COUNCIL
ON CURRICULAR PROGRAMS AND INSTRUCTION
Thursday, 24 January 2008
Algonquin Room - University
A C T I O N M
I N U T E S
MEMBERS PRESENT: W. Bailey, J. Engel, P. Kornoski, C. Kovacs, A.
Melkumian, K. Myers, K. Neumann, N. Parsons, C. Piletic, T. Waldrop
Ex-officio: B. Baily, D.
Williams
MEMBERS ABSENT: E. Mannion
GUESTS: Rori Carson, Rick Carter,
Dianne Loyet, Vicki Nicholson, Miriam
Satern, Dan Walter
I. Consideration of Minutes
A. 6
December 2007
APPROVED
AS DISTRIBUTED
II. Approvals
from the President and Associate Provost
A. Approvals from the President
1. Inactive Courses Policy
B. Approvals from the Associate Provost
1. AAS 487, African and Black Diaspora
Performance Traditions, 3 s.h.
2. ACCT 442, Governmental and Nonprofit
Accounting, 3 s.h.
3. DS 305, Applied Data Mining for
Business Decision-Making, 3 s.h.
4. SCM 370, Inventory Strategy, 3 s.h.
III. Announcements
Chairperson
Parsons informed members that Faculty Senate this week approved the first
requests for two new academic categories, two certificates of undergraduate
studies and a concentration.
IV. Old Business – None
V. New
Business
Motion: To reorder the agenda to
consider WESL 065 first (Kovacs/Neumann)
MOTION APPROVED 10 YES – 0 NO – 0 AB
A. Requests for New Courses
4. WESL 065, American
Culture ESL, 0 s.h. (Reordered)
Motion: To approve WESL 065 (Melkumian/Kovacs)
Assistant
Director of the WESL Institute, Dianne Loyet, was asked how WESL determined
this course was needed for their students. She responded that feedback has been received
from academic departments in which WESL students are enrolled indicating that
many display insufficient familiarity with American customs; WESL 065 was
developed to meet those needs.
Changes:
·
Remove all CCPI
instructions from the completed form.
·
Rewrite course
objectives to reflect what students will be able to achieve by the end of the
semester.
·
Rewrite
“Relationship to Existing Courses within the Department” section to indicate
how WESL 065 will relate to existing WESL courses.
·
Rewrite
“Relationship to Courses in Other Departments” section to indicate which
University courses overlap material to be covered in WESL 065.
·
In
“Redistribution of Teaching Load” section, indicate that no new faculty will
need to be hired to teach WESL 065.
MOTION APPROVED WITH CHANGES 10 YES – 0 NO – 0 AB
1. KIN
308, Scuba Diving Specialties, 2 s.h. (repeatable for up to 4 s.h.)
Motion: To approve KIN 308
(Melkumian/Myers)
CCPI
discussed whether the course should be two requests rather than one, given that
both advanced and basic rescue operations will be included within the
class. Kinesiology professor Dan Walter
explained that the rescue portion of the course takes four to six weeks of
instruction. It is envisioned that while
students who have taken KIN 308 previously are working on advanced rescue
skills, others who are taking it for the first time will be practicing basic rescue. Kinesiology chair Miriam Satern compared this
to a tennis class which could accommodate both those who had been on the high
school tennis team and those who had never picked up a racket. Professor Walter explained that students
taking the course can achieve either a basic or more advanced rescue certification;
rescue certification must be obtained before students are admitted into KIN
408.
In
addition to rescue skills, the course will include instruction on various
diving specialties, including deep, night, dry suit, ice, cave, or wreck. Professor Walter told CCPI students can
choose which specialties to concentrate on each semester; at least two
specialties will be covered, but the class may be able to learn as many as four
or five, although some are season-specific.
He added that students must take a physical exam specifically for scuba every
calendar year to participate in the classes.
Changes:
·
Change semester
hours to read “2, repeatable to 4.”
·
Change catalog
description to read, “Instruction in rescue
and at least two other diving specialties (e.g., rescue, deep, night, dry suit, ice, cave, wreck) within the
realm of recreational scuba diving. No less than three specialties will be
covered each semester. Certification is available, but not required. Must have a current scuba physical exam on
file.”
·
Add information
regarding KIN 408 to “Relationship to Existing Courses within the Department”
section.
·
Change Date of
First Offering to Fall 2008.
MOTION APPROVED WITH CHANGES 9 YES – 0 NO – 1 AB
2. KIN 408, Divemaster, 2 s.h.
Motion: To approve KIN 408
(Melkumian/Kornoski)
Changes:
·
Add 2 s.h. after
the course title and number.
·
Add rescue
certification to prerequisites.
·
Reduce catalog
description to 40 words.
·
Change Date of
First Offering to Fall 2008.
MOTION APPROVED WITH CHANGES 10 YES – 0 NO – 0 AB
3. KIN 490, Honors Thesis in Kinesiology,
3 s.h.
Motion: To approve KIN 490
(Melkumian/Kovacs)
MOTION APPROVED 10 YES – 0 NO – 0 AB
B. Request for Change in Course
Description
1. CS 395, Computer Privacy and Security,
3 s.h.
Current: Hardware
and software security systems of computer facilities and information
files. Data encryption algorithms.
Proposed: Methods of protecting data in computer and communications
systems from unauthorized disclosure or modification while maintaining
availability for authorized users.
Modern cryptographic methods: Symmetric and Public key cryptography,
Message Digests, Digital Software and Certificates. Secure protocols: firewalls, VPN’s and IDS.
Motion: To approve CS 395
(Engel/Kornoski)
Changes:
·
Change “…that
last decade…” to “…the last decade…” in the first sentence of the Rationale for
Change.
·
Remove apostrophe
in the abbreviation VPS’s within the proposed catalog description.
MOTION APPROVED WITH CHANGES 9 YES – 0 NO – 1 AB
C. Request for Change in Prerequisites
1. TM 321, Local Area Network Management,
3 s.h.
Current: CS
214. Prereq or Coreq: CS 350
Proposed: CS 214. Prereq or
Coreq: CS 350 and STAT 171
Motion: To approve TM 321
(Melkumian/Engel)
MOTION APPROVED 9 YES – 0 NO – 1 AB
D. Requests for Changes in Course Titles,
Descriptions, and Prerequisites
1. KIN 108, Scuba Diving, 2 s.h.
Current: Scuba Diving
No current course description
Prereq:
400-yard, non-stop swim and a 15-minute non-stop treading water skill
test. A SCUBA physical exam administered
by Beu Health Center is required; the date of the exam will be announced by the
instructor. The charge for the exam is
$15.00.
Proposed: Open Water Scuba
Provides classroom and confined water work needed to
scuba dive safely in open water.
Certification is available, but not required. Must be able to swim 250 yards continuously,
tread water 10 minutes, and swim underwater 50 feet. Physical examination required.
Prereq:
None
Motion: To approve KIN 108
(Melkumian/Piletic)
In
response to a question, Professor Walter explained that a 250-yard non-stop
swim has been required for the past ten years rather than a 400-yard swim. Additionally, 250 yards are recommended for
certification.
Change:
Change Effective Date to Fall 2008.
MOTION APPROVED WITH CHANGE 10 YES – 0 NO – 0 AB
2. KIN 208, Scuba II, 2 s.h.
Current: Scuba II
Intermediate level skills and knowledge.
Prereq:
KIN 108
Proposed: Advanced Open Water Scuba
Open water divers will further their knowledge and
experience by learning to navigate underwater, dive deeper, and dive at
night. In addition, each student will
choose three scuba specialty areas to gain diving experience. Certification is available, but not
required. Must have a current scuba
physical exam on file.
Prereq:
KIN 108 or permission of instructor
Motion: To approve KIN 208 (Melkumian/Kornoski)
Changes:
·
Reduce course
description to 40 words.
·
Change Effective
Date to Fall 2008.
MOTION APPROVED WITH CHANGES 10 YES – 0 NO – 0 AB
E. Request for Change in Minor
1. Physical Education
Motion: To approve change in minor
(Kovacs/Kornoski)
Changes:
·
Change title of
minor to Physical Education since its proposed name change to Minor in
Kinesiology must be accomplished by a letter, approved by the college dean and
forwarded to the Provost’s office.
·
Change required
lecture courses to 10-11 s.h.
·
Change total
existing semester hours to 22.
MOTION APPROVED WITH CHANGES 10 YES – 0 NO – 0 AB
F. Request for New Minor
1. Scuba Diving
Motion: To approve new minor
(Engel/Kornoski)
Bill
Bailey told CCPI he questions whether a Scuba Diving Minor is needed at
WIU. He asserted some of the practical
applications of such a minor – to operate a scuba resort or become a scuba
sales rep – would apply just as well to hunting or archery. Dr. Bailey noted that a number of external
certifications seem to be important to the field, and stated he suspects these
would supersede any qualifications from Western. He predicted that a graduate with a WIU Scuba
Diving Minor and no other qualifications might be insufficiently prepared for
some employment.
Dr.
Bailey told CCPI he sees scuba as a “tool to do things,” noting that there are
an array of skills it is assumed a graduate in Agriculture should have, such as
driving a tractor, but it is not necessary to create a major or minor for
them. Dr. Bailey said he appreciates
that scuba diving is important, but cannot recommend taking the next step to
require that it become a minor.
Dr.
Satern stated she understands Dr. Bailey’s concerns questioning the academic
credibility of the proposed minor but pointed out that WIU already has minors
on campus in skill-related fields, such as Photography. She explained that Kinesiology is proposing a
minor that will complement a major and would be as flexible as possible. Professor Walter added that many students
take scuba classes because they realize that scuba certification could make it
easier for them get a job after graduation.
He said most scuba students come from LEJA, and many find out about
scuba classes late in their academic careers.
Professor Walter stated that while one scuba class may not provide much
of a boost for graduates’ careers, the backing of a WIU minor, particularly for
LEJA graduates, would be a huge benefit for their job prospects.
Dr.
Engel asked how the Open Electives were selected. Professor Walter responded that they
reflected areas that he thought Scuba would complement. He picked the courses that seemed to be most
useful to students selecting this minor, contacted department heads for those
courses, and in cases where they recommended adding or removing their courses
from the list, he followed their recommendations. Ms. Kornoski asked why the scuba minor
includes foreign languages courses in its open electives. Professor Walter explained that many of the
best places in the world to do scuba diving do not have English as their
primary language. Professor Walter told
CCPI that while other schools offer scuba majors, none offer a minor with as
wide a range and the flexibility to tailor it to the needs of students in
various majors.
Change:
Change open electives semester hours to 6-8.
MOTION APPROVED WITH CHANGE 9 YES – 1 NO – 0 AB
G. Request for Change in Major
1. Board of Trustees Bachelor of Arts
Motion: To approve the change in major
(Kovacs/Melkumian)
Non-Traditional
Programs Director Rick Carter told CCPI the Board of Trustees Bachelor of Arts
(BOT-BA) degree changes were submitted in response to the elimination of the
“W” requirement by the University.
Previously, the BOT-BA’s writing requirements enabled students to choose
to complete a WID requirement, a “W” course, or a validated, comprehensive
writing requirement. The proposal seeks
to replace these choices with:
a. Associate of Arts degree
b. Associate of Science degree
c. WIU General Education requirements
d. IAI General Education requirements
e. A WID requirement
f. University Writing Exam
Dr.
Carter explained that the Writing Exam possibility was included because some
students may still transfer into the program having completed this earlier at
Western. CCPI suggested that in that
case, the Gen Ed “W” course should also be retained as a possibility under “g.”
in the proposed list since it has similarly been eliminated but could be grandfathered
in.
Chairperson
Parsons pointed out that a., b., c., and d. in the proposed requirements all
deal with General Education, which is totally separate from WID except for ENG
180/280. She explained that WID is a
separate issue in that it is a requirement for students who are at the junior
level or above and is intended for more writing intensive assignments within
their majors. Dr. Parsons expressed
concern with the fact that all WIU students must graduate having completed a
WID requirement with the exception of BOT-BA students.
Dr.
Carter responded that the only reason for adding General Education to the
writing requirements for the BOT-BA program was to replace the eliminated “W”
requirement. He stated the only students
who would have taken a WID course would be those transferring to the BOT-BA
program from another major at WIU. He
explained that “Writing Instruction in
the Disciplines” does not apply to BOT-BA majors because they do not have a
single discipline or concentration of coursework within a single
discipline. Dr. Carter explained all
the request is intended to address is an adjustment of BOT-BA writing
requirements to address the removal of “W” classes, and Gen Ed has been stated
to address this removal.
Chairperson
Parsons asserted that while the writing requirements in traditional programs and
the BOT-BA degree program are different, both are getting a degree from WIU,
and asked why BOT-BA students do not have to have an advanced course in writing
while every other graduate does. Dr.
Carter stated that at one time, the BOT-BA program requested that UNIV 490 be
accepted as the WID option for their students, but their request was denied
because BOT-BA students don’t have a major.
Dr. Engel pointed out that since BOT-BA students make take ENG 280, they
receive instruction in advanced writing skills, but the discipline-oriented
writing would be impossible since BOT-BA students do not have a specific
discipline. Chairperson Parsons asserted
that whether it is discipline-oriented or not, BOT-BA students are not
receiving the advanced extra writing activities required of students in other
majors.
Associate Provost Baily asked when it was approved that the BOT-BA did not have to require their students to take a WID course, which every other program in the University required. Dr. Carter responded CCPI approved the BOT-BA writing requirements in 1996. He said Writing Instruction in the Disciplines was approved in the mid