Curriculum Committee

Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Minutes

March 12, 2008

Called to Order: 1:57 pm

Adjourned: 2:57 pm

Members present: Peter Racheotes Chair;

Elaine Beason, Joan Brumm, Karen Kincaid, Tom Gandy and

Mohammed Haque

Ex-Officio

Members present: Rosanne Stripling and Kristi Johnson

Ex-Officio Absent: Pat Black, Anson Godfrey and Carla Snyder

Guests: Doug Green, Parag Lala and Feodor Vainstein

1. Agenda

2. Meeting called to order at 1:57 PM by Dr. Racheotes.

3. Dr. Haque moved, seconded by Dr. Gandy to approve minutes from previous meeting February 13, 2008. Motion passed

4. Dr. Beason moved, seconded by Dr. Haque to approve Course Syllabus Changes:

IS 395 Living in the 21^st Century (Fortenberry). Request to change the summer session offering from 10 week to 5 week. Motion Passed.

5. Dr. Beason moved, seconded by Dr. Haque to approve Course Inventory Changes: CIS 390 Computing History, Ethics and Crime (D. Green). Request to change the course title to Ethics. Discussion ensued that the following changes are necessary

1) Change course title to Ethics in Technology which would more accurately reflect the course content. 2) Change the course description on the syllabus to reflect the emphasis on Ethics in Technology. It was recommended that “History of computing and computers;” be deleted. 3) Resubmit the cover page reflecting the change in course title to Ethics in Technology. 4) Include a grading scale. Motion Passed as Amended.

6. Dr. Haque moved, seconded by Dr. Brumm to approve Course Inventory Changes: CIS 485 Capstone in CIS (D. Green). Request to increase the semester credit hours for CIS 485 from 3 to a 4 SCH course. Discussion ensued that 1) Approval is contingent upon inclusion of a grading scale. Motion Passed as Amended.

7. Dr. Brumm moved, seconded by Dr. Haque to approve Course Inventory Add/Reinstate: EE 317 Information Theory (D. Green). Request to add EE 317 to the course inventory. Discussion ensued that the following changes need to be made to the course syllabus: 1) Inclusion of a grading scale. 2) Include the publication dates for the required/suggested textbooks. Change the prerequisites to MATH 453 or MATH 457 or the consent of the instructor. Motion Passed as Amended.

8. Dr. Haque moved, seconded by Dr. Kincaid to approve Changes to Existing Undergraduate Program: BS in Computer Information Sciences (D. Green). Request to delete CIS 417 (Information Theory) from the CIS curriculum degree plan and replace it with EE 317 (Information Theory) as a CIS required course. The prerequisites for this course will be MATH 453 or MATH 457 or the consent of the instructor. Motion Passed as Amended.

9. Dr. Brumm moved, seconded by Dr. Haque to approve Course Inventory Add/Reinstate: EE 332 Programming in C++ (D. Green). Request to add EE 332 to the course inventory. Discussion ensued that the following changes need to be made

1) Inclusion of a grading scale. 2) The title “justification” on the course syllabus either needs to be reworded and changed to “Purpose” or be deleted to be more consistent with other CIS syllabi. 3) The prerequisites for this course should be listed as EE 210 or the consent of the instructor. 4) Cover page needs to be resubmitted reflecting the prerequisites. Motion Passed as Amended.

10. Dr. Gandy moved, seconded by Dr. Beason to approve Changes to Existing Undergraduate Program: BA/BS in History: 4-8 Social Studies Cert (Wagy). Request to delete IS 395 from the program and reduce the total SCH for the certification from the current 130 to 127. Discussion ensued that 1) On the cover page, the rationale needs to clarify the Justification for deleting IS 395. 2) Dr. Stripling informed the committee that anytime an undergraduate degree exceeds the 120 standard SCH that the college will need to forward a form to the VPAA’s office justifying the additional hours. Motion Passed as Amended.

11. Dr. Beason moved, seconded by Dr. Brumm to approve Changes to Existing Undergraduate Program: BA/BS in History: 8-12 Social Studies Cert (Wagy). Request to reduce the current 8 hours of electives to 6 hours of upper division electives selected from one of the following disciplines: Biology, English, Math, Political Science and Sociology. This will result in a reduction of the total SCH from the current 126 to 124. Discussion ensued that 1) On the cover page, the rationale needs to clarify the Justification for the 124 hours. Motion Passed as Amended.

12. Dr. Beason moved, seconded by Dr. Brumm to approve Changes to Existing Undergraduate Program: BA/BS in History (Wagy). While degree plans vary based on requirements of the minor, currently the BA/BS in History requires a minimum of 24 semester credit hours of electives. Request that electives (beyond those required to satisfy the 60 semester credit hours of transfer credit) be upper division electives selected from one of the following disciplines: Biology, English, Math, Political Science and Sociology. This will result in a reduction of the total SCH for the program from the current 126 to 120. Discussion ensued that 1) On the cover page, the rationale needs to clarify the Justification for the total semester credit hours being reduced to 120.

2) Resubmit the cover page, correcting the spelling of “credit” was inadvertently spelled “credity”. Motion Passed as Amended.

13. Dr. Beason moved, seconded by Dr. Brumm to approve Changes to Existing Undergraduate Program: BA/BS in History: 8-12 History Certification (Wagy). Request that the degree have 3 SCH hours of upper division electives selected from one of the following disciplines: Biology, English, Math, Political Science and Sociology. This will result in a reduction of the total SCH for the program from the current 126 to 124. Discussion ensued that 1) On the cover page, the rationale needs to clarify the Justification for the total semester credit hours being reduced to 124.

14. Dr. Haque moved, seconded by Dr. Brumm to approve Changes to Existing Undergraduate Program: BBA (Haque). Request to change FIN 454 (Financial Management) to a 300 level course and drop ACCT 325 (Managerial Accounting) as a prerequisite for this course. Motion Passed.

15. Old Business: None

16. Other Business: None

17. Meeting adjournment at 2:57 pm.

18. Next meeting will be April 9, 2008, Room 229N.

Respectfully Submitted,

Kelly Bennett
Recording Secretary