April 20, 2020

UUCC Minutes 04-20-2020

Via Zoom virtual meeting

Attending: Michael Saar, Library Services; James Armacost, Ashwini Kucknoor, Barbara Hernandez, Mamta Singh, Education and Human Development; Tracy Benson, Alberto Marquez, Engineering, Millicent Musyoka, Fine Arts and Communication, Computer Science Melissa Riley, Faculty Senate Rep, Garrick Harden, A&S, Judy Smith, Arts & Sciences, Tracy Benson, Engineering, Stefan Andrei, CID rep, Randall Yoder, Alberto Marquez,  Zanthia Smith,

Via Proxy: Katey McCall, SGA, Sara Hillin

Absent:

Ex-Officio: James Nelson, A&S CC Chair, Craig Escamilla, Acting Exec Dir Student Achievement & Retention; Liv Haselbach, Engineering CC Chair, Tony Mulvaney, COB, Theresa Hefner-Babb,

Ex-Officio Absent: Belinda Lopez, Ed and Human Dev CC Chair, Kurt Dryhaug, Fine Arts and Comm, CC Chair, Kayla Halloway

Executive Associate Academic Affairs:

Guests:

Presiding: Michael Saar

Call to Order:  3:30

Michael Saar opened the meeting.

Approval of Minutes: Minutes from Mar 9, 2020.

Millicent Musyoka motioned to approve the minutes with minor changes, James Nelson seconded it, and the motion was approved.

It was decided that the voting would be done using chat option of zoom, before the business commenced.

Items on the agenda:

• COSC 1324: Michael Saar talked about the task of increasing the core options, and read out all the courses that are the proposed courses. He also mentioned that minutes before today’s meeting he had received an email from the Dean of College of Fine Arts and Communication stating the objections to include COSC1324 as a core course, and read out the email. The details and the reasons prompting the objection are in the email. Stefan Andrei asked for the email from the Dean to be sent to him. Kurt Dryhaug said that this an applied course, and that it was never approved as core. Stefan Andrei said that the game development program inclusion in Lamar core will give more visibility, and that game development is not computer programming course. Millicent Musyoka asked what if another student comes with this course as a transfer credit. Theresa Heffner-Babb answered saying that we have to accept it if the student has already had it as part of a core. Stefan Andrei said that programming is removed from this course, and it is only for arts students. Theresa Heffner-Babb said that it could be added as a component course, but not a core course. She also added that she had looked up the handbook, and feels that this could have a negative effect on accreditation, and so she suggested to table this class for now, and revisit it later next year. Kurt Dryhaug agreed with Theresa Heffner-Babb.

Michael Saar said that we could form a motion, and give the recommendation of the curriculum council. Choices are, to approve as is, to reject as is, or approve the core with exception of COSC1324 until further discussions.

• Business Analytics (items 4and 50 have been tabled until next meeting.
• Business Statistics BUSI2305: Missing max-repeat hours, it should be zero. Tony Mulvaney said that this is designed to align business core with the field of study curriculum, and if also considered for the core curriculum, it could be iterated later.

• BUSI 3300: presented earlier, returned to department with the concern of lack of content for increase in the course level. The new document has a list of changes and additions of content to improve the class, have included social responsibilities, games played as teams, etc. which has enhanced the rigor, as explained by Tony Mulvaney. James Nelson mentioned that we should include the minimum grade requirement to clarify. Michael mentioned that the pre-requisite is BUSI3300 and Tony Mulvaney said that it is not, but instead the pre-requisite is BULW1370, and should be corrected on the syllabus.

• CHEN 4360: max repeat hours missing, missing ISBN for textbook. Tracy Benson said that the pre-req for this course in Electrical Engineering was removed, and hence this change for the CHEN4360.

Closing Remarks: Michael Saar thanked Tony Mulvaney for hosting today’s Zoom meeting and said that the next meeting will be on May 18^th, June 11 is the deadline for the August Board meeting.

Next Meeting –May 18th

Adjourn: Motion to Adjourn at 4.21 pm by Millicent Musyoka; Barbara Hernandez seconded, and the meeting was adjourned.

Respectfully submitted: Ashwini Kucknoor, Biology