The Curriculum Committee will meet with the Technology Committee on Thursday, December 6 at 1 in the conference room. Agenda items include: Old business Oral History course (syllabus attached) Reconsideration of move to retire 745. Dr. Kibirige is asked to supply a current syllabus and rationale for continuing to have it taught as is. FINAL discussion of 706. Dr. Marcum is asked to clarify his continued scheduling of this without any discussion with the committee of what it should be or become, given Professor Valero's revisions to 700. Rewritten course descriptions and justification for 738 and 745 as Special Topics course (Brody) Proposal for a new certificate (Brody) 737 progress New Business Dean Weinburg's request for courses we can contribute to the Accelerated Masters Program (see below) Hybrid initiative (Brody) 2013 syllabi and schedule 705 proposed as a core course (Marcum) There was no meeting in November. Minutes from October are attached. ************************************************************************************ Hi Mary, Here is the information I've sent out on the AMP. I hope that GSLIS will participate. Please let me know ASAP which programs you would like to include. Best, Dana ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dana Weinberg <dana.weinberg@qc.cuny.edu> Date: Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 7:44 PM Subject: Accelerated Master's Program (AMP) -- invitation to participate To: william.mcclure@qc.cuny.edu, larry.liebovitch@qc.cuny.edu, craig.michaels@qc.cuny.edu Cc: James Stellar <james.stellar@qc.cuny.edu>, Elizabeth Hendrey <Elizabeth.Hendrey@qc.cuny.edu> Please circulate this message to your departments. I invite your Master’s degree programs to participate in an exciting new program, the Accelerated Master’s Program (AMP). The idea behind AMP is simple: Recruit current Queens Colleges Juniors to our existing Master’s programs, grant them early admissions using a streamlined application process, and enable them to take graduate courses their senior year thereby accelerating their timeline for graduating with a Master’s degree. These programs have the potential to help us retain some of our best students and position them for better professional jobs upon graduation while also boosting enrollment in our graduate programs. AMP candidates need not be undergraduate majors in their selected AMP department, encouraging recruiting from a broad range of undergraduate programs. Most of the graduate programs in the Social Sciences have elected to participate. We plan to begin advertising this spring and accept our first batch of applicants to begin the program in fall 2013. Please contact me – dana.weinberg@qc.cuny.edu - if your department would like to participate as we would like to include your program in the promotional materials to be circulated this spring. Admissions criteria for AMP (set by each program) may be more selective than for general admission to our existing graduate programs in that we are selecting students able to balance finishing their undergraduate degrees with beginning their graduate coursework. Students may take up to 12 credits in AMP while completing their undergraduate coursework. Continued participation in AMP is conditioned on maintaining a required minimum GPA (set by each program) and completing the undergraduate degree. The Accelerated MA does not require any change to your existing programs, although it is highly recommended that you identify and limit the courses that you would like the Accelerated MA students to take their senior year so that we may standardize advising; boost and plan for enrollment in existing graduate courses; and streamline operations related to credit transfer, posting, and charges for Graduate Admissions, the Registrar, and the Bursar. AMP courses may not be counted toward the students’ undergraduate degrees. In addition, while students will initially pay the undergraduate rate for AMP credits, upon application of the credits to their graduate programs, they will be charged the graduate differential for their AMP courses.Since participating in AMP may have implications for students’ financial aid and planning, we require that students talk to a Financial Aid Officer as part of their application process to ensure that students understand their options. I have received some questions about the difference between AMP and BA/MA programs. The BA/MA and AMP are complementary as they are intended to recruit different pools of applicants. An important distinction between the programs is that for the AMP, students need not be undergraduate majors. While AMP involves no programmatic changes, BA/MA programs require a proposal to the GCC. BA/MA programs are organic programs, targeted at a department’s majors and combining and even double counting credits for both the undergraduate and graduate degrees. BA/MA programs may be less expensive than separate programs, in that students pay the undergraduate rate for most of the credits and in that it is possible to overlap some of the required courses for the undergraduate major and for the graduate degree and thereby shorten the program. -- Dana Beth Weinberg, Ph.D. Acting Dean of Social Sciences Queens College - CUNY 65-30 Kissena Blvd. Flushing, NY 11367 Phone: 718-997-5210 Fax: 718-997-5535 e-mail: dana.weinberg@qc.cuny.edu -- Dana Beth Weinberg, Ph.D. Acting Dean of Social Sciences Queens College - CUNY 65-30 Kissena Blvd. Flushing, NY 11367 Phone: 718-997-5210 Fax: 718-997-5535 e-mail: dana.weinberg@qc.cuny.edu