New
coursePAX 488
"Special Topics in Peace and Social Justice." (This Capstone Special Topics course
teaches interdisciplinary
analytical approaches to peace and social justice. Based on the
sponsoring
department, the topics under investigation will vary. Students will
learn peace-building
skills through theoretical and practical exercises and active
participation in the
face of fundamental environmental, economic and human crises).
New
Minor "Peace
and Justice Studies Minor." (The
Peace and Justice minor will offer an
interdisciplinary approach to understanding peace as the cumulative
goal of
conflict resolution and transformation. Alternatives to war and
dehumanization
are taught and modeled for how individuals, organizations, and
governments
promote peace and justice from interpersonal to global contexts.
Through
coursework and experiential learning students are encouraged to become
active
participants and leaders in creating strategies for achieving and
sustaining
non-violence, human rights, environmental and social justice).
MCS
Change in the Management
Computer Systems Major. (Modifies
the list of courses acceptable as the MCS
elective and brings the catalog description in line with
current advising practice).
Mathematics and Computer Science
Change
in the Computer
Science Minor. (The
minor requirements have been reworded to avoid
the need for a commonly occurring AR personalization. The actual
requirements
are not changing).
Social
Work
Change
in the Human
Services Foundation Minor. (These
changes, which expand the range of options for students in the Human
Services
Minor, are congruent with the Essential Learning Outcomes—especially as
related
to “Critical and creative thinking” and “Ethical reasoning and action.”
They also expand students' awareness of critical issues in human
services
such as writing skills, communication with people of other cultures,
and an
expanded view of the human life cycle. All of these are embellishments
of the
abilities the minor addresses).
Receive and Record
Prerequisite
change for PHYSCS
364. (The change is needed
because the introductory course sequence was changed).
Deletion
of COMPSCI
173 "Introduction of FORTRAN Programming." (This course will not be taught in the
future. Students who might have taken this course will not take a
new course in Scientific Computing [COMPSCI 447] ).
Number
change for
COMPSCI 370 "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence." (The
Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences
recently created two new courses, MATH 370 and COMPSCI 370. Both of
these
courses will be taught for the first time in the next year. It leads to
confusion when two courses with the same number exist within the same
department).
Change in the Web
Site Development and Administration certificate program. (The
Art Department is phasing out the ARTSTUDIO 222 course. The new Media
Arts and
Game Development major is introducing the new course MAGD 210 (Visual
Design
for Digital Media) which should be an even more appropriate course for
the Web
Development and Administration certificate students).
Change in the Web
Site Development and Administration minor. (The
Art Department is phasing out the ARTSTUDIO 222 course. The new Media
Arts and
Game Development major is introducing the new course MAGD 210 (Visual
Design
for Digital Media) which should be an even more appropriate course for
the Web
Development and Administration certificate students. Also the Web
Site Development and
Administration minor is popular among MCS majors. MCS majors are
required to
take MCS 231 as part of their major requirement. Thus, AR
personalizations are
required for all of them. The rewording of requirement (3) and making
MCS 231 a
unique requirement will allow these personalizations to be handled
automatically).
Other
Old Business
Dr. Hachten will be
sending a memo to committee members outlining a draft proposal
for changing the foreign language requirement. Dean Pinkerton
will be a guest at our meeting to discuss staffing and other budgetary
needs to implement the proposed change.