Meeting & Agendas

• Motion from December 13, 2024 Curriculum and Programs Committee meeting to return with Title IX and SAS representatives present

Motion by Jorge Lynch

Second by LMC

Motion Passes

Expire Course

DEMR 1410 Diesel Engine Testing and Repair I (4-3-3) – no longer offered: catalog clean up from sunsetted Marine Repair Level 1 Certificate program

Motion Jorge Lynch

Second Victoria Taylor

Motion Passes

Revise Awards – replacing expired 4-credit hour courses with new 3-credit hours Local Needs courses; adding/updating and resequencing courses; updating prerequisite courses

Professional Accountant Advanced Technical Certificate – CIP Code 52.0301: adding lab to ACNT 2332; revising ACNT 1376 prerequisite courses to remove ACNT 2332

Motion by Jorge Lynch

Second by Victoria Taylor

Motion Passes

Entrepreneurial Bookkeeping/Tax Level 1 Certificate – CIP Code 52.0301: replacing 4-credit hour courses with 3-credit hour; adding new career course ACNT 1378; updating total program hours from 32 to 33 SCH

Accounting Technician Full Charge Bookkeeper AAS – CIP Code 52.0302: replacing 4-credit hour courses with 3-credit hour; adding new career course ACNT 1378

Accounting Technician Bookkeeper Level 1 Certificate – CIP Code 52.0302: replacing 4-credit hour courses with 3-credit hour; adding new career course ACNT 1378; total program hours remains 30 SCH

Accounting Technician Quickbooks Level 1 Certificate – CIP Code 52.0302: replacing 4-credit hour courses with 3-credit hour; adding new career course ACNT 1378; updating total program hours from 17 to 18 SCH

Accounting Technician Occupational Skills Award – CIP Code 52.0302: replacing 4-credit hour course with 3-credit hour; updating total program hours from 11 to 9 SCH

Add New Courses – Local Needs

ACNT 1375 Introduction to Accounting I (3-3-1) – replaces expired 4-credit hour course ACNT 1403 

ACNT 1376 Introduction to Accounting II  (3-3-1) – replaces expired 4-credit hour course ACNT 1404

ACNT 1377 Managerial Accounting (3-1-1) – replaces expired 4-credit hour course ACNT 1426

ACNT 1378 Career Success in Accounting (3-1-1) – soft skills course that prepares students for a career in the accounting/bookkeeping field

Expire Courses – replacing with 3-credit hour Local Needs courses

ACNT 1403 Introduction to Accounting I (4-3-2)

ACNT 1404 Introduction to Accounting II (4-3-2)

ACNT 1426 Managerial Accounting (4-3-2)

Modify Courses

ACNT 1311 Introduction to Computerized Accounting (3-2-2) – updating prerequisite course, student outcomes and objectives, and course description to align with other curriculum changes and WECM

ACNT 1313 Computerized Accounting Applications (3-2-2) – updating student outcomes and objectives and course description for QM and alignment for accreditation and WECM

ACNT 1329 Payroll and Business Tax Accounting (3-2-2) – updating prerequisite course, student outcomes and objectives, and course description to align with other curriculum changes and WECM

ACNT 1331 Federal Income Tax: Individual (3-3-1) – updating prerequisite courses

ACNT 1373 Accounting Data Analytics (3-3-1) – Local Needs: removing prerequisite course ACNT 2332

ACNT 1392 Special Topics in Accounting Technician (3-3-0) – updating prerequisite course, student outcomes and course objectives, and course description/published notes to align with other curriculum updates and WECM; reinstating topic course Basic Income Tax Preparation 

ACNT 2332 Accounting Information Systems (3-3-0) – adding one lab hour/updating contact time from 48 (3-3-0) to 64 (3-2-2) for QM alignment; adding $50 course fee

ACNT 2371 Small Business Accounting (3-2-2) – Local Needs: updating student outcomes and objectives and course description

ACNT 2386 Internship - Accounting Technology/Technician and Bookkeeping (3-0-13) – updating prerequisite non-course text, student outcomes and objectives, and course description to align with other curriculum changes and WECM

Motion to table by Jorge Lynch

Second by Ron Johns

Motion to table Approved

CE Data Analytics Program 75

Add NEW Award – revise CIP Code to 11.0201 Computer Programming

CE Data Analytics Occupational Skills Award CE.CIT.DATAANAL.OSA) – total 144 hours

Expire Award - CIP Code 11.0401 Information Science/Studies

CE Data Analytics Institutional Award (CE.DATAANAL.IA) – 240 hours

Motion by Jorge Lynch

Second by Ron Johns

Motion Passes

CE STEPS Workplace Readiness Program 83

Add NEW Award – CIP Code to 52.0201 Business Administration and Management, General 

CE STEPS College and Career Readiness Level 1 Certificate (CE.BUS.STEP.CERT) – 480 hours

Expire Awards  – CIP Code 44.0000 Human Services, General

CE STEPS College/Workplace Prep Occupational Skills Award (CE.STEP.PREP.OSA) – 288 hours

CE STEPS Occupational Skills Development (CE.STEP.OCCSKILL.OAS) – 288 hours

CE STEPS Workplace Readiness Occupational Skills Award (CE.STEP.WORKREAD.OSA) – 288 hours

Motion by Jorge Lynch

Second by Tono Ramirez

Motion Passes

CE Dental Assistant Program 97

Revise Award – CIP Code 51.0601 Dental Assisting/Assistant

CE Dental Assistant Occupational Skills Award (CE.DNTA.MSA) – updating OSA contact hours from 288 to 300 as a result of DNTA 1015 Chairside Assist increased contact hours from 64 to 76

Motion by Jorge Lynch

Second by Ping Chu

Motion Passes

CE Web Development Program 104

Add NEW Award – CIP Code 11.1004 Web/Multimedia Management and Webmaster

CE Web Development Occupational Skills Award (CE.CIT.WEBDEV.OSA) – 144 hours

Expire Award – CIP Code 11.1004

CE Web Development Institutional Award (CE.WEBDEV.IA) – 168 hours

1. Micro-Credentials/Badging Follow Up (Nina Means and Grant Potts)

• Microcredentials/Badges Subcommittee Update – slide deck presented at December 13, 2024 Curriculum and Programs Committee meeting
• Finalized guidelines and approval process for Curricular related microcredentials/badges
• Finalized rubric for evaluation purposes
• Finalized workflow/flowchart for new Curricular microcredentials/badges
• Proposal Form

1. Should the C&P committee adopt in whole or part the guidelines, approval process, rubric, and proposal form?
   • How does this align with the existing approval process? And tools?
   • What revisions are needed in general, and based on the decisions made in Question 1?
   • What may be missing?
2. What considerations should the C&P committee have before adopting the proposed process and related tools?
   • What is the most effective long-term structure to support the development, review, adoption, and potential re-evaluation of microcredentials and badges?
   • The current parameters for creation of a subcommittee can be found here.

1. Core Curriculum 2025-26 Updates (Ron John) 

• Under Life & Physical Sciences (030)
  • Add GEOL 1401 (Earth Science for Non- Science Majors
  • Add GEOL 1402 (Earth Science 2: Texas Issues for Non-Science Majors)

• Under Language, Philosophy, and Culture (040)
  • Add LATI 1411 (Latin I)
  • Add LATI 1412 (Latin II)

• Under Social & Behavioral Sciences (080)
  • Add CRIJ 1301 (Introduction to Criminal Justice)

• Move course from Language, Philosophy, and Culture (040) to Creative Arts (050)
  • Move HUMA 1315 (Arts in Contemporary Society)
     

Minutes – December 13, 2024 (See Draft)