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Graduate Council
Minutes #480
July 20, 2022
Attending: Jerry Lin, Brett Welch, Carly Cox, Theresa Hefner-Babb, David Short, Jeff Forret
Quorum not reached
Approval of Minutes
#478 – May 18, 2022
#479 – June 15, 2022
No vote to approve minutes was held today.
Council members reviewed the agenda in preparation for next month’s meeting.
Old Business
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
Comments from July meeting: the end goal of these proposed changes is to have an MS in Deaf Education and an MA in Deaf Studies. The MS program changes are substantive and will require full approval but are currently pending a revised proposal and syllabi. We anticipate the revised proposal for the August council meeting. The MA in Deaf Studies was approved in 2019 but contains 6000 level courses. We are required by THECB to change these to 5000 level courses instead.
New Business
College of Arts & Sciences
Earth & Space Sciences – Course addition: GEOL 5317 Seminar in Geospatial Sciences to be elective option in the MS GIS and GIS graduate certificate programs.
College of Education & Human Development
Educational Leadership – proposing the following: 1) changes to prerequisite courses for GTED 5357, EDLD 5389, and EDLD 5303; 2) course addition SPED 5304 Special Education Law for M.Ed. Special Education – diagnostician and generalist tracks; 3) updates to degree plans – include SPED 5304 in M.Ed. Special Education diagnostician and generalist tracks, include existing college-wide research course, PEDG 5307, in M.Ed. Special Education generalist track, replace SPED 5315 with SPED 5302 in Educational Diagnostician certification plan, replace PEDG 5310 with PEDG 5307 and EDLD 5344 with EDLD 5321 in M.Ed. Teacher Leadership degree plan, replace EDLD 5388 with EDLD 5389 in both M.Ed. Educational Technology Leadership and M.Ed. Applied Digital Learning degree plans, and replace EDLD 5301 with EDLD 5307 and EDLD 5344 with EDLD 5321 in M.Ed. Educational Administration degree plan. All courses except SPED 5304 already exist in inventory.
Counseling – proposing the following: 1) changes to prerequisite courses for CNDV 5323, CNDV 5380, CNDV 5390, CNDV 5393, CNDV 5394; 2) updates to degree plans – replace CNDV 5324 with CNDV 5326 in the M.Ed. Clinical Mental Health Counseling plan, replace CNDV 5353 with college-wide research course, PEDG 5307, in all Counseling M.Ed.'s and concentrations/tracks; 3) delete course CNDV 5324 from inventory.
Other – the August meeting coincided with the Provost’s kickoff event and will be moved to 8/24 instead. Lunch will be provided by Dr. Lin.