Faculty Senate Curriculum CommitteeFaculty Senate Curriculum Committee
Minutes from 1999-2000
September 20, 1999 --- September
27, 1999 --- October 4, 1999 --- October 11, 1999 --- October 18,
1999
October 25, 1999 --- November
1, 1999 --- November 8, 1999 --- November 15, 1999 --- November
29, 1999
December 6, 1999 --- December
13, 1999 --- January 20, 2000 --- February 3,
2000 --- February 17, 2000
March 2, 2000 --- March 30, 2000
--- April 6, 2000 --- April 13, 2000 --- April 20, 2000
Attending: Ken Kruempel, Joe Colletti, Prem Premkumar, Char Hulsebus, Mary Helen Greer, William David, Cheryll Reitmeier, Al Austin, John Van Ast
Next meeting: Monday, September 27, 8 a.m., 107 Lab of Mechanics
Participating: Ken Kruempel, Joe Colletti, Prem Premkumar, Laura Doering, Howard Shapiro, Mary Helen Greer, William David, Cheryll Reitmeier, Al Austin, John Van Ast, and Jenny Froyd participating for Char Hulsebus.
There were no guests.
1. Minutes of the 9/20/99 meeting were reviewed: Joe Colletti moved to approve and Al Austin seconded, motion passed.
2. Ken Kruempel had three announcements:
a. Ken has asked Laura Doering to consider generating a list of courses listed in the catalog that have not been taught during 1997-1999, as well as the fall of 1999 and spring of 2000. This list will assist departments to review the need for these courses, and the need to include or exclude these from the 2001-2003 catalog. No such list has been available since 1994.
b. Ken generated and distributed a list of U.S. Diversity and International Perspective courses for the 1999-2001 catalog whose paper work to get them on the ISU list has not been completed by the respective departments. Departmental and College curriculum committees should process such paperwork in order to be "appropriate and proper".
c. Ken encouraged committee members not to sign Experimental Course requests unless the U. S. Diversity and or International Perspective checkoff have been completed.
3. Howard Shapiro announced that the information on the back of the cover page of the Application for Admission to ISU was not consistent with the information in the 1999-2001 catalog. He had requested of Laura Doering that consistent information be generated. The new information that Laura generated was distributed to FSCC members.
4. Howard Shapiro addressed Item #5 on todays agenda. His proposal-see 9/27/99 FSCC agenda-with the addition that the provost's office do its best to support potential needed resource reallocation to meet such a proposal- was moved by Cheryll Reitmeier and seconded by John Van Ast. The motion passed, with William David abstaining.
5. Al Austin asked FSCC members to review three motions regarding 2001-2003 catalog development schedule-see 9/24/99 Engineering College Curriculum Committee Minutes for motions and details. Al asked us to review and bring back reaction to the 10/4/99 FSCC meeting.
Next meeting : Monday October 4, 8:00 a.m.,107 Lab of Mechanics.
October 4, 1999
8 a.m. to 9 a.m.
Attending: Dean Anderson (for John VanAst), Joe Colletti, William David, Laura Doering, Mary Helen Greer, Char Hulsebus, Ken Kruempel (Chair), Prem Premkumar, Cheryll Reitmeier, and Howard Shapiro.
1. Minutes of Sept. 27, 1999 meeting were approved following spelling corrections.
2. Announcements: Ken indicated that the GCCC has approved the Master of Accounting proposal (it needs to go to the Graduate Council next) and the GCCC has received the Post Audit Review report for the Master of Family and Consumer Sciences.
a). the deadline for submission of the Courses and Programs Section of bulletin/catalog materials to their college curriculum coordinator be changed from May 2000 to October 2000 with appropriate compression of other activities.
b). the Faculty Senate Curriculum Committee accepts electronic corrections rather than written corrections.
c). the catalog editor seek university funding for any departments who do not have and are unable to purchase Adobe Acrobat.
ED - Dean indicated that he felt there was support for electronic submission and editing.
FCS – Cheryll indicated that the college favors electronic submission and editing with perhaps more checks built in to ensure that each college catalog coordinator had the chance to review the materials.
VET – Mary Helen indicated that the Vet College "does its own thing."
AG – Joe indicated that electronic submission is favored and many departments have Adobe Acrobat.
Char commented that the May deadline has been more or less treated by colleges and programs as a preliminary deadline and that numerous substantive changes are made by departments/programs early in the fall semester (after the May deadline). This is not a good thing because of the extra pressure it causes for Char and Jenny and limits review time by other programs that may be impacted. Char added that if the shift to an Oct deadline occurs that we have to be really tough on that date as an absolute deadline.
Howard indicated that he favored making the May deadline a "real" deadline. All proposed changes must be approved by colleges and the FSCC by the May date.
Howard offered partial money support from his V. Provost office for purchase of Adobe Acrobat by departments unable to secure Adobe Acrobat.
Laura supported Ken’s idea to have an electronic "Change book" (converted PDF files) available (maybe by some secure means) to all college curriculum coordinators and program/department representatives so that proposed changes are broadly known and evaluated by representatives of impacted programs.
Ken asked Char about the time that it takes to create the database required to generate the regent’s Report. Ken reminded the committee that the submission of program changes is also the basis for a summary report required by the Regents.
MOTION - Mary Helen moved and Bill seconded a motion to submit all Courses and Program changes for the 2001-2003 bulletin/catalog via electronic format using Adobe Acrobat 4.0. Motion passed unanimously.
Ken asked the Committee our preference regarding the date in October if a shift in the change deadline was to occur. Our preference is to set the deadline in the first half of October (as opposed to the last half). Ken indicated that he wanted us to take more time to discuss the proposed changes by the College of Engineering.
Howard voiced concern that shifting to an October deadline will be problematic because of procrastination.
8. Laura will send to the committee the ISU FSCC-approved policy and procedure statement regarding experimental courses. This will be sent electronically.
The next FSCC meeting will be Monday, Oct. 11 at 8 a.m.. Ken will send out an announcement with the room (location) for our next meeting and a listing of secretary-of-the-day.
Respectively submitted,
Joe Colletti
October 11, 1999
8 a.m. to 9 a.m.
Attending: Joe Colletti, William David, Laura Doering, Char Hulsebus, Ken Kruempel (Chair), Greg Palermo, Prem Premkumar, John VanAst, and Pam White for Cheryll Reitmeier
1. Minutes of Oct 4, 1999 meeting were approved.
2. Announcements: Ken announced that the proposed BA major in Communications Studies was to be voted on at the Tuesday, Oct. 12 Faculty Senate meeting. Ken would be there to answer any questions.
3. Agenda Item #3 –
#4. F99-5. - Experimental Course Addendum.
Greg- suggested having two boxes on the Exp. Course Form to indicate if the proposed course is to be co-listed or cross-listed. Char and Laura noted the suggestion and the FSCC seemed to agree that these changes would be good to make on the form.
Discussion then focused on the LAS Addendum. Several colleges are discussing their own version of the Addendum including the Ag. College. Ken asked Joe to send their college version as soon as it is available. Each college will vote in two weeks about using an Experimental Course Addendum (LAS’s or their own) or not.
Ken reminded the FSCC about the list of future agenda items to be discussed. Also, he indicated that the Ag. College has two courses proposed to be included on the International Perspectives list. Ken indicated that the preferred way to process and vote on proposed US Diversity and International Perspectives courses is to distribute the paperwork to all FSCC members at least one week prior to the FSCC’s voting.
The next FSCC meeting will be Monday, Oct. 18 at 8 a.m.. Ken has already sent out the Secretary-of-the-Day listing.
Respectively submitted,
Joe Colletti
Attending: Ken Kruempel, Cheryll Reitmeier, John Van Ast, Al Austin, Joe Colletti, Char Hulsebus, William David, Prem Premkumar, Laura Doering, Gregory Palermo, Mary Helen Greer
1. Minutes of October 11, 1999 meeting were approved.
2. Kruempel distributed a FSCC 1999/2000 calendar of items which are either on the agenda or ready to be on the agenda.
3. Van Ast distributed name cards he had made.
4. David Smith was present to discuss the proposed Master of Accounting degree which has been approved by the graduate college curriculum committee and is on the agenda for the Oct. 20 meeting of the graduate council. Kruempel is attempting to get this on the Faculty Senate Nov. agenda as new business and the Dec. agenda for a vote.
Background: The need for this degree has been created by the new state requirement of 150 hours to be licensed as an accountant (CPA).
Discussion: Several questions were asked concerning the creative component, the communications requirement, the lack of need for new resources, when the classes would be offered and who the students would be.
Approval: Unanimous approval was given subject to the Graduate Council approval.
5. Discussion and approval of the following 4 experimental courses to meet international or diversity requirements:
A Ecl 455x, Hort 347x for the International Perspectives list
Hon 305 and U St 150x for the U. S. Diversity list
6. Kruempel distributed proposals for international or diversity cousres to be discussed at the next meeting and copies of the Post-Audit review report for the major in Early Childhood Education.
7. All colleges’ inputs on the addendum for experimental courses should be to Doering by Thursday, Oct. 21 at 5pm.
8. At the next meeting, Oct. 25, we will have the vote on the catalog due date for courses and programs.
9. Adjourn
Mary Helen Greer
Attending: Ken Kruempel, Al Austin, Mary Helen Greer, John Van Ast, Joe Colletti, William David, Prem Premkumar, Gregory Palermo, Cheryll Reitmeier, Howard Shapiro, Jenny Froyd
1. Approved Minutes of October 18, 1999 meeting
2. Announcements
The Communications Symposium is scheduled for March, 2000. This will provide an open discussion of the new Communications Across the Curriculum program. Each college curriculum committee needs to appoint a representative to the planning committee. Names of representatives should be forwarded to Howard Shapiro.
Kruempel distributed copies of approved experimental courses that can be used to meet the U.S. Diversity and/or International Perspective requirements.
Last editing of the experimental course form is underway. Please look at the addendum form produced by the LAS College and distributed to FSCC by e-mail and get any comments to Kruempel as soon as possible.
3. 2001-03 Catalog Schedule. Van Ast moved: The deadline for submission of the courses and program section of the 2001-03 Catalog be moved from May, 2000 to October, 2000. After some discussion the motion failed (1 yes 6 No 1 abstain [Greer]). The time frame previously distributed to FSCC will be in effect.
4. Post audit report for B.S. in Early Childhood Education. Reitmeier moved: FSCC approval of the Post audit report for B.S. in Early Childhood Education pending report revisions and FSCC recommendation for continuation of the program. Some discussion about the report followed. Several items seemed to be lacking in the report, including:
a. There was no table of program expenditures since the program began
b. No support letters from recent graduates of the program
c. Discussion of employment of graduates should be expanded
d. There were several editorial changes that are needed.
Some FSCC members were not comfortable with approving the report as it was submitted and they felt the changes were substantial. After the discussion, David moved to table the motion until a revised report could be submitted. Motion carried.
5. Meeting adjourned at 8:50 am. Next meeting will be Nov 1, 1999
Respectively Submitted,
T. Al Austin
November 1, 1999 (approved November 8)
Attending: Ken Kruempel, Cheryll Reitmeier, John Van Ast, Al Austin, Char Hulsebus, William David, Prem Premkumar, Laura Doering, Mary Helen Greer, Howard Shapiro
1. Minutes of October 25, 1999 meeting were approved with a few corrections.
2. Announcements
Michael Mendelson is to head the planning committee for Communications Task Force Symposium, scheduled for Spring 2000. Each college has to appoint a representative to the planning committee before Nov. 5, 1999.
Laura Doering informed that the final format for the experimental course addendum will be distributed next meeting for discussion.
3. Experimental courses: approval as U. S. Diversity or International Perspectives courses
a. U. S. Diversity: Hist 240X - 3 cr. - Latin/o History
Motion - Austin;. Second - Reitmeier; Approved - 8-0;
b. U. S. Diversity: WS 203X - 3cr. - Lesbian Cultures and Communities
Motion - Reitmeier;. Second - Greer; Approved - 8-0;
c. International Perspectives: Anthro 335X - 3 cr. - Peoples and Cultures
November 8, 1998 (approved November
15)
Attending: Ken Kruempel (chair,) Cheryll Reitmeier, John Van Ast, Al Austin, Char Hulsebus, William David, Prem Premkumar, Laura Doering, Mary Helen Greer, Howard Shapiro, Greg Palermo, Joe Colletti
1. Minutes of November 1, 1999 meeting were approved with the following corrections:
A. Add to 3.a and 3.b "Approved for inclusion on U.S. Diversity list."
B. Add to 3.c, 3.d, and 3.e "Approved for inclusion on International Perspectives List"
C. 3.d should read: "Topics in Modern East Asian Cultures"
2. Announcements
A. Kruempel announced that the Master of Accounting degree will be presented to the Faculty Senate on Tuesday evening, November 9.
B. Palermo announced that there was currently an interregnum in the College of Design Curriculum Committee.
3. F99-18 Regents Post-Audit (5 year) review of the Master of Family and Consumer Sciences. Associate Dean Mary Winter of the College of Family and Consumer Sciences served as a resource person to answer the committee’s concerns regarding the Review.
Background: The degree consists primarily of ICN-taught courses offered to off campus students. It is a non-thesis program. Dean Winter indicated there was difficulty in accurately specifying enrollment in the program during a particular semester, because most of the students pursuing this degree do so one course at a time, and occasionally skip a semester, while still remaining in the degree program.
Discussion: Van Ast suggested the lettering of the supporting materials described on pages nine and ten of the proposal be revised to correctly correlate with the data beginning on page twelve (e.g. items cited under letter C on page ten appear under letter B on page twelve, etc.)
Reitmeier moved and Austin seconded that the report be accepted and that the FSCC recommend continuation of the degree. Motion passed unanimously. The corrected report will be sent to Shapiro and forward to the Board of Regents.
4. F99-17 International Perspectives: Religious Studies 356X African Religions. Van Ast moved, Austin seconded that this course be approved for inclusion on the International Perspectives list. David will contact the department to clarify the discrepancy in the listing of prerequisites for this course on the original Experimental Course proposal form (lists no prerequisite) and the International Perspectives form (lists Religious Studies 105 as prerequisite.) Unless resubmitted, Religious Studies 356X will continue to have no prerequisite.
5. F99-4 Experimental Course Addendum. A proposed revision of the Experimental Course and Addendum forms prepared by Doering and Hulsebus was presented and discussed. Suggestions from committee members included:
A. Use a signature block, as found on the Diversity Form to facilitate multiple signatures for co/cross listed courses.
B. There was considerable discussion regarding whether or not to require that a complete syllabus be required as part of the "Course content/major topics" question on the Addendum. Some members felt this should be required only at the discretion of each college.
C. Specify the LAS General Education Requirement on the Addendum.
D. Delete the question about long-range programmatic goals from the Announcement.
E. Replace the word "Complete" with "Attach" in the sentence regarding the US Div/Int. Perspectives List form.
F. Replace "needed" with "required" in the sentence requesting multiple signatures.
Hulsebus and Doering will prepare a revision based on the suggestions for consideration at a future meeting.
Meeting adjourned at 8:55 AM.
William David
November 15, 1999 (approved November 29)
Present: Ken Kruempel (Chair), Prem Premkumar, Mary Helen Greer, Howard Shapiro, Joe Colletti, Al Austin, John Van Ast, Char Hulsebus, Cheryl Reitmeier, William David, Paul Anderson, Laura Doering, Gregory Palermo
1. Minutes of November 8, 1999, approved as submitted.
2. Announcements:
a. Ken Kruempel informed the committee that the Registrar’s Codebook of course designators is available on the web. Previously used course #s are available from the registrar’s office.
b. Ken Kruempel will be advancing two topics on the committee agenda:
1) Late Drop/Audit policies and practices (Sturges memo follow-up)
2) Extra class meetings for "(3-1) Cr. 3" courses
c. Al Austin would like to discuss the university 32/65 rules; impacts for off-campus courses, courses offered as part of degree programs at cc’s.
d. G. Palermo introduced Paul Anderson who will be the new Design representative to the FSCC, thus ending the interregnum in the College of Design Curriculum Committee during which GP represented the college.
3. F99-4. Experimental Course Addendum. Moved by Joe Colletti, 2nd by John Van Ast to approve the latest draft of the form dated 11/99 with the following revisions:
a. Remove the question: "Does the course have long range programmatic goals/"
b. Remove the words: "for DIP" under the US Diversity section
c. Insert the words: "If yes, syllabus required" in lieu of "Please attach syllabus" at US Diversity
d. Add: "(continue to page 2)" just above the signature box.
e. Delete: "exit" insert "complete" on page 2, Course outcomes/objective question
f. (GP suggests that Rev. date at bottom of form be revised to include day as well as month and year)
Policy revision: The form as revised is intended to be used for US Diversity/International Perspectives filing and approval for experimental courses. This will eliminate the need for a separate filing for experimental courses that are intended to fulfill this requirement. The current US Diversity/International Perspectives form will be used for existing courses.
Prem Premkumar requested that a Word format copy of the form be made available; not all people have Acrobat or other PDF readers. Char Hulsebus said she would do this.
4. F99-5. Experimental Course policies on line. Without a separate motion, the policies dated April 1999, were directed to be modified in light of the policy change identified in item 3 above to use experimental course filings for US Diversity/International Perspectives filing as well. A sentence to this effect should be added to 2nd full paragraph under #1 which begins "Submitting the ..."
5. F99-19. Review during catalog revision cycle of impact of curriculum changes that add or delete a required course is continued to the next meeting.
6. Upon GP retirement from the FSCC, praise was heard all-round for the occasionally abstruse discourse sparked during his participation on the committee that led to having recondite words like "interregnum" actually used during a meeting and recorded in the minutes. Hm . . .!
Respectfully submitted,
Gregory Palermo
November 29, 1999 (approved December 6)
Present: Kruempel (chair), Austin, David, Hulsebus, VanAst, Greer, Premkumar, Anderson, Shapiro, Colletti, Reitmeier
1. Minutes of the Nov. 17, 1999 were approved as submitted. Van Ast moved approval, Austin seconded. There were no announcements.
2. F99-20. Kruempel asked if there were any concerns about the description of the FS Curriculum Committee under the Council on Academic Affairs in the Faculty Senate document. The wording was satisfactory to the committee.
3. F99-21. Concerns related to the audit policy were: an override of an instructor’s decision not to change a student’s enrollment from credit to audit, auditing students may take the place of students in classes with limited enrollment, and the requirement for an audit to be an agreement between the instructor and student for 500- and 600-level courses and not for undergraduate courses. Kruempel will attend a meeting with the Faculty Council and Financial Aid Office to further discuss the auditing questions.
4. F99-22. Kruempel presented a list of the courses in which the "-1" hour did not correspond to an additional credit. The Foreign Languages and Computer Sciences Departments had the most courses with an extra hour of class without additional credit. The presumed reason for the extra class time is to offer review for students in a scheduled time. Colletti pointed out that students cannot be certain that no new material is presented so students interpret this extra time as required. Hulsebus noted that students need to know the amount of time required for a course as stated in the catalog. Shapiro asked if it was possible to determine the amount of work expected for a 3-hour course in standard and uniform guidelines? David asked who checked the number of credits vs. hours of meeting; the response was that the Registrar’s office checks. Colletti asked about a problem in scheduling rooms. Premkumar noted that hours of class time are used to calculate faculty assignments.
Austin moved to ask the Foreign Languages and Computer Science Departments to send representatives to discuss the use of extra hours with FSCC; Colletti seconded. Van Ast requested that the representatives be given all the information about our discussion before they attend FSCC. There was more discussion about the number of credits for lecture, labs, and recitation sessions. Kruempel asked that FSCC members check the courses with an additional credit in their colleges. Motion passed.
5. Kruempel noted the U.S. Diversity/International Perspective proposal for U ST 290N/490N, the revised FSCC membership list, and the updated FSCC Calendar. David asked about the schedule for spring semester; Kruempel will ask for spring semesters schedules for FSCC members during finals week.
Meeting adjourned 8:48 am
Respectfully submitted,
Cheryll Reitmeier
December 6, 1999 (approved December 13)
Present: Ken Kruempel (chair), Paul Anderson, Joe Colletti, William David, Laura Doering, Mary Helen Greer, Char Hulsebus, Prem Premkumar, Cheryll Reitmeier, Howard Shapiro, John Van Ast
1. Minutes of the November 11, 1999 were approved as submitted. Nice job Cheryll. Joe Colletti moved approval, Mary Ellen Greer seconded.
2. Ken Kruempel made the following announcements.
3. Maurice McDonald, DOE, Department of Human Development and Family Studies provided input prior to the discussion on approval of the Early Child Education Undergraduate Major Regents Post Audit Report, and recommendation for the continuation of the ECE undergraduate major.
4. Char’s staff is developing guidelines for the 2001-2003 ISU Bulletin. Char will send a copy these guidelines to FSCC member via campus mail for discussion at the 12/13/99 FSCC meeting. Clip sheets will be available 2/1/99. Char’s office will provide training for college staff who could benefit from orientation on PDF files and the Adobe Acrobat software.
5. Ken Kruempel mentioned that new programs, as well as changes in the name of existing programs for the 2001-2003 ISU Bulletin need to be out of their respective colleges by March 31st. Those programs at the graduate level will have to clear the Graduate College before that date. Such changes will go the Faculty Senate in April.
December 13, 1999 (approved January 20, 2000)
Present: Ken Kruempel, Al Austin, John Van Ast, Mary Helen Greer, Char Hulsebus, Joe Colletti, Cheryll Reitmeier, Paul Anderson, Laura Doering, William David
Meeting adjourned at 9:25 am (Note the extra time and give us the appropriate extra compensation)
Submitted by
T. Al Austin
12/17/99
January 20, 2000 (approved February 3)
Present: Colletti, Hulsebus, Van Ast, Reitmeier, Premkumar, Anderson, David, Doering, Shapiro, Kruempel, Greer
Af Am 460x Seminar in African American Culture: Robert Hayden &Gwendolyn Brooks
Relig 328x/Am In 328x American Indian Religions
Soc 328x/WS328x Sociology of Masculinities and Manhood
Hon 322L Domestic Abuse and Family Violence
Hon 322U Workplace Violence, Hostility and Harassment
Anthr 337x Andean Archaeology
Hon 322H Second Horseman of the Apocalypse
Hon 322M Business Etiquette
Hon 322W Music Cultures of the World
Hon 322Z 20th Century Genocide
Submitted by Mary Helen Greer
February 3, 2000 (approved February 17)
Attending: Ken Kruempel, Cheryll Reitmeier, John Van Ast, Al Austin, Char Hulsebus, William David, Prem Premkumar, Mary Helen Greer, Paul Anderson.
Hulsebus announced that the catalog is on the web for download and editing. The guidelines for editing are also provided. On a query for Acrobat training, Hulsebus informed that there will be some training provided in March.
Premkumar requested information on funds for acquiring Acrobat 4.0 for the department and was informed to contact Francis Smith in Vice Provost's office. 50% of the funds will be provided by the provost's office.
Post audit review of Women's Studies and Minor in Military Studies will be discussed in next meeting.
Approved - International Perspectives - PolS 383X - Politics of Planet Earth
Approved only for Interational perspectives - Anthro 230X - Third World Cultures in Global Perspective - Changed from LAS 230
While the committee generally agreed that the help sessions are useful they had some concerns regarding the credit requirements. Colletti , Reitmeier, Van Ast said that if students are getting value from the help sessions why not provide them with the credit. Miller (Chair - Comp. Sci) felt that it would change the major's requirement. Also, he felt that these sessions are optional and mainly meant for students who had trouble with the topics in class. Reitmeier felt that if more than 2/3 of students is using it, it may mean that the content is large enough to give the extra credit. Miller felt that we are unnecessarily favoring the students who need help with extra credit and disadvantaging the better students. Greer also felt that it is not appropriate to give more credits for the same content for students that need extra help. Kruempel mentioned that some of the students in his class were not aware that the help sessions were optional, but students felt that they needed to attend it to get through the class.
Comp. Sci faculty and the committee could not agree on an appropriate method to represent the hours used for help session in the catalog.
Kruempel informed that the Academic Standards Committee approved a proposal that the instructor will approve all audits and the audits must be added before the end of Period 1 (before the 5th class day). They felt that this would solve the problem of students changing from credit to audit in the middle of the term. This however requires changes to many (43) ADP programs.
Colletti said that there is a need to differentiate between the policies for graduate and undergraduate students.
Van Ast wanted student feedback on the audit policy - both graduate and undergraduate.
Greer wanted to know when the financial aid kicks in for pay back.
It was agreed that each college will discuss with their graduate and undergraduate students and administration and send their feedback to Kruempel next week.
February 17, 2000
(approved March 2)
(with changes indicated by *)
Present: Ken Kruempel (chair), Paul Anderson, Joe Colletti, William David, Mary Helen Greer, Char Hulsebus, Prem Premkumar, John Van Ast, Gregory Peter
1. Minutes of the February 3, 2000 were approved with the following corrections:
A. Under Item #2 last paragraph should read "Military Studies" and Women’s Studies."
B. Under item #3, "Religious Studies 335X" should be "Religious Studies 355X."
C. Under Item # 4, Replace the second sentence with: . "She may propose modifying the credits earned in current FLL (4-1) classes from the current four to five."
2. Announcements
Kruempel reviewed the contents and function of four documents he has recently distributed to members of the committee in preparing the 2001-2003 General Catalog. One error was noted: In the Catalog College Listing, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies (ELPS) was incorrectly assigned to the College of Design instead of the College of Education.
3. ISUComm Presentation
Michael Mendelson (English) and Patty Harms (graduate student, English) described the campus-wide review of communication skills *written, oral, and *visual* currently in progress. Included in his presentation was a review of the recommendations from an outside review team which considered the current university undergraduate English and Speech requirements. He urged FSCC members and their colleagues to attend a symposium on April 26-27 dealing with these issues.
4. S00-9 Regents Post-Audit (5 year) review of the B.S. and B.A. in Women's Studies (due 9/99).
Jill Bystydzienski served as resource person. Professor Bystydzienski gave a brief overview of the program, which currently has twelve majors, thirty minors, and fifty affiliated faculty. In response to questions form the committee, she indicated that she foresees an enlarged research output from the program and increased employment opportunities for graduates in both academia and the traditional workplace, as gender-related issues continue to become more prevalent.
Kruempel asked that a copy of the original proposal for the degrees approved by the Regents in 1994 be added to the Post-Audit materials. Coletti moved *and ? seconded (delete)* that the FSCC endorse the continuation of the B.S. and B.A. degrees in Women’s Studies and to send the Post-Audit forward to the Board of Regents. Motion carried.
5. S00-3 Proposal for an undergraduate minor in Military Studies
Major Randy Pierce and Colonel Kenneth Schindele served as resource people. Kruempel noted that the requirement of a C or better grade point contained in the proposal would have to be approved separately by the Council on Academic Standards. Pierce and Schindele agreed to delete this from the proposal under consideration. Kruempel also suggested that letters in support of the proposal be solicited from ROTC detachments at U of Iowa and UNI. Major Pierce indicated that he would obtain such letters immediately for inclusion with the proposal. Suggestions from members of the committee included indicating that the enrollment projections in the proposal were conservative, and that the specific educational outcomes of the minor be more clearly delineated. Also, the reference in the proposal to graduate students possibly earning this minor will be deleted.
Coletti moved *and ? seconded* that the FSCC approve the proposal for a minor in Military Science contingent on the incorporation of the committee’s suggestions. Motion carried.
6. S00-4 Proposal from the Faculty Senate Council on Academic Affairs to require instructor approval of audits and that audits be added by the end of Period 1 (5th class day).
There was considerable discussion. Kruempel indicated that Earl Dowling had informed him a student’s financial aid would not be directly affected by a change from credit to audit status during a particular semester. Audits effects on a student’s health insurance status vary among insurance companies. Committee members described student and faculty opinions regarding auditing.
Colletti moved *and ? seconded* that the FSCC support requiring a faculty member’s written permission at any for a student to register to audit a class. Motion carried.
David moved and Colletti seconded that the FSCC go on record as opposing restricting registration for audits exclusively to Period 1. Motion carried.
7. S00-7 International Perspectives: Art 485X/585X Traditional Indian Culture
The FSCC approved Art 485X/585X for inclusion on the International Perspectives course list.
8. S00-8 A cross-listing question: French 370 and German 370 with W S 370.
A possible solution to this problem was the creation of courses in each department numbered 371. A decision was deferred until the next meeting.
Submitted by William David
March 2, 2000 (approved March 30)
Present: Ken Kruempel (chair), Paul Anderson, Al Austin, Tim Bosler (guest of Laura Doering), Joe Colletti, William David, Laura Doering, Char Hulsebus, Dayle Nickerson (substituting for John Van Ast), Gregory Peeter, Prem Premkumar, Cheryll Reitmeier
1. Minutes of the February 17, 2000 were approved with the following changes:
A. Item 2: Change "both written and oral" to "written, oral, and visual"
B. Items 4, 5, and 6: Remove "and ? seconded"
2. Announcements
A. Bulletin changes requiring Board of Regents approval must be approved by college committees (and, if necessary, graduate college committees) by March 31. Kruempel listed the expected proposals needing FSCC consideration. An additional FSCC meeting may be needed in late March or early April to stay on schedule.
B. Kruempel asked if committee members, in principle, have concerns about additional half (0.5) credit courses. Three members expressed concern.
C. The experimental course form used for CL ST 275X (item S00-15) is the old version. The instructor has been asked to complete the current version of the experimental course form.
D. The proposal for an undergraduate minor in Military Studies (item S00-3) has been revised and reviewed by several FSCC members. Several suggestions are being incorporated in the next revision by Monday. Letters from ROTC detachments at UNI and U of I are now included.
E. A proposal for BS/MS concurrent enrollment program in Animal Science has passed the Graduate Curriculum and Catalog Committee. It will next go to Graduate Council, then come to FSCC for consideration. A major issue involved in the proposal is double counting of credits for both the BS degree and the MS degree.
F. The proposed change in course audit procedures involving instructor approval and registration deadline is being reconsidered by the Faculty Senate Council on Academic Affairs. This is item S00-4 that we voted on at our last meeting.
G. Kruempel listed resources available to aid review of bulletin changes by college curriculum committees. These include clip sheets (courses and program section, curriculum section) editing procedures, courses not taught (Email attachment), experimental course enrollment (Email attachment), and number of graduates (Email attachment).
3. S00-10 U.S. Diversity: U St 301B, Interdisciplinary Studies: "Computer Connections"
This service learning experience includes a weekly meeting for reflection. Reitmeier moved approval. Austin seconded. Motion passed.
4. S00-11 International Perspectives: Agron 446, World Agronomic Systems
Austin moved approval. Colletti seconded. Motion passed.
5. S00-12 International Perspectives: FCEDS 424X/524X, International Study Abroad Seminar
Reitmeier moved approval. Austin seconded. Motion passed.
6. F99-22 Extra class meetings without additional credit
David reported that the LAS curriculum committee discussed the issue at length, particularly the courses in Computer Science and Foreign Languages and Literatures. They strongly support allowing existing courses to continue the practice but discourage additional use of the practice. Justification for their support is that 2 or 3 contact hours in lab or studio is equivalent to 1 credit; therefore, 0 or 1 contact hours in lab or studio should be equivalent to 0 credit. Additional justification cited was the necessity to use this strategy to schedule classrooms.
Reitmeier moved that the FSCC continue the moratorium on new courses in which the "-1" does not correspond to a credit. This moratorium applies both to new experimental courses and to courses proposed for the 2001-2003 bulletin. Colletti seconded. Motion passed (6 in favor, 1 opposed, 1 abstained).
There was a suggestion to examine other ways of reserving classroom space. Howard Shapiro will be asked to convene a study group for this purpose.
7. S00-14 Check availability of U.S. Diversity courses
A summary of available seats, enrollment, and wait list data was provided by the Registrar. Kruempel asked if there is a need to ask the Provost for additional help to increase U.S. Diversity course offerings. FSCC members said they have heard no comments about unmet need from either students or advisors.
8. S00-13 Changes to U.S. Diversity/International Perspectives Implementation Policies
Kruempel reviewed his proposed changes in the implementation policies. These changes focus on clarifications in (a) experimental courses, (b) modifying the FSCC lists of approved courses, (c) study abroad experiences, and (d) work abroad experiences. Students who propose to meet the requirements through study abroad or work abroad experiences should prepare documentation, including a plan of academic goals developed before their experience and reflection after their experience.
Colletti suggested that references to the current experimental course form included the date of the form and a Web link to the current form. Kruempel asked FSCC members to think about these proposed changes and be prepared to discuss them further in about a month.
9. Minor change in the Experimental Course form
The experimental course form has been slightly revised by reversing the order of the additional questions specifically for faculty in the LAS College and the Agriculture College. The revised form now has the additional LAS College questions before the Agriculture College questions.
10. Next meeting
9:00 to 10:50 am, March 30, 2000, 107 Lab of Mechanics.
Submitted by
Paul Anderson
March 30, 2000 (approved
April 6)
(Corrected)
Present: Ken Kruempel (chair), Paul Anderson, Al Austin, Joe Colletti, William David, Laura Doering, Mary Helen Greer, Char Hulsebus, John Van Ast, Prem Premkumar, Cheryll A. Reitmeier, Howard Shapiro
Guests: Liz Beck, Richard Seagrave, Joe Sebranek
1. Kruempel reviewed the current and pending Regents/Faculty Senate items for undergraduate programs: (Emerging Diseases minor, Secondary Education second major, Military Studies minor, Technical Communication BS, Art and Design BA and BFA name change) and graduate programs (Sustainable Agriculture MS and PhD approved by GCCC 3/29, Integrated Visual Arts MFA on GCCC agenda 4/5, Information Assurance MS).
2. Minutes of the March 2, 2000 meeting were approved.
3. Announcements:
A. Courses-not-taught information and Experimental Course enrollments are available on the web. Message sent to FSCC 2/28 by e-mail.
B. "H" section courses should not be used in the catalog because they are confused with honors courses. Courses with "H" designators will be reassigned by the Registrar's office. Note HD FS 317H, AST 493H, Jl MC 390H and IA LL 493H.
C. FSCC will meet April 6, 9 am, 107 Lab of Mechanics.
4. Each college representative reported progress on catalog editing.
5. S00-15 International Perspectives: Cl St 275X The Ancient City
Colletti moved approval, Anderson seconded. Motion passed.
6. S00-16 International Perspectives: Anthr 442X/524X Ecological Anthropology
The numbering was changed from 342 to 442; 300/500 numbering is discouraged. Greer moved approval, Anderson seconded. Motion passed.
7. S00-17 International Perspectives: Econ 455 International Trade and Finance
Colletti moved approval, Anderson seconded. Motion passed.
8. S00-18 International Perspectives: Relig 395X Contemporary India
David moved approval, Colletti seconded. Motion passed.
9. S00-19 International Perspectives: Frnch 306X Business French
The number was changed to 304X. There was discussion about 100-level language courses meeting the International Perspectives requirement. Greer and Shapiro stated that language courses should meet the requirement. Austin moved approval, VanAst seconded. Motion passed.
10. S00-20 U.S. Diversity: Hist 386 History of Women in America (cross-listed as W S 386)
Van Ast moved approval, Austin seconded. Motion passed.
11. S00-23 International Perspectives: Request to drop HRI 485/585 from the list
Reitmeier moved approval, Colletti seconded. Motion passed.
12. S00-22 International Perspectives: Honors Semester in Florence. Liz Beck explained the program of 19 credits for ISU Honors students with the British Institute in Florence, Italy. Twenty students have enrolled (14 in engineering and science). Seagrave stated that the independent study project would be in a technical field such as chemical engineering. FSCC is the College curriculum committee for the honors program. Van Ast moved to approve HON 350, 351 Humanities A,B, and C, 353 Art A and B, 354 Science and Engineering A and B, and 355 as experimental courses and fulfilling the requirement for International Perspectives. Austin seconded, motion passed. Van Ast complimented the program for its fresh approach to teaching and learning.
13. S00-21 Proposal for concurrent B.S./M.S. degrees in Animal Science. Joe Sebranek noted that the program would serve 2-5 students/year and would be a mechanism for recruiting good students who were interested in research. Colletti was supportive of the program that promoted high-quality learning. Van Ast asked about the Graduate Council proposal about double-counting undergraduate and graduate courses. This proposal is still under discussion. Colletti moved approval, Van Ast seconded, motion passed. Colletti stated that each of the 5 majors had thesis and non-thesis options; most students would enroll in the thesis option. ISU has 9 BS/MS programs.
14. S00-13 Changes to the U.S. Diversity/International Perspectives Implementation Policies.
The changes in item #5 (inclusion of the web address in the first paragraph and under Experimental Courses) were described by Kruempel. He also noted that applications for approval could be submitted any time and were part of the Experimental Course form. Van Ast moved approval of the changes in item #5, David seconded. Motion passed.
Under item #3, Kruempel suggested that all courses should be reviewed by FSCC for "academic experience". Shaprio noted that the SAE committee reviewed ISU Study Abroad courses already. Austin asked about transfer credits for study abroad. Doering said review of a student's travel experience was described by "substitutions and waiver" in the catalog. The discussion focused on the intent of the International Perspectives requirement, cultural experience vs. academic experience for credit, the time and type of travel or study experience. There was no action on item #3.
Meeting adjourned 10:45 am
Next meeting: 9 am, April 6, 107 Lab of Mechanics.
Submitted by Cheryll Reitmeier
3/31/00
April 6, 2000 (approved April 13)
Present: Ken Kruempel (chair), Paul Anderson, Kristen Constant for Al Austin, Joe Colletti, William David, Laura Doering, Mary Helen Greer, Char Hulsebus, Prem Premkumar, and Cheryll A Reitmeier,
Guests: Jeff Beetham, Matt Liebman, Lorna Michael Butler, and Michael Bell
1. Next meeting is April 13, same time, same place.
2. Minutes were moved, seconded and approved unanimously as edited. Cheryll, thank you for doing minutes.
Item 1. change MFA to BFA, and MFS to MFA:
Item 3a. change 3/28 to 3/28/00: Item 4. eliminate the word 'satisfactory'.
3. The following handouts were provided.
a. Two support letters for the Second Major in Secondary Education
b. US Diversity/IP Requirements
c. New Programs/Majors
d. FSCC calender 1999-2000
4. Ken indicated the BA/BFA name change is on hold.
5. S00-27 Proposal for a Major of Sustainable Agriculture in the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees was presented by Matt Liebman, Michael Bell, and Lorna Michael Butler. The proposal is waiting for an administrative dean. John Van Ast moved to approve the proposal, seconded by Joe Colletti, and passed unanimous. Ken informed Matt to be present at a future FS meeting.
6. S00-25 Proposal for an undergraduate minor in Emerging Disease was presented by Joe Colletti and Jeff Beethem. Suggestions were made to change terminology used to respond to Question #2 and #6. John Van Ast moved to approve the proposal, seconded by Joe Colletti, and passed unanimously pending recommended changes, and approval by LAS. Ken informed Jeff to be present at future FCS meeting.
7. S00-26 International Perspectives: Econ 496 Economics Travel Course. Joe Colletti moved to approve, seconded by Prem Premkumar, and passed unanimously.
8. F99-5 Experimental Course Policies Procedure Document. Laura Doering presented explanation and graciously accepted suggestions for clarity. Changes will be made and send to appropriate recipients as well as placed on the ISU WEB. John Van Ast moved to approve, simultaneously seconded by William David and Joe Colletti, and passed unanimously.
9. Next meeting is scheduled for April 13, 2000. See item #1.
Topics will include but not be limited to MFA in Integrated Visual Arts, MS in Information Assurance, and Second Major in Secondary Education.
Submitted by John Van Ast 4 06 00
April 13, 2000 (approved April 20)
Attending: Joe Colletti, William David, Mary Helen Greer, Char Hulsebus, Ken Kruempel (Chair), Paul Anderson, Prem Premkumar, John VanAst, and Cheryll Reitmeier
Guests: Ingrid Lilligren and Steven Herrnstadt (Art & Design), Fred Duffelmeyer (C&I), and Jim Davis, (Elec E/ Com E)
1. Minutes of April 6, 2000 meeting were approved with minor editing.
2. Announcements: Ken announced that Courses-Not-Taught document is posted on the web site with the catalog materials and that we should instruct people in our colleges to consult this listing when working on the 2001-2003 catalog material. Also, he announced that based on a question from Colletti, he wanted to point out that it is possible to have options within a major have different total credits required. Ken referred the FSCC to his spreadsheet (Spring 2000 New Programs /Majors) with a listing of programs being considered and asked the Committee if we supported having Engineering pursue a proposal in changing the name of Engineering Operations to Engineering Applications. The FSCC supported this. He also pointed out that we should review for a future meeting a proposal for certain new courses in the new interdepartmental major in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BCB).
• Ken walked the FSCC through his spreadsheet of Spring 2000 New Programs /Majors. Here are the changes and decisions relating to pending programs. The proposed name changes for BA/BFA in Art and Design will not go forward. Support letters for the proposed BS in Technical Communications ( as recently modified by LAS) will be send ASAP by William David to all FSCC members to be considered on April 20. Also, William will send the proposed BA in Classical Studies to all FSCC members ASAP so that it can be considered on April 20. We will consider on April 20 the proposed name change for the BS in Eng. Op to Eng. Applications (pending Eng. College approval).
The next FSCC meeting will be Thursday, April 20 at 9 a.m. Ken will send an agenda and the minutes.
Respectively submitted,
Joe Colletti
April 20, 2000 (approved August 30)
Present: W. David, J. Colletti, C. Hulsebus, J. Van Ast, P. Anderson, K. Kruempel, M.H. Greer, L. Doering, Al Austin
(b) The BA and BFA proposed name change from Art and Design to Integrated Studio Arts will not go forward at this time.
(c) It was indicated that departments preparing curriculum changes (due next fall) should be reminded that they need to be in contact with affected departments regarding courses going into or out of the curriculum.
Mary Helen Greer
Iowa State University
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