UNIVERSITY CURRICULUM AND DEGREE COMMITTEE Twelfth Meeting, 2013-2014 Academic Year
Martha Adler, Jennifer Zhao, Jason Liu, Keshav Verde, Karen Thomas-Brown, John Fink, Adnan Shaout, Janice Lewis-Boyd, Elaine Logan, Laura Reynolds, , Mitch Sollenberger, and Cam Amin, Deb Peffer Absent: Roma Heaney, Bradley Pischea, Margaret Rathouz , Alice Xie (alternates with Jason Liu) March 31, 2014 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm IAVS Building (Room 2004)
AGENDA
1. CALL TO ORDER AND ADOPTION OF AGENDA: Meeting called to order at 3:01 pm; the agenda was adopted.
2. CORRECTION AND APPROVAL OF MINUTES
2.1 Minutes of March 17, 2014 Meeting (Attachment): March 17 meeting minutes were approved.
3. ANNOUNCEMENTS
3.1 General Education (Attachment): Thefirst Gen Ed Transition Committee meeting was today, March 31st; the committee approved four courses; one course was sent back; Mitch and Laura conducted the first of three Gen Ed work sessions on March 25 for faculty on how to fill out the electronic forms and to assist with questions regarding Gen Ed.
3.2 Certificate Approval Process (Attachment): formal approval is needed for new certificate programs or certificate programs with a curricular change; existing certificate programs with no curricular change can be submitted directly to UCDC; existing certificate programs need to be approved by September 30th; the process for approval should not be time consuming for existing programs— should include student advising work, curriculum self-study, and program data (the more materials submitted the better); all certificate programs need to ultimately be reviewed by HLC.
4. SUBCOMMITTEE AND OTHER REPORTS
4.1 Graduate Subcommittee: Grad Sub had a discussion on what happens with student academic grievances when unresolved within the unit; the process should be the same for Grad and UG students; we will put this on the agenda for the next UCDC meeting.
4.2 Assessment Subcommittee: the Assessment committee is working on an annual assessment template; the template is in its 4th revision; the template will be integrated into Canvas.
4.3 Online Matters: At the last UCDC meeting, the committee was asked to take the onlinedefinitions back to their units—what did people have to report? CASL recommended the definitions; Council of Deans did not have any concerns either; who holds copyright for an online course? SPG—copyright policy says the course belongs to the university but they give it back to the faculty person who developed the online course; the policy only addresses intellectual property. 5. UNFINISHED BUSINESS
5.1 Campus Policy on the Management of Cross-Listed Courses (Attachment): changes were made to the wording on the policy—little tweaks; suggestion from CASL: allow multiple units to be owners if the course(s) are jointly developed; if you have some kind of agreement you should have some kind of joint responsibility; there should be a MOU for a joint discipline developed— possibly make it a signature line on the course approval; changes to the policy: 1) remove CEHHS from the second paragraph 2) remove items 3 & 4 and keep 1&2 3)maybe add a foot note for those units who do not have disciplines; (Note: Engineering does not have to do anything for existing courses) Mitch will bring back the policy to the UCDC committee after the language is cleaned up. 5.2 Course Delivery Methods: Online, Hybrid, and Face-to-Face Definitions
(Attachment): Feedback from the UCDC committee: CASL is fine with definitions; CEHHS is fine; Engineering is fine; (NOTE: HPS 475 approved for effective term can’t do retro approval—effective term 2014); motion to approve; all in favor; approved.
6. NEW BUSINESS
6.1 College Approved Courses (Attachments) Originating
College/Dept.
/Discipline or Program
Course Name New/Change/
Deactivation
Effective Term for Course CASL/SSCI/WGST Perspectives in Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Studies (WGST 390): motion to approve, all in favor, approved.
New Topics Course F 2014
CECS/ECE/ECE Discrete Math in Computer
Engineering (ECE 276): addpre-req; get rid of co-req; motion to
approve, all in favor; approved.
Course Change F 2014
CECS/ECE/ECE Renewable Electric Power Systems (ECE 4432): change in course description and change pre-req to
ECE 3171; motion to approve; all in favor; approved.
CECS/ECE/ECE Electrical Engineering Design I (ECE 4981): capstone course; students don’t complete the course on time; has been handled by petition; the purpose for giving a “Y” grade is if a student does not complete the course; everyone one agrees that you can use “Y” grade; motion to approve, all in favor, approved.
Course Change F 2014
CECS/ECE/ECE Computer Engineering Design I (ECE 4982):no change; no action
Course Change S 2013 (typo?) CECS/ECE/ECE Electrical Engineering Design II (ECE
4983) no change; no action
Course Change S 2013 (typo?) CECS/ECE/ECE Computer Engineering Design II
(ECE 4984) no change; no action
Course Change S 2013 (typo?) CASL/BHVL/ANTH Engaged Urban Anthropology
(ANTH 390): motion to approve, all in favor; approved.
New Topics Course F 2014
CASL/SSCI/HIST Islamic Civilization: 1500 to Present (HIST 114): curriculum change; no longer needed;motion to approve all in favor; approved.
Deactivation F 2014
CASL/SSCI/HIST Tutorial in Modern History: East-Central European Adventure (HIST 390): this course is for the honor’s program; motion to approve, all in favor, approved.
New Topics Course W 2015
CECS/CIS/CIS Computer Science I (CIS 150): removed particular language to allow future changes in language without changing the catalog; motion to approve, all in favor, approved.
Course Change F 2014
CECS/CIS/CIS Computer Science II (CIS 200): motion to approve, all in favor, approved.
Course Change F 2014
COB/MS/DS Quantitative Modeling and Analysis I (DS 300): remove Calc pre-req; it’s
not required to take this course; motion to approve, all in favor, approved.
CASL/LCC/GER Multiple Course Change Requests (GER 301, 302, 305, 306): course description updated; motion to approve, all in favor, approved.
Course Change Effective dates vary
CASL/LCC/JASS Multiple Course Change Requests (JASS 303, 315, 350): change courses to better reflect the course content and course description; JASS 315 developed as an Academic Service Learning (ASL) course –does this change have to be approved by Carla Vecchiola? Can you have a course be a
permanent service learning course? It implies it will always be a service learning course; Jennifer Zhao will seek clarity on this for JASS 315; JASS 315 tabled;
JASS 303 and 350 approved.
Course Change F and W 2015
CEHHS/EDCA/PDED Preparing for the Next Generation of Science Standards K-12 (PDED 418, 518): CEHHS Curriculum committee has not seen this course approval; required that course approvals go through the chairs of the curriculum committee before going to UCDC; course approval will be sent back to Paul Fossum; tabled.
New Topics Course S 2014
CASL/BHVL/PSYC Self & Identity: Psychological Perspectives (PSYC 428): motion to approve, all in favor, approved.
New Course W 2015
6.2 Writing Certificate Program (Attachments): need to be in system for HLC by September 30th; certificate program should include goals, student work, and assessment; there is no standard credit hour requirement for certificate
vetted by the UCDC; copy your curriculum chair—will ensure that faculty follow up with curriculum chairs; motion to approve, all in favor; approved.
6.3 University of Michigan-Dearborn Policy on Who Holds Copyright on Distance Education (e.g., Online) Content Created by Faculty (Attachment): clarify that the policy of the unit is the policy that should be followed; the policy is tied to the SPG as it relates to copy right and commitment; motion to approve; all in favor; approved.
6.4 COB Addition of ENT 400 to list of classes that count as diversity credit within COB’s Gen Ed Program (Attachments): thisonly impacts COB; changes are unit based until Gen Ed takes effect in 2015; motion to approve, all in favor; approved.
6.5 Supply Chain Management Minor (Attachments): requires 15 credit hours; Jason Liu to send corrected version—some of the titles and course numbers were incorrect; motion to approve minor pending corrected version; all in favor; approved; ENT 400 course motion to approve; approved
6.6 Human Resource Management Minor (Attachments): students want to take minor for their careers; motion to approve, all in favor, approved.
6.7 Pre-Proposal: Political Science Program Changes (Attachments): went through an internal review; had not thought about the major being re-vamped for decades; some demand for specialization in Pol Sci; had a strategy meeting creating a capstone course for new general education; added credits from 33 to 36; this is just a pre-proposal has to go through curriculum committee in CASL. 7. ADJOURNMENT: Meeting adjourned at 4:43pm.
