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October 18, 2023

Date/Time
Wednesday, 10/18/2023
Location
Reaud 312
Submitted By:
Kristan Traxler

番茄社区 University  

Graduate Council   

Minutes #491 

October 18, 2023 

 

Attending: Ashley Dockens, Robin Latimer, Tom Harvey, Ruthie Robinson, Theresa Hefner-Babb, Brett Welch, Kristan Traxler, Carly Cox, Ken Young, Debbie Troxclair, Yueqing Li, Vivek Natarajan, Connie Howard 

 

Approval of Minutes 

#490 – September 20, 2023 

Motion to accept minutes, Harvey; second from Dockens; motion passed 

 

Old Business  

College of Fine Arts and Communication 

Deaf Studies & Deaf Education - Department proposing to change exiting EdD program to a PhD, provided updated syllabi for courses to be reviewed. Dr. Clark joined the previous meeting and described the proposal.  

Council members were to review proposal and provide feedback via email and vote at the October meeting.  

DSDE 6301 

Deaf History 

DSDE 6305 

Psycholinguistics  

DSDE 6309 

Doctoral Seminar 

DSDE 6315 

Statistics 

DSDE 6316 

RDS I 

DSDE 6317 

RDS II 

DSDE 6320 

Intro to Qualitative Research 

DSDE 6321 

Advanced Qual Research  

DSDE 6325 

Comparative Culture Studies 

Grad Studies will make a list of bullet points based on today’s discussion and share with council for further input. Once completed, the assessment will be provided to Provost Brown for consideration. The goal is to come to a final decision and let the department know if the proposal will be moving forward or not.   

 

New Business 

Introduced new council members. Discussed the need for more materials to be submitted with curriculum items, i.e. degree plan, justification, etc.  

 

College of Arts and Sciences 

Chemistry & Biochemistry – proposing one new master’s level courses for Chemistry graduate program   

Course Change or Addition  

Course Prefix & Number 

Course Title 

Degree(s) Impacted 

Effective Semester 

Addition 

CHEM 5381 

Scientific Communications 

MS 

Fall 2023 

Motion to accept, Latimer; second from Natarajan; motion passed 

 

College of Fine Arts & Communication 

Deaf Studies & Deaf Education – proposing one new master’s level course for master’s level graduate program  

Course Change or Addition  

Course Prefix & Number 

Course Title 

Degree(s) Impacted 

Effective Semester 

Addition 

DSDE 5323 

Scholarly Writing 

MA 

Summer 2023 

Motion to accept, Natarajan; second, Robinson; motion passed 

 

College of Engineering 

Electrical Engineering – proposing 9 course changes and 13 course additions for master’s and doctoral level graduate programs 

Course Change or Addition  

Course Prefix & Number 

Course Title 

Degree(s) Impacted 

Effective Semester 

Addition 

ELEN 6307 

Advanced Computer Network Analysis and Design 

DE 

Fall 2023 

Addition 

ELEN 6311 

Advanced Cyber Physical System & Security 

DE 

Fall 2023 

Addition 

ELEN 5312 

Advanced Power Electronics 

DE 

Fall 2023 

Addition 

ELEN 6314 

Advanced Robotics Systems 

DE 

Fall 2023 

Addition 

ELEN 5316 

Advanced Digital Communications 

DE 

Fall 2023 

Addition 

ELEN 6317 

Advanced PLC Systems & 番茄社区ming 

DE 

Fall 2023 

Change 

ELEN 6325 

Advanced VLSI Design and Testing Issues 

DE 

Fall 2023 

Addition 

ELEN  6346 

Statistical DSP and Modeling 

DE 

Fall 2023 

Addition 

ELEN 6350 

Advanced Python 番茄社区ming 

DE 

Fall 2023 

Addition 

ELEN 6366 

Image Processing 

DE 

Fall 2023 

Addition 

ELEN 6372 

Antennas Design & Analysis 

DE 

Fall 2023 

Change 

ELEN 5311 

Cyber Physical System & Security 

MS 

Fall 2023 

Change 

ELEN 5307 

Computer Network Analysis & Design 

MS 

Fall 2023 

Change 

ELEN 5312 

Power Electronics 

MS 

Fall 2023 

Change 

ELEN 5314 

Robotics Systems 

MS 

Fall 2023 

Change 

ELEN 5316 

Digital Communications 

MS 

Fall 2023 

Change 

ELEN 5317 

PLC Systems & 番茄社区ming 

MS 

Fall 2023 

Change 

ELEN 5336 

Advanced Instrumentation and Automation Systems 

MS 

Fall 2023 

Change 

ELEN 5346 

Statistical DSP 

MS 

Fall 2023 

Addition 

ELEN 5350 

Python 番茄社区ming 

MS 

Fall 2023 

Addition 

ELEN 5366 

Image Processing 

MS 

Fall 2023 

Addition 

ELEN 5371 

Computational Electromagnetics 

MS 

Fall 2023 

Addition 

ELEN 5372 

Printed Antennas & RF Circuits 

MS 

Fall 2023 

These changes address the issues resulting from stacked courses. They clearly differentiate rigor levels between undergrad, graduate, and doctoral level courses.  

Motion to approve, Natarajan; second from Harvey; motion passed