School of Professional Studies Curriculum Committee

Minutes � December 3, 2007

Present: Mark Dodds, Thomas Fuchs, Ray Goldberg, Joy Hendrick, Jill Murphy, Sharon Todd

Bonni Hodges (Chair-Health) spoke to the group and described the rationale for the revisions to the Health Science Major.� The new title for this major will be Community Health to better reflect the content of the courses in the program, considerations related to seeking accreditation from SABPAC, and students needs.� Revisions also include two new courses (HLH 380 Public Health Infomatics and HLH 462 Organization and Administration of Health Programs), requiring some former electives in health, and minor changes to a currently required course (HLH 494).�

Hodges addressed/answered the following issues/questions from the group:

• Is there a need for policy in this program?� Answer.� Yes, students get this across several courses.

• Can students receive credit for both HLH 462 and HLH 360?� Answer.� Yes.� HLH 462 emphasizes skills.� There are not current plans to retire HLH 360 because it is required for concentrations.

• Intentions for HLH 380 to be writing intensive?� Answer.� Not yet.� There are already other required major courses for all Health students to fulfill this.

• Do students know that they can only count 2 health courses (from major) toward GE categories?� Answer.� Can state this on future program information sheets.

• Will more resources be needed for HLH 380?� It seems there would be needs for software.� Answer.� The software to be used is already available on campus, from CDC, or other free sources.

New Business-

HLH 380- New Course Proposal.� Contingent pass-

The following items need to be changed:

New Course Proposal Form:� Remove �CPN 100/103�; If students can take both COM 450 & HLH 380 this needs to be stated; Any restriction should be stated

Course Syllabus: Need academic integrity statement; Need Disability statement

HLH 462- New Course Proposal. Contingent pass-

The following items need to be changed:

Course syllabus:� Need updates to disability statement (ie B-1); Fix �Recommended and Resources�; Attendance counts as 5 out of 400 points so suggest removing �Grades will be adjusted downwards for poor attendance record.�

HLH 494- Alteration of Existing Course-Contingent pass-

The following items need to be changed:

Alteration of Existing Course Form: Need Abbreviated Title

Course syllabus:� Need update to disability statement (ie B-1);� Update reference to College Handbook/remove reference to college catalog; Need academic integrity statement

Health- Alteration of Existing Program- Contingent pass

The following items need to be changed:

GE (40) row appears twice, remove one; last page listing required health courses, change Prereq for HLH 380 and insert # of credit hours; Total Number of LA credits = 62, but total 60 when listed below; Revisit the credits table to confirm totals add up to 124 (Is Com 210 counted 2 times?)

Eileen Gravani spoke to the group regarding the need for revisions to their program.� Graduate students must have certain pre-requisites but can�t get financial aid for undergraduate courses (ie EDU 496), so a new course EDU 596 has been created.�

EDU 596-New Course Proposal- Contingent pass

The following items need to be changed:

New Course Proposal Form:� Restriction not open for EDU 496;

Course Syllabus:� Add (B) on syllabus; Remove pre-req; State Corequisites: SHH 640, 668; Add office location within disability policy; clarify lectures and numbers on course outline

MS in Communications Disorders- Alteration of Existing Program- Contingent pass

The following items need to be changed:

On table page- state as �if equivalent not completed��

Old Business

Kinesiology- Alteration of Existing Program to allow students to take EXS 100 or EXS 197� Approved unanimously

EXS 511-Alteration of an Existing Course to add EXS 201 as a pre-req-Approved

The following items need to be changed:

Alteration of Existing Course Form: Mark �yes� for Course Prerequisite

Course syllabus: Check comma placement when listing prerequisites so these match form

Minutes from November 19, 2007 were unanimously approved as submitted.

Meeting was adjourned at 4:43pm.

Respectfully submitted,

Jill Murphy