COUNCIL
ON CURRICULAR PROGRAMS AND INSTRUCTION
Thursday, 26 January 2006
3:30 p.m.
Algonquin Room - University
A C T I O N M
I N U T E S
MEMBERS PRESENT: P. Anderson, L. Conover, B. George, J. La Prad, A.
Melkumian, K. Neumann, T. Waldrup, K. Winters
Ex-officio: B. Baily, D.
Williams
MEMBERS ABSENT: N. Parsons, E. Woell
GUESTS: Bill Doe, Vicki Nicholson
I. Consideration
of Minutes – 8 December 2005
APPROVED
AS DISTRIBUTED
II. Approvals from the Provost
A. Request for Change in Major
1. Musical
Theatre
III. Announcements
Chairperson
Anderson welcomed back Lynda Conover, who returns to CCPI following a fall
semester class conflict.
Chairperson
Anderson announced that the Faculty Senate Executive Committee considered the
report from the CCPI Subcommittee on Academic Terms and had a number of
questions, objections, and items that they would like additionally
explained. The subcommittee will meet on
Tuesday, January 31 to begin to address the Executive Committee’s concerns.
IV. Old Business – None
V. New Business
A. Requests
for Changes in Prefixes
1. UNIV 201, Introduction to Environmental
Studies, 3 s.h.
Current: UNIV
201
Proposed: ENV 201
Motion:
To approve UNIV 201 (La Prad/Neumann)
Vicki
Nicholson of the Provost’s office explained that whereas normally requests to
change prefixes do not come before CCPI since they are considered to be minor
changes, she suggested that CCPI consider the requests from Environmental
Studies because they are asking for a narrowing of an existing course. Currently, any department can offer UNIV 201,
but the change, if approved, would mean that it could only be offered by the
Changes:
·
Change proposed
prefix to ENVR
·
Change Effective
Date to Fall 2006
MOTION APPROVED WITH CHANGES 8 YES – 0 NO – 0 AB
2. UNIV 401, Colloquium in Environmental Studies, 3 s.h.
Current: UNIV
401
Proposed: ENV 401
Motion: To
approve UNIV 401 (Conover/Waldrop)
Changes:
·
Change proposed
prefix to ENVR
·
Change Effective
Date to Fall 2006
·
Add Prerequisite
Change from UNIV 201 to ENVR 201
MOTION
APPROVED WITH CHANGES 8 YES – 0 NO – 0 AB
B. Requests
for Changes in Course Titles and Descriptions
1.
CS 410, Systems
Programming, 3 s.h.
Current: Systems
Programming
Operational features of loaders, assemblers,
compilers, interpreters, operating systems.
Multiprogramming/multiprocessing systems. Memory and other resource managements.
Proposed: Operating
Systems
Overview of the concepts/theory of operating systems
with emphasis on process management, memory management, file management,
scheduling, device management, and synchronization.
Motion: To approve CS 410 (La
Prad/Melkumian)
MOTION
APPROVED 8 YES – 0 NO – 0 AB
2.
CS 411, Theory
and Techniques of Compilers, 3 s.h.
Current: Theory
and Techniques of Compilers
This course will cover lexical analysis, formal
languages, parsing techniques, intermediate code generation, optimization, and
creation of object code.
Proposed: Compilers
and System Programming
This
course will cover theory and operational features of compilers, loaders,
assemblers and interpreters. Topics will
include lexical analysis, formal languages, parsing techniques, intermediate
code generation, optimization, and creation of object code.
Motion: To approve CS 411 (Melkumian/Conover)
MOTION
APPROVED 8 YES – 0 NO – 0 AB
C. Applicability
of Multiple Titles to 450 Workshop Courses
At
the request of Health Sciences, CCPI discussed the new multiple titles process
for special topics courses and whether this process should be extended to 450
workshops. Currently, 450 requests must
be approved every time a new title is assigned and, once approved, each
workshop title may appear in the University catalog with its description. Other multiple titles special topics courses
do not appear separately in the University catalog, although they do appear
with individual titles on student transcripts.
CCPI members noted that the intent of the multiple titles process was
for these titles to be offered only once or twice, whereas 450 workshops have
historically been more permanent. It was
noted that if 450 workshops were to receive multiple title designation, they
would no longer have to go through CCPI for approval when each new topic was
offered. Health Sciences currently lists
nine 450 workshops in the University catalog.
The question was raised whether Health Sciences would pull these nine
from the catalog and make them multiple titles of one generic 450 workshop
listing. It was suggested that perhaps
Health Sciences should consider submitting a new course request for a topics
course, such as Consumer Health, to which multiple titles could then be
assigned; it was pointed out, though, that then the course description could
not be listed in the undergraduate catalog as is currently allowed for their
450 workshop courses.
Motion: To table further discussion until a representative of
Health Sciences can be present (La Prad/Neumann)
MOTION APPROVED 8 YES – 0 NO – 0 AB
A.
Provost’s
Report
Associate
Provost Baily related discussions at Faculty Senate regarding the American
Humanics minor approved by CCPI at its last meeting. Concerns were expressed at Senate about the
requirement of RPTA 475 within the minor, and Dr. Baily expressed her concerns
that the minor went forward to Senate containing experimental courses. During discussions at Faculty Senate, it was
revealed that RPTA 475 is comprised of a field trip to an American Humanics conference,
which this year was held in
Motion: To adjourn (Neumann)
The Council adjourned at 4:20 p.m.
Ed Woell, Secretary
Annette Hamm, Faculty Senate Recording Secretary