Meeting Minutes UAS Undergraduate Curriculum Committee October 16, 2015 Members in Attendance: C. Hay-Jahans, Chair X R. Brewer, Career Ed X A. Jones, Education X M. Trafton, Humanities X C. Hassler, Library X J. Blanchard, Management X H. Pearson, Natural Science X B. Urquhart, Social Science X A. Ziegler, Ketchikan X J. Martin, Sitka X B. Hegel, Registrar s Office X J. Crichton, Registrar s Office X J. Henry (recorder) X Glenn Wright X (visitor) Chair C. Hay-Jahans called the meeting to order at 3:01pm in the Novatney conference room. Agenda: (tape count 0:00) A. Jones moved to approve the agenda. C. Hassler seconded. The agenda was approved as presented without Minutes from 9-18-15: (tape count 0:48) Draft minutes from the last meeting are posted on the shared drive at \\berling)\ay 14-15\Curriculum Committee\Minutes. C. Hassler moved to approve the minutes from 9/18/15. A. Jones & B. Urquhart seconded. The minutes of the meeting were approved as presented without First Reading: (tape count 1:54) 16-04 BA Elementary Education Category B Curriculum Change (tape count 4:18) The proposal raises admission GPA from 2.75 to 3.00 and proposes a change to catalog text which combines admission requirements #5 and #6 in into one requirement. B. Urquhart moved to pass first reading. M. Trafton seconded. The motion passed first reading without 16-05 ANS 200 Introduction to Alaska Native Studies Category A New Course Proposal (tape count 6:25) In addition to potentially serving as a requirement for the BLA, this course will also fulfill a cultural diversity option in the BLA. This course is intended to eventually fulfill an Alaska Native or Multicultural Education course for Alaska teacher certification purposes to do this it would need to be DEED approved. A minor change will follow to replace ANTH 200.
The designator ANS does not yet exist in the UAS catalog, but does exist at UAF and has been offered at UAS as special topics. It was noted that the first line of rationale contained a grammatical error and needed to be restructured and the course description needs work. The last SLO needs to be refined, it is not measureable. Urquhart agreed to contact L. Twitchell to make the necessary changes to SLO s. The requested changes will need to be submitted one week before the next meeting. Subject to edits in the rationale, improved course description, and a fixed final SLO; B. Urquhart moved to pass first reading. M. Trafton seconded. The motion conditionally passed first reading without 16-06 BA Social Science Category A Curriculum Change (tape count 21:01) The proposal changes all subject designators from Government (GOVT) to Political Science (PS) to conform with UAA and UAF, and to change the BA Social Science primary and secondary Government concentrations to Political Science concentrations. B. Urquhart moved to pass first reading. C. Hassler seconded. The motion passed first reading without 16-07 ANS 460 ANCSA & Tribal Governance Category A New Course Proposal (tape count 23:54) This proposal can be passed conditional to ANS 200 being revised as requested. It was noted that the prerequisites needed and changed to or. Glenn agreed to revisit the prerequisites. It was noted the last sentence of the rationale needed to be re-written or taken out. Line 3 of the course description needs to be more definitive, such as this class explores. All references to GOVT need to be changed to PS. It was noted that the SLOs needed to be completely reworked, B. Urquhart will give suggested revisions and work with the proposers to fix these. Glenn agreed to rework the course description and e-mail to Barbara. Alaska Native Studies and Languages needs to be changed to Alaska Native Languages and Studies to match the course designator. It was asked that the acronym ANCSA would be spelled out in the course description. H. Pearson moved to pass first reading subject to all changes being made. A. Jones seconded. The motion passed first reading without 16-08 BA Social Science Category A Curriculum Change (tape count 40:45) The proposal seeks to define the role of ANS 460 (Proposal 16-07) in the BLA Alaska Native Languages and Studies emphasis area and minor, and in the degree requirements for the BA Social Science primary and secondary emphasis in Government/Political Science. It was noted that references to GOVT should be changed to PS. Referenced course numbers need to have a leading S to designate Southeast. This is subject to the conditional approvals of 16-05 & 16-07. B. Urquhart moved to pass first reading subject to indicated changes. H. Pearson & R. Brewer seconded. The motion passed first reading without
16-09 BA Social Science Category A Curriculum Change (tape count 45:11) The proposal will remove the GER GOVT 230/PS 230 from UAS general education requirements and replace it with GOVT 202/PS 202. It was noted that it is not common to change out GER s on a regular basis. It was noted that Comparative Politics is a GER at UAA and therefore is consistent with other MAU s. B. Urquhart moved to pass first reading. A. Jones seconded. The motion passed first reading without 16-19 BA Social Science Category B Curriculum Change (tape count 53:44) The proposal will change language to allow American Sign Language to be used as a world language requirement for BA Social Science. It was noted that ASL is not taught at UAS, therefore this proposal is primarily for students who have taken ASL in the past and have transferred ASL course be accepted for the language requirement. A. Jones moved to pass first reading. H. Pearson seconded. The motion passed first reading without 16-20 PS 351 Political Sociology Category B New Course Proposal (tape count 58:46) The proposal adds Political Sociology as a cross listed (PS 351 & SOC 351) new course and will satisfy upper division requirements for the BLA and BA Social Sciences degrees. This was reviewed simultaneously with proposal 16-25. It was noted that the wording should mention this will be cross listed in the course description with SOC 351. It was noted there needed to be some punctuation changes in the last sentence of course description. 16-25 SOC 351 Political Sociology Category B New Course Proposal (tape count 59:50) The new course is proposed to fill a need for an additional upper division GOVT/PS and SOC special topics/current issues course. This was reviewed simultaneously with 16-20. It was noted that the wording should mention this will be cross listed in the course description with PS 351. A. Jones moved to pass first reading of 16-20 & 16-25 subject to fixed course description. M. Trafton seconded. The motions passed first reading without 16-21 PS 458 Environmental Politics Category B New Course Proposal (tape count 1:08:47) After being offered as a well-attended special topics course for two semesters, the proposal adds Environmental Politics as a permanent course offering. It will be incorporated into Outdoor Studies certificate and BLA course requirements. It was noted that the course description needed revising, and a revised course description was provided by the registrar s office and accepted by the committee. It was also noted that the SLO s need revising. There was a question as to the term rational person but it was explained that this refers to a specific social science term meaning someone who uses the rational model. B. Urquhart agreed to help proposer with revision of SLO s. C. Hassler moved to pass first reading accepting new course description and subject to revised SLO s. H. Pearson seconded. The motion passed first reading without
16-22 PS 467 Latin American Politics Category B New Course Proposal (tape count 1:15:45) After being offered as a special topics course several times, PS 467 is being proposed as a regular course offering. It was noted that the course description needed revision. It was noted that there were three very detailed sentences that need to be moved to the syllabus and left out of the course description, the course description needed to be more general. The committee suggested that 1, 2, 3 be taken out, as it will not read well in the new catalog format. Glenn agreed to revise the course description. B. Urquhart will assist with revision of learning outcomes. B. Urquhart moved to pass first reading subject to revisions of course description and SLO s. A. Jones seconded. The motion passed first reading without 16-23 SOC 305 Sociology of Food Category B New Course Proposal (tape count 1:23:00) After being offered twice as a well-attended current issues course, the proposal seeks to make SOC 305 a permanent course offering and will satisfy upper division SOC requirements for the BLA and BA Social Science degrees. The first sentence of the course description was disputed, however it was determined that it aligned with the intent of the proposer. An editable version of the PDF needs to be submitted. Also (3+0) will be added to the credit requirements. B. Urquhart moved to pass first reading subject to receipt of an editable pdf. A. Jones seconded. The motion passed first reading without 16-24 SOC 345 Education and Society Category B New Course Proposal (tape count 1:33:12) After being offered twice as a well-attended special topics course, the proposal seeks to make SOC 345 a regular course offering and is planned to be used as a current issues course in fall 2016. It was noted that this course was previously deleted out of the database. The total number of contact hours was corrected to 39. M. Trafton moved to pass first reading. A. Jones seconded. The motion passed first reading without 16-26 SOC 380 Social Movements Category B New Course Proposal (tape count 1:37:13) After being offered twice as a full-enrollment special topics course, the proposal adds SOC 380 as a regular course offering that will satisfy upper-division SOC elective for BLA and BA Social Science degrees. The proposer asked for an addition, under course outline there should be an additional line under Women s Lib that says labor movements & worker s rights which will add an additional 3 contact hours to total 37.5 contact hours. (3+0) needs to be added to the credits at the top of the proposal. It was noted that an editable PDF needs to be submitted. S needed to be added before course number 380 to designate as a Southeast course. B. Urquhart moved to pass first reading subject to receipt of an editable pdf. M. Trafton and C. Hassler seconded. The motion passed first reading without
16-27 ENVS 302 Glaciology Category B New Course Proposal (tape count 1:40:55) This course will replace GEOL 310 Glaciation and Climate Change and will serve as an elective for BS Environmental Science and BS Geography. There was a question as to the clarity of the prerequisites, it was determined MATH S152 would need an and before it. H. Pearson agreed to clarify the prerequisites before second reading. Minor grammatical errors were fixed during the meeting. H. Pearson moved to pass first reading subject to verification of the prerequisites and grammatical changes. A. Jones seconded. The motion passed first reading without 16-28 BS Environmental Science Category B Curriculum Change (tape count 1:47:10) Although the total number of required credits will remain the same, the proposal seeks to reduce the number of major requirements from 48 to 38 credits, introduce two new concentration areas, require 8 Quantitative and Spatial Analysis credits, remove 20 credits of Breadth Requirements, and change electives from 12 to 20 credits. These changes are result of a recent Environmental Sciences Program Review. There were questions about the course number 375 and whether this is always a special topics course that includes specific topics related to a specific program or if it should be broadened to include all topics in ENVS. H. Pearson agreed to go back to the proposer and clarify some of the committee s questions. It will be further discussed at next meeting. Upper Division Student Learning Outcomes (tape count 1:14:45) It was decided that SLO s would be left for next week. It was unanimously decided to strike #5 from the agenda. Adjourn (tape count 1:58:40) The meeting was adjourned at 5:00 pm. Next Meeting Date Friday, November 20, 2015 at 3:00-5:00pm