Meeting Date: 
October 25, 2019
Date: 
10/25/2019 9:00 am to 10:30 am
Location: 
442 Austin Hall
Agenda: 

Anticipated absence: Michele Swift

 

  1. 9:00 – Blueprint Proposals – BA 291, 294, 384 – Prem Mathew and Sandy Neubaum
  1. Potential Consideration of Revisions to the Course Designator Policy – Discussion
    Please review the attached document which contains potential revisions related to the order in which course designators are approved by the Curriculum Council. Please also review the entire policy and be prepared to discuss potential additional revisions.
  1. Category II Proposals
    See Information Items below for instructions for accessing the CPS. Please note that the first tab on the below attachments contains all Cat II courses and the second tab contains only Cat II non-course proposals.

The proposals in the attached file will be approved following the October 25, 2019 meeting. 

  • NOTE: Proposal #107695 was originally submitted as #107579. The original proposal needed to be resubmitted because of a processing error. Liaison comments were submitted under the original proposal number and are now found as attachments to #107695. The liaison comment attachment had not been added to 107695 when the Curriculum Council reviewed the proposal last week.

The proposals in the attached file will be approved following the November 1, 2019 meeting.

  1. Matters Arising
  1. Report from Co-Chairs – Carol McKiel, Michele Swift
  1. Report from Registrar – Rebecca Mathern
  1. Report from Undergraduate Programs – Janice Neve-Abele

Information Items:

  • Please advise Vickie at [email protected] if you’ll miss a meeting.
  • Curriculum Proposals – The Curriculum Proposal System can be found at https://secure.oregonstate.edu/ap/cps/proposals. To access Curriculum Council proposals, select the appropriate CC Rep in the ‘Review Group’ box, then click on ‘Search’ below the boxes; the proposals will be listed below the ‘Search’ button.

 

Zoom Connection (good thru Fall 2019)

ID: 629-240-712

Link: https://oregonstate.zoom.us/j/629240712

Phone: 1-669-900-6833

Meeting Schedule 
November 1 ~ 9:00-10:30 – 442 Austin Hall
November 8 ~ 9:00-10:30 – 442 Austin Hall

Pending:

  • Cat I Proposals
    • Master’s Degree in History, MA/MS #104974 – New Graduate Degree Program – Terry Rooker, Ann Zweber
      • 4/30/19, 5/14/19, 5/22/19 – Pending approval by Budgets & Fiscal Planning Committee
      • 5/28/19 – Per Budgets & Fiscal Planning, proposal does not appear to meet minimum requirements.
      • 6/4/19; 10/23/19 – Approved by  Budgets & Fiscal Planning; pending Graduate Council approval
      • 11/1/19 – Tentatively scheduled for T. Rooker to present to Curriculum Council

    • Creative Writing #106904 – New Degree Program Proposal – Rosemary Garagnani, Terry Rooker
      • 10/23/19 – pending approval by  Budgets & Fiscal Planning (undergraduate degree)

    • Engineering Science #102102 – New Degree Program Proposal – Candice Clark, Rebecca Mathern
      • 10/18/19 – Approved by Budgets & Fiscal Planning; pending Curriculum Council approval

    • Molecular and Cellular Biology, MS, PhD #107612 – Suspension of an Academic Program – all review
      • 10/7/19 –  Approved by  Budgets & Fiscal Planning and Graduate Council
      • 10/18/19 – CC sent back for Pharmacy & Vet Med liaison
      • 10/23/19 – pending requested liaisons
      • 11/1/19 – Requested C. Clark and Rebecca Mathern to tentatively present

    • Foreign Languages & Literatures #107026 – Drop Graduate Minor – all reviewed
      • 10/6/19 – Approved by Graduate Council
      • 10/18/19 – Curriculum Council approved

    • Health Management & Policy #107640 – Drop Graduate Minor – all reviewed
      • 10/6/19 – Approved by Graduate Council  
      • 10/18/19 – Curriculum Council approved

    • Instructional Design #101468 – New Graduate Certificate Program Proposal – Jake Hamblin, Inara Scott
      • 10/18/19 – Approved by Budgets & Fiscal Planning Committee
      • 10/23/19 - Pending Graduate Council approval

  • Policies
    • Hybrid Courses – G. Beach requested to revise based on 4/17/18 CC comments; req 4/26/18
      • 9/24/19 – Cub Kahn, Shannon Riggs and Gary Beach reviewing the final draft
      • 11/1/19 – Tentatively scheduled to be discussed

    • Majors – 5/23/2018 – Action: Tabled – R. Mathern will resolve some of the CIM issues; needs to relate to Academic Regulations; CC will review after revised
      • Not approved in 2017-2018 ~VN
      • 2/26/19 – to be finalized after the CIM rollout

    • Minimum Class Size – 5/23/2018 – Action: R. Mathern will work over the 2018 summer to create a more coherent policy
      • 1/18/2019 – Mathern will determine from Gitelman if review needed prior to accreditation
      • 2/26/2019 – per RM and A. Gitelman – HOLD – will not be reviewed prior to accreditation visit

    • Minors – 5/23/2018 – Action: R. Mathern and M. Ossiander will review over the 2018 summer and propose combining Minors and Options
      • Review on 2/22/19 with Options (tentative)

    • Non-credit Coursework Policy – Prem Mathew is requesting review
      • 2/1/19 – subcommittee of P. Mathew, P. Diebel, R. Mathern, R. Garagnani, L. Shirley will draft a structure for the CC to review

    • Options – 5/9/2018 – Tabled until recommendations from Rebecca and Mina are brought forward for consideration – this likely won’t occur until Fall 2018
      • Review on 2/22/2019 with, or after, Minors (tentative)

  • Undergraduate Academic Program Reviews
    • American Studies B.S. – this is an OSU-Cascades-only degree, and the site visit will take place at OSU Cascades April 21-23, 2019 – Reviewers: Candice Clark, Allen Thompson
    • Applied Economics – March 3-5
    • Environmental Sciences B.S. (tentatively scheduled week of February 3-8 March 18-20, 2019 – APA is working on securing external reviewers) – Rebecca Mathern, Carol McKiel Terry Rooker
    • Music UAPR Action Plan – Michael Harte, Michele Swift – materials in secure site 
      • Action Plan – CC review on January 18 
      • 1/18/19 – sent back to unit with comments

    • Sociology B.A./B.S. – April 7-9, 2019 – Reviewers: Jeff Reimer, Carol McKiel  4/9/2019 – Report to APA 
    • Joint review for two undergraduate programs housed in the same department, aka Applied Economics – March 3-5, 2019 – Reviewers: Michael Harte, Michele Swift
      • B.S. Agricultural Business Management
      • B.S. Environmental Economics and Policy

  • Course Designators
    • AI Course Designator
      • 10/18/19 – Curriculum Council voted to send back for additional information to strengthen the proposal, more rationale for why a distinct course designator is needed, and to wait for the program proposal to make its way through the CPS so both the course designator and program proposal can be considered in conjunction.

  • Miscellaneous
    • Discuss review and approval of Ecampus proposals
    • Professional Degrees Workgroup appointed during 2/22/2019 CC meeting
    • Members: Gary Beach, Theresa Filtz, Lisa Ganio, Rosemary Garagnani, Rebecca Mathern, Ann Zweber

Note: blue, bolded text indicates dates items were approved or dispensed with.