ASCRC Minutes 10/18/05

Members Present: J. Campana, S. Derry, J. Eglin, C. Henderson, C. Johnston, J. Luckowski, D. McCormick, D Potts, M. Roscoe, H. Thompson, R. Welsh

Members Absent/Excused: C. Healow, V. Hedquist, V.Pavlish, A. Szalda-Petree

Ex-Officio Present: L. Carlyon, A.Walker-Andrews

Chair Luckowski called the meeting to order at 2:10p.m.

The minutes from 10/11/05 were approved.

Communications:

The Education and Fine Arts Subcommittee chair switched presentation times with the Business and Journalism Subcommittee due to a schedule conflict. Therefore, Education and Fine Arts will present on 11/1 and Business and Journalism will present on 11/8.

New Business-Curriculum consent agendas

Humanities and Cultural Studies Subcommittee

Subcommittee Chair McCormick explained each of the proposals. Items listed below were postponed for follow-up. The other items on the summary were approved for inclusion on the consent agenda to be presented to the Faculty Senate.

ENCR 312A	Requires clarification of how the course meets the general education criteria for the Expressive Arts perspective
MCLG 155L	The cross listing with LS is postponed pending input from the Chair of Liberal Studies
Classics options program revision	Requires clarification on the total number of credits for each of the three options.
RUSS 307L	Requires clarification of how the course meets the general education criteria for the Literary and Artistic Studies perspective.
PHIL 330	A question was raised regarding creation of a new course that will only be taught in the intersession and summer, by an adjunct instructor. Also the course might be cross listed with LS or RELS.
DRAM/ART 336	Requires clarification of how the course meets the general education criteria for the Historical and Cultural perspective. There is no apparent methodological component.

Given that the General Education Committee has yet to make a recommendation on changes to the general education requirements, Chair Luckowski asked whether ASCRC should place a moratorium on approving new general education courses. Members did not feel such an action was warranted at this time.

Forestry and Biomedical Science Subcommittee
Subcommittee Chair Johnston explained each of the proposals. Items listed below were postponed for follow-up. The others were approved for inclusion on the consent agenda to be presented to the Faculty Senate.

FOR 311	The committee requests that the department consider separate course numbers rather than one course number with 4 sections. Also one of the co-requisites is an experimental (X95) number.
Nursing-program modification	The change will decrease the credits in pharmacology from 6 to 3.
SUR 195T	The request should be to create a new course with the number of 164T.
Radiologic Technology program modification	The copy of the form provided to the subcommittee Chair was incomplete.

Old Business

Professor Campana asked for clarification on how to write the proposed policy on which catalog(s) students could use for graduation. The committee referred him to last week’s minutes.

The committee was adjourned at 4:00 PM.