COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS AND HUMANITIES

CURRICULUM COMMITTEE

MINUTES

8 September 2009

MEMBERS PRESENT:  Omar Mirza (Philosophy); Hugh Givens (Music); Rebecca Crowell (Communication Sciences and Disorders); Mike Hasbrouck (Foreign Languages); Raymond Philippot (English); Scott Wells (Communication Studies); Brenda Wentworth (Theatre, Film Studies and Dance); Kathryn Gainey (Art); Mark Mills (Mass Communications)

GUESTS:  Niaz Ahmed, Roya Akhavan,

Call to Order:  12:32 by Brenda Wentworth

To approve Brenda Wentworth as Chair

M/S/P             Philippot/Crowell     7/0

To approve college representatives to UCC (2), Wentworth and Hasbrouck

M/S/P             Givens/Philippot       7/0

To approve minutes of 28 April 2009

M/S/P             Philippot/Crowell     4/0/3 abstentions

To approve MS in Mass Communications program changes as a package:

PC MS Mass Communications

NC COMM 495-595 Mass Communication Theories

NC COMM 632 Advanced Research Methods in Mass Communications

NC COMM 633 Qualitative and Critical Research Methods

NC COMM 634 Advanced Public Relations Theories and Practices

NC COMM 635 Mass Communication Seminar in Media Convergence

NC COMM 646 Diversity Issues in Mass Media

NC COMM 670 Public Health Communication

RE COMM 620 Advanced Advertising Theories and Practices

M/S/               Wells/Givens            

Above proposals tabled for the next meeting when Mass Communications will provide a Routine Editorial change form dropping COMM 620 Advanced Advertising Theories and Practices and adding a New Course form for the course replacing it.

Note: 

RE COMM 241 Modern Journalism

RE COMM 277 Visual Grammar, Writing for Video Production

RE COMM 377 Introduction to Video Production

Withdrawn by originator

Meeting Adjourned: 1:30