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CSE Curriculum Committee: 2002-2018 Archive

See https://sites.google.com/a/umn.edu/cse-curriculum-committee/ for current information

Charter

This committee is established by the CSE Constitution (Bylaws, Article II, section 2) as a standing committee to "consider all matters of course additions, course deletions, significant changes in course content, changes in course prerequisites and other related questions."

Proceedures

See CSE CC Proceedures for details on how the Committee operates.


2017-18 Meetings Schedule

1:00 on Friday 2018-4-20 in 105Q Lind NOTE CHANGE

Announcements

2018-2-12: This is now an Archive Site: 2002-2018 Minutes

This site is no longer being updated. See https://sites.google.com/a/umn.edu/cse-curriculum-committee/ for current information.

2018-2-7: New Chair and Web Site information

After the 2018-2-9 meeting, the agenda and other information will be posted on https://sites.google.com/a/umn.edu/cse-curriculum-committee/

All correspondence to the new CSE CC Chair Lisa Miller, should be directed to csecurriculum@umn.edu

Spring 2018: New Chair of CSE CC effective January 2018

Lisa Miller from ISYE will be the new chair. There will be an email sent out to let you know when approvals in ECAS are no longer being done by Shield.

Fall 2017: Shield Stepping down as Chair of the CC

Once a new chair has been found, this announcement will be updated and an email will be sent to all committee members and staff listed below.

Freshman Seminar changes for 2017-2018

See Freshman Seminar Changes Email from the Provost -- they are now not topics courses. As CSE does not get any funding for these, the value of designating them as Freshman Seminars in ECAS compared to the extra work involved is reduced. If you want to keep your topics course for freshman, just don't call it a Freshman Seminar anymore (which is what AEM did). You can rename your 1905 course as the number is no longer special either.

NOTE: courses marked as Freshman seminars are automatically deactived after their effective term so you will have to reactivate these every time. I don't see the point in making ones you want to give every year a freshman seminar. Just keep it as a topics course.

More Requirements from the Provost's Office:

ECAS Best Practices 2015.7 (pdf) -- this is all ill advised. If the database is not relational, then why can my TwoStop show all the equivalencies correctly? They have you playing with the internal name of the equiv even thought it's not used other than as a label. I also can't imagine a cross-listed pair of courses that were not equivalent (there is now a cross-listed check box in ECAS, so schedule information is now being put in ECAS -- again TwoStop shows cross-listed courses on the schedule without this ECAS information). This goes on the shelf next to the requirement that there be a student ready syllabus before the course is in the course catalog.

2015-6-9 CCC Topics Approval Process

UGRD career topics courses (the ones handled by this committee) may now only repeat topics twice unless they are freshman seminars, etc. The the following documents from the Provost's office for the details:

In addition when topics are submitted in ECAS their description and syllabus (if the second time) should be entered into the history box.

Use the TwoStop Quick Course Catalog to check if a topic is a repeat (check the show topics box when doing your search).

2015-4-20 Upgrade Changes to ECAS

See https://docs.google.com/a/umn.edu/document/d/1rlkDgRSs_50H_7pKLOt1QMXbo6KCMQJXzKl17Fxs3Go/edit

In particular, note that the prerequisties text is no longer in a separate box and is included with the desrcription after "prereq:" Also, prerequisites no longer use the symbols (&, #, etc) and things like concurrent registration allowed are written out. See the next item:

Prerequisites are now in the Description in ECAS (and in the catalog search form display)

Robert Wilson forwarded an inquiry from you regarding ECAS and how prerequisites should appear. Soft prerequisites can be entered at the end of the Catalog Description field. Generally, they are prefaced by "Prereq:" and then the various requirements are listed. Typically you would not want to use symbols here such as the "#" or "%" but as catalog editor I will also be reviewing this information for accuracy and cleaning up any obvious errors. When I have a question, I can always email the submitter or send it back to a prior level for clarification. If you have other questions, please let me know.

Thank you. -- Stacey M. Tidball, J.D. Associate Director, Continuity & Compliance | Academic Support Resources 160 Williamson Hall, 231 Pillsbury Drive SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 University of Minnesota | umn.edu tidball@umn.edu | 612-626-0075

Lab Courses

It would help if lab courses said "Lab" in their descriptions.

Campus CC Procedures start 2013-3-31

See Campus CC Procedures (pdf) for the procedures on approval of new courses. I would point out the following:

  • It is now mandatory that a nicely formatted PDF syllabus accompany all new course submissions.
  • The CSE CC Chair will handle transmission of syllabi to the CCC.
  • Provisional approval will not happen as quickly as before and may affect your ability to schedule courses if you leave them to the last minute.
  • This only applies to undergraduate courses which are defined as UGRD career in ECAS, which covers some of the 5xxx level courses (this is also the definition used in CSE for what courses are handled by this committee).
  • Changes to courses will not need Provost approval and ECAS will not route them to the Provost level (currently being worked on).
  • Topics for topics courses count as changes and will go through immediately in ECAS as well.

GRAD Career 5xxx level courses -- 2011-11-9

These courses are now being handled by the College Graduate Studies Committee. Assoc. Dean Wayne Galdfelter (wlg@umn.edu) is handling ECAS approvals for these courses. This committee will continue to handle UGRD Career 5xxx level courses.

IT to CSE Renaming Issues -- 2010-6-15

With the coming college name change, all references to IT in the course catalog (which included over 200 prerequisites) needed to be changed to CSE. This has been done centrally by a script to avoid needing to do all these changes by hand, but you should all check your courses over in the catalog to see if there are any problems caused by these changes. These changes have been entered with Fall 2010 effective dates, but the on-line catalog is showing them now as it always shows future course information for registration purposes.

If you have any pending changes in ECAS, you will also need to check that they do not contain old prerequisite text with IT in them.

The only courses with IT in the title were the Math courses, which have now been changed to "CSE Calculus", etc. You will need to update any advising materials you have that mention the calculus courses names specifically.

In addition all IofT courses are now CSE courses.

Technology and Society Theme -- 2010-4-20

Jim Stout reports that their GEO 1012 was easily approved in part due to the table they included in the syllabus showing how the theme material was integrated throughout the course, see the GEO1012 Syllabus (PDF) last page for the table.

Honors Courses (H or V) -- 2009-10-19

UHP has requested that I run all all Honors Courses through them before I bring them to this committee. Changes that I feel are technical details (the changes that I approve immediately and put in the "For Information" section of the meeting agendas) will not be sent to UHP. New Courses or adding an H/V to an existing course need to be approved by UHP first. Jeanne Anderegg (anderegg@umn.edu) is the UHP staff contact on this. Adding an H/V to an existing course will not also require ITCC approval.

2010-4-21 update: This will probably change when ECAS approvals are updated to include UHP for honors courses.

WI Proposals -- 2008-12-1

Will Durfee is chair of the WI committee and he requests you run all WI course proposals by him first.

Technology and Society Theme -- 2008-12-1

See JOUR 3551 as an example of a well received proposal to meet this theme.

Department Information Form -- 2008-9-15

Please fill out a Department Infomation form (PDF) (or Word Doc) to get your department's information entered here.

Liberal Education Conversion for Fall 2010 -- 2008-9-15

The following are the handouts from the 2008-9-15 meeting that Laural Carroll distributed on the new CLE guildelines and the process to get courses approved in time for fall 2010 when they go into effect. (all are PDFs)

If you are submitting a course in ECAS with changes to only the CLE entries, please note this in the editors notes and it will be immediately approved at the college level.


Committee Membership

Department or School Subjects Member Email
Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics AEM Tom Shield (Chair) shield@aem.umn.edu
Astronomy AST Liliya L.R. Williams llrw@astro.umn.edu
Biomedical Engineering BMEN Chun Wang wangx504@umn.edu
Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering (affiliated program, CFANS) BBE Mrinal Bhattacharya bhatt002@umn.edu
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science CHEN, MATS Efie Kokkoli
Chris Leighton
kokko002@umn.edu
leighton@umn.edu
Chemistry CHEM Lee Penn rleepenn@umn.edu
Civil, Envinronmental and Geo Engineering CEGE,
GEOE
Catherine French (CivE)
Randal Barnes (GeoE)
Erin Surdo (EnvE)
cfrench@umn.edu
barne003@umn.edu
surdo001@umn.edu
College of Science and Engineering CSE, MS, NPSE, SST n/a  
Computer Science and Engineering CSCI, SENG Nick Hopper hoppernj@umn.edu
Electrical and Computer Engineering EE James Leger leger@umn.edu
Earth Sciences ESCI Josh Feinberg feinberg@umn.edu
History of Science & Technology HSCI
Industrial Systems Engineering IE Lisa Miller lisamill@umn.edu
Mathematics MATH, FM Bryan Moser mosher@umn.edu
Mechanical Engineering ME, HUMF Will Durfee (Tom Chase after December meeting) wkdurfee@umn.edu
Physics PHYS Jeremy Mans jmmans@umn.edu
Statistics (affiliated program, CLA) STAT Adam Rothman arothman@umn.edu
Technical Leadership, Center for Development MOT    

Student Members

  • Are choosen for each year.

Staff Contacts

Department or School ECAS Entry Email
Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics Tom Shield shield@aem.umn.edu
Astronomy Terry Thibeault tt@astro.umn.edu
Biomedical Engineering Ashlee Haluptzok bmedus@umn.edu
Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering (affiliated program, CFANS) Sue O'Brien olsen005@umn.edu
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Kacey Gregerson kgregers@umn.edu
Chemistry Nancy Thao thao@umn.edu
Civil, Environmental and Geo Engineering Tiffany Ralston tralston@umn.edu
College of Science and Engineering
Computer Science and Engineering Dania Sidhu drsidhu@umn.edu
Jennifer Dalton (SENG) dalt0025@umn.edu
Electrical and Computer Engineering Frances Wood fkwood@umn.edu
Earth Science Sharon Kressler kress004@umn.edu
History of Science & Technology Julia Knoll jknoll@umn.edu
Industrial Systems and Engineering Katherine Sharpe shar0154@umn.edu
Mathematics Stephanie Lawson lawson@math.umn.edu
Mechanical Engineering Miranda Miller hein0258@umn.edu
Physics Jennifer B Kroschel jkrosche@umn.edu
Statistics (affiliated program, CLA) (none assigned)
Technical Leadership, Center for Development    

Approval Routing

ECAS Approvals are routed as follows:

  1. Department Level (see staff contacts above)
  2. College Level for UGRAD career courses. Chair of CSE CC is currently doing these approvals (T. Shield)
  3. College Level for GRAD career courses: Assoc. Dean Chris Cramer, cramer@umn.edu
  4. CLE: Katie Russell, russellk@umn.edu in the Ofc of Exec VP and Provost
  5. WI: Rachel Rodrigue, webe0354@umn.edu, in the Ofc of Exec VP and Provost
  6. Honors: Pamela Baker: p-bake@umn.edu in UHP
  7. Provost level: Leslie Schiff, schif002@umn.edu or Katie Russell russellk@umn.edu in the Ofc of Exec VP and Provost
  8. Catalog Editing, contact Stacy Tidball tidball@umn.edu
  9. Equivalency defintions in ECAS: Robert Wilson IV wilso057@umn.edu
  10. CCE Catalog Editing: Mia Boos, boosx016@umn.edu
  • ECAS Technical questions: Ingrid Nuttall ingridn@umn.edu
  • APAS: Kathryn J. Kvam, kjkvam@umn.edu

New courses sent to CCC need a copy sent to the Associate Dean of any College that has been consulted:

CCE Robert Stine rstine@umn.edu
CLA Gary Oehlert gary@umn.edu
CDES Marilyn DeLong mdelong@umn.edu
CBS John Ward jward@umn.edu
CFANS Michael White mwhite@umn.edu
CEHD Naim H Madyun madyu002@umn.edu
CSOM Ian Maitland imaitlan@umn.edu
CSE Paul Strykowski pstry@umn.edu
Nursing Christine Mueller cmueller@umn.edu
SPH Kristin E. Anderson ander116@umn.edu

List as of 2016-6-16


"A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled."
Sir Barnett Cocks, British politician (1907-1989)

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