GEORGIA
SOUTHWESTERN Office of
Academic Affairs
S T A T E U N I V E R S I T Y
M E M O R A N D U M
TO: All Faculty
FROM: Brian U. Adler
Vice
President for Academic Affairs
SUBJECT:
General Faculty Meeting
DATE: April
28, 2009
AGENDA
General
Faculty Meeting
Friday,
May 1, 2009 10:00 A.M.
1. Call to Order
2. Approval of Minutes of
December 5, 2008
3. Remarks by the President
4. Remarks from the VPAA/Dean of Faculty by Elizabeth Gurnack
5. Reports by Committees:
Academic Affairs
Academic Grievances
Athletics
Business and Finance
Faculty Affairs
Graduate Affairs
Institutional Research
Institutional Review Board
Instructional Technology
Scholarships & Financial Aid
Student Affairs
University and Alumni Relations
6. New Business
A. Academic Proposals
(1)
(a)
English and Modern Languages
(1) Addition Course- Approved by the
Faculty Senate
ENGL 2140 The philosophical and
psychological nature of mythology,
dimensions
of mythology in literature with emphasis on selected literary
Requiring this new course of all English majors prior to enrolling
in upper division English classes.
(2) Addition Course- Approved by the
Faculty Senate
ENGL 4965 Senior
Capstone Seminar for majors in the final semester of study (2-0-2).
Conflate
Colloquium I and II. Creating
one 2 hour course.
(3) Substantive Change
Program - Approved by the Faculty Senate
Establishment of a Core English Curriculum for BA Degree.
The external reviewer
for last years CPR recommended that the BA in English Program should develop a
shared group of courses required of all majors to give more continuity to the
program and to help with issues of course rotation in a relatively small
program. The BA in English Program will
be restructured to establish a core of seven classes that all students in the
Literature and the Professional writing tracks will be required to take. Many of these courses are also part of the
teacher certification track.
(4) Substantive Change
Program - Approved
by the Faculty Senate
Additions to and deletions from the BA in
English with Teacher Certification program
The department of
English and Modern Languages proposes to change by adding a course to Area F
and by replacing two one-hour major courses with a single two-hour course. These changes will not change the number of
hours in the program.
(5) Substantive Change Program
- Approved
by the Faculty Senate
The department of
English and Modern Languages proposed to make changes to its minor programs to
bring them in line with the changes made to the BA program in English. Specifically, the two minor programs in literature
and Professional Writing will be combined into a single minor in English with a
small number of core classes and separate tracks in literature and in
professional writing. This change is
also necessitated by the deletion of several courses that were part of the
minor in professional writing.
(b) Music
(1) Substantive Change Course- Approved by
the Faculty Senate
MUSC 3103 Instrumental Music in the Secondary School (3-4-3).
As part of the
application with the PSC Professional Standards Commission to add Teacher
Certification to the BA Music degree
program, MUSC 3093 and MUSC 3103 have been proposed as 3 hour courses
(currently 2 hours) in order to facilitate adequate field experience hours and
also to coincide with other USG institutions.
(2) Substantive Change Course- Approved by
the Faculty Senate
MUSC 3093 Choral Music in the
Secondary School (3-4-3)
As
part of the application with the PSC Professional Standards Commission to add
Teacher Certification to the BA Music degree program, MUSC 3093 and MUSC 3103
have been proposed as 3 hour courses (currently 2 hours) in order to facilitate
adequate field experience hours and also to coincide with other USG
institutions.
(3) Substantive
Change Program - Approved
by the Faculty Senate
BA Music with Teacher Certification
An updated curriculum sheet which has been submitted to the PSC for
approval. The PSC will conduct a
site visit in Fall 2009 and has given permission to
admit students to the program.
(c) Deletion Program - Approved by the
Faculty Senate
The program has never awarded a certificate, the faculty
who conceived and served the program are no longer at GSW and the classes that
make up the curriculum are only rarely, if ever, taught.
(2)
Substantive Change Program Approved by the Faculty Senate
Substitution of Accounting
degree requirements as described below:
Change
the requirement of ACCT 4280 Contemporary Issues in Accounting
to:
Choose
one of the following;
ACCT
4280 Contemporary Issues in Accounting
ACCT
4240 Not-for-Profit Accounting
ACCT
4235 Advanced Income Tax Accounting or approved 4000 level accounting course
(3) School of Computing and Mathematics
(a) Department
of Computer Science
(1) Addition Program Approved by the
Faculty Senate
BSIT External Stand
Alone (Letter of Intent)
The
Computer Science Department would like to add an Online BS in Information
Technology program. This program will be
particularly attractive to students from two-year and technical colleges, which
signed the 2 + 2 agreements in computing fields with GSW.
(2) Substantive Change Program Approved
by the Faculty
Senate
Bachelor of Information Technology
(Professional Writing
The
English Department deleted some courses that are part of the BS IT
(Professional Writing Option) curriculum.
This proposal is to adjust to these changes.
(3) Substantive Change
Other Approved by the Faculty Senate
Revision
of the Web Design Certificate Curriculum
(4) Addition
Other Approved by the Faculty Senate and Graduate Faculty
To
add a policy on three year degrees from
MOU
with
(b) Department of Mathematics
Substantive Change Program - Approved by
the Faculty Senate
BS in Math with Option in Industrial
Math, and BS in Mathematics
Move
CSCI 1302 from Major Requirements to Area F in the spot occupied by MATH 2222,
and move MATH 2222 to the spot formerly occupied by CSCI 1302. This shift does not change the requirements
for either degree, but does make it possible for students wishing to minor in
Computer Science to count both CSCI 1301 and 1302 toward the minor. This should encourage students in both math
degree programs to consider Computer Science as a viable minor. (Notice that since both courses are 4 credits, the Core and Major/Elective Requirement
totals will be unchanged.)
(4)
(a) Addition Other Approved by the Faculty
Senate
This is a proposal to
add an Education Minor. The courses in
the Education Minor consist of the 6 existing courses EDUC 2110
Investigating Issues in Ed, EDUC 2120 Exploring Div in Ed, EDUC 2130
Exploring Learning and Teaching, EDSP 3000 The Exceptional Student, EDUC 3200
Instructional Tech-Media, and EDUC 3330 The Art and Science of
Teaching. The minor in education does
not lead to teacher certification.
(b) Department of Health and Human Performance
Substantive Change Program Approved by the Faculty Senate
BSEd
HPE-Exercise Science/Wellness Concentration
The
Department of Health and Human Performance is proposing a curriculum revision
for the BSEd HPE-Exercise Science/Wellness concentration
(5)
Addition Other Approved by the Faculty
Senate
To
offer an educational program of study track in the GSW School of Nursing that focuses on the mobility of the
Licensed Practical nurse (LPN) to study for and
attain a BSN degree. Narrative for
program proposal and curriculum sheet
attached.
B. Graduate Affairs
(1) Substantive
Change Program Approved by the Faculty Senate
MS Environmental Science and Policy
(Letter of Intent)
We propose a new graduate program: MS in Environmental Science and Policy. This program will provide essential
experience and training required for successful careers in the field of environmental
science and policy.
(2) Addition
Program - Approved
by the Faculty Senate
Master
of Arts English: Critical Studies in
Literacy and Communication (Letter of Intent)
The proposed program
tackles the explosion of literacies in our world and
anticipates students need to learn and use these multiple literacies
as each of the distinctive modes of communication develop. Such communication in diverse modes is
essential to successful careers, leadership roles, productive citizenship, and
a satisfying quality of life. Our
proposed degree invites students from all disciplines to engage in rigorous
critique of todays rhetorical modes.
(3) Addition
Course Approved by the Faculty Senate
BUSA
6160 Managerial Economics
Add BUSA 6160 Managerial Economics to
the requirements for the Master of Business Administration degree.
(4) Substantive Change Program Approved
by the Faculty Senate
Master
of Business Administration
The
following changes are recommended to the Master of Business
Administration degree
requirements:
Change the
total number of required hours from 36 to 30
Change the
number of elective hours from 12 to 6
Delete
BUSA 6110 - Ethics from the list of required courses
Add BUSA
6160 Managerial Economics to the list of required
courses
(5)
Graduate Faculty Applications Approved by Graduate Affairs and
Faculty
Senate
John Stroyls (not yet considered by the Faculty Senate)
C. Changes in Faculty Handbook Approved
by Faculty Senate
S. Policies and
Procedures of the Committee on Academic Affairs
Revisions to the Faculty
Handbook from Faculty Affairs
7. Announcements
8. Adjourn