College Curriculum Committee Minutes

College of Arts & Humanities Curriculum Committee Minutes: Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Members present

Gene Harrison, ART,Tim Coombs, CMN, Stephen Swords, ENG, Vanesa Landrus, FLG, Eunseong Kim, JOU, Gary Jensen, MUS, Brian Beakley, PHI, Jean Wolski, THA, Associate Dean Jeffrey Lynch, (ex-officio)

Guests

James Tidwell, Sally Turner and Bryan Murley from the Journalism department

Chair Wolski called the meeting to order at 3:00 p.m.

Minutes

The minutes of 9/26/07 were approved as written.

Executive Actions

1. Change in pre-requisites for ENG 4275.
2. Designate THA 3753G, 3754G and 3755G as Writing Intensive courses.

Proposals

07.24 New Course proposalJOU 3002 Intro to Multimedia Journalism
James Tidwell presented the proposal and addressed questions from the committee.
Motion passed unanimously (8-0)

07.25 New Course proposal JOU 3300 Publication Design
James Tidwell presented the proposal and addressed questions from the committee.
Motion passed unanimously (8-0)

07.26 New Course proposal JOU 3703 Online Journalism
James Tidwell presented the proposal and addressed questions from the committee.
Motion passed unanimously (8-0)

07.27 New Course proposal JOU 3955 Reporting on the Arts
James Tidwell presented the proposal and addressed questions from the committee.
Motion passed unanimously (8-0)

07.28 Revised Course proposal JOU 4001 Media Management
James Tidwell presented the proposal and addressed questions from the committee.
Motion passed unanimously (8-0)

07.29 Proposed Journalism Program changes
James Tidwell presented the proposal and addressed questions from the committee.
Motion passed unanimously (8-0)

Nomination of student representatives

Student representatives, one from fine arts and one from humanities, are needed. Stephen Swords submitted two possible students from the Humanities. A student to represent the Fine Arts is still needed. Committee members were asked to submit names of students to Chair Wolski via e-mail.
Items placed on the agenda
07.30 Proposed changes to Theatre Arts program

Pending item

07-22 New course proposal HIS 5700 Seminar in World History

The meeting adjourned at 4:12 p.m.

Betsy Miller
Recorder

The next face-to face meeting is Wednesday, October 17 at 3:00 p.m. in the Schahrer Room of the University Union.