Undergraduate
Curriculum Committee Minutes
January
28, 2003
Members Present: Ronald Glass, Donald Socha, Terence Kelly, Stephen Mc Dougal, Travis McBride, Robert Klindworth, Adrienne Loh, Andrew Matchett, Dean Wilder, Brian Finnigan, Nick Osborne
Members Absent: Mary Heim, Jamie Lee Bergum
Consultants: Emily Johnson, Amelia Dittman, Carla Burkhardt, John Jax, Diane Schumacher
Guests: Kathryn Hollon, Jan VonRuden, Charles Lee, Steven Senger, Georges Cravins, Carol McCoy, Elizabeth Hitch, Kim Vogt, Eric Kraemer
1. M/S/P to approve minutes of December 10, 2002.
2.
Second Readings:
Proposal #9, ARC 315, Prairie Plains Archaeology, 3 credits, new
course, effective Fall 2003.
Minor changes have
been made to the outline as a result in History reviewing the proposal.
M/S/P to approve the
proposal on the second reading, as recorded in the November 12, 2002 minutes.
Proposal #25, History
Major, electives, effective Fall
2003.
Core Requirements –HIS
210, 230, 240, 250, plus HIS 490.
Public History Minor,
required courses, effective Fall 2003.
(All colleges) – 24
credits. The public history minor
is an interdisciplinary undergraduate curriculum which prepares students to
practice history outside of the academy, in non-teaching capacities, in the
service of select public needs. Required
courses: ENG 307 or 308, POL 211 or MGT 308, HIS 320, 390, 450, and nine credits
from ARC 250, ARC 435, ART 354 and POL 313.
HIS 490, History
Research Seminar, title, course
description, effective Fall 2003. A capstone course in historical research
and writing: Themes and techniques of historical inquiry, research methods, use
of primary sources, interpretation, and composition.
Completion of a significant research and writing project.
Prerequisite: 12 credits in history, excluding current registration.
HIS 307, History with
Documents, course number was HIS
495, 3 credits, effective Fall 2003.
HIS 338, Modern Middle
East, course deletion, effective
Fall 2003.
HIS 357, History of the
Balkans, course deletion, effective
Fall 2003.
The department has
requested that ARC 250 be listed in the Public History Minor as seen above.
M/S/P to approve the
proposal on the second reading.
Proposal #27, GEO 328, Geography of East
and Southeast Asia, title, 3 credits, course description, effective Fall 2003. The
geography of China, Japan, the Koreas and Mongolia; the geography of the 10
states of Southeast Asia, including Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines,
and Burma. Contemporary
geopolitical problems and prospects; East Asia and the world; primordial and
historical factors contributing to identity and conflict.
The course emphasis human-cultural patterns, salient physical
characteristics, and the relationship between these. Offered every third semester.
GEO 318, The Geography
of Latin America and the Caribbean, title,
GEO 318 will replace GEO 316 and GEO 317, course description, effective Fall
2003. The cultural and physical characteristics of Latin America and the
Caribbean region are systematically examined and explained.
This includes an examination of diverse physical and “built”
environments that encompass this region, from the borderlands of northern Mexico
to the Tierra Del Fuego of the south; from the lush tropical environments
of the Amazon, Jamaica and Puerto Rico, to the Altiplano and arid regions of the
west; from disparate lowlands to the startling mountain zones of the Andes.
Indigenous civilizations which developed out of unique arrangements with
these complex environments as well as those imposed since 1500 will be explored
in depth. Students with credit in
HIS 316 and/or 317 may not receive credit in HIS 318.
GEO 316, Geography of
South America, course deletion,
effective Fall 2003.
GEO 317, The Geography
of Middle America, course deletion,
effective Fall 2003.
Georges Cravins
wrote a letter to Eric Kraemer in November regarding these changes and how they
could affect programs in International Studies. Dorothy Zeisler-Vralsted would
like to look into the possibility of these courses being cross-listed with
History. Georges Cravins and
Charles Lee will meet to discuss this. It
was also noted that if a student has failed GEO 316 and/or 317, the student
could take GEO 318 to replace the grade. A
student cannot receive credit for GEO 318 if credit has already been obtained in
GEO 316 or 317.
M/S/P to approve the
proposal on the second reading.
Proposal
#29, Philosophy
Major, description for major,
effective Fall 2003.
Philosophy Major
(All colleges,
excluding Teacher Certification programs) – 30 credits, including PHL 100,
101, 201 or 303, 205, 206, 496, and electives in philosophy.
Majors must take four philosophy courses at the 300/400 level including
PHL 496. No more than six credits
of PHL 300/494/495 shall count towards the major.
PHL 229, Multicultural
Philosophy in the United States, 3
credits, new course, effective Fall 2003. This survey course will examine
philosophical ideas and systems that are generated from a wide range of cultural
traditions found in the United States. The
aim of this search will be to broaden and deepen understanding and appreciation
of the diversities of philosophies in the United States.
Prerequisite: PHL 100. Offered
occasionally.
PHL 230, International
Multicultural Philosophy, title,
instructional pattern, course description, effective Fall 2003. This
survey course will examine philosophical ideas and systems that are generated
from a wide range of cultural traditions world-wide.
The aim of this search will be to broaden and deepen our understanding
and appreciation of the multiplicity of philosophical perspectives which are
part of an increasingly diverse, interconnected, and globalized world.
Prerequisites: PHL 100. PHL
229 strongly suggested. Offered
occasionally.
PHL 310, Metaphysics,
course description, effective Spring 2003. Metaphysics is the science of
what it is to be something. Topics
include: (1) how metaphysics differs from natural science, (2) in what sense is
anything general, universal, particular, continuing, an event, a process, a
substance, a relation, abstract, subjective, or objective, (3) in what ways
possible worlds can differ from this one, (4) what kind of thing could have body
and a mind, (5) what the difference between a thing and its parts in an
arrangement is, (6) what is required fro two seemingly different things to turn
out to be the same thing, (7) how space and time differ from each other and
other things, and (8) what natural laws and numbers are.
Prerequisite: PHL 100. Offered
occasionally.
PHL 331, Philosophy of
Religion, course description,
effective Fall 2003. An examination of religion and religious experience.
Questions considered are: theories of the proper description of God,
arguments for and against the existence of God, theories of the nature of the
soul, arguments for and against the existence of souls and reincarnation, the
role and evidential power of religious experience and organized religion in
justified belief. Prerequisite:
PHL 100. Offered occasionally.
PHL 401, World Ethics,
3 credits, new course, effective Fall 2003. An investigation of major
ethical problems facing the works as a whole from an international perspective,
including world medicine, international economic relations, world environmental
ethics, international individual rights issues, world diversity concerns, and
international conflict and cooperation. Prerequisite: PHL 100 or GEO/POL/ANT/SOC/HIS 202.
Both are highly recommended. Offered
occasionally.
PHL 431, Advanced
Philosophy of Religion, 3 credits,
new course, effective Fall 2003. Selected readings from recent scholarly
journals and Medieval philosophy are the focus of the course and background for
examination of topics such as: What justifies that a human can be God?
Can God make a world permitting possible contradictions such as world in
which there is an unstoppable cannonball and an immovable lamppost? Exactly how do humans, persons and souls differ if they do?
Prerequisites: PHL 101 and PHL 331 strongly recommended.
Offered every fourth semester.
After reviewing the
course descriptions and titles further, the committee feels that the submitted
proposal was appropriate. It was
noted by the department that their field does use this terminology and it
accurately reflects what is being taught in the courses.
The question was raised as to why so many new courses were proposed
without the deletion of others. The
department reported that their current offerings in the catalog have been
offered within the last three years. The
department hopes to lower this number to two years in the future.
The department is also expecting retirements in the future and would
rather wait to delete courses until retirements have taken place and new hires
have been made.
M/S/P to approve the proposal on the second reading.
3. First Readings:
Proposal #30, R-T 310,
Pathophysiology, title,
prerequisites, effective Fall 2003.
Prerequisites: BIO 312,
313 and acceptance into radiation therapy or UW School of Nursing.
Changes made in order to accommodate the nursing students from Madison.
Carla Burkhardt will be handling the registrations for these students.
M/S/P to approve the proposal on the first reading.
4.
Consent Agenda
CLI 390, Quality Systems in the Clinical Laboratory, offered Sem. II; CLI 410, Clinical Hematology, offered Sem. I, effective Fall 2003.
UW-L and UW-Stevens Point will share the lecture component of the
Clinical Laboratory Science Program via distance education.
Therefore, the semester offering needed to be adjusted on CLI 390 and
410.
M/S/P to approve consent agenda item.
ART 352, Medieval Art of the Western World, remove HIS 151 as a prerequisite, effective Fall 2003.
M/S/P to approve consent agenda item.
5.
Old Business
Strategic
Plan
The Strategic Plan was distributed to the committee some time ago.
The Provost noted that the draft that the committee currently has is
outdated and changes have been made. UCC
will wait for the next draft before reviewing again.
Criteria for Proposal Evaluation
Andy Matchett distributed criteria for evaluation of proposals.
The committee agreed that the list would be better in statement form
rather than questions and that the mission
of UWL and the college should be a criterion.
The committee will review this list and email suggestions to Andy.
The list will then be updated and distributed to the committee for
further review. Adrienne Loh will
email Andy with difficult situations that have arisen this year (i.e. designing
courses around particular instructors). Andy
will distribute this list to the committee as well.
The committee should be consistent in how it approaches course revisions,
i.e. is everything up for review or just the proposed revisions?
Method of Notification
It was agreed that the agenda for the meetings will be emailed to the
department chairs and program directors in addition to being posted on the web
and delivered to the committee members. It
was requested that a reminder be sent out to the department chairs and program
directors explaining the change of due date to Wednesday at noon and to ask if
there is anyone else that they feel should be included on the email distribution
list.
6. New Business
Jan VonRuden has met with Laura Nelson regarding Proposal # 13 from Communication Studies. Once they have completed it, Laura will present the changes to the committee.
Jan VonRuden has emailed the departments regarding HIS 151 and 152 changing to HIS 101 and 102. Diane Schumacher has requested that if departments would like to change their areas that are affected by this change, that the department change be presented under consent agenda. The committee agreed that this would save the departments from having to complete LX forms and attend the UCC meeting.
DEAN
APPROVED STUDENT PETITIONS
CBA: BIO 000l–Life Science taken at North Hennepin Community College, to be substituted for BIO 103.
CBA: ENG 324 for ENG 303 to fulfill Gen Ed requirement.
The meeting adjourned at 5:03 p.m. The next UCC meeting is February 11, 2003.
Diane L. Schumacher, UCC Secretary