MEMORANDUM
March 20, 2003
TO: Faculty, Staff and Students
FROM: Betty L. Siegel, President
SUBJECT: Final Actions from Mid-Spring 2003 of the Undergraduate Policies
and Curriculum Committee and the Graduate Policies and
Curriculum Committee.
APPROVED UNDERGRADUATE POLICIES AND CURRICULUM COMMITTEE
RECOMMENDATIONS:
These approvals will be reflected in the 2003-2004 Undergraduate Catalog;
copies are on file in the Office of Academic Affairs and the Horace W.
Sturgis Library.
* Clarification of Existing Policy *
The Graduation with Honors policy was updated to include the following
sentence at the end of the first paragraph: “Students enrolled in the
Accelerated Bachelor’s-Master’s program must contact the Registrar or
the Graduate Dean to determine eligibility.”
School of the Arts
> Major in Art, B.F.A. includes Theater Performance Art course (THTR 3493)
among the Art History electives in the Upper Division Major Requirements.
> Major in Music Performance, B.M. makes several changes including 1)
providing necessary requirements for the various concentrations by
‘tracks’ so as to present and reflect the various idiosyncrasies with
clarity and consistency. This will eliminate many advisement errors by
both students and faculty advisors. 2) Add a ‘language’ component for
VOICE concentration majors only so as to prepare them better for graduate
school admissions. 3) Eliminate ‘secondary applied’ study from the degree
program and replace it with necessary class piano in appropriate ‘tracks’
and provide the PIANO ‘track’ with appropriate pedagogy and piano
literature study in place of class piano study. For Performance majors
currently there is no Class Piano study at all in the degree program and
this study is necessary for accreditation by NASM.
Bagwell College of Education
>Middle grades education majors who concentrate their study in science will
be required to take BIOL 2107 Biological Principles I rather than BIOL
2108 Biological Principles II. This course will be required in the
Teaching Field rather than in Area F, where BIOL 2108 was required.
CHEM 1151/1151L will be required in Area F, instead of in the Teaching
Field where it is currently listed as a requirement.
> Middle grades education majors will be required to take the new course EDUC
2202, Life Span Development: Adolescent & Young Adulthood Emphasis, rather
than EDUC 2204 Human Growth, Development, and Learning. Both courses are
life span development courses. EDUC 2202, however, will emphasize the
development issues of adolescent learners including a discussion of
development leading up to and progressing from adolescence. Middle grades
and secondary education majors will be required to take this course. P-12
education majors may take this course or EDUC 2204.
> Middle grades education and secondary majors will no longer be required to
take EDUC 3310 Multicultural Education. SCED 4415, SSED 4413, MAED 4416,
and ENED 4414 credit hours are increased from 7 to 9 hours to absorb the
content of EDUC 3310.
> MATH 4495, Exploration of Secondary Mathematics from an Advanced Perspective
is added to the Teaching Field requirements for the B.S. in Mathematics
Education.
>A new course ARED 3310 Multiculturalism and Cross-cultures in Art Education
replaces EDUC 3310 under Professional Education (P-12) requirements for
Art Education major.
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
> International Affairs Major makes the following changes:
Catalog description:
(a) Modify catalog description to read, “In this interdisciplinary major,
the student must complete seven required major courses followed by five
courses in one of the three major concentrations.”
Lower Division Requirements:
(b) Make GEOG 1101/World Regional Geography a requirement, and correct course
title in catalog.
(c) Delete POLS 2260 Current Political Issues
(d) Delete asterisk and accompanying sentence “Students who have taken ECON
2100…”
(e) Delete “or an elective from”
(f) Add: “(Counted in General Education)” after ECON 2100 Principles of
Microeconomics
Upper Division Requirements:
(g) Delete term “General Requirements (21 hours)” which appear after Upper
Division Major Requirements
(h) Delete GEOG 3320 and 3330 from Upper Division Major Requirements
(i) Add: “Students will take five courses in their concentration. For
Concentration I, select no more than two courses from: (a) Anthropology
and Geography; (b) History; (c) Political Science. For Concentration II,
select no more than two political science courses. For Concentration III,
students will select one language track, i.e. French, Spanish or German,
and complete five courses in that language.”
(j) Delete GEOG 3320 and 3330 from Upper Division Major Requirements and place
GEOG 3320 in Concentration I
(k) Delete Senior seminar 4499 as a stand alone and place it under Upper
Division Major Requirements
Concentrations I and II
(l) Combine Concentrations I and II into a single “Concentration I: Diplomatic
and International Service”
(m) Add GEOG 3360/Geography of China to Concentration I
(n) Delete “or” before HIST 3391 and HIST 3392; and HIST 3367 and 3366
Concentrations IV: Applied Languages
(o) Add “Track” after French, Spanish, and German in renumbered-Concentration
III: Applied Languages.
(p) Change wording from “Upper Division Elective or FREN 4400 Directed Study”
to “French electives: 6 credit hours of FREN 3000-4000 level courses.”
New wording used for Spanish and German Tracks as well.
Related Studies:
(q) Delete: “Lower-division courses may also be approved when appropriate.”
College of Science and Mathematics
> Information Systems major adds CSIS 4300, Web Development to its major
degree electives.
•New Certificate Programs•
- A Forensic Chemistry Certificate program was approved and is being
offered through the department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.
- A Certificate in Legal Interpreting was approved and will be offered
through the College of Humanities and Social Sciences departments of
foreign Languages and Political Science and International Affairs.
•Change in Certificate Programs•
> Certificate in e-Business Systems adds CSIS 4300, Web Development as
a required course. This new course replaces CSIS 4310.
> Certificate in Information Technology adds CSIS 1020, Introduction to
Programming Principles to the IT Certificate offerings.
> Certificate in Professional Politics corrects course title and number
from POLS 3303 Politics and Public Policy, to POLS 3313 Public
Policy Analysis.
* New Undergraduate Courses *
ARED 3310. Multiculturalism & Cross-culturalism in Art Education. 1-2-2.
Prerequisite: EDUC 2201, EDUC 2204. Corequisite: ARED 3302.
CSIS 4300. Web Development. 3-0-3. Prerequisite: CSIS 3600.
EDUC 2202. Life Span Development: Adolescent and Young Adulthood Emphasis.
3-0-3. Prerequisite: ENGL 1102.
ENGL 2300. World Literature of Africa and the African Diaspora. 3-0-3.
Prerequisite: ENGL 2110.
ENGL 3400. Survey of African Literatures. 3-0-3. Prerequisite: ENGL 2110.
ENGL 3500. Topics in African American Literature. 3-0-3. Prerequisite:
ENGL 2110.
ENGL 3600. Topics in African Diaspora Literature. 3-0-3. Prerequisite:
ENGL 2110.
ENGL 4401. Topics in African Literatures.
ENED 4498. Internship in Teaching English (7-12). 0-18-12. Prerequisite:
Provisional teaching license issued by state of Georgia; full-time
employment teaching English.
GEOG 3350. Geography of Sub-Saharan Africa. 3-0-3. Prerequisite: GEOG 110 or
GEOG 2105 or permission of instructor.
MATH 4495. Exploration of Secondary Mathematics from an Advanced Perspective.
3-0-3. Prerequisite: MATH 3260.
MAED 4498. Internship in Teaching Mathematics (7-12). 0-36-12 repeatable.
Prerequisite: Provisional teaching license issued by state of Georgia;
full-time employment teaching mathematics.
MKTG 4500. Internet Marketing and Global Business. 3-0-3. Prerequisite:
Business Majors: Sophomore GPA requirement and MKTG 3100; Non-business
Majors: MKTG 3100.
MKTG 4750. Advanced Selling. 3-0-3. Business Majors: Sophomore GPA requirement
and MKTG 3100, 4410; Non-business Majors: MKTG 3100, 4410.
PSYC 2110. Interacting Effectively in a Diverse Society: Psychological
Approaches. 3-0-3. Prerequisite: None.
PSYC 3385. Ethnic Minority Psychology. 3-0-3. Prerequisite: PSYC 2105,
SOCI 2105, ANTH 2105, or permission of instructor.
PSYC 4440. Introduction to Counseling Psychology. 3-0-3. Prerequisite: PSYC
2201, and one 3000 level psychology course.
SCED 4498. Internship in Teaching Science (7-12). 0-36-12. Prerequisite:
Provisional teaching license issued by state of Georgia; full-time
employment teaching science and permission of science education advisor.
SSED 4498. Internship in Teaching Social Studies (7-12). 0-36-12.
Prerequisite: Admission to student teaching.
SPAN 4460. Foundations of Legal Interpreting. 3-0-3. Prerequisite:
Permission of department chair or program coordinator and SPAN 4455
(must be taken before or concurrently with SPAN 4460).
SPAN 4466. Legal Interpreting Internship. 3-0-3. Prerequisite: SPAN 4460 and
permission of department chair or program coordinator.
* Undergraduate Course Changes *
CHEM 1212. Course prerequisite change to “C” or better grade in CHEM 1211.
Corequisite: CHEM 1212L.
CHEM 2800. Course prerequisite change to “C” or better grade in CHEM 1212.
Corequisite: CHEM 2800L.
CHEM 3361. Course prerequisite change to “C” or better grade in CHEM 1212.
Corequisite: CHEM 3361L.
CHEM 3362. Course prerequisite change to “C” or better grade in CHEM 3361.
Corequisite: CHEM 3362L.
CHEM 4300. Course prerequisite change to “C” or better grade in CHEM 2800.
Corequisite: CHEM 4300L.
CSIS 2302.Change in course description.
CSIS 4310. Change in course title to Advanced Database Systems and course
description change.
EBIZ 2100. Prefix change to BISM 2100.
EDMG 4405. Change in credit hours to 4-2-5.
EDSM 4409. Change in course title to Instructional Strategies in Reading,
Writing, and Adolescent Literature and change in course description.
ENED 4414. Change in credit hours to 7-6-9.
MAED 4416. Teaching Mathematics (7-12). Change in credit hours to 7-6-9.
MATH 3495. Change in course title to Exploration of Middle School Mathematics
from an Advanced Perspective and change in course description.
MGT 4170. course description change.
MGT 4171. course description change.
MGT 4172. course description change.
MGT 4173. course description change.
MILS 2090. Change in course number to MILS 2031. Change in course title to
Army Physical Fitness Training. Change in course prerequisite to: Must
have a Department of the Army (DA) Form 3425-R signed by a Physician and
be enrolled in the Military Science Levels 1-4.
MUSI 1165, 1166, 3165, 3166. Class Piano I, II, III, IV. Change the hr/lab/
credit to 0-2-1.
PSYC 3320. Course prerequisite change to PSYC 2201 or PSYC 2105
(no corequisite) and course description change.
PSYC 4420. Applied Psychology. Change in course title to Ethics and
Professional Issues in Applied Psychology and course description change.
SCED 4415. Credit hour change to 7-6-9.
SSED 4413. Credit hour change to 7-6-9.
* Undergraduate Course Deletions *
COM 3396.
MAED 3398.
MKTG 4310.
PSYC 3320L.
APPROVED GRADUATE POLICIES AND CURRICULUM COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS:
These approvals will be reflected in the 2003-2004 Graduate Catalog; copies
are on file in the Office of Academic Affairs and the Horace W. Sturgis
Library.
* Policy Clarification *
>The Master of Science in Applied Computer Science more fully outlines their
program’s financial policies with regard to their premium-priced program,
and includes specific policy in the area of tuition refunds.
> The Master of Science in Conflict Management adds the following statement
to their financial policies with regard to their premium pricing: “Note:
Insurance premiums associated with insurance required by the University
for all international students are not included in the cost of the
program.”
* Change in Existing Admissions Policy *
> The Master of Science in Information Systems revises their GMAT and GRE
admissions requirements to read:
•”Minimum total score of 500 on the Graduate Management Admission Test
(GMAT) with a minimum score of 30 in the verbal and 30 quantitative
categories and 3.0 in the analytical writing category
OR
• Minimum total score of 1425 on the General Test of the Graduate Record
Examination (GRE) with a minimum score of 400 in the verbal and 400
quantitative categories and 3.0 in the analytical writing category.”
> The Master of Science in Information Systems revises their Non-Degree
Admission statement to read as follows:
“The MS in Information Systems program does not admit students as non-degree,
nor are non-degree students allowed to enroll in MS Information System
courses.”
Master in Accounting and Career Growth MBA
The following disclaimer is added to both programs:
“Credit earned for program prerequisites, including GBA 6100 and GBA
6200, do not count toward the 36-hour minimum program requirement and may
not be used to fulfill any graduate core or elective requirement.”
Master of Science in Information Systems
The MSIS program makes the following revisions:
1) Re-wording of the descriptions of the specialty tracks to better illustrate
the need to take the three courses in each track plus one elective.
2) Renumbering of the track listings placing the 87xx track as II and 88xx
track as III.
3) Addition of two new courses, one to data communications track: IS 8628:
Internetworking Technologies and a new general elective: IS 8130:
Query Languages.
4) The PRWR courses were also changed, as the existing courses were not
offered very frequently. There are now two new elective options: PRWR
6250: Corporate Communication and PRWR 6850: Writing for the Web.
Master of Science in Nursing
Under the heading General Requirements for Admissions to the MSN Program
number 4. should be revised with the following statement:
4. “A minimum combined total score of 800 in verbal and quantitative
categories and a minimum 3.5 in the analytical writing category of the
General Test of the Graduate Record Examination.”
Also, the following is added:
“7. An undergraduate research course.”
A request is also made the name of the Program be officially changed to the
WellStar Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Program.
•Program Deletions•
> Master of Business Administration for Experienced Healthcare
Professionals (MBA-EHP) is no longer being offered. Due to the
decline in enrollments, this program is no longer a viable offering
for the Coles College Executive MBA programs.
> The Department of Special Education has received notice from the
Georgia Professional Standards Commission that there has been a
change in the standards for the Interrelated Special add-on program.
here is no longer a need to have existing add-on programs in
Learning Disabilities, Behavior Disorders, and Mental Retardation in
rder to offer the Interrelated Special Education add-on program.
*New Graduate Courses*
ECE 8831. Research and Implementation in Classroom I. 2 semester hours.
Prerequisite: Completion of Phase I.
ECE 8841. Research and Implementation in Classroom II. 2 semester hours.
Prerequisite: Completion of Phase I.
EDUC 7755. The Knowledgeable Teacher: Reflective Practice. 3 semester hours.
Prerequisite: Professional teaching certificate.
IS 8130. Query Languages. 3-0-3. Prerequisites: IS 8080.
IS 8628. Internetworking Technologies. 3-0-3. Prerequisites: IS 8040.
*Graduate Course Changes*
ACCT 8100. Change in course description.
ACCT 8400. Course title change to Seminar in Auditing. Change in prerequisite
to Admission to either the MAcc or the Career Growth MBA programs plus
completion of an undergraduate course in auditing or permission of the
instructor. Course description change.
ECE 8811. Course title change to Educational Research and Multiple Assessment
Strategies. Credit hour change to 3 semester hours and course description
change.
ECE 8812. Credit hour change to 3 semester hours.
ECE 8813. Credit hour change to 1 semester hour.
ECE 8820. Credit hour change to 1 semester hour.
ECE 8850. Credit hour change to 6 semester hours.
ECE 8860. Course credit change to 3 semester hours.
EDUC 7900. Course credit change to 1 semester hour.
GBA 6100 and GBA 6200.The following disclaimer is added to the end of these
courses:
“ Credit hours earned for this course do not count toward the 36-hour minimum
program requirement and may not be used to fulfill any graduate core or
elective requirement.”
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