Attending: Jerry Lin, Brett Welch, Debbie Troxclair, Vivek Natarajan, Jeff Forret, Xianchang Li, David Short, Donna Azodi, Awais Saleem, and Diane Clark
Approval of Minutes
Motion to accept: 12:35 pm by Jeff Forret, Second Brett Welch and Awais Saleem, motion passed.
Old Business
Electrical Engineering – doctoral student special request for degree plan exceptions. At last month’s meeting, Dr. Lin described the extreme flexibility of the current DE degree plan and that in this student’s case, about half the degree plan consists of 5000-level computer science courses. Council members were presented with the justification provided from the faculty advisor. The student’s transcript has been uploaded for council members to review and discuss today.
New Business
College of Fine Arts & Communication
Deaf Studies & Deaf Education – proposing several items: 1) change to existing degree program title; current title is Master of Science in Deaf Studies Deaf Education, proposed new title is Master of Science in Deaf Education. Deaf Studies is under an MA in the same department since August 2021. 2) requesting the MS Deaf Education be moved to asynchronous online delivery, hours required for degree would be 33 hours for students already having Deaf Education certification and 36 hours for those that need certification. 3) proposing certificate in Deaf Education in the 21st Century – 18 hour graduate certificate
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Course Change |
DSDE 5318 |
Changing title to “Bilingual Theories” |
MS Deaf Education |
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Course Change |
DSDE 5319 |
Changing title to “Literacy” |
MS Deaf Education |
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Course Change |
DSDE 5322 |
Changing title to “STEM” |
MS Deaf Education |
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Course Change |
DSDE 5326 |
Changing title to “Educational Psychology” |
MS Deaf Education |
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Course Addition |
DSDE 5311 |
ASL Linguistics |
MA Deaf Studies |
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Course Addition |
DSDE 5330 |
Deaf Immigrants |
MS Deaf Education |
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Course Addition |
DSDE 5331 |
Deaf Education |
MS Deaf Education |
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Course Addition |
DSDE 5332 |
Behavioral Management |
MS Deaf Education |
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Course Addition |
DSDE 5333 |
21st Century Deaf Education |
MS Deaf Education |
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Course Addition |
DSDE 5360 |
Capstone Seminar |
MA Deaf Studies |
Diane Clark is presenting the proposed updates to Deaf education by dropping the term deaf studies, provide updated courses, and changed the titles of courses and content of those courses. It will impact transition for courses from face to face courses and online courses. Proposed to develop master courses which will be taught by adjunct faculty. This will free up faculty commitments in the department. Beaumont will transition to be online courses, while Austin will offer Hybrid courses for the master’s program.
Graduate Council will spend time reviewing the degree plan and proposal for the following week. Discussion will resume at the next Graduate Council meeting. All in an agreement at 1:20 PM.
Meeting adjourned at 1:21 PM.