Explanation - Georgia Tech Faculty Governance
Explanation - Georgia Tech Faculty Governance
Explanation - Georgia Tech Faculty Governance
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Academic Senate<br />
February 19, 2013<br />
3:00‐5:00 PM<br />
Student Center Theater<br />
Undergraduate Curriculum Committee<br />
Action Items and Minutes for Approval –DRAFT 3
Committee Chair & Vice Chair<br />
Dr. Pradeep Agrawal, CHBE<br />
Dr. Laura Hollengreen, ARCh
Action Items – January 15 Minutes<br />
School of Mathematics<br />
• New courses:<br />
• MATH 1503: Calculus I for the Life Sciences 4‐0‐4<br />
MATH 1504: Calculus II for the Life Sciences 4‐0‐4<br />
• There were several issues noted in regard to this proposal.<br />
• Clean‐up, as needed, for all courses that have MATH 1501 and 1502<br />
as prerequisites<br />
• Each academic unit will have to decide if MATH 1503 and 1504 are<br />
actually interchangeable as prerequisites or if the more limited<br />
Linear Algebra in the new courses will pose a problem<br />
• Already teaching this content ‐ have sections of MATH 1501 and 1502<br />
that are restricted to Biology majors and that operate the way these<br />
new courses are proposed<br />
• MATH 1522 can continue to serve as bridge course, if needed, to<br />
provide more Linear Algebra content
Action Items – January 15 Minutes<br />
School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences<br />
• New Courses<br />
• EAS 4370 ‐ Physics of Planets 3‐0‐3<br />
EAS 4656 ‐ Atmospheric Dynamics Practicum 0‐3‐1<br />
Note: Change transcript abbreviation to: “Atmos<br />
Dynamics Practicum” from “Dynamics<br />
Practicum”<br />
• EAS 4670 ‐ Atmospheric Dynamics II 3‐0‐3<br />
Note: Change transcript abbreviation to “Atmospheric<br />
Dynamics II” from “Dynamics II”
Action Items – January 15 Minutes<br />
• Degree Modification<br />
• Bachelor of Science in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences<br />
• Remove research requirement<br />
• Correct an error –GT 1000 is not a required course; that was never<br />
the intention<br />
• These changes allow for more free electives ‐ students can fit a<br />
minor into their degree program<br />
• Minor Modification: Minor in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences<br />
• Climate Change Track<br />
• Earth System Physics Track<br />
• Environmental Chemistry Track<br />
• Environmental Science Track<br />
• Geophysics Track<br />
• Meteorology Track<br />
• Ocean Sciences Track
Action Items – January 15 Minutes<br />
• Minor Modification: Minor in Earth and Atmospheric<br />
Sciences<br />
• Updating the course requirements for the minors<br />
• Removing courses that are not being taught<br />
• Adding new elective courses<br />
• Adding Undergraduate Research, EAS 4699 to each of the minors<br />
as an option
Action Items – January 15 Minutes<br />
College of Computing<br />
• New Courses:<br />
• Create new CX subject code<br />
• CX 4010: Computational Problem Solving for Scientists and Engineers 3‐0‐3<br />
• CX 4240: Introduction to Computing for Data Analysis 3‐0‐3<br />
• CX 4242: Data and Visual Analytics 3‐0‐3<br />
• New Courses<br />
• These are existing courses that are being reinvented with the new CX subject code.<br />
The content and titles are not being changed from their current “CS” designation.<br />
• CX 4140: Computational Modeling Algorithms 3‐0‐3<br />
• CX 4220: Introduction to High Performance Computing 3‐0‐3<br />
• CX 4230: Computer Simulation 3‐0‐3<br />
• CX 4232: Simulation and Military Gaming 3‐0‐3<br />
• CX 4236: Distributed Simulation 3‐0‐3<br />
• CX 4640: Numerical Analysis I 3‐0‐3<br />
• CX 4641: Numerical Analysis II 3‐0‐3<br />
• CX 4777: Introduction to Parallel and Vector Scientific Computing 3‐0‐3
Action Items – January 15 Minutes<br />
• Note: These are the CS versions of the courses above that are<br />
being deactivated due to the fact that they will now exist as<br />
“CX”.<br />
• CS 4140 changing to CX 4140 (Comp Model Algorithms)<br />
• CS 4225 changing to CX 4220 (Intro to HPC)<br />
• CS 4335 changing to CX 4230 (Computer Simulation)<br />
• CS 4343 changing to CX 4232 (Sim & Military Gaming)<br />
• CS 4230 changing to CX 4236 (Distributed Sim Systems)<br />
• CS 4642 changing to CX 4640 (Numerical Analysis I)<br />
• CS 4643 changing to CX 4641 (Numerical Analysis II)<br />
• CS 4777 changing to CX 4777 (Vector & Par Sci Comp)
Action Items – January 15 Minutes<br />
• New Courses<br />
• Special Topics and Special Problems numbers for the CX prefix<br />
• New Minors<br />
• Minor in Scientific and Engineering Computing<br />
• School of Computational Science and Engineering, School<br />
of Aerospace Engineering<br />
• Minor in Computational Data Analysis<br />
• School of Computational Science and Engineering
Action Items – January 15 Minutes<br />
School of Modern Languages and School of International Affairs<br />
• Degree Modification<br />
• Bachelor of Science in International Affairs and Modern Language<br />
with a Concentration in:<br />
• Chinese<br />
• French<br />
• German<br />
• Japanese<br />
• Spanish<br />
• Russian<br />
• Create six concentrations for the IAML degree: CHIN, FREN, GRMN, JAPN, RUSS,<br />
SPAN.<br />
• Currently, all IAML students form the same cohort inside the BANNER database;<br />
there is no indication of the language concentration of the five available to<br />
students.<br />
• Thus, identification of IAML majors according to language for assessment and<br />
communication is complicated and requires multiple searches to accomplish,<br />
especially for in‐coming freshmen.
Action Items – January 15 Minutes<br />
• Require CHIN/FREN/GRMN/JAPN/RUS/SPAN 4500 as one of the<br />
courses completing the language core courses for the IAML degree.<br />
• Require an International Experience of each IAML major.<br />
• In sum, the proposed IAML modifications<br />
• clearly differentiate between the different language concentrations of<br />
the students;<br />
• add RUSS to the available languages as a concentration;<br />
• the Language core for the IAML degree changes from 8 elective courses<br />
to 7 elective plus 1 required course, Language 4500;<br />
• and all students are required to undertake an international experience as<br />
part of the degree.
Action Items – January 15 Minutes<br />
School of Modern Languages and School of Economics<br />
Degree Modification<br />
• B.S. in Global Economics and Modern Languages with a<br />
concentration in:<br />
• Chinese<br />
• French<br />
• German<br />
• Japanese<br />
• Spanish<br />
• Russian<br />
• Create six concentrations for the GEML degree: CHIN, FREN, GRMN, JAPN,<br />
RUSS, SPAN<br />
• Require CHIN/FREN/GRMN/JAPN/RUSS/SPAN 4500 as one of the courses<br />
completing the language core courses for the GEML degree.<br />
• Require an International Experience of each GEML major.
Action Items – January 15 Minutes<br />
• Degree Modification<br />
• B.S. in Global Economics and Modern Languages, continued<br />
• Add options to the Statistics Elective.<br />
• Allow students to specialize their ECON focus.<br />
• Establish a non‐major cluster of studies<br />
• In sum, the proposed GEML modifications clearly<br />
• differentiate between the different language concentrations of the<br />
students;<br />
• adds RUSS as a language of study;<br />
• the Language core for the GEML degree changes from 8 elective courses<br />
to 7 elective plus 1 required course, Language 4500;<br />
• GEML students are required to undertake an international experience as<br />
part of the degree;<br />
• additional options are added to the Statistics requirement;<br />
• ECON 4160 is replaced with either ECON 4311 or 4350;<br />
• GEML students choose their ECON electives from one of three areas;<br />
• and an expanded non‐major cluster of 12 hours is established.
Action Items – January 15 Minutes<br />
School of Modern Languages<br />
Degree Modification<br />
• B.S. in Applied Language and Intercultural Studies<br />
• Add Russian to the currently available language concentrations for ALIS.<br />
• New Courses<br />
• GRMN 3023: Advanced German Grammar 3‐0‐3<br />
• GRMN 4691: Berlin: The Capital in the 20th Century 3‐0‐3<br />
• CHIN 4695 : Chinese Internship, variable credit, 1‐3<br />
• FREN 4695 : French Internship, variable credit, 1‐3<br />
• GRMN 4695: German Internship, variable credit, 1‐3<br />
• JAPN 4695: Japanese Internship, variable credit, 1‐3<br />
• RUSS 4695: Russian Internship, variable credit, 1‐3<br />
• SPAN 4695: Spanish Internship, variable credit, 1‐3<br />
• RUSS 1250: Vampires and Memory of Stalinism in Post‐Soviet R... 3‐0‐3<br />
• RUSS 4340: Invention of Business Discourse in Russia (1990‐) 3‐0‐3<br />
• RUSS 4500: Russian Intercultural Capstone Seminar 3‐0‐3<br />
• RUSS 3695: Contemporary Russia 3‐0‐3<br />
• RUSS 4360: Russian Culture through the Prism of Song 3‐0‐3<br />
• PERS 1001: Elementary Persian I 4‐0‐4<br />
• PERS 1002: Elementary Persian II 4‐0‐4
Action Items – January 15 Minutes<br />
Deactivate Courses:<br />
• JAPN 3002<br />
JAPN 3062<br />
JAPN 4133<br />
LING 2760<br />
LING 3010<br />
LING 3750<br />
LING 4002<br />
LING 4065
Action Items – January 15 Minutes<br />
• Create HIN subject code for Hindi<br />
• Create special topics numbers for PERS (Persian) and HIN (Hindi)<br />
• Allow award of Advanced Standing credit for GRMN 3XXX based<br />
on the DSD<br />
• The School of Modern Languages would be interested in allowing<br />
enrolled students at <strong>Georgia</strong> <strong>Tech</strong> who have earned the Das<br />
Deutsche Sprachdiplom (DSD) certificate during their high school<br />
programs (outlined in the supporting materials) to earn advanced‐<br />
level credit for GRMN.<br />
• ML would be interested in granting credit in this fashion:<br />
• DSD I: 3 hours of GRMN 3XXX<br />
• DSD II: 6 hours of GRMN 3XXX<br />
• This credit would be authorized by the Registrar once a copy of the DSD<br />
assessment has been received or through the processing of a Non‐Resident<br />
Credit form via the School of Modern Languages.
Action Items – January 15 Minutes<br />
School of International Affairs<br />
• A new course, INTA 3242 Soccer and Global Politics,<br />
to meet the Social Science and Global Perspectives areas in<br />
the Core Curriculum.<br />
• Approved by subcommittee on 11/5/2012 and is pending<br />
approval of the Advisory Committee and the General Education<br />
Council. The Registrar’s Office will follow up on these additional<br />
approvals.
Action Items – February 12 Minutes<br />
School of Applied Physiology<br />
• New Course<br />
• APPH 1040: Scientific Foundations of Health 2‐0‐2<br />
• Deactivated Course<br />
• HPS 1040: Applied Physiology (replaced by APPH 1040) 2‐0‐2
Action Items – February 12 Minutes<br />
School of Building Construction<br />
• Degree modification<br />
Bachelor of Science in Building Construction<br />
• Rationale:<br />
• The 2012 report from the external accreditation visiting team of the<br />
American Council for Construction Education (ACCE) stated as a<br />
weakness of the BSBC curriculum that the number of construction<br />
science hours is not sufficient.<br />
• Proposed changes:<br />
• Add course BC 4710 Green Construction<br />
• Delete course BC 4640 Construction Marketing<br />
• No changes in the total program hours or in the hours of<br />
core/electives between the current program and the proposed new<br />
one.
Action Items – February 12 Minutes<br />
School of Aerospace Engineering<br />
• Degree modification<br />
Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering<br />
• Proposed changes:<br />
• The faculty members of the School of AE request that the course LCC<br />
3401 (2‐0‐2) be replaced with LCC 3403 (3‐0‐3). This change is<br />
requested because LCC 3401 is no longer taught. Note LCC has been<br />
changed to LMC.<br />
• We also request that the free elective hours be reduced from 10 to<br />
9, to keep the total number of hours the same, at 132.
Action Items – February 12 Minutes<br />
School of Biomedical Engineering<br />
• New course (Cross‐listed with existing course)<br />
• BMED 4740: Biologically Inspired Design 3‐0‐3<br />
Note: Course content is being reviewed by the Registrar’s Office to<br />
ensure that it matches that of the existing course(s).
Action Items – February 12 Minutes<br />
School of Public Policy<br />
• Modification to Minor in Law, Science, and <strong>Tech</strong>nology<br />
• Modification to Certificate in Pre‐Law<br />
• Special topics course now has a permanent number. Request<br />
is to replace it in the list of courses with the new permanent<br />
number.<br />
• One of those electives has been a class previously offered<br />
as MGT 4803 Special Topic: <strong>Tech</strong>nology Law & Ethics .<br />
• Now that the class has been re‐numbered as MGT 3608,<br />
we request authorization to apply the newly re‐numbered<br />
class toward the LS&T minor and Pre‐Law certificate
Action Items – February 12 Minutes<br />
School of Mechanical Engineering<br />
• New Course: ME 4215 Manufacturing Process Analysis<br />
• New Course: ME 3210 Design, Materials, and Manufacture<br />
• Replace BSME requirement of ME 4210 with ME 3210 (pre‐approved<br />
substitution during transition period)<br />
• Establish a fifth Concentration Area, Manufacturing, within the undergraduate<br />
Mechanical Engineering degree program.<br />
• Deactivate ME4210 Manufacturing Processes and Engineering<br />
• Pre‐requisite change for required course, ME 4182 Capstone Design. New pre‐<br />
requisite list (additions in red, deletions with strikethrough):<br />
• ME 2110, ME3210, ME4210*, (ME3180 or ME4315).<br />
• Pre‐requisite change for elective course, ME4189 Structural Vibration.<br />
• Current prerequisites: MATH 1502, MATH 2403, and ME3015<br />
• Proposed prerequisites: ME2202, MATH 2403 or MATH 2413 (Honors Differential Equations),<br />
or MATH 24X3 Differential Equations (Transfer).
Action Items – February 12 Minutes<br />
School Chemistry and Biochemistry<br />
• Minor modification<br />
• Minor in Chemistry<br />
• Add CHEM 3700 Alternative Energy (3 credits) as a course elective.<br />
• Minor modification<br />
• Minor in Biochemistry<br />
• Revise BCHM minor to require CHEM 4511 Biochemistry I and CHEM 4512<br />
Biochemistry II, in addition to 9 additional hours.<br />
• Change in course title<br />
• CHEM 3111 Inorganic Chemistry 3‐0‐3<br />
• Previously there was a course numbered CHEM 1311 Inorganic Chemistry I,<br />
which was deactivated in July 2011 (IUCC project number 577).<br />
• CHEM 3111, the subject of this proposal is currently titled “Inorganic<br />
Chemistry II”. We are proposing that the title of the course be changed to<br />
“Inorganic Chemistry”.<br />
• Deactivate course<br />
• CHEM 4681 – Advanced Chemistry Lab (5 credits)
Action Items – February 12 Minutes<br />
College of Computing and School of Literature, Media, and Communication<br />
• Degree modification<br />
• Bachelor of Science in Computational Media<br />
• Modify the existing BSCM to eliminate CS 4911 (3 hours) and CS 4901 (1 hour)<br />
as required capstone courses and to replace them with a single CS 4912 (3)<br />
course.<br />
• Restore CS 4001 as a required CS course.<br />
• Combine and condense two courses, CS 4911 (3 hours) and CS 4901 (1 hour),<br />
into one: CS 4912 (3 hours). The one hour freed by the elimination of CS 4901<br />
will be diverted to free elective hours.<br />
• New course<br />
• CS 4912: Design Capstone Project 3‐0‐3
Action Items – February 12 Minutes<br />
School of Literature, Media, and Communication<br />
• Degree modification – Change in name of degree<br />
• From: Bachelor of Science in Science, <strong>Tech</strong>nology, and Culture<br />
• To Bachelor of Science in Literature, Media, and Communication (with<br />
concentrations)<br />
• Degree Modification<br />
• In response to the recommendation of the 2010 Board of Regents<br />
Review team and to the evolving research interests of the faculty, the<br />
Literature, Media, and Communication Undergraduate Curriculum<br />
Committee and the faculty of LMC recommend that the B.S. in Science,<br />
<strong>Tech</strong>nology, and Culture (BSSTC) be revised to follow a “threaded”<br />
curriculum.<br />
• The threaded design of the LMC degree is intended to generate 15<br />
distinct concentrations, major who elects to pursue the Media<br />
thread and the Interaction Design thread would complete an LMC<br />
degree with the Media‐Interaction Design concentration.<br />
• Number of hours for the degree remains at 122
Action Items – February 12 Minutes<br />
• New Courses<br />
• LMC 2800: Introduction to Literature, Media, and Communication<br />
3‐0‐3<br />
• LMC 2850: Seminar in Literature, Media, and Communication 3‐0‐3<br />
• Recreate all LCC classes as LMC classes to match our new School<br />
name. We are changing nothing but our course codes at this time.<br />
This group of courses is comprised of 3000‐level classes with the<br />
general education (Core Curriculum) attribute (Humanities).<br />
• Recreate all LCC classes as LMC classes to match our new School<br />
name. We are changing nothing but our course codes at this time.<br />
This group of courses is comprised of 2000‐level classes with the<br />
general education (Core Curriculum) attribute (Humanities).<br />
• Updating its course numbers to correspond to its new name: LMC<br />
(not LCC).
Motion<br />
•Motion to approve all action<br />
items from the January 15, 2013<br />
Minutes and the February 12,<br />
2013 Minutes
Approval of Minutes<br />
• The following Minutes are submitted for approval:<br />
• November 20, 2012 (Petitions Minutes)<br />
• November 30, 2012 (Petitions Minutes)<br />
• December 11, 2012 (Petitions Minutes)<br />
• January 8, 2013 (Petitions Minutes)<br />
• January 15, 2013 (Appeals and Academic Matters)<br />
• January 22, 2013 (Petitions Minutes)<br />
• February 12, 2013 (Appeals and Academic<br />
Matters)<br />
• Motion to approve the Minutes