Curriculum Committee Minutes for the meeting held on April 28, 2020

Minutes

The Academic Senate Committee on Curriculum met on April 28, 2020 at 2:00 pm online via Blackboard Collaborate


Committee Members in Attendance:

A. Adair, T. Bayer, D. Fox-Herron, T.Hemraj-Benny, T. Holden (Chair),
I. Lizzul, J. Murley, J. Nichols, P. Pecorino, M. Pullin (Academic Affairs),
M. Tawde, P. Wallach (Secretary), R. Yuster


Liaisons in Attendance:

R. Mako (Library Liaison)

Also in attendance:

P. Bhansali (Biological Sciences and Geology), A. Corradetti (Academic Affairs),
W. Ford (Business), M. Franco (Chair, Mathematics & Computer Science),
M. Katz (Business), A. Kolios (Business),M. Sassolas (Mathematics & Computer Science),
K. Stroumbakis (Mathematics & Computer Science), K. Villani (Chair, Business)


Business:

The meeting was called to order at 2:00 PM

  1. The minutes of the April 14, 2020 meeting were approved by the committee.

  2. The committee welcomes new members Dr. Arthur Adair (Speech Communication & Theatre Arts), Dr. Phil Pecorino (Social Sciences) and Dr. Mangala Tawde (Biological Sciences & Geology).

  3. Punita Bhansali presented courses for the Biological Sciences and Geology Department.

  4. The committee considered the following course revisions:

    BI-451 Phlebotomy Technology

    BI-961 Phlebotomy Practice

    After discussing the proposals, the committee voted and the proposals were approved unanimously by those present.

  5. The committee discussed the program revision from Biological Sciences and Geology Department for the Medical Assistant A.A.S. program. After discussing the proposal, the committee voted and the proposal was approved unanimously by those present.

  6. There was a discussion of the new courses CS-102 Spreadsheet Programming with MS Excel and CS-103 Relational Databases with SQL, previously submitted by the Mathematics and Computer Science Department. Members of the Business Department and Mathematics and Computer Science Department presented their opposition and support of these courses.
The meeting was adjourned at 4:30 PM.


Respectfully submitted,

Patrick Wallach
Committee on Curriculum, Secretary

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