The next Curriculum Committee Meeting is scheduled for Thursday, March 8, at 1:30. A copy of the minutes of the last meeting and submitted program change forms are included. Other items may be submitted.
Tentative agenda items include:
Old Business:
Final copy of Knowledge Management course with assignments linked to outcomes (Kibirige)
Rewritten course descriptions and justification for 738 and 745 as Special Topics course (Brody)
702 course revisions (Brody)
Proposal for a new certificate (Brody)
Review of syllabus for grant-funded oral history course (Alexander)
Adaptation of MLA citation format to APA for ebook citations.(Perry & Jackson)
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Curriculum Committee Minutes
December 8, 2011
Present: Brody, Chelton, Cool, Cooper, Valero
Absent: qcLISSA rep
The meeting began at 1:30 p.m.
Minutes were approved from the November meeting.
Old Business
Announcement re paid internships change.
Since the November meeting, the committee decided to put the change of policy on the class website and not to distribute to glisann.
Information re ECPSE 550. Dr. Cooper has confirmed that it is a graduate-level course.
Final Knowledge Management course syllabus. Approved except for linking the learning outcomes to assignments prior to first teaching day with a final copy submitted to the committee.
Updates on new Knowledge and Its Uses course.
Still a work in progress, but Dr. Marcum submitted a draft incorporating new readings.
Further input on 737 revision. Dr. Smith’s input was reviewed and it was decided to let Drs. Chelton and Cooper revise the syllabus and if possible, the name of the course, over the break and bring back to the committee next semester
New Business:
Identification of courses to be retired.
At the suggestion of Dr. Brody, pending full faculty concurrence, 738 and 745 would be turned into examples of special topics courses. Dr. Brody will bring rewritten course descriptions and justifications for the next committee meeting.
It was suggested and agreed, pending full faulty concurrence, that 763 should be retired entirely and that “book and nonbook” should be omitted from the course description of 775.
702 course revisions (Brody)
Deferred until February.
More course name, description changes with justifications for 781 and 786 (Brody)
It was suggested and agreed, pending full faculty concurrence, that 786 now be called Data and Research Sources for Businesses and Enterprises, and that 781 now be called Corporate and Engerprise Information Organizations.
Proposal for a new certificate (Brody)
Deferred until February.
Prereqs for advanced technology courses (Brody)
The required prereqs for 729, 748, and 755 are obviously not in CUNYFirst. The Chair will ask Bridget to check for sure.
After some discussion of 706, the committee decided to bring the issue to the full faculty.
Minor LMS course changes (Cooper)
The committee agreed:
1, pending full faculty concurrence to be solicited by email that a request for a minor program change to 606 and the hopefully soon to be post MLS in LMS for uncertified people will be made to the GCC/Academic Senate/CUNY/NYSED for ECPSE 550 or equivalent to replace ECPSE 700 or equivalent. This program change will be requested after the post MLS program is approved by NYSED. In the interm, Dean Bodner suggested that Dr. Cooper write to the Registrar asking that 550 be accepted “as equivalent” to 700 until the formal change is made with NYSED
2. that the name of program 604 be changed from School Media Specialist to Library Media Specialist for Certified Teachers to match the name used by NY State;
3. that references to specific state exams be removed all LMS documentation so that a program change does not need to be made every time NYS changes its testing requirements
Question re 705 (Marcum)
Only Dr. Brody remembers the course ever being required for non-school people. The chair will communicate this to him.
The meeting adjourned at 2:40.
The next committee meeting is Thursday, Feb.9 at 1:30. Tentative agenda items include those deferred from this meeting, a review of the syllabus for Ben’s grant-funded oral history course, and further review of Dr. Marcum’s New Knowledge course.
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GRADUATE CURRICULUM COMMITTEE
PROGRAM CHANGE FORM
Department: Graduate School of Library and Information Studies
Department Contact: Linda Cooper
Telephone Number: 18-997-3790 linda.cooper(a)qc.cuny.edu
Date Approved by Departmental Curriculum Committee: Dec. 8, 2011
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1) Please specify the type of change you are requesting:
Change in requirements for admission: [ ]
Change in requirements for degree/certificate: [ ]
*Program Title
2) Please give HEGIS number of known to you: <INSERT>
PROGRAM CODE : 26411 - click here for more program information
PROGRAM TITLE : LIBRARY MEDIA SPECIALIST FOR CERT TCHRS AWARD : MLS
INST.NAME/CITY: CUNY QUEENS COLLEGE FLUSHING HEGIS : 0899.01
3) Please give the present requirements as previously passed by the Academic Senate. Bracket the material that you wish changed or eliminated:
[School Media Specialist]
4) Please state the requirements as you wish them to read in the future. Eliminate whatever was bracketed above, and underline new material you are substituting or adding:
Library Media Specialist for Certified Teachers
5) Please give a justification for the change:
The New York State Education Department changed the name of the teacher certification area for school librarians some time ago. The name change has been made for our GSLIS 604 program in the State Inventory of Registered Programs but has not yet been made on our QC College level.
I am asking for your approval to request that the Graduate Curriculum Committee and the Academic Senate approve the program name change from
School Media Specialist MLS (the name that QC is using now - this NYS teacher certification area no longer exists) to
Library Media Specialist for Certified Teachers MLS (the name that NYSED Inventory of Registered Programs now lists for our 604 program)
PLEASE SUBMIT 10 PAPER COPIES TO THE OFFICE OF GRADUATE STUDIES,
AND ONE ELCTRONIC COPY TO GRADUATESTUDIES(a)QC.EDU
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GRADUATE CURRICULUM COMMITTEE
PROGRAM CHANGE FORM
Department: Graduate School of Library and Information Studies
Department Contact: Linda Cooper
Telephone Number: 718-997-3790 linda.cooper(a)qc.cuny.edu
Date Approved by Departmental Curriculum Committee: Dec. 8, 2011
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1) Please specify the type of change you are requesting:
Change in requirements for admission: X
Change in requirements for degree/certificate: [ ]
2) Please give HEGIS number of known to you: 0899.01
PROGRAM CODE : 26411 - click here for more program information
PROGRAM TITLE : LIBRARY MEDIA SPECIALIST FOR CERT TCHRS AWARD : MLS
INST.NAME/CITY: CUNY QUEENS COLLEGE FLUSHING HEGIS : 0899.01
3) Please give the present requirements as previously passed by the Academic Senate. Bracket the material that you wish changed or eliminated: <Insert>
[Students who choose this specialization must have, prior to admission to the LMS program, a permanent, provisional or initial, professional NYS Teaching Certificate (including LAST, ATS-W, fingerprinting, Child Abuse ID, School Violence Prevention). ]
[Applicants for LMS Teacher Certification in NYS must pass the New York State Content Specialty Test #74/Library Media Specialist. ]
4) Please state the requirements as you wish them to read in the future. Eliminate whatever was bracketed above, and underline new material you are substituting or adding:
Applicants for NYS teacher certification in the area of Library Media Specialist must satisfy all NYS Teacher Certification testing and other requirements stipulated by NYSED.
5) Please give a justification for the change:
NYSED is making changes in its requirements for teacher certification. Some of the changes impact on statements made in our GSLIS 604 and/or 606 program requirements and distributed material. These changes have to do specifically with State testing required for teacher certification (i.e. presently the Liberal Arts and Science Exam/LAST, the Assessment of Teaching Skill-Written/ATS-W, the Content Specialty Examination).
I am requesting your approval to remove reference to specific NYS examination titles from our LMS program material and the substitution of the following generic statement that should accommodate any present and future changes NYSED makes in its requirements:
Applicants for NYS teacher certification in the area of Library Media Specialist must satisfy all NYS Teacher Certification testing and other requirements stipulated by NYSED.
PLEASE SUBMIT 10 PAPER COPIES TO THE OFFICE OF GRADUATE STUDIES,
AND ONE ELCTRONIC COPY TO GRADUATESTUDIES(a)QC.EDU
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GRADUATE CURRICULUM COMMITTEE
PROGRAM CHANGE FORM
Department: Graduate School of Library and Information Studies
Department Contact: Linda Cooper
Telephone Number: 718-997-3790 linda.cooper(a)qc.cuny.edu
Date Approved by Departmental Curriculum Committee: December 8, 2011
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1) Please specify the type of change you are requesting:
Change in requirements for admission: x
Change in requirements for degree/certificate: X
2) Please give HEGIS number of known to you: 1601.00
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PROGRAM CODE : 34038 - click here for more program information
PROGRAM TITLE : LIBRARY MEDIA SPECIALIST AWARD : MLS
INST.NAME/CITY: CUNY QUEENS COLLEGE FLUSHING HEGIS : 1601.00
FORMATS : EVE STD N-FT
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3) Please give the present requirements as previously passed by the Academic Senate. Bracket the material that you wish changed or eliminated:
[applicants will be required to present passing scores on the NYS Liberal Arts & Science Test (LAST)]
[Other requirements
NYS examinations:
• Secondary Assessment of Teaching Skills (ATS-W)
• Content Specialty Test (CST) – LMS]
4) Please state the requirements as you wish them to read in the future. Eliminate whatever was bracketed above, and underline new material you are substituting or adding:
Applicants for NYS teacher certification in the area of Library Media Specialist must satisfy all NYS Teacher Certification testing and other requirements stipulated by NYSED.
5) Please give a justification for the change:
NYSED is making changes in its requirements for teacher certification. Some of the changes impact on statements made in our GSLIS 604 and/or 606 program requirements and distributed material. These changes have to do specifically with State testing required for teacher certification (i.e. presently the Liberal Arts and Science Exam/LAST, the Assessment of Teaching Skill-Written/ATS-W, the Content Specialty Examination).
I am requesting your approval to remove reference to specific NYS examination titles from our LMS program material and the substitution of the following generic statement that should accommodate any present and future changes NYSED makes in its requirements:
Applicants for NYS teacher certification in the area of Library Media Specialist must satisfy all NYS Teacher Certification testing and other requirements stipulated by NYSED.
PLEASE SUBMIT 10 PAPER COPIES TO THE OFFICE OF GRADUATE STUDIES,
AND ONE ELCTRONIC COPY TO GRADUATESTUDIES(a)QC.EDU
