CURRICULUM COMMITTEE MEETING
Friday, October 26, 2007 - 2:00 p.m.
City Park Campus – Lac Maurepas (Building 23, Second Floor)
AGENDA
I.
Call to Order
II.
Roll Call
III.
Minutes of meeting of September 21, 2007
IV.
Curriculum Operations Report – Tim Stamm
V.
New Business
a)
Allied Health/PSOM
Concept of New Program
: Associate of Applied Science in
Polysomnographic Technology, a program designed to prepare students to
perform quality sleep studies and to work in comprehensive sleep centers
located in hospitals and independent sleep centers. Polysomnography is the
physiological measurement of sleep for identification of sleep disorders.
b)
Allied Health/PSOM
Concept of a New Program
: Certificate of Technical Studies in
Polysomnographic Technology. The Certificate will serve as an exit point for
students and is designed to meet an articulated workforce need.
c)
Allied Health/FSED
Course Deletion
: FSED-227: Funeral Service Microbiology and Pathology.
Delete the course FSED-227: Funeral Service Microbiology and Pathology
from the catalog of course offerings. Curricular revision will replace this
course with another in the “Courses Required in Major” of the Funeral
Services Associate of Applied Science degree program.
d)
Allied Health/FSED
New Course
: FSED-228: Funeral Service Pathology. Creation of a new
course, FSED-228: Funeral Service Pathology. The course is designed to
cover the basic principles of pathology as applied to funeral service education.
Topics include: sanitation, disinfection, public health, embalming practice.
Course description: Basic principles as applied to funeral service education,
especially as they pertain to sanitation, disinfection, public health, and
embalming practice. The development and use of personal, professional, and
community hygiene and sanitation are discussed. Special emphasis is placed
on tissue pathology and major causative agents of death.
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e)
Allied Health/FSED
Course Modification
: FSED-164: Funeral Home Embalming and Cosmetic
Practicum. Reduce the credit hours of FSED-164: Funeral Home Embalming
and Cosmetic Practicum from four (4) credit hours to three (3) credit hours.
f)
Allied Health/FSED
Course Modification
: FSED-168: Funeral Home Office and Arrangement
Practicum. Reduce the credit hours of FSED-168: Funeral Home Office and
Arrangement Practicum from four (4) credit hours to three (3) credit hours.
g)
Allied Health/FSED
Course Modification
: FSED-270: Funeral Service Seminar. Reduce the
credit hours of FSED-270: Funeral Service Seminar from three (3) credit
hours to two (2) credit hours.
h)
Allied Health/FSED
Program Revision
: Associate of Applied Science in Funeral Services
Education. Revise the FSED Associate of Applied Science degree program as
follows: Delete FSED-227: Funeral Service Microbiology and Pathology from
Required Courses in Major; Add BIOL-210: Microbiology of Human
Pathogens to Required Courses in Major (course satisfies Natural Sciences
General Education Requirement); Add FSED-228: Funeral Service Pathology
to Required Courses in Major. Total program credit hours remain the same.
i)
Allied Health/FSED
Change of Course Title
: FSED-130: Grief Counseling. Change the title of
FSED-130 from “Grief Counseling” to “Dynamics of Grief” to eliminate the
emphasis on counseling that may imply the student is qualified to counsel
families. The purpose of this course is to understand the psychology of grief
and identify counseling needs and refer the family to the appropriate
organizations, counselors, etc.
j)
Business and Technology/ADOT
Change of Prerequisite Requirements
: ADOT-264: Database
Applications. Modify the prerequisite requirement of ADOT-264: Database
Applications to state: “Prerequisite: ADOT-105: Survey of Computer
Applications or CMIN-201: Computer and Internet Literacy or CMIN-204:
Fundamentals of Information Technologies and Systems.” Current
prerequisite states: “Prerequisite: ADOT-105: Survey of Computer
Applications or CMIN-201: Computer and Information Literacy.”
k)
Business and Technology/ADOT
Change of Prerequisite Requirements
: ADOT-265: Spreadsheet
Applications. Modify the prerequisite requirement of ADOT-265:
Spreadsheet Applications to state: “Prerequisite: ADOT-105: Survey of
Computer Applications or CMIN-201: Computer and Internet Literacy or
CMIN-204: Fundamentals of Information Technologies and Systems.”
Current prerequisite states: “Prerequisite: ADOT-105: Survey of Computer
Applications or CMIN-201: Computer and Information Literacy.”
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l)
Business and Technology/CMIN
Change of Prerequisite Requirements
: CMIN-203: Logic and Design.
Modify the prerequisite requirement of CMIN-203: Logic and Design to state:
“Prerequisite: ADOT-105: Survey of Computer Applications or CMIN-201:
Computer and Internet Literacy or CMIN-204: Fundamentals of Information
Technologies and Systems.” Current prerequisite states: “Prerequisite:
CMIN-201: Computer and Information Literacy.”
m)
Business and Technology/CMIN
Change of Prerequisite Requirements
: CMIN-255: Advanced Web
Projects. Modify the prerequisite requirement of CMIN-255: Advanced Web
Projects to state: “Prerequisite: CMIN-206: Web Programming and CMIN-
220: Web Site Design and XHTML.” Current prerequisite states:
“Prerequisite: ADOT-131: Photo Editing for Windows and CMIN-206: Web
Programming.”
n)
Business and Technology/CMIN
Change of Prerequisite Requirements
: CMIN-291: Systems Analysis
Methods. Modify the prerequisite requirement of CMIN-291: Systems
Analysis Methods to state “Prerequisite: CMIN-212: Visual Basic II or CMIN-
250: JAVA Programming.” Current prerequisite states: “Prerequisite: CMIN-
212: Visual Basic II and CMIN-250: JAVA Programming.”
o)
Business and Technology/ACCT
Change of Prerequisite Requirements
: ACCT-201: Accounting I.
Addition of the prerequisite requirement “eligibility for MATH-118.”
Currently, the course has no prerequisite requirements.
p)
Business and Technology/ACCT
Program Revision
: Remove the option of CMIN-201: Computer and
Internet Literacy from the Required Courses in Major of the Accounting
Associate of Science degree program. The programmatic revision will require
students to take BUSG-224: Business Computer Applications. BUSG-224
will better serve Accounting majors due to expanded coverage of business
applications particularly electronic spreadsheets.
q)
Business and Technology/MANG
Change of Prerequisite Requirements
: MANG-215: Management
Information Systems. Modify the prerequisite requirement of MANG-215:
Management Information Systems to state “Prerequisite: BUSG-224:
Business Computer Applications
Or
CMIN-201: Computer and Internet
Literacy
Or
CMIN-204: Fundamentals of Information Technologies and
Systems.” Prerequisite currently state: ““Prerequisite: BUSG-224: Business
Computer Applications
Or
CMIN-201: Computer and Internet Literacy.”
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r)
Business and Technology/CMIN
Program Revision
: Revision of the Computer Information Technology
Associate of Applied Science degree program to offer two separate and
distinct concentrations. Concentrations include: Programmer/Analyst
Specialist and Web Design Specialist. The addition of concentrations to the
Computer Information Technology Associate of Applied Science degree
program will allow students to focus study.
s)
Business and Technology/PSSE
Course Deletion
: PSSE-100: Basic Corrections. Delete the course, PSSE-
100: Basic Corrections, from the catalog of course offerings. The course is not
used in any current certificate or degree program and has not been offered in
the past five (5) years.
t)
Business and Technology/PSSE
Course Deletion
: PSSE-102: Juvenile Corrections. Delete the course,
PSSE-102: Juvenile Corrections, from the catalog of course offerings. The
course is not used in any current certificate or degree program and has not
been offered in the past five (5) years.
u)
Business and Technology/PSSE
Course Deletion
: PSSE-112: Introduction to Public Services. Delete the
course, PSSE-112: Introduction to Public Services, from the catalog of course
offerings. The course is not used in any certificate or degree program; it was
last offered in the summer session of 2004 with low enrollment.
v)
Business and Technology/ENTE
Final Approval of Curriculum
: Certificate of Technical in
Entrepreneurship. Final approval of curriculum and catalog description for
the Certificate of Technical Studies (CTS) in Entrepreneurship.
w)
Business and Technology/MANG
Program Modification
: Associate of Science in Management. Change the
degree designation of the Management program from Associate of Science to
Associate of Applied Science and modify curricular content to reflect the goal
of the program: to prepare students for immediate employment; the program
is not designed for transfer.
x)
Business and Technology/MANG
Change of Program Title
: Management. Change the name of the
Management degree program from “Management” to “Business and
Management.”
VI.
Old Business
VII.
Next Meeting
November 9, 2007
VIII.
Adjournment
