Meeting of the Faculty Senate
Approved Minutes
October 26, 2016
The meeting was called to order at 12:25 p.m.
- A motion was made to approve the minutes of September 21, 2016. The motion was approved unanimously by voice vote.
- Mike Palis reported that the new General Education requirements will go into effect for all three RUC schools in Fall 2017, with the Course Scheduling System revised accordingly. Only incoming first-year students in Fall 2017 will be subject to the new requirements; the requirements will not apply to transfer students until Fall 2018. As for current students, they will be able to choose whether to follow the current or new requirements. The Gen Ed website is currently being developed by registrar Terri Cristofaro. Mike asked that we provide Terri with feedback before the site goes live.
Mike also let the Senate know that Block Scheduling will go into effect in Fall 2017. He explained that RUC’s growth, a result of our Bridging the Gap program, has made changes in classroom use and classroom times necessary. As he put it, “We have to do this.” For example, at present our meeting patterns don’t allow for three-hour labs. They also won’t provide sufficient time for students to get to and from their classes when our campus expands to include the new Science and Nursing building going up at Fifth and Federal and our new Joint Health Sciences Center.
Courses taught “by arrangement” will no longer be listed in the CSS, but chairs can work with the Registrar to find open classrooms. In response to a question about courses with outside lab components that involve time outside school, Mike agreed to check with the Registrar about the best way to proceed.
Training sessions will be available for department chairs, UPCs, and other course schedulers in November. There will also be a Scheduling Committee of associate deans, as well as a Block Scheduling website that will soon go live.
- Julie Still, on behalf of the Academic Policy Committee, presented the following courses for approval. Voting record is as follows: All ayes, except as noted.
|
Dept |
Course # |
Course Title |
Credit Value |
New/ Revision |
Aye Vote |
Nay Vote |
Abstention Vote |
|
Fine Arts |
50:700:131 |
Singing for the Stage |
3 |
New |
ALL |
|
1 |
|
Fine Arts |
50:965:495 |
Senior Project Film |
3 |
New |
ALL |
|
1 |
|
Fine Arts |
50:965:303 |
Actor Director Workshop |
BA |
New |
ALL |
|
1 |
|
Fine Arts |
50:080:483 |
Animation Capstone |
3 |
New |
ALL |
|
1 |
|
Fine Arts |
50:080:452 |
Painting Capstone |
3 |
New |
ALL |
|
1 |
|
Fine Arts |
50:080:478 |
Sculpture Capstone |
3 |
New |
ALL |
|
1 |
|
Fine Arts |
50:080:440 |
Graphic Design Capstone |
3 |
New |
ALL |
|
1 |
|
Fine Arts |
50:080:348 |
Artist Residency Art in the Landscape |
3 |
New |
|
ALL-Questioning the fee |
|
|
Fine Arts |
50:080:439 |
Special Topics in Graphic Design |
3 |
New |
ALL |
|
1 |
|
Fine Arts |
50:080:482 |
Singularity Art |
3 |
New |
ALL |
|
1 |
|
Political Science |
50:790:347 |
Honors Readings in Political Science |
3 |
New |
ALL |
|
1 |
|
Political Science |
50:790:218 |
Intro to Digital Politics |
3 |
New |
ALL |
|
1 |
|
Political Science |
50:790:405 |
Conservatives and Liberals in American Politics |
3 |
New |
ALL |
|
1 |
|
Political Science |
50:790:310 |
Study Abroad |
3 |
New |
ALL |
|
1 |
|
Political Science |
50:790:106 |
Intro to Law and Legal Studies |
3 |
New |
ALL |
|
1 |
|
English |
50:989:313 |
Writing for Non-Profits |
3 |
Revision |
ALL |
|
1 |
|
English |
50:354:210 |
Literature and Film: Issues of Adaptation |
3 |
New |
ALL |
|
1 |
|
English |
50:354:214 |
Images of the City in Literature and Film |
3 |
New |
ALL |
|
2 |
|
Computer Science |
50:137:501 |
Intro to Algorithms |
3 |
Revision |
No vote needed-title change only |
||
|
Computer Science |
50:198:325 |
Java Applications |
3 |
Revision |
No vote needed-pre-req change only |
||
|
Computer Science |
50:198:111 |
Programming Fundamentals |
3 |
Revision |
No vote needed-adding courses to cross list with this course |
||
|
Women’s and Gender Studies |
50:988:480 |
Study Abroad |
3 |
New |
ALL |
|
1 |
|
Philosophy and Religion |
50:840:351 |
Seeking and Selling God Online |
3 |
New |
ALL |
3
|
|
|
Biology |
50:120:450 |
Topical Field Ecology |
3 |
New |
ALL |
|
2 |
All courses were approved by voice vote.
NOTE: Jennifer Thiel has previously agreed to contact the Registrar about loading onto Degree Navigator all newly approved courses for the Master Course List. Department chairs are encouraged to follow up with the Registrar and Advising to confirm that courses have been added, edited, or removed.
The meeting was adjourned at 1:15 p.m.
Present (Senators): Janet Golden, Wayne Glasker, Laurie Bernstein, Angelica Gonzalez; Amy Savage; George Kumi; Guy Kortsarz, Margery Amdur, James Boucher, Silvia Perez Cortes, Susan Mokhberi, Katherine Anderson, Nawaf Bou-Rabee, Christopher Lim, Tim Knievel, Joseph Cutuli, Lauren Daniel, Michael Hayes, Richard Stansfield, Stacia Gilliard-Matthews, Jean-Louis Hippolyte, Joan Mazelis, William Saidel
Absent: Kate Cairns, Osama Hamed, Keith Green, Aaron Hostetter, Paul Bernstein, Haisheng Li, John Wall, Richard Jimenez, Shauna Shames, Wayne Chan, Melanie Bowers, Joseph Schiavo, Daniel Bubb, Yuchung Wang, Babu Dasari
Excused/Sabbatical: Joseph Barbarese (exc), Chinyere Osuji (sab), James Brown (exc), Elizabeth Demaray (sab), Howard Marchitello (sab)
Present (Invited Guests): Michael Palis, Julie Still, Jennifer Thiel
Drafted by Maria Buckley, 11/15/2016
Submitted by Laurie Bernstein, Faculty Senate Secretary