Curriculum Council

Curriculum Council

June 5, 2014

Minutes

Voting Members Present: Paul Adams, Mike Bailey, Frank Chaplen, Neil Davison, Sue Helback, Prem Mathew, Richard Nafshun, Mina Ossiander, Daniel Stroud (via phone)

Voting Members Absent: Demian Hommel, Kate MacTavish

Ex-officio Members Present: Stefani Dawn (Academic Affairs), Dianna Fisher (Ecampus), Rebecca Mathern (Registrar’s Office)

Liaison Members Present: Carey Hilbert (Academic Advising Council), John Greydanus (Instructional Technology), Daniel Stroud (OSU-Cascades – via phone)

Guests: Anita Azarenko, Gary Beach

Z and BI Course Designator – Bob Mason, Devon Quick

Bob will send Vickie a one-pager that Brock created for advisors to be distributed to the Council members.

Rebecca and Bob will discuss outside of the Curriculum Council a coding plan and confirm prerequisites.

3 to 4 Credit Courses – Susan Shaw, Director, School of Language, Culture, and Society

Susan felt that the motivation to change from 3 to 4-credit courses in the Department of Women Studies was two-fold: (1) course workload and (2) a redistribution of content – a course that was dropped had the curriculum spread to other courses.

MEngr in Industrial Engineering, Engineering Management Graduate Option MOU Proposal  

Mike Bailey moved to approve the extension of an existing program: the MEng in IE; motion seconded and passed via voice vote.

Mike also moved for the overlap maximum of 9 credits toward undergrad and graduate (double count) AGP (Daniel S).

Tourism and Outdoor Leadership (TOL) Undergraduate Program Review – Michael Gassner and Kreg Lindberg (via phone), Randy Rosenberger

The TOL (Tourism and Outdoor Leadership) Undergraduate Program Review was introduced by Prem. Stefani added comments and invited comments.   

Mina will send Vickie a paragraph to attach to the TOL Program Review (the Council cannot edit the review, but may attach a document). Vickie will send to Richard who will send to the Council for discussion and approval.

          Mina’s text: “This is an opportunity for FES and TOL faculty to review TOL course offerings with an eye to eliminating those courses covering subject matter which is taught by other departments at the Cascades Campus. This will allow TOL faculty to concentrate on development and instruction of courses with the TOL-specific content that they are uniquely qualified to plan and deliver.”