University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
College of Letters and Science
Course and Curriculum Committee
Thursday, October 8, 1998
Minutes #2 (Corrected)
| Present: |
Osei-Mensah Aborampah, Michael Day, Connie Horstman, Magda Kandil, William Kean, Robert Moore, Rachel Skalitzky, Roy Swanson |
| Excused: |
James Coggins, Jack Johnson, Campbell Tatham |
| Guests: |
David Pritchard, Charles Schuster |
- The Committee chair, Bill Kean, called the meeting to order at 2:04 p.m. in HLT 241.
- Automatic Consent
- Minutes #1 (September 17, 1998) were approved as submitted.
- There were no new Automatic Approvals.
- There were no objections to the Special Listing Request from Psychology to cross-list BiolSci 204-455, Neurobiology.
- Procedural Matters
- Committee members agreed to consider subcommittee recommendations for approval of W-I, International, and Seminar courses as automatic consent business. The also agreed that departments should be responsible for assigning regular faculty to W-I courses; when this is not possible, the W-I requirements must be communicated clearly to the ad hoc instructor.
- Old Business -- None
- New Business
- It was moved, seconded, and approved to accept the recommendation of the Department of Mass Communication to change its name to the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication.
- It was moved, seconded, and approved to accept the recommendation of the Department of Mass Communication to change its major requirements.
- It was moved, seconded, and approved to accept the recommendation of the Department of Mass Communication to change its curricular area name and number. [Subsequently, after discussion the options with Barb Morgan of DES, it was decided to move forward with the name change but to retain the old number.]
- The following course action request was recommended to the Dean for approval:
| MassCom 584-101 |
Introduction to Mass Media |
3 cr, # (151) |
- Magda Kandil and Cam Tatham were appointed to a combined sub-committee (with APC and GPC) to review sabbatical requests. [One other committee had appointed a member from English. Subsequently, it was decided that two members from a single department would not be advisable. No other humanities faculty members from the committee were available to serve, so Kathryn Olson was appointed to represent the humanities.]
- Horstman reported that issues relating to the capstone requirement had surfaced. One was a question of whether capstone courses had to carry a "senior standing" prerequisite because the requirement states the course must be taken during the senior year. The other was a question of how the capstone requirement should be implemented for the two-department major.
It was moved and seconded to recommend to the faculty that capstone courses, other than independent study and research, must carry a prerequisite of "senior standing." Discussion focused on what the capstone experience should be. Committee members considered whether or not a course open to juniors could be a capstone if a student took it as a senior. The consensus was that 1) it was hard to rationalize a course counting as a capstone for one student but not for another simply because their years in school were different (i.e., a student with 87 total credits would not meet the capstone requirement while a student with 88 total credits would) and 2) a capstone course was supposed to represent the culmination of a student's work in the major; therefore, the senior standing prerequisite was appropriate. In addition, the Committee recognized a number of logistical problems with identifying courses as capstones for some students but not for others. The motion was approved. Horstman will draft a formal proposal for the committee to review at a future meeting.
It was moved and seconded to require students in the two-department major to take a capstone course from either department. Several Committee members were unfamiliar with this major option, so Horstman described it and explained its history. There was general agreement that the option should be reviewed to determine if it should be retained. For the interim, the Committee needed to recommend a way for students to meet the capstone requirement in that major option, and the motion was approved. Horstman was asked to provide the original document establishing the option and to gather data on the numbers of students who have elected this major. The motion was approved.
- Horstman reported that the question of whether or not the two "Special Degrees" (Applied Math and Physics, Course in Chemistry) in L&S should be required to incorporate the new elements of the L&S degree had been raised. It was moved and seconded to require that the two "Special Degree" programs incorporate the W-I, formal reasoning, seminar, language, international, and capstone requirements. Brief discussion emphasized the point that the College's faculty had adopted a set of requirements that it felt should be part of a degree granted by the College. The motion was approved.
- Horstman noted that the W-I requirement stated that any courses approved for W-I designation had to carry the following prerequisite: "satisfaction of the GER composition requirement." She asked the Committee for blanket approval of any CAR forms submitted only to implement this prerequisite. It was moved, seconded, and approved to authorize Horstman to sign any such CAR forms as "Automatic Approvals."
- As there was no further business before the Committee, the meeting was adjourned at 3:20 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Connie Horstman
Special Assistant to the Dean
Secretary to L&S Faculty
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Distribution:
Dean Marshall Goodman
Associate Deans Meadows, O'Bryan, VanWynsberghe
Assistant Deans Horstman, Kissinger, Olfe<
Secretary of the University
L&S Standing Committee Chairs
L&S Department Chairs
L&S SAS Staff
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