GRADUATE COUNCIL MINUTES

February 15, 2001

The Graduate Council met in regular session on February 15, 2001 in BBA 220. Members present were: Cathy Caldwell, Donna Foss, Ken Freiley, Linda Griffith,, Ronn Hy, Don Jones, Elaine McNiece, Chair, Margaret Morgan, John Murphy, Tom Oxner, Armand Picou, Ira Saltz, Jeff Showell, Conrad Shumaker, Sheila Stroman, Glenda Thurman, and LaKeitha Hartfield, student representative. Members absent: Terry James, Jane Lammers, Venita Lovelace-Chandler, and Doug Isanhart. Also in attendance Jonathan Glenn, Chairing a portion of the meeting.

1. Graduate Council Minutes from January 18, 2001 were approved as distributed.

2. Subcommittee I recommended approval on the following Graduate Faculty Application:

Fisher, Donna SPTH 3 yr (2004) 6302, 6306, 6311, 6336, 6320

Motion passed unanimously.

III. New Course Proposals/Pre MBA Leveling

Subcommittee II recommended, Oxner seconded to approve the following Pre-MBA Leveling Courses, with revisions, for non-degree credit:

MBA 5310 Financial and Managerial Accounting Principles

MBA 5320 The Foundations of Economic Science

MBA 5330 Finance Concepts

MBA 5340 Principles of Management

MBA 5350 Fundamentals of Marketing

MBA 5360 Quantitative Analysis for Business

Recommendation passed unanimously.

IV. Graduate Certificate in Management Information Systems with New Course Proposals

Subcommittee II recommended, seconded by Morgan, to approve the following new courses with revisions:

INFO 5362 Computer Programming in Visual Basic

INFO 5363 Business Telecommunications and Network Building

INFO 5364 Desktop Publishing

INFO 5365 Data Analysis and Database Applications

INFO 5366 Web-Site Design

INFO 6350 Information System Technology

V. New Course Proposals/MBA

Subcommittee II recommended, Morgan seconded, to approve the following new course proposals with revisions:

MBA 6320 Strategic Management

MBA 6321 Integration of Business Disciplines

(Replaces MBA 6601 Integration of Business Disciplines)

Recommendation passed unanimously.

VI. New Graduate Certificate Program in Geographic Information Systems with New Course Proposals

Subcommittee III recommended approval, Shumaker seconded, of the new certificate program and course proposals:

GEOG 5315 Mapping Fundamentals for Geographic Information Systems (previously approved)

GEOG 5320 Technical Issues in Geographic Information Systems (previously approved)

GEOG 5323 Geographic Information Systems (previously approved)

GEOG 5328 Spatial Analysis and Modeling

GEOG 5333 Vector-based GIS Techniques with ArcInfo

GEOG 5340 Fundamentals of Database Design and Development

GEOG 5345 Digital Image Processing for GIS

All but the courses listed as previously approved will be for non-degree credit. Motion passes unanimously.

VII. New Course Proposal/Biology

Subcommittee III recommended approval of the following:

BIOL 5425 Experimental Neurobiology

Approved contingent upon inclusion of grading scale and clarification on separation from the undergraduate as this is a double listed course. Motion passed unanimously.

VIII. New Course Proposal/Math

Subcommittee III recommended approval of the following:

MATH 5315 Introduction to Partial Differential Equations

Motion passed unanimously.

IX. New Course Proposals/OTHY

The new course proposals in Occupation Therapy were removed from the table. Subcommittee III recommended approval with the addition of the words >for Occupational Therapy= added to the title listed below:

OTHY 5316 Development for Occupational Performance I

OTHY 5325 Foundations in Mental Health >for Occupational Therapy=

Motion passed unanimously.

There being no further business, meeting adjourned at 2:10 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,

Elaine M. McNiece, Chair

Graduate Council