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: William
L. Tietjen
Interim Vice President for Academic Affairs
SUBJECT: General Faculty Meeting
DATE: April 23, 2008
AGENDA
General
Faculty Meeting
Wednesday,
April 30, 2008 10:00 A.M.
1. Call
to Order
2. Approval
of Minutes of November 30, 2007
3. Remarks
by the President
4. 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
5. New Business
A. Academic Proposals
(1)
(a) Dramatic
Arts
Substantive Change Program - Approved by the Faculty Senate
Revisions in Area F and Major core to include
newly created courses, providing for concentrations in Design and
Media, as well as performance
(b) Visual
Arts
1)
Substantive Change Program - Approved by the
Faculty Senate
The deletion of courses in Graphic Design,
name change in area from Graphic Design to Digital Media, and addition of new
course in Digital media effects changes upon our minor in visual arts that
require committee approval.
2)
Substantive Change Program - Approved by the Faculty Senate
The
deletion of courses in Graphic Design, name change in area from
Graphic Design to Digital Media, and addition
of new course in Digital
media
effects changes upon our BFA program that require committee
approval.
3) Supstantive Change Program - Approved by
the Faculty Senate
The
deletion of courses in Graphic Design, name change in area from
Graphic
Design to digital media, and addition of new course in Digital
media effects changes upon our BA in
visual arts program that require
committee
approval.
(c) Geology and Physics
1) Addition Other New Course;
Add to Area D Approved by
the Faculty Senate
GEOL
1142 The Geology of Georgia (3 hours credit)
A new elective course, GEOL 1142 (The
Geology of Georgia), is being added to
the curriculum. This course will act as
a general elective within Area D of the curriculum and would integrate lecture,
lab and field work in a three-credit geology course. We are hoping to use this course to identify
students that have a strong desire to learn geology and perhaps become
majors.
2) Substantive Change Program Changes to
Geology Minor Approved by the
Faculty Senate
We propose to alter the Geology Minor to
reflect changes in our BS Degree program:
1) the name change of GEOL 1122
to Earth History and Global Change; (2)
the removal of GEOL 3131, GEOL 4311 and GEOL 4411, as these courses will
no longer be taught; and 3) the addition
of GEOL 3511, GEOL 4421, GEOL 4711, GEOL 4931 and GEOL 4951 to the list of
potential elective courses for the minor, as these courses are either new
courses and/or required courses in the revised BS program, and as such will be
taught on a regular basis.
3) Substantive Change Program Approved by
the Faculty Senate
We have reorganized the curriculum for the
BS in Geology by doing the following:
changing the Geology Core by (1)
adding GEOL 4931 (Field Methods) to act as a capstone course for our
curriculum; (2) removing GEOL 4311 (Sedimentary Petrology) and GEOL 4411
(Stratigraphy) and replacing them with a single course, (3) GEOL 4421
(Sedimentary Geology) to streamline the program. In addition, we have built two options (4)
into our program; (A) Traditional Geology and (B) Earth and Environmental
Science Education. The new options add
flexibility to our program and allow students selecting the second option to be
better prepared to become educators through the Teacher Alternative Preparation
Program (TAPP).
4) Addition Course Approved by the
Faculty Senate
A new required course for majors, GEOL
4421 (Sedimentary Geology), is being added to substitute for two required
courses that currently cover the same material.
The department finds it necessary to do this to address a couple of
scheduling problems: 1) a streamlining
of students schedule of courses and 2) adjusting the upper
division/introductory load of the faculty member.
(d)
History & Political Science
1) Substantive Change Program Approved by the Faculty Senate
Add one hour to the Free Electives
requirement (from 6 hours to 7). Since
59 hours of coursework are required in the major area, that currently leaves
the student one hour short of the minimum 120 hours needed to graduate
2) Substantive Change Program Approved by the Faculty Senate
Revision of the History Minor Curriculum
Sheet
(2)
Substantive Change Program Approved
by the Faculty Senate
Bachelor of Business Administration in Human
Resource Management
Remove MGNT 3610, Production and Operations
Management, from the Major Requirement Area.
Replace MGNT 3670, Introduction to Human Resource Management, in the
Major Requirement Area
(3) School of Computing and Mathematics
a)
Substantive Change Course Approved by the Faculty Senate
CIS 1000 Computer Applications
Make
the CIS 1000 Computer Applications course a three-hour course instead of two hours.
b)
Substantive Change Course Approved by the Faculty Senate
Change Course Name from CSCI 4920 to CSCI
2920 Ethics in the
Computing Profession 1 credit hour
Change
course name from CSCI 4920 Computer Ethics to CSCI 2920 Ethics in the Computing Profession
c)
Addition Course Approved by the Faculty Senate
BSIT / CIS 3000 Internet Technologies, 3
hrs
Add a new course, CIS 3000 Internet Technologies, to the BS IT
curriculum
d)
Substantive Change Program Approved by the Faculty Senate
Change
the BS IT curriculum to implement the following alterations:
replacement of the CIS 2200 Internet
Technologies I (1 hr) and CIS 2200 internet Technologies II (1hr) courses by a
new CIS 3000 Internet
Technologies (3 hrs) course; moving a
course CSCI 2920 Ethics in Comp Profession from the major core area to the area
F
e) Substantive Change Program Approved by
the Faculty Senate
BS in Information Technology (Multimedia
Option)
Add
a new multimedia option to the BS in IT program
f) Substantive
Change Program Approved by the Faculty Senate
Create New Option Professional Writing
for BS (Information Technology)
Create
a Professional Writing option in the BS IT program
g) Substantive Change Program - Approved by
the Faculty Senate
Add to the BS CS curriculum a new elective
course, CIS 3000 Internet
Technologies (3hrs), and change a course number (Ethics in Comp
Profession) from CSCI 4920 to CSCI 2920
h)
Substantive Change Other - Certificate - Approved by the Faculty
Senate
Revision of the Web
Certificate Curriculum
(4)
a)
Addition Program Approved by the Facutly Senate
Education Specialist Program (EDS) in
Learning and Leading/30 sh
The proposed program has
a professional core component as well as three tracks: Early Childhood Education, Special Education,
and General Content Education. The proposed
program will replace all other EdS programs currently offered (ECE and MGE).
b)
Substantive Change Program Approved by the Faculty Senate
Specialist in Education in Learning and
Leading 30 semester hours credit (see att)
The requirements for
admission to the Specialist in Education program are proposed to be changed as
follows:
1. Add Eligibility for Clear Renewable Georgia
T-5 teaching certificate
2. Change A minimum of 3.00 overall grade
point average from the official final transcript(s)
3. Delete A minimum score of 408 on the MAT or
a minimum score or a total of 900 on the GRE
4. Change three letters of recommendation to two
confidential Administrative Recommendation forms
c) Substantive Change Program
Approved by the Faculty Senate
Master of Education in Curriculum and
Instruction 36 semester hours credit
(see att)
The requirements for
admission to the Master of Education program to be changed as follows:
1. Add Eligibility for Clear, Renewable
Georgia T-4 teaching certification
2. Delete A minimum score of 402 on the MAT or
a minimum score of 350 on each of the Verbal and Quantitative sub tests with
a minimum of 800 on the GRE
3. Change three letters of recommendation to two
confidential Administrative Recommendation forms
4. Delete Conditional Admission
d) Addition Program Approved by the
Faculty Senate
Master
of Education (MEd) in Curriculum and Instruction/36 sh
The proposed program has
a professional core component as well as three tracks: Early Childhood Education, Special Education,
and General Content Education. The
proposed program will replace all other MEd programs currently offered: Early Childhood Education, Health and
Physical Education, Middle Grades Education,
(5) James E. Carter Library
Addition Course Approved by the Faculty Senate
LIBR 1101 Foundations of
Information Literacy (1credit hour)
As a new course, Foundations of Information
Literacy will provide a 1 hour credit course for the identified need in Area B
of the Core Curriculum. The course will
emphasize Information Literacy theory and its importance as a lifelong learning
skill. The knowledge, analytical skills,
and competencies gained through participation in the course will provide students
with a basis for academic success in all disciplines.
(6)
a)
Submission for File Program BSN Program Approved by the
Faculty Senate
Renumbering of two courses so that
courses flow in the sequential order to demonstrate the order in which a
student would take the courses. We are
proposing the following: Current NURS
3150 Human Pathophysiology be changed to NURS 3005 Human Pathophysiology and
current NURS 3000 Health Promotion be changed to NURS 3050 Health
Promotion. The current numbering of these
courses is confusing to students and accreditation visitors.
b) Submission for File Program BSN Program
Approved by the
Faculty Senate
Change PSYC 2103 to a co-requisite for
NURS 2700 Clinical Therapeutics.
Currently PSYC 2103 is a pre-requisite.
(7) Graduate Affairs Committee
Substantive Change Other- Faculty Handbook Approved by the
Faculty Senate
Change
in graduate faculty definition.
Graduate faculty are those members of the Corps of Instruction who hold
the terminal degree in the teaching discipline or a related discipline or must
hold a masters degree in the teaching discipline with a terminal degree in a
related discipline. Deletion:
have been designated by their peers as
being exemplary in the quality of their teaching and scholarship and have been
selected to mentor students working on the post-graduate level and supervise
graduate research. To be eligible for
designation as graduate faculty, a faculty member must
B. Election of Two Faculty to Serve on USG Core
Curriculum Initiative
Committee Remarks by Gary
Kline
C. Mission Statement for Advisement Approved
by the Faculty Senate
D. Remarks by Gary Kline - University System
of Georgia Faculty Council Approved
by the Faculty Senate
E. Faculty
Guidelines for Violence Approved by the Faculty Senate
F. Annual
Training of Employees and Students at GSW Approved by the Faculty
Senate
G. Addition
to Faculty Handbook - Academic Freedom
Approved by the Faculty
Senate
H. Students
Rights and Responsibilities Approved by the Faculty Senate
I. Faculty Handbook Revisions Policy Approved
by the Faculty Senate
J. Graduate Faculty Applications
6. Announcements
7. Adjourn