GRADUATE COUNCIL MINUTES

February 21, 2001

The Graduate Council met in regular session on February 21, 2002, in BBA room 220. Members present: Joe Arn, Keith Atkinson, Cathy Caldwell, Sarah Charton, Paul Hamilton, Terry James, Jane Lammers, Katherine Larson, Elaine McNiece, Chair, Bonnie Melchior, John Murphy, Armand Picou, Ira Saltz, Jeff Showell, Glenda Thurman, and Nicole Hare. Members absent: Linda Griffith, Ronn Hy, Don Jones, Venita Lovelace-Chandler, Margaret Morgan, Sheila Stroman, and Tanner Chapman.

1. Graduate Council Minutes from January 24, 2002, were approved as distributed.

2. Subcommittee II recommended approval of the New Program Proposal from the Department of Middle/Secondary Education & Instructional Technology:

Master of Science in Training Systems

Unanimously approved.

Subcommittee II recommended approval of a new course proposal:

ENGL 5360 History and Structure of the English Language

Unanimously approved with suggested corrections.

III. Information Items

Reinstate previously existing courses:

HIST 5367 Tudor- Stuart England 1485-1714

HIST 5369 Victorian England 1815-1901

SPTH 6313 Special Problems back to variable credit, 6113, 6213, 6313

Course title change:

HIST 6323 Colonial and Revolutionary America, 1759-1815 TO

HIST 6323 Colonial and Revolutionary America, 1497-1789

FLAN 5315 Methods of Teaching Foreign Languages TO

WLAN 5315 Methods of Teaching Second Languages

New prerequisites attached.

Prefix change:

All FLAN prefixes will be changed to WLAN to reflect new department name.

There being no further business, the meeting adjourned at 1:55 and immediately went into executive session to consider a student appeal.

Respectfully submitted,

Elaine McNiece, Chair

Graduate Council

c: Terry James