Southern State Community College

Curriculum committee minutes

October 17, 2003

Present: Brenda Tilton, Jon Davidson, Bruce Fugate, Jeff Ladrach, Virginia Ferguson, Julie Basham, Tom Stroup, Larry Hartsock, Terry Flum, Bill Horne

Others present: Susan Peter, Don Storer, Linda Chamblin, Peggy Roark, Kathey James, Ernie Cronan.

Agenda for October meeting approved.

Nominations of Bill Horne for chair, Terry Flum Vice chair, and Brenda Tilton secretary All elected.

Minutes from May motion to approve Tom Stroup second Terry Flum. Approved

Minutes from September motion to approve Tom Stroup second Jeff Ladrach. Approved.

Bill Horne handed out curriculum committee procedures manual and board of regents manual.

Old Business

I. Articulation agreement with UC-College of Applied Science in Chemical Technology Approved with the use of a cover sheet.

II. Articulation agreement with Shawnee State University in Plastics Technology approved after discussion about chemistry requirements and pre-engineering at some point.

III. ENDS 237 Plant and Facility Design. Approved after discussion about prerequisites and overview of who would take the course.

IV. FLNG 220 Intermediate American Sign Language I

FLNG 221 Intermediate American Sign Language II

FLNG 222 Intermediate American Sign Language III

This is being offered as a 199 course now, discussion held of why we need

the course and where it would be offered. Approved with condition that we

would get signatures from FLNG department.

New Business

I. Office Information Technology 425

Office Services 425C

OFIT 101 Office Machine

OFIT 130 Word Processing I

OFIT 131 Word Processing II

OFIT 261 Transcription I

OFIT 290 Internship

All tabled

II. BADM 216 Office Ethics. Introduction will review and bring back to next

meeting for discussion and possible approval.

III. CSCI 113 Internet Lab discussed this in May meeting. Clarifying objectives,

adding WebCT, email etiquette. Approved.

IV. Nursing 101 lab fee

Nursing 102 lab fee

Nursing 103 lab fee

Nursing 201 lab fee

Nursing 202 lab fee

Nursing 203 lab fee

Nursing 204 lab fee

Pass rates in A DN program for nursing are down, these fees are for a program of remediation from Assessment Technologies Institute. The programs help the nursing students go back and retest on the material they had trouble with first time around. Fees are for the book and test that are done on the computer.

Approved.

V. ACCT 209

ACCT 210

This is an update on the Adopted text and evaluation. Approved

VI. AGRI 171 Survey of Agriculture

AGRI 200 Agricultural Field Experience

AGRI 201 Agronomy-Grain Crops

AGRI 207 Forage Crops

AGRI 208 Agronomy Soils

AGRI 228 Soil Fertility & Fertilizers

AGRI 232 Weed Control & Management

AGRI 238 Pesticides & Pesticide Usage

AGRI 247 Economic Entomology

All tabled no one to represent these courses present.

VII. CHEM 101 First Year Chemistry I. Course outline changes. Approved

VIII. CHEM 102 First Year Chemistry II. Course description, course outline, and course objectives changed. Approved.

IX. CHEM 103 First Year Chemistry III. Course description, course outline, course objectives changed. Approved.

X. Text book changes

OFIT 104 Speed & Accuracy

OFIT 135 Desktop Publishing

OFIT 262 Transcription II

PRAC 108 Disease Processes

CSCI 140, 141, 142 Introduction to computers I, II, III

CSCI 109, 111, 112, 114 Lab courses (Summer 2003)

Minutes submitted by

Brenda Tilton