UNIVERSITY CURRICULUM COMMITTEE
October 22, 2002
MINUTES
OLD BUSINESS
I.
MINUTES OF THE September 17, 2002 MEETING - approved as amended. The last
sentence in section IV. C. should read “The degree audit system will be in place by
October 2003.
NEW BUSINESS
I.
CONSENT ITEMS – items A-C were approved as presented. Item D was moved to Action
Items II.C. because all of the changes affect each of the others.
A. COLLEGE OF SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
1. Anthropology – course listings for degree audit - Solar
B. SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION
1. B.S. in Photography – course listings for degree audit- Solar
2. Minor in Photography - course listings for degree audit- Solar
C. COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
1. MGT 460 – Entrepreneurship – Course Change – prerequisite
2. MGT 435 – New Ventures Planning and Business Plans – Course Change – prerequisite
3. MGT 411 – Task Group Dynamics – Course Change – prerequisite
4. MGT 405 – International Management – Course Change – prerequisite
5. BA 496 – Senior Small Business Consulting –Course Change- prerequisite
6. BA 490C – Strategic Management – Course Change - prerequisite
7. BA 470C – Business in Society – Course Change – prerequisite
D. COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY
1. CSE 122 – Introduction to Programming – Course Change – prefix, prerequisites
2. CSE 126 - Introduction to Computer Science – Course Change – prefix, prerequisites
3. CSE 247 – Introduction to Digital Logic – Course Change – prefix
4. CSE 255 – Microprocessors – Course Change – prefix
5. CSE 400 – Computer Architecture- Course Change – prefix
6. CSE 420 – Advanced Digital Design – Course Change – prefix
7. CSE 432 – Image Processing – Course Change – prefix, number
8. CSE 486C – Engineering Design – Course Change – prefix, credits, title, prerequisite
9. CSE 476 – Engineering Design: Project Management Lab – Course Deletion
10. CSE 386 – Engineering Design: software Engineering and Architecture – Course
Change – prefix, title, prerequisites
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II.
ACTION ITEMS
A. AIRFORCE ROTC - approved with the change that it is not required for the minor until a
program change is brought to UCC for approval and credit hours need to be added to the
syllabus.
1. AS 250 – Air Force Physical Training Course – New Course
B. COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY – all items in sections I D. and
II.B. are approved as presented. The department/degree name change will be sent forward to
the three state university Provosts for approval and for ABOR approval.
1. CS 480 – Operating Systems – New Course
2. CS 286 – Introduction to Software Engineering – New Course
3. CS 401 – Social and Ethical Issues in Computer Science – New Course
4. CS 460 – Computer Networks – New Course
5. CS 200 – Introduction to Computer Organization – New Course
6. B.S. Computer Science and Engineering – Program Change
7. Computer Science and Engineering – name change to Computer Science
C. COLLEGE OF HEALTH PROFESSIONS – approved as modified. There is no consent
required to take the course and it is 3 hours of lecture weekly.
1. CHP 210 – Medical and Scientific Terminology – New Course
III.
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DISCUSSION
A. Degree Audit Update – The Degree Audit Team has set up 68 majors, 88 minors and 22
certificates, to date, in the new student administration system. The team is running into areas
where information in the catalog is not complete enough to program, so they are contacting
departments to ask them to provide the needed information. This information will then come to
UCC to be approved on the consent agenda. There will more departments coming forward
with these types of clean up materials at the next few meeting. If a department is not able to
provide the needed information, the Degree Audit Team will have to set up audits without the
information; which means the affected department will have to manually enter courses for those
blocks for each individual student, resulting in more work for the departments. The College of
Education is working with several academic departments to flesh out the content emphases for the
B.S. in Elementary Education; this is a complex process and will take time for them to complete.
In January 2003, the Degree Audit Team will be meeting with the departments’ curriculum
liaisons, showing them degree audit reports for each of their academic programs to ensure that
their requirements are spelled out correctly. Then the Degree Audit Team will run audits against
actual student transcripts to further test the accuracy of the system. When the system goes live a
year from now, the team will be running audits for students who plan to graduate under the 20012003 catalog and subsequent catalogs.
B. Catalog Schedule. The Catalog Editor reminded everyone that there will not be another paper
catalog; instead, future catalogs will only be published on the web. In addition, future catalogs
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will be updated annually, rather than every two years. Because the catalog schedule will no longer
involve two months of working with a printer, it will be possible to publish the catalog earlier than
in past years, which led the Catalog Editor to suggest reconsidering the schedule entirely. NAU
could provide better service to students by making the catalog available March 1, so students
wouldn’t be working from outdated information as they preregister for the coming fall semester.
Therefore, UCC members were asked for feedback about the possibility of moving to a calendaryear review schedule instead of the current academic-year schedule. Doing so would mean all
curriculum changes would be approved by December so the new catalog could be available
March 1.
UCC members expressed concern about what a big change this would be, but noted that if it would
benefit students, the idea ought to be considered. It was decided that this idea should be discussed
with the college curriculum committees, to get their input before going any farther.
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