COUNCIL
ON CURRICULAR PROGRAMS AND INSTRUCTION
Thursday, 8 December 2005
3:30 p.m.
Algonquin Room - University
A C T I O N M
I N U T E S
MEMBERS PRESENT: A. Ferree, B. George, J. La Prad, K. Neumann, N.
Parsons, T. Waldrup, E. Woell
Ex-officio: D. Williams
MEMBERS ABSENT: P. Anderson, B. Baily, A. Melkumian, K. Winters
GUESTS: Dale Adkins, Rita Creger, Sharon
Evans, Efrain Ferrer, Fetene Gebrewald, Diane Hamilton, Mike Jackson, Jamie
Johnson, Hal Marchand, Michael Murray, Vicki
Nicholson, Fred Randolph, Stephen Reinhart, Miriam Satern, Lance Ternasky, Dean
Zoerink
I. Consideration
of Minutes – 17 November 2005
APPROVED
AS DISTRIBUTED
II. Approvals from the Provost
A. Request for New Course
1. DAN
216, Tap Dance II, 1 s.h. (repeatable to 4 s.h.)
B. Request for Change in Minor
1. Dance
C. Request for Change in Major
1. Manufacturing
Engineering Technology
III. Announcements
Vice Chair
Jim La Prad led the meeting. He thanked
Angie Ferree for serving this semester while Lynda Conover was unable to attend
due to a class conflict. He also
announced that the Council on General Education has completed its review of the
FCS 121/PSY 237 articulation issue discussed by CCPI at its last two meetings
and has concluded, like CCPI, that the issue is not one that CGE will be
pursuing further.
IV. Old Business – None
V. New Business
A. Requests
for 275/475 Courses
1. PHY 275, Learning to Be a Scientist, 2
s.h.
Change: Remove hyphens from Abbreviated
Title so that it reads LEARN BE SCIENT.
NO OBJECTIONS
2. RPTA 275, Introduction to Nonprofit Youth
and Human Service Organizations, 3 s.h.
Change: Add space in Abbreviated Title
so that it reads NONPROFIT ORG
NO OBJECTIONS
3. RPTA 475, Management Institute: Nonprofit Youth and Human Service
Organizations, 1 s.h.
Change: Change Abbreviated Title from
AHMINST to MGT INSTITUTE
NO OBJECTIONS
B. Requests
for New Courses
1. EM 276, Introduction to Hazards, 3 s.h.
Motion: To approve EM 276
(Neumann/George)
MOTION APPROVED 6 YES – 0 NO – 1 AB
2. EM 304, Principles of Emergency
Management, 3 s.h.
Motion: To approve EM 304
(Woell/Neumann)
MOTION APPROVED 6 YES – 0 NO – 1 AB
3.
EM 305,
Dimensions of Disaster, 3 s.h.
Motion: To approve EM 305 (Neumann/Waldrop)
WID
approval is also being requested for this course through the WID Committee.
Change: Addition of prerequisite EM 304 or permission of
instructor. All upper division courses
must have a prerequisite.
MOTION APPROVED WITH CHANGE 6 YES – 0 NO – 1 AB
4.
EM 306, Individual
and Community Disaster Education, 3 s.h.
Motion: To approve EM 306
(Neumann/George)
MOTION APPROVED 6 YES – 0 NO – 1 AB
5.
EM 460, Weapons
of Mass Destruction in Health Science, 3 s.h.
Motion: To approve EM 460
(Neumann/George)
In response to a question as to whether there are
other resources for the class that are not internet-based, Professor Jamie
Johnson explained there are print resources available, particularly
governmental, but no global textbook at this time.
MOTION APPROVED 6 YES – 0 NO – 1 AB
6.
EM 461, Business
and Industry Emergency Management, 3 s.h.
Motion: To approve EM 461
(Woell/Neumann)
MOTION APPROVED 6 YES – 0 NO – 1 AB
7.
EM 491, Emergency
Management Internship, 9-12 s.h.
Motion: To approve EM 491 (Neumann/Ferree)
CAGAS
is also considering the course for S/U grading and major GPA above 2.0.
MOTION APPROVED 6 YES – 0 NO – 1 AB
C. Request
for Change in Repeatability
1.
BC 480, Special
Topics in Media Communications, 3 s.h.
Current: None
Proposed: 3 s.h.
(repeatable for different titles to 6 s.h.)
Motion: To approve BC 480 (Parsons/Woell)
MOTION
APPROVED 7 YES – 0 NO – 0 AB
D. Request
for Multiple-Title Approval
1.
BC 480, Special
Topics in Media Communications, 3 s.h.
Motion: To approve BC 480 (Ferree/Parsons)
MOTION
APPROVED 7 YES – 0 NO – 0 AB
E. Request
for Change in Course Number
1.
BC 221,
Telecommunications Fundamentals, 3 s.h.
Current: BC
221
Proposed: BC 121
Since this is considered to
be a minor change, it will go directly to the Provost’s office and was not
considered by CCPI.
F. Request
for Change in Prerequisites
1.
BC 325,
Comparative Broadcasting Systems, 3 s.h.
Current: BC
323
Proposed: None
Motion: To approve BC 325
(Neumann/Parsons)
Change: Add prerequisite of Junior standing
since all upper-level courses are required to have a prerequisite.
MOTION
APPROVED WITH CHANGE 7 YES – 0 NO – 0 AB
G. Request
for Change in Title, Description, and Prerequisite
1.
KIN 300, Fitness
Activities for the Older Adult, 2 s.h.
Current: Fitness Activities for the Older
Adult
Designed to acquaint students with activities and how
to design activity programs for mature adults.
Activities and programs appropriate to various age groups will be
presented.
Prereq: Permission of instructor
Proposed: Fitness
Activities for the Older Adult and Target Populations
Development of leadership skills, assessment
techniques, and program designs necessary to be an effective fitness
professional for older adults and selected target populations.
Prereq: KIN 170, KIN 290, KIN 291
Motion: To approve KIN 300
(Parsons/Woell)
Change: Change Abbreviated title from
FIT OLD TAR POP to FIT OLD TGT POP, and add Effective Date of Spring 2006.
MOTION
APPROVED WITH CHANGES 7 YES – 0 NO – 0
AB
H.
Request for
New Minor
1. American
Humanics: Nonprofit Youth and Human Services Organizations – Interdisciplinary
Minor
Motion: To approve new minor (Parsons/Neumann)
CCPI members and department representatives discussed the
internship requirement for the minor.
RPTA Chair Dale Adkins explained that embedded within the minor is the
certification for American Humanics, and students must complete an internship
for that certification. Kathy Neumann
noted that if a student’s major also requires an internship, there may not be
time to complete two internships, for both the major and minor, which may
discourage some students from entering the program. Dr. Adkins explained that the department’s
hope is that students could find an internship that would fulfill the nonprofit
requirements of the minor while also being appropriate for the major. CCPI members, however, expressed concern that
RPTA was planning to rely heavily on advising to find interested students an
internship in a nonprofit field, and this may not be possible or may be
difficult to coordinate along with the student’s departmental internship
requirement. In response to a question
as to what kinds of majors might find the American Humanics minor desirable,
Dr. Adkins responded that Health Sciences, Kinesiology, LEJA, Sociology, Music
Business, Arts Management, and RPTA majors would all be good combinations with
this minor. Because of its
interdisciplinary nature, Dr. Adkins stated the department is prepared to
market the minor to a wide variety of students, and Dean Zoerink, the Executive
Director for American Humanics at Western, will be reporting back to that
organization on the outcomes of student learning. Dr. Adkins said that nonprofit leadership is
a very dynamic and evolving field of study right now, and national programs are
looking for leaders at the state and national level in a variety of nonprofit
areas. Registrar’s office representative
Donna Williams pointed out that the RPTA 499 internship does not require the
student to be an RPTA major, nor does it require any RPTA courses as
prerequisites, so it could perhaps be used as the internship for this
minor. Vicki Nicholson of the Provost’s
office also suggested that UNIV 490 could be utilized. Dr. Adkins stated RPTA will take CCPI’s
recommendations under serious consideration as they are anxious for the minor
to be viable for as many students as possible.
Ms. Williams told RPTA they would have to report which internship was
used on a student-by-student basis.
It was also noted that RPTA 275 and 475, which came
before CCPI earlier today, are requirements for the minor. Since 275/475 courses can only be offered
twice, RPTA was encouraged to quickly submit new course requests for those two,
preferably next semester. Dr. Adkins
explained that permission for the certification was received from American
Humanics only this fall, and the department felt that offering these two as
275/475 courses would be the quickest way to get them in place to begin
marketing the minor for spring.
Change: Change total semester hours
from 18-20 to 20 s.h.
MOTION APPROVED
7 YES – 0 NO – 0 AB
I.
Request for
New Major
1. Emergency
Management
Motion: To approve new major (Neumann/Waldrop)
MOTION
APPROVED 6 YES – 0 NO – 1 AB
J.
Request for
Change in Minor
1. Occupational
Safety
Motion: To approve change in minor (Neumann/George)
MOTION
APPROVED 6 YES – 0 NO – 1 AB
K.
Request for
Change in Option
1. Athletic
Training
Motion: To approve change in option (Parsons/Neumann)
MOTION
APPROVED 7 YES – 0 NO – 0 AB
VI. Reports
A.
Subcommittee
Report
Vice
Chair La Prad reported the CCPI subcommittee has finalized a chart of Terms
Related to Academic Programming, as charged by the Senate Executive
Committee. The chart includes
definitions of a non-comprehensive major, comprehensive major, minor, option,
emphasis, track, and concentration. The
definitions include the number of semester hours for each, the approval
required, and whether each is transcripted.
Since the
Motion: To approve the subcommittee report with the addition
of “Proposed New Designation” under the concentration definition to make it
consistent with the definitions for emphasis and track (Ferree/Woell)
MOTION APPROVED 7 YES – 0 NO – 0 AB
CCPI
requested that the Executive Committee determine which governing body should be
charged with the responsibility for maintaining the definitions so that if
there should be a desire to make revisions to them in future, it will be clear
to whom the request should be made.
Since there was discussion at the subcommittee meeting of the
undergraduate certificate in future being included within the concentration
definition, and since that definition currently specifies that it is restricted
to Interdisciplinary Studies, there may need to be procedures for approving
changes to the definitions, once approved.
It was pointed out that if CCPI is the council charged with maintaining
the definitions of academic programs, CCPI Policies and Procedures and perhaps
also the Senate Bylaws would need to be revised as they pertain to CCPI duties.
B.
Provost’s
Report - None
Motion: To adjourn (Parsons)
The Council adjourned at 4:51 p.m.
Ed Woell, Secretary
Annette Hamm, Faculty Senate Recording Secretary