12-3-14 Administrative Boards Minutes | The Administrative Boards

MINUTES OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE BOARDS
of the General College and the College of Arts and Sciences
Tuesday, December 3, 2013

The meeting was called to order at 3:30 p.m. and chaired by Senior Associate Dean Bobbi Owen.

Members in attendance: Yaakov Ariel, Daniel Anderson,Navin Bapat, Jaye Cable, Christopher Derickson, Li-Ling Hsiao, Deborah Jones, Erika Lindemann, Douglas MacLean, Lee May, Bobbi Owen, Christopher Putney, Michael Rolleri, Margaret Scarry, Nick Siedentop, Keith Sockman, Michael Waltman, Barbara Wildemuth

Absent: Marcie Cohen Ferris, Karen Gil, Anne MacNeil, Louise McReynolds, Chris Roush, Mark Schoenfisch

Guests:Robert Miles, Friederike Seeger

Staff: Ben Haven

1. Senior Associate Dean Bobbi Owen welcomed Boards members to the final meeting of the fall semester and thanked them for their excellent work.

2. Study Abroad Advisory Board Report and Proposals
Six study abroad proposals were presented to the Boards:

Robert Miles, Associate Dean for Study Abroad and International Exchanges, and Friederike Seeger, Director of Burch Programs and Honors Study Abroad, responded to Boards members’ questions. All six proposals were approved.

3. Undergraduate Curriculum Proposals

The Boards approved the UNC/NCSU Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering proposal to create a B.S. degree in biomedical and health sciences engineering based at UNC-Chapel Hill. The Boards supported the request for authorization to plan the BS degree program in biomedical engineering.
The Boards approved a five course minor in studio art, effective fall 2014. Students would not be able to pursue both a minor in studio art and a minor in art history.
Prior to discussing the proposal to revise the minor in dramatic art to include a concentration in theatre management, the Boards approved adding DRAM 279 Introduction to Theatre Management (noted as DRAM 293 in the proposal) to the course catalog and revising DRAM 193 Production Practicum to include “theatre management” as an additional area of focus (see Curriculum Committee Report for more details). The Boards approved both courses as wells as the theatre management concentration for the minor in dramatic art, all effective fall 2014.
The Boards approved the request from the Department of Geography to revise the BA major by increasing the credit hours to 30 and requiring majors to take both GEOG 391 Quantitative Methods in Geography and GEOG 392 Research Methods in Geography, effective fall 2014.
The Boards approved the request to revise the BA and the BFA majors in studio art, effective with the fall 2014 semester. For the BFA major, the Boards approved adding ARTS 101 (formerly a gateway course) to the required courses and decreasing the number of electives from 18 to 15 credit hours. Also approved were changes to the BA requirements:
- a reduction in the total number of credits from 39 to 36 hours,
- the addition of ARTS 101 as a required course, and
- the addition of ARTS 500 and an art history course as elective, not required, courses.

4. Curriculum Committee Reports, Associate Dean Erika Lindemann
The Boards approved the Curriculum Committee Reports as distributed.

5. Miscellaneous Curriculum Changes, Nick Siedentop, Curriculum Director
The Boards approved the miscellaneous curriculum changes as corrected. For the BA major in history, the course title HIST 325 “Good and History” was corrected to read HIST 325 “Food and History.” Also, the Department of History withdrew its request to change the name of a concentration within the BA Major in History from “Russian, Eurasian, and Eastern European History” to “Russian, Eurasian, and East European History”.

The meeting adjourned at 4:30 p.m. Afterward, Owen invited all Boards members to celebrate the end of the semester at the Carolina Club.

Next meeting of the Administrative Boards
Tuesday, January 28, 2014, 3:30-5:00 pm, Steele 3020