Number 4
October 21, 2008
 
 

M I N U T E S

CURRICULUM COMMITTEE
College of Letters and Sciences
Meeting of October 16, 2008

    PRESENT:  Kris Curran, Paul House, Pilar Melero, Rex Hanger, Molly Patterson, Jerre Collins, Geetha Samaranayake, David Cartwright, Steve Sahyun, Jolly Emrey, Elizabeth Olson, Jim Winship, Larry Neuman, Ellie Schemenauer, Debra Heiber, and Elizabeth Hachten, Chair.
    1. The minutes of the October 2, 2008 meeting were approved on a Winship/Schemenauer motion.
    2. Announcements: 
      1. The chair distributed copies of an updated agenda for the meeting.  The revised agenda was approved on a Neuman/Collins motion.
      2. The chair introduced Trudy Witonsky who is replacing Jerre Collins as the Languagues & Literatures representative on the committee.
    3. The new Sociology emphasis - Family and Health Emphasis was withdrawn from the agenda by Larry Neuman on the morning of October 16, 2008.
    4. Emrey/Schemenauer moved to approve the changes to the list of approved courses for the International Studies Major  with a friendly ammendment to include last minute changes emailed to the chair by Ron Berger from the Sociology, Anthropology & Criminal Justice Dept.  The motion passed unanimously.
    5.  Emrey/Collins moved to aprove the new emphasis International Studies Major- International Economics Emphasis.  The motion passed unanimously.
    6. House/Olson  moved to receive and record the following informational item:
      1. Title change for PSYCH 499 FROM "Honors Thesis" TO "Senior Thesis."
      2. Requisite change for SOCWORK372 "Social Work Practice II."
      3. Change in the Integrated Science and Business Major.
The motion passed unanimously
    1. New Business.  The chair asked members for thoughts regarding interdisciplinary and cross-departmental collaboration.  It was agreed that such collaboration would be beneficial but challenges such as workload, salary structure, caps, and FTE/SCH were brought up as concerns.  A suggestion surfaced that brown-bag/luncheon meetings may be the best way to get shared interest groups together. The chair will take the committee’s suggestions and voice their concerns to the Dean’s Administrative Council.
    1. The meeting adjourned on a Sahyun/Collins motion.
Respectfully Submitted


 Natalie Lamkin, Secretary for the day