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UCCC Minutes for April 21, 2010

Meeting was called to order at 12:30 pm
Walnut Room, Talley Student Center

Members present: D. Parish, chair; D. Orcutt; A. Nowel; R. Ellovich; C. Mayhorn; A. Clark; M. Ashwell; C. Ashwell; C. Joyner; R. Kotek; R. Woodard; H. Charlton; S. Peretti; T. Holden; M. Hubbe; J. Vickery; A. Hale; K. Hauschild; H. Hergeth; R. Swanson; A. Lange; J. Ambrose; C. Freeman

Guests: Bill Winner, Professor, Environmental Sciences; Erin Champion, Asst. Coordinator, Environmental Sciences

Remarks: David Parish refrained from making any remarks and Dean Ambrose decided to hold his comments until the Environmental Sciences actions were brought forward.

Old Business
BS Fashion and Textile Design—tabled because College of Design had objections
The Colleges discussed this action and came to an agreement. Action was approved.

New Business
Minutes from April 7th meeting—The minutes were approved as submitted.

Consent Agenda—The consent agenda (actions listed below) was approved without the action for the Global Perspectives Certificate which was pulled for further discussion.

  • PEC 301 and 303—revision in catalog description and pre-reqs
  • PE Minors: Health, Outdoor Leadership, Coaching, Sports Med—revision in grade requirement
  • COM213—drop
  • COM 215—drop
  • COM345—drop
  • COM375—drop
  • COM455—drop
  • COM465—drop
  • FTM382—revision in pre-req
  • FLS395—revision in title, credit hrs, cat description
  • FLS495—revision in title, credit hrs, cat description
  • FLS208—drop
  • FLS403—drop
  • FLS404—drop
  • HI482—revision in pre-req
  • Academic Minor in Food Science—revision
  • College of Management Curricula—revision to IP requirement (MIE201)
  • BS Bioprocessing Science—revision

    (pulled from consent agenda)
  • Global Perspectives Certificate—revisio n in foreign lang requirement
    The Foreign Language department was not consulted on this change and would like to respond to this action. The motion to table to this action was approved.

Major Actions—Courses

Comments from Dr. Ambrose: A flow diagram was passed out to committee to explain how the Environmental Sciences (ES) program will be administered. The revised program will replace existing concentrations and the documents have already been approved by ES administrative committee, and will be submitted for approval on April 22nd to the Academic Deans’ Council.
Comments from Dr. Winner: The revision to the ES program has been discussed by several different committees and the program has been vetted and is ready for approval and implementation. Dr. Winner welcomes all good suggestions for improving the ES program.

  • ES200 was approved (1 abstention) pending the following additions and edits: the student seminars need to be defined (ex., individual or group) and a description of how the seminar will be assessed needs to be added. The previous syllabus also should be added to the action as an example of what is covered during a seminar.
  • ES300 was approved pending the same additions and edits as detailed for ES200 above.
  • ES400 was approved as submitted.
  • ES295 was approved as submitted.
  • ES495 was approved as submitted.
  • ES496 was approved with the friendly suggestion that the insurance liability statement be added to the course action form and the syllabus.
  • ES497 was approved with the friendly suggestion that the name of the course be reexamined.
  • ES498 was approved as submitted.
  • ES499 was approved as submitted.

Major Actions—Curricula

  • The BS Environmental Sciences revision was approved pending the following change and clarification: the Fall semester of the sophomore year is missing a course description in the 8 semester display that needs to be added. General discussion on this revision—the old ES concentrations will end and the current students can either complete their concentration as it currently exists or transfer over to new curriculum. Discussion continued about the potential advisors associated with the program, examples of advised electives or focal areas and the intra-campus transfer GPA minimums.
  • The revision in the Academic Minor in Environmental Science was approved with the friendly suggestion that either the 2.0 GPA requirement for acceptance into the minor be removed or that a statement indicating that the overall GPA in the minor must be 2.0 or better be added to the document.

Major Actions—Courses

  • FLS295 was approved as submitted.
  • STS326 was approved as submitted.
  • AEE/ANS/PB208 was approved as submitted.
  • HI232 was approved as submitted.
  • PE241 was approved as submitted.
  • IS200 was approved pending the removal of the IP and GK restriction language in the syllabus. Catherine Freeman indicated she would make the change at her level.
  • MB451 was approved as submitted.
  • MB452 was approved as submitted.

Major Actions—Curricula

  • The revision in the BA International Studies for all concentrations was approved as submitted.
  • Revision in the BS Microbiology was approved pending the following change and/or clarification: the total number of credit hours needs to be updated because the MB452 course changed from the equivalent of 1 credit hour to 2 credit hours. The spring semester of senior year total credit hours needs to be updated in the 8-semester display.
  • The revision in BA Psychology—General Option concentration was approved pending the changes to footnotes 14 and 11. If a student chooses either PSY240/241 or PSY242/243 then the student will also need to take a GEP approved math course. This needs to be reflected in footnotes 11 and 14 in format A.
  • The revision in the BA Psychology—Applied PSY concentration was approved pending the same change as outlined above for the BA Psychology General Option concentration.

Notification Items
Dr. Ambrose notified the committee of the third of three agreements in the Wood Paper Science dual degree program between NCSU and Munchen, Germany.

Other Business
Last day to submit paperwork to Catherine Freeman for review by UCCC this semester is April 28th.

The meeting adjourned at 2:10 pm.

Minutes respectfully submitted by Melissa Ashwell