COUNCIL
ON CURRICULAR PROGRAMS AND INSTRUCTION
Thursday, 20 October 2005
3:30 p.m.
Algonquin Room - University
A C T I O N M
I N U T E S
MEMBERS PRESENT: P. Anderson, A. Ferree, B. George, J. La Prad, A.
Melkumian, K. Neumann, N. Parsons, T. Waldrup, K. Winters, E. Woell
Ex-officio: D. Williams
MEMBERS ABSENT: B. Baily
GUESTS: David Casagrande, Vicki Nicholson, Win Phippen, Polly Radosh, David
Rohall, Christopher Sutton, John Wozniak
I. Consideration
of Minutes – 6 October 2005
APPROVED
AS DISTRIBUTED
II. Announcements
Chairperson
Anderson announced that JOUR 428, which had been re-approved by CCPI at its
last meeting, was approved by Faculty Senate on October 18 with no
discussion. In addition, the IBHE has
approved the new Forensic Chemistry major.
III. Old Business
A.
Report from
Senate Executive Committee on Proposed Concentrations and Pre-Baccalaureate
Certificate Program
Chairperson
Anderson announced that the Senate’s Executive Committee has asked the CCPI
subcommittee to explore the differences between majors, minors, comprehensive
majors, emphases, options, and other curricular designations. The subcommittee is asked to provide
information regarding which designations appear on transcripts, the minimum and
maximum hours of each, and to consider where the proposed pre-baccalaureate
certificate and considerations might fit into the whole. The subcommittee will meet at 3:30 p.m. on
Thursday, October 27 to begin this process.
Members include Pat Anderson, James La Prad, Kathy Neumann, and Nancy
Parsons (CCPI), Jim Schmidt and David Rohall (COAS),
IV. New Business
A. Requests for 275/475 Courses
1.
ANTH 475,
Environmental Anthropology, 3 s.h.
NO OBJECTIONS
2.
SOC 475, Military
Sociology, 3 s.h.
Since
it is a 400-level course, CCPI suggested that a prerequisite be added. Sociology professor David Rohall told CCPI
that the course tends to draw students from diverse backgrounds but agreed to
add SOC 100 as a prereq. In response to
a question, Dr. Rohall stated he has been in discussion with the head of
Military Science and they do not deal with the same issues as SOC 475, but CCPI
indicated they would like to see a letter of support from that department.
DR. NEUMANN OBJECTED TO THE COURSE
Sociology
was asked to bring the request back to the November 3 meeting with a letter of
support from Military Science and with the addition of a prerequisite.
B. Request for New Course
1. WS 420, Race, Class, and Gender, 3 s.h.
Motion: To approve WS 420 (Parsons/Melkumian)
Changes:
·
For Department,
list Women’s Studies only
·
Remove reference
to grad standing in Prerequisites section
MOTION
APPROVED 10 YES – 0 NO – 0 AB
C.
Request for
Cross-Listing
1. WS/AAS/SOC 420, Race, Class, and Gender,
3 s.h.
Motion:
To approve WS/AAS/SOC 420 (La Prad/George)
Change: Remove reference to grad standing in Prerequisites section
In response to a question as to whether the course
will be taught alternately by faculty from the three departments, Women’s
Studies Chair Polly Radosh told CCPI it is anticipated that there will be
significant enrollment in this proposed course, so the departments will offer
it simultaneously.
MOTION
APPROVED 10 YES – 0 NO – 0 AB PENDING SENATE APPROVAL OF WS 420
D.
Request for
Change in Course Title
1. HORT 393, Ornamental Crop Production, 3
s.h.
Current: Ornamental Crop Production
Proposed: Greenhouse
and Nursery Management
Motion:
To approve HORT 393 (Parsons/Neumann)
Changes:
·
Change
Abbreviated Course Title to GH & NUR MGT
·
Change Effective
Date to Spring 2006
The Rationale states that “HORT 486, Nursery
Management, has been deleted and the course material covered in HORT 486 will
be included in HORT 493. However, the
course description for HORT 393 will remain the same.” In response to a question as to how this will
be accomplished, Agriculture professor Win Phippen explained that the course
description is very brief, and that while ornamental crop production will still
be discussed, it will not be examined in as much detail. Previously, three courses were offered by
Agriculture: Nursery Management, Ornamental Crop Production, and a general
course that covered both. Dr. Phippen
explained that, since there was a lot of overlap, the department proposes now to
just retain the general course that covers both topics but wishes to change the
title.
MOTION APPROVED 10 YES – 0 NO – 0 AB
E.
Request for
Change in Prerequisite
1. GEOG 405, Methods of Research, 2 s.h.
Current: ENG 280 and senior status
Proposed: ENG 280,
Geography or Meteorology major, and senior status
Motion:
To approve GEOG 405 (La Prad/Woell)
Change:
Change Effective Date to Spring 2006
MOTION APPROVED 10 YES – 0 NO – 0 AB
F.
Request for
Change in Prerequisite and Course Title
1. GEOG 409, Geographic Information System
Modeling II, 3 s.h.
Current: Geographic Information System
Modeling II
Prereq: GEOG 408
Proposed: Thematic
Geographic Information Science
Prereq:
GEOG 308 or GEOG 402; and STAT 171, or GEOG 301, or its equivalent as a
co-requisite
Motion:
To approve GEOG 409 (Neumann/Parsons)
Changes:
·
Change Effective
Date to Spring 2006
·
Change prerequisite
to GEOG 308 or GEOG 402; and GEOG 301 or STAT 171 or equivalent
·
Remove references
to “G” after courses in Rationale
MOTION APPROVED 10 YES – 0 NO – 0 AB
G.
Request for
Change in Prerequisite, Course Title, and Description
1. GEOG 408, Geographic Information System
Modeling I, 3 s.h.
Current: Geographic Information System
Modeling I
Emphasis
upon raster and 3D modeling based upon continuous data. Integration of vector data and concepts when
appropriate for the solution to cell-based problems. Laboratory.
Prereq: GEOG 208 and GEOG 308
Proposed: Environmental
Geographic Information Science
Emphasis
upon raster and 3D modeling based upon continuous data. Laboratory exercises focus on typical
environmental problems solved with GIS.
Topics include the integration of thematic data and concepts when
appropriate for the solution of environmental problems.
Prereq:
GEOG 308 or GEOG 402; and STAT 171, GEOG 301, or its equivalent as a
co-requisite
Motion:
To approve GEOG 408 (Parsons/Woell)
Changes:
·
Change Effective
Date to Spring 2006
·
Change
prerequisite to GEOG 308 or GEOG 402; and GEOG 301 or STAT 171 or equivalent
·
Remove references
to “G” after courses in Rationale
MOTION APPROVED 10 YES – 0 NO – 0 AB
H.
Request for
Change in Prerequisite, Course Title, Description, and Number
1. GEOG 301, Introduction to Quantitative
Geography, 3 s.h.
Current: GEOG 301, Introduction to
Quantitative Geography
Principles of quantitative analysis and their
application to geographical problems.
Prereq:
Two courses in Geography, MATH 128 or high school algebra, or consent of
instructor
Proposed: GEOG 204,
Introduction to Geographical Data Analysis
Introduction
to methods for the quantitative analysis of data, their applications to
geographical problems and their limitations in geographical contexts.
Prereq:
MATH 129 or consent of instructor
Motion:
To approve GEOG 301 (La Prad/Melkumian)
Geography
Chair Chris Sutton explained that the intention of the department is to expand
the first 12 weeks of the course into 15 weeks and offer the material normally
taught at the end of GEOG 301 as a new course, which has not yet been
developed. He added that the change in
division level should encourage students who put off taking a 300-level course until
their junior or senior year to take this course earlier in their sequence,
which will better place them for advanced Geography classes. In response to a question, Dr. Sutton stated that
15 to 20 percent of GEOG 301 would be removed and used in the new course. CCPI requested that the current objectives of
GEOG 301 and the proposed objectives for GEOG 204 be provided to them. They also asked that the Effective Date be
changed to Spring 2006.
Motion:
To table GEOG 301 (Parsons/Woell)
MOTION TO TABLE APPROVED 10 YES – 0 NO – 0 AB
I.
Request for
Change in Prerequisite, Repeatability, and Credit Hours
1. GEOG 499, Special Problems in Geography,
1-3 s.h.
Current: 1-3 s.h.
Prereq: 15 s.h. in Geography and consent of instructor
Repeatable to
3 s.h.
Proposed: 1-6
s.h.
Prereq: Consent of instructor
Repeatable to 6 s.h.
Motion:
To approve GEOG 499 (Neumann/Parsons)
Changes:
·
Change
Prerequisite to “Senior standing and consent of instructor”
·
Change Effective
Date to Spring 2006
MOTION
APPROVED 10 YES – 0 NO – 0 AB
J.
Request for
Change in Course Title and Description
1. GEOG 327, Climatology, 3 s.h.
Current: Climatology
Three
facets of climatology are investigated: climate elements and atmospheric
processes; climatic classifications and distributions; and the influence of
climate on human activity
Proposed: Environmental
Climatology
This
course deals with the mechanisms of heat flow, radiation exchanges and water
vapor flux and with the effects of climate on organisms, ecosystems, and human
societies as well as change in global environment.
Motion:
To approve GEOG 327 (La Prad/Melkumian)
One
CCPI member remarked that the statement in the Rationale that the changes were
prompted since “the faculty member who teaches this course modified the course
content” speaks to a broader issue: that it needs to be made clear that when an
instructor changes course content, the process of pre-approving these changes
through CCPI is being bypassed. But
another CCPI member noted that sometimes the changes in course content are made
very gradually, in “baby steps,” until it is noticed that the course no longer
matches its advertised title or description.
Changes:
·
Change
Prerequisite to “Senior standing and consent of instructor”
·
Change
Abbreviated Title to ENVIRON CLMTLGY
·
Change Effective
Date to Spring 2006
·
In the first
sentence of the Rationale for Change – “Since the faculty member who teaches
this class modified the course content, the current title ‘Climatology’ no
longer accurately describes the course content” – remove the first part of the
sentence up to the comma.
MOTION
APPROVED 10 YES – 0 NO – 0 AB
K.
Request for
Change in Minor
1. Geographic Information Systems
Motion:
To approve change in minor (Melkumian/Neumann)
Changes:
·
Remove references
to “G” after courses
·
In Proposed
Directed Electives, replace the coma with “and” to connect CS 211 and 212
MOTION
APPROVED 10 YES – 0 NO – 0 AB
L.
Request For
Change in Major
1. Geography
Motion:
To approve change in major (La Prad/Neumann)
Change:
Designate WID course GEOG 405 in Proposed Core Courses with a plus symbol
(+)
MOTION
APPROVED 10 YES – 0 NO – 0 AB
V. Provost's
Report – None
Motion: To adjourn (La Prad)
The Council adjourned at 4:40 p.m.
Ed Woell, Secretary
Annette Hamm, Faculty Senate Recording Secretary