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Name:
Department: GRAD SCHOOL ASSOC
Henry Foley/erc
DEANS OFFICE
Position: Dean of the Graduate School Campus: UNIVERSITY PARK
CAMPUS
Title: Executive Director of Graduate Education Administration
Concur:Pending The Following Action By The Initiator
(5) Comments: Consider adding "Materials Science and Engineering" to the course title to identify the course as
specific to MATSC. For the abbreviated title, "MATSE PROF DEVELOP" would work. If this change is made,
also update the title of the course in the Long Course Description and in the Relationship of Course to Major...
section.
In the brief outline of the course content and the listing of major topics, define "lecture" as a measure of
time--some courses have lectures that last for three hours; others are 1.25 hours or 1 hour. Perhaps use weeks
or days instead of lectures for the allotment of time?
Proofread the Long Course Description to be certain that it reads as intended; some apparently plural words
appear to be missing the "s" at the end. This description will be published in the Graduate Bulletin.
Reviewed On: 11/20/2011 2:46:00 PM
Response: On 11/28/2011 9:55:13 AM AMANDA AULT Responded: Changes have been made. The long course
description has been proofread and the faculty instructor concludes that it is correct.
Concur:Pending The Following Action By The Initiator
(6) Comments: Thank you for addressing my earlier feedback. Please also update the title of the course in two
other places: the Long Course Description, and the Relationship of Course to Major... section.
Reviewed On: 11/28/2011 1:46:00 PM
Response: On 12/13/2011 8:47:46 PM AMANDA AULT Responded: The course title has been updated in both places.
Thank you.
(7)
Concur:Yes
Comments:
Reviewed On: 12/15/2011 11:53:00 PM
Name:
Department: GRAD SCHOOL ASSOC
Richard Young/erc
DEANS OFFICE
Position: Graduate School Subcommittee Representative Campus: UNIVERSITY PARK
CAMPUS
Title: Executive Director of Graduate Education Administration
Concur:Pending The Following Action By The Initiator
(8) Comments: The Subcommittee notes that the proposed Evaluation Method, “One hundred percent of student
grades will be based on class participation,” falls outside of normal and acceptable practice as the basis for
evaluation and assignment of quality grades in graduate courses; in particular, it would seem that accurate
documentation of the degree of class participation would be difficult in support of differential quality grades.
The Subcommittee requests that the proposer revise or expand the description of this evaluation method to
support the feasibility of this basis for evaluating graduate students; an alternative is to consider requesting an
exception from the Dean of the Graduate School to use Pass/Fail grading for this course if the proposer feels
that the course meets the criteria (see “Pass/Fail Grading System” at http://www.gradsch.psu.edu/policies
/faculty/passfail.html).
In addition, the Subcommittee asks that the proposer explain the term “pathological research,” which is used in
the Listing of Major Topics and in the Long Course Description (which will be published in the Graduate
Bulletin). This term is familiar to Subcommittee members with respect to the medical field, but it is unclear how
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