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Faculty Senate

Curricular Affairs Committee

Consent Agenda items are labeled with a C. Any member can request that a consent item be discussed.

A.     College of Human Sciences and Services (enclosure)

School of Education

Change requirements for students in certificate programs (enclosure)

B.     College of Arts and Sciences (Series B No.6 - January 26. 2005 materials enclosed with March 7, 2005 Agenda)

Film Studies Program [Item II p. 3]

Change in name of program

C.    College of Engineering (Memorandum dated February 14, 2005 and enclosures included with March 7, 2005 Agenda)  

1.     Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (additional materials enclosed)

a. Addition of ELE 207 and ELE 208

C     b.    Changes in title, description, credits, method of instruction  and/or prerequisite for the following courses:

ELE 212, 305, 306, 343, 306, 343, 405* and 408*

   c.    Change in curricular requirements for the following programs:

1) Biomedical Engineering
2) Computer Engineering
3) Electrical Engineering

3.    Department of Ocean Engineering (additional materials to be distributed)

 a. Addition of OCE 205, 206, and 360

b.     Change in curriculum requirements for B. s. in Ocean Engineering

A.    College of Business Administration - Temporary Courses (to be distributed)

1.    BUS 475X*

2.     FIN 431X*  

[These courses will be included in the March 31 edition of the Temporary Course Newsletter and will require a seven-day period for comments before action can be taken by the CAG]  

B.    College of the Environment and Life Sciences

Department of Natural Resources Science (enclosure)

Addition of Minors:  

1)    GIS and Remote Sensing

2)     Soil Environmental Science

3)     Wildlife and Conservation Biology

C.     College of Human Science and Services (Memorandum from Dean Horm dated February 25, 2005 and related materials enclosed)

Department of Textiles, Fashion Merchandising and Design

Change in number, level, title, description, prerequisite etc. for TMD 340*

D.     Issues of Concern to Enrollment Services relative to e-campus

1.    Prerequisites:

a.     Departments must clarify "or" & "and."
b.     Term "or equivalent" seems to require a list of equivalent courses. How can we help the departments and Enrollment Services resolve this problem?

2.     Topics Courses: A maximum number is required. Not all academic departments state a maximum in their course descriptions.

E.     Review of "Method of Instruction" (enclosure)

F.    Policy with regard to restricting seats in courses to majors (e- mail message from Interim Vice Provost Swift enclosed)