UNIVERSITY FACULTY SENATE FORMS

 

Academic Program Approval

 

This form is a routing document for the approval of new and revised academic programs.  Proposing department should complete this form.  For more information, call the Faculty Senate Office at 831-2921.

 

 

Submitted by: Joan DelFattore________________phone number__x2987                

                                                                                                                                                                                                           

 

Action:  ___Revise majors___

(Example:  add major/minor/concentration, delete major/minor/concentration,  revise major/minor/concentration,  academic unit name change, request for permanent status, policy change, etc.)

 

Effective term____06F_________________________________________________

                                                (use format 04F, 05W)

 

Current degree____BA_____________________________________________________

                                    (Example:  BA, BACH, BACJ, HBA, EDD, MA, MBA, etc.)

 

Proposed change leads to the degree of: ______BA________________________________

                                                                                             (Example:  BA, BACH, BACJ, HBA, EDD, MA, MBA, etc.)

 

 

Proposed name:____N/A___________________________________________________

                                            Proposed new name for revised or new major / minor / concentration / academic unit

                                                                                (if applicable)

 

Revising or Deleting: 

 

Undergraduate major / Concentration:___Anthropology Education, Biological Sciences Education, Chemistry Education, Earth Science Education, Economics Education, English Education, French Education, German Education, Italian Education, Latin Education, Spanish Education, Geography Education, History Education, Mathematics Education, Music Education – Instrumental (Concentration:  Principal Instrument), Music Education – General/Choral (Concentration:  Piano), Music Education – General/Choral (Concentration:  Voice), Physics Education, Political Science Education, Psychology Education, Sociology Education

 

                                                                        (Example:  Applied Music – Instrumental  degree BMAS)

 

Undergraduate minor:_______________________________________________

                                   (Example:  African Studies,  Business Administration,  English, Leadership, etc.)            

 

Graduate Program Policy statement change:____________________________

                                                                        (Attach your Graduate Program Policy Statement)

 

            Graduate Program of Study:__________________________________________

                                 (Example:  Animal Science: MS  Animal Science:  PHD  Economics: MA Economics: PHD)

 

 

                Graduate minor / concentration:______________________________________

 

 

List program changes for curriculum revisions:

 

1.  In the list of required courses for each of the majors listed above, change EDUC 413 from three credits to four credits and change its title from “Educational Psychology:  Social Aspects” to “Adolescent Development and Educational Psychology.”  Note:  The changes to the title and credit hours were approved by the Faculty Senate in Spring 05.  The purpose of this request is to be sure that the correct new information is also included wherever the course is listed as a requirement in a particular program.

 

2.  In the list of required courses for each of the majors listed above, change the title of EDUC414 from “Educational Psychology:  Cognitive Aspects” to its current title, “Teaching Exceptional Adolescents.”

 

3.  In the list of required courses for each of the majors listed above, change the title of EDUC419 from “Diversity in the Classroom” to its current title, “Diversity in Secondary Education.”

 

4.  In the list of required courses for each of the majors listed above, remove EDUC 430, Classroom Management (one credit P/F).  Per the curriculum change approved by the Senate in Spring 04, it has been subsumed into the fourth credit added to EDUC413.

 

 

List new courses required for the new or revised curriculum:

 (Be aware that approval of the curriculum is dependent upon these courses successfully passing through the Course Challenge list. If there are no new courses enter “None”)

 

None

 

Other affected units:

(List other departments affected by this new or revised curriculum.  Attach permission from the affected units.  If no other unit is affected, enter “None”)

 

The School of Education offers EDUC413 and EDUC430, and the University Council on Teacher Education (UCTE) must approve all revisions to teacher education programs.  The purpose of the present proposal is to update the program descriptions of the Arts and Sciences secondary education majors to reflect Faculty Senate action taken in Spring 05 at the request of the School of Education and with the approval of the UCTE.  No additional changes of any kind have been made to the program revision they sponsored last year. 

 

 

Rationale:

(Explain your reasons for creating, revising, or deleting the curriculum or program.)

 

1-3.  In 2004-05, the University Senate approved changing EDUC413 from a three-credit course to a four-credit course and changing the titles of EDUC413, 414, and 419.  These three courses are required in each of the majors named on this form.  We are now requesting that the correct number of credits and the current titles appear each time these courses are listed as requirements in the designated majors.

 

4.  As part of the course revision approved in Spring 04, EDUC430, Classroom Management (one credit P/F), is being subsumed into the fourth credit that has been added to EDUC413.  The topic of classroom management is being threaded throughout all three of the revised EDUC courses because empirical and research evidence shows that future teachers learn classroom management techniques more effectively if they are not presented in isolation, but in the context in which they will be used.  To give two examples, classroom management issues arising from the nature of adolescent behavior are best addressed in a course that examines this topic in detail, as the new four-credit EDUC413 will do; and classroom management issues arising from mainstreaming special education students into regular classes are best addressed in a course that explains the whole background and sense of special education,as the revised version of EDUC414 will do.

 

 

Program Requirements: 

(Show the new or revised curriculum as it should appear in the Course Catalog.  If this is a revision, be sure to indicate the changes being made to the present curriculum.)

 

Since identical changes are to be made to twenty-one majors, it seems sensible to attach a single page showing the proposed changes rather than photocopying the current catalog listings of all the programs and then making the same changes twenty-one times.  The additional pages will, of course, be supplied on request.

 

 

 ROUTING AND AUTHORIZATION:        (Please do not remove supporting documentation.)

 

Department Chairperson:  __Joan DelFattore                  _________________________  Date October 13, 2005

                                          Chair, A&S Coordinating Committee on Teacher Education 

 

Dean of College                                                                                                                       Date                                       

 

Chairperson, College Curriculum Committee___________________________________Date_____________________

 

Chairperson, Senate Com. on UG or GR Studies                                                                   Date                                       

 

Chairperson, Senate Coordinating Com.                                                                 Date                                       

 

Secretary, Faculty Senate                                                                                                       Date                                       

 

Date of Senate Resolution                                                                                                      Date to be Effective               

 

Registrar                                                                  Program Code                                         Date                                       

 

Vice Provost for Academic Programs & Planning                                                                  Date                                       

 

Provost                                                                                                                                   Date                                       

 

Board of Trustee Notification                                                                                                                Date                                       

 

Revised 11/03/04   /khs