MEMORANDUM
TO: Faculty, Staff and Students
FROM: Betty L. Siegel, President
SUBJ: Final Actions from Spring 2002 of the Undergraduate Policies and
Curriculum Committee, the Graduate Policies and Curriculum
Committee and the Senate.
APPROVED UNDERGRADUATE POLICIES AND CURRICULUM COMMITTEE
RECOMMENDATIONS:
These approvals will be reflected in the 2002-2003 Undergraduate Catalog;
copies are on file in the Office Academic Affairs and the Horace W.
Sturgis Library.
College of Science and Mathematics
> The B.S. degree in Chemistry (Professional Chemistry Track) now
requires CHEM 1110 (Chemistry Career Seminar) for all Professional
Track majors. This course gives students an advantage by enabling them
to choose a direction early in their chemistry career. One of
the two semesters of CHEM 3990 under the Upper Division Requirements
was dropped so that the total hours in that area are now 35 instead of
36 to make room for the CHEM 1110 in Area F. Area F now has a total of
19 hours as does the Middle Grades Education for a Science emphasis.
*New Certificate Program*
The University System launched a new collaborative undergraduate
certificate program in European Union Studies. KSU is supporting this
certificate program by offering a European Union Studies
certificate program in fall 2002.
Request for Discontinuing a Degree Program
A form created for Discontinuing a Degree Program was accepted and goes
into effect immediately.
*New Undergraduate Courses*
HIST 3307. Introduction to the European Union. 3-0-3. Prerequisite:
HIST 1110.
*Undergraduate Course Changes*
CHEM 3050. Course title change to Biophysical Chemistry.
APPROVED UNDERGRADUATE POLICIES AND CURRICULUM COMMITTEE
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Changes will be reflected in the 2003-2004 undergraduate catalog and be
posted to the on-line undercatalog 2002-2003 (including fall 2002
updates).
*Change in Degree and Program Requirements*
School of the Arts
> BFA degree in Visual Arts makes several changes to their program
including the deletion of eight courses. These eight courses will be
phased out at the end of summer term 2002.
These are being replaced in fall 2002 by eight new courses that are
part of upgrading to meet the National School of Art and Design
standards for accreditation and to prepare students for entrance into
their professional field with the necessary design and technical skills.
These skills are increasingly based on digital design programs. The
content of the new courses reflect this. There are also new course
numbers to create a logical numerical sequence for the Graphic
Communication concentration. New course titles, course descriptions,
and redistribution in the number of lecture hours and lab reflect the
use of new technology and changed concepts about how each course
should be taught to relate to other courses in the sequencing. The
new courses and course changes are detailed below.
> B.A. degree in Theater makes the following changes: 1) Adds a new
Directing Styles course.
This broadens the curricular offerings in the Directing track.
2) Changes the existing course title and description for Principles
of Directing, This clarifies its purpose and content relative to the
new course. 3) Changes the existing course number, description
and prerequisite for Staging and Adapting Literary Texts. This
clarifies its purpose and content relative to the two other directing
courses.
College of Science and Mathematics
> The B.S. degree in Chemistry (General Chemistry Track) adds a track
in Forensic Chemistry to the existing General Chemistry track. This
was accomplished by increasing the number of hours in major field
requirements along with an elimination of a track.
*New Undergraduate Courses*
ART 3011. Typography I. 1-5-3. Prerequisite: ART 3000.
ART 3020. Typography II. 1-5-3. Prerequisite: ART 3011.
ART 3021. Publication Design. 1-5-3. Prerequisite: ART 3000.
ART 3022. Pre-press and Image Manipulation. 1-5-3. Prerequisite;
ART 3000.
ART 4011. Design Strategy and Presentation. 3-3-3. Prerequisite:
ART 3021.
ART 4020. Electronic Illustration. 2-4-3. Prerequisite: ART 3010.
ART 4021. Advertising and Packaging. 1-5-3. Prerequisite: ART 3021.
ART 4022. Advanced Digital Design: A Senior Applied Project. 2-4-3.
Prerequisite: ART 3021.
DANC 3713. Dance Production. 0-4-2. Prerequisite: permission of
instructor.
THTR 4323. Directing Styles. 3-0-3. Prerequisite: THTR 3403.
*Undergraduate Course Changes*
ART 4980/01. Senior Portfolio and Applied Project. Change in
prerequisite to ART 4011 and change in course description.
MGT 4121. Change in prerequisite to Business Majors: Sophomore GPA
Requirement. Non-business Majors: 60 hours.
MGT 4122. Change in prerequisite to MGT 4120 or MGT 4121.
MGT 4190. Change in course description.
MGT 4199. Change in prerequisite to Business Majors: Sophomore GPA
requirement. Students must
have completed all the required core upper-division business courses
including ECON 3100,
FIN 3100, MGT 3100, MGT 3200, and MKTG 3100. This course is taken in
the last or next-to-last semester
in the program. Not open to non-business majors. Course description is
changed.
THTR 3293. Prerequisite change to ENGL 2110 or THTR 2193 and course
description change.
THTR 4313. Change in course title to Principles of Directing and course
description change.
*Undergraduate Course Deletions*
ART 3690.
ART 3700.
ART 3710.
ART 3720.
ART 4730.
ART 4740.
ART 4750.
ART 4760.
FINAL ACTIONS ON RECOMMENDATIONS FOR UNIVERSITY SENATE ACTIONS-
SPRING SEMESTER 2002:
The following Senate recommendations have been approved for implementa-
tion. Where applicable, these approvals will be included in the latest
editions of the catalogs and/or handbooks of KSU.
- Changes to the Senate Guidelines. These changes will be incorporated
into Section TWO:
Governance and Committees of the 2002 KSU Faculty Handbook.
- Changes to Section THREE Ð subsection VI of Faculty Handbook
regarding selection of texts will be updated in the 2002 Faculty \
Handbook.
- Addition of two students from the student-led Environmental Alliance
on the Environmental
Concerns Committee was approved and will be updated in Section TWO-
Governance and Committees of KSU in Faculty Handbook.
- Change in the composition of the Institutional Review Board will be
made to Section TWO: Governance and Committees of KSU Faculty Handbook.
- Recommendations from the Tenure and Promotion Oversight Committee will
be made to Section
FIVE -Review and Evaluation of Faculty Performance in Faculty Handbook.
- A University Budget and Planning Committee is created and the
committeeÕs function and structure are added to Section TWO:
Governance and Committees of the Faculty Handbook.
- Conflict Resolution Policy (see memorandum dated June 21, 2002 from
President Siegel to Lynelle Golden, 2002-02 senate chair. Copies are
available in the Office of Academic Affairs and the Horace W. Sturgis
Library).
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF SENATE RESOLUTIONS
Resolutions are considered to be advisory in nature and are not approved
by the President as university policy. The President's Cabinet
acknowledges and appreciates the concerns
expressed in the following resolutions and will take it under advisement
in the administration of the University's operation:
- University Senate Resolution recommending the revision of the current
process for Administrative Evaluations 2002. The Senate Executive
Committee is interested in creating a representative committee this
summer to begin designing appropriate evaluation instruments
and procedures (See senate minutes from Feb. 11 and March 11, 2002)
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