 2012
In Attendance: Wilhelm, Suzanne Barnes, Sherry; Gadbois, John; Baranski, John;
Burkhart, Olivia; Greer, Kristine; Arbeeny, Pam; Crawford, Gerald; Jetter, Katherine;
Labach, Elaine; Vie, Stephanie; Lienert, Carl; Gulliford, Andrew
Agenda items discussed:
1. Reinstating courses: Look at revised procedure for reinstating courses for next week
2. Look at minutes from retreat for approval next week
3. Education Proposal General Discussion
a. Gulliford commented that a masters program is order for the campus in order
to remain competitive with other state institutions.
b. Gadbois made a motion to approve all courses so the committee could
proceed to look at each course for specific approval. Motion was seconded.
c. There was a question related to if courses are cross-listed with 400 or 500
level classes. Those are offered for undergraduate level courses. Burkhart stated that
these 600+ level courses are restricted to graduate students.
d. Additional library resources have been analyzed by teacher education with
the library staff and extra resources are included in the MA proposal budget.
e. Question of if 600 level courses are prerequisites to 700 level? Some of this
would be listed in program sequence description.
4. Education course proposals for discussion and approval:
ED 600
Intro to Graduate Research
No one found problems with the proposal
3/27/2012
New Course
ED 610
3/27/2012
New Course N
21st Cent Curriculum Design
No one found problems with the proposal
ED 620
Cultural Compt and Schools
3/27/2012
Question about syllabus, want to see syllabus prior to approval, can vote by
email later in the week
New Course
ED 630
Emerging Tech in Education
3/27/2012
Question about technology and then a follow-up about student fees and generic
fees for IT. How will master’s level courses be approached with fees? Suzanne will ask
Richard
New Course
ED 710
New Course
Instructional Coaching
Question about if 600s are prereqs
3/27/2012
ED 720
Data Anal &Transf Assmnts
3/27/2012
New Course
Student-Cent Diff Instruct
3/27/2012
New Course
Effective School Leadership
3/27/2012
New Course
No questions
ED 730
No questions
ED 740
No questions
ED 750
Action Resrch I: Teacher Lead
3/27/2012
Discussion over many prereqs, question if proposal advisor and advisor are the
same thing. They are not. Syllabus still references Ed 500.
New Course
ED 760
Action Resrch II: Teach Lead
3/27/2012
Is there redundancy in preqrequisites? A few typos corrected: Remove ED 600
since also a prerequisite for ED 750
New Course
ED 780
New Course
Thesis Project
3/27/2012
Change to instructor permission and Ed 760 as prerequisites
ED 790
Special Topics in Education
3/27/2012
Not counted towards master’s degree. This is a separate continuing education
course for teachers in the area
All courses approved except ED620
5. Program proposal under review:
Teacher Education-M.A. in Educ: Teacher
Prgm Prop
Leadership
4/10/2012
On the outline of courses there was a question of should the comprehensive exams
exams be listed. There was a request to add Leadership to option proposed.
Prgm Prop
Teacher Education-Teacher Leadership
Certificate
8/13/2012
Motion to look at program proposals and vote by email before next week
New Course