Meeting & Agendas

Mike Midgley chaired this meeting. Members Attending: Cathy Angell, Jonathan Buckstead, James Christianson, Patricia Collier, Matthew Daude, Lorlie Ellis, Marie Fofi, James Friedrichsen, Carol Hawk, Ron Johns, Mary Kohls, Jorge Lynch, Rebecca Robinson-Francis, Nancy Stano, Kelly Stockstad, Regina Swearengin, Tomi Welch Proxy Voting Attendees: Rebecca Robinson-Francis proxy for Shasta Buchanan Non-Voting Members: Linda Terry, Misty Rasmussen, Jason Briseno, Jason Edens Presenters and Guests: Ellen Bartel, Maja Buck, Stephanie Herrington, Craig Sowell, Tom Nevill, Giao Phan, Carolynn Reed, Frank Reid, Carleen Sanchez, Geoffrey Schulman, Shawn Slack, Linda Smarzik, Catherine Solaas

Consent agenda items do not require representation by departments. Consent items are typical ACGM/WECM required changes. Revise Awards – Curriculum and Programs approved 1/25/2019; additional edits needed Management AAS (Frank Reid) – corrected course rubric for Business Statistics in Semester III: should be BUSI 2305, not BUSG 2305; revised footnote 4 Welding Tech Inspector Specialization AAS - corrected footnotes: add omitted footnote 2 and renumber; added award introductory information Administrative Management Level 1 Certificate – no longer revising: proposed award only has 15 SCH; retain current 2018-19 for time being James Friedrichsen moved to approve additional edits to previously revised Management AAS and Welding Tech Inspector Specialization AAS award plans and to retain current 2018-2019 Administrative Management Level 1 Certificate; motion second by Cathy Angell. Approved.

Add Award – returned from 2/15/2019 C&P meeting Arts History AA Modify Course ARTS 2356 Photography I (3-2-4) – updated course description to align with ACGM; update course outcomes and objectives to reflect focus on digital photography James Christianson moved to approve adding Arts History AA and revision to course ARTS 2356; motion second by Matthew Daude. Approved.

Revise Award Creative Writing AA Deferred to April 19 meeting: award revision requires adding new course ENGL 2341. Matthew Daude will submit new course application in CMS. Modify Course ENGL 2307 Beginning Creative Writing (3-3-0) – course is no longer repeatable per THECB; includes 12 topics. James Friedrichsen moved to accept ENGL 2307 revision; motion second by Cathy Angell. Approved.

Add Award Somatic Movement Education - Somatics Advanced Technical Certificate Ellen Bartel distributed a handout on the definition of somatic movement. Discussion followed on what are the THECB requirements on an academic program adding an advanced technical certificate and do the specific programs need to be identified that will satisfy the entry requirements. Catherine Solaas will refer to GIPWE and work with Duane Hiller, THECB, for guidance. The required credential (i.e. Associate’s, Bachelor’s) also needs to be programmable in Degree Audit. Add Local Need Courses SMED 1371 Introduction to Laban Movement Analysis (3-2-4) SMED 1372 Introduction to Bartenieff Fundamentals (3-2-4) SMED 1373 Introduction to Dance for Special Populations (3-3-0) SMED 1374 Advanced Laban Movement Analysis (3-2-4) SEMD 1375 Advanced Somatic Movement Education (3-2-4) SMED 1476 Applied Somatic Movement Education (4-2-5) Deferred award and courses to April 19 meeting. Catherine will return with defined entry requirements to the program and designate courses that do not have a prerequisite as requiring department approval.

Add Awards – Effective Catalog 2019-2020 Audio Engineering Specialization AAS Audio Engineering Level 1 Certificate (16 SCH) Digital Composition Specialization AAS Digital Composition Level 1 Certificate (15 SCH) Hip-Hop Production Level 1 Certificate (15 SCH) Live Sound and Stage Production Specialization AAS Live Sound and Stage Production Level 1 Certificate (16 SCH) Music Business Specialization AAS Music Business Level 1 Certificate (15 SCH) Music Performance Specialization AAS Music Performance Level 1 Certificate (15 SCH) Expire Award – Effective Catalog 2019-2020 Music Business, Performance and Technology AAS Geoffrey Schulman informed the committee that the new awards will be offered at HLC; new studio space is being added during Phase 2 construction. Currently the Music Business, Performance and Technology program has only one AAS that has extensive lists of restricted elective courses; these restricted elective courses were broken out to create new AAS award plan specializations and the current AAS will be expired. Committee requested a breakdown of commonality between each award (General Education and general core program related courses) and then the unique specialized courses. Jason Brisceno pointed out that some of the certificates only have 15 SCH, affecting Financial Aid funding; Geoffrey was aware and will work with his program on adding more credit hours to these certificates. Geoffrey will return to April 19 meeting with breakdown of courses for each award plan specialization; will work with his program on raising the SCH on the 15 SCH certificates. Add Courses MUSB 2371 PR and Marketing for Creatives (3-3-0) – Local Need MUSC 1271 Applied Commercial Music: Recording / Live Sound (2-0-4) – Local Need; repeatable. MUSC 1375 Stage Production and Lighting (3-2-2) – Local Need MUSC 2302 Sound Systems Technician (3-2-2) MUSC 2373 Theory for the Working Musician II (3-3-0) – Local Need Modify Course MUSC 1373 Theory for the Working Musician (3-3-0) – revised title to: Theory for the Working Musician ¬I James Friedrichsen moved to accept MUSB and MUSC course additions and to modify MUSC 1373; motion second by Cathy Angell. Approved.

Add Course PHTC 2275 Studio and Location Production (2-1-3) Inadvertently left out of course application submissions from February 15 meeting. James Christianson moved to approve adding course PHTC 2275; motion second by Matthew Daude. Approved.

Revise Award Anthropology AA – adding ANTH 2301/ANTH 2101, revising footnote 5 James Christianson moved to accept Anthropology AA award plan changes; second by Tomi Welch. Approved.

Revise Award Mathematics AS – updating to align with field of study James Friedrichsen moved to accept Mathematics AS award plan changes; second by Gina Swearengin. Approved.

• Master Syllabus for Final Review (Ron Johns) Gina Swearengin suggested inserting procedural links in final Master Syllabus. James Friedrichsen moved to accept Master Syllabus; second by Cathy Angell. Approved. • Part-time Degree Pathway/Program Maps Discussion (returned from Feb. agenda) How will these plans be provided to students and advisors? Will these be official """"program maps""""? If so, will we confuse students if the course progression is different? Will these plans be published in the catalog? Or should they only be published on program web pages? Should we ask for a reconsideration of the visual depiction of program pathways (that is, the program map) so that we can embed a part-time pathway into the map? Will Curriculum & Programs need to approve every part-time pathway that is developed? Deferred to 4/19/19 meeting. • Minutes February 15, 2019 – Deferred to April 19 meeting. Deferred to 4/19/19 meeting.

Revise Awards Culinary Arts AAS – replacing IFWA 1310 with IFWA 1318; adding ‘OR RSTO 2301’ course option; replacing CHEF 1264 with CHEF 2364; updating footnote 4 Culinary Arts Level 2 Certificate – replacing IFWA 1310 with IFWA 1318; replacing CHEF 1264 with CHEF 2364 Baking and Pastry AAS – adding ‘OR RSTO 2301’ course option; replacing IFWA 1310 with IFWA 1318; replacing PSTR 1264 with PSTR 2364 Pastry Arts Level 2 Certificate – replacing IFWA 1310 with IFWA 1318; replacing PSTR 1264 with PSTR 2364 Ron Johns moved to accept revisions to all four Culinary Arts award plans; motion second by James Friedrichsen. Approved. Add Courses IFWA 1318 Nutrition for the Food Service Professional (3-2-2) RSTO 2301 Principles of Food and Beverage Controls (3-3-0) Modify Courses CHEF 1301 Basic Food Preparation (3-2-3) – added prerequisite IFWA 1317 CHEF 1302 Principles of Healthy Cuisine (3-2-3) – added prerequisite IFWA 1317 CHEF 1310 Garde Manger (3-1-4) – added prerequisite IFWA 1318 CHEF 1340 Meat Preparation and Cooking (3-1-4) – added prerequisite IFWA 1317 CHEF 1341 American Regional Cuisine (3-1-5) – added prerequisites IFWA 1317, IFWA 1318 CHEF 1345 International Cuisine (3-1-5) – added prerequisites IFWA 1317, IFWA 1318 CHEF 2301 Intermediate Food Preparation (3-1-4) – added prerequisite IFWA 1317 CHEF 2302 Saucier (3-1-4) – added prerequisite IFWA 1317 CHEF 2364 Basic Food Preparation (3-2-3) – replaced prerequisite course IFWA 1217 with IFWA 1317 IFWA 1317 Food Production and Planning (3-3-0) – removed lab hour; reduced contact hours: from 3-3-1-64 to 3-3-0-48 PSTR 1301 Fundamentals of Baking (3-2-4) – added prerequisite IFWA 1317 PSTR 1302 Cake Baking and Production (3-1-4) – added prerequisite IFWA 1317 PSTR 1305 Breads and Rolls (3-1-4) – added prerequisite IFWA 1317 PSTR 1310 Pies, Tarts, Teacakes and Cookies (3-1-4) – added prerequisite IFWA 1317 PSTR 1312 Laminated Dough, Pate a Choux, and Donuts (3-1-4) – added prerequisite IFWA 1317 PSTR 1340 Plated Desserts (3-1-4) – added prerequisite IFWA 1317 PSTR 2301 Chocolates and Confections (3-1-4) – added prerequisite IFWA 1317 PSTR 2331 Advanced Pastry Shop (3-2-4) – added prerequisite IFWA 1317 PSTR 2350 Wedding Cakes (3-1-4) – added prerequisite IFWA 1317 RSTO 2307 Catering (3-2-4) – added prerequisites IFWA 1317, IFWA 1318 Ron Johns moved to approve all course additions and revisions changes; motion second by James Friedrichsen. Approved.

Add Course – follow-up: award plans approved with new course at 1/25/2019 C&P meeting POFT 2286 – replaced POFT 2386 in the Administrative Assistant AAS, POFM 2386 in the Medical Administrative Assistant AAS, and POFL 2286 in the Legal Administrative Assistant AAS Modify Course POFT 1301 Business English – updated prerequisite non-course: Students must pass the Reading portion of the TSI assessment with a score of 351 or successfully completed DEVR 0320 INRW 0340 (DEVR 0320 expired 12/31/18) Deferred to April 19 meeting.

Add New Bachelor Award Information Technology BAS Add Courses COSC 3301 Modern Programming 1 (3-3-1) COSC 3302 Computational Thinking (3-3-1) COSC 3360 Computer Ethics (3-3-1) COSC 3365 Distributed Databases using Hadoop (3-3-1) COSC 3380 Machine Learning 1 (3-3-1) COSC 4301 Modern Programming 2 (3-3-1) COSC 4302 Operating Systems (3-3-1) COSC 4380 Machine Learning II (3-3-1) COSC 4385 Applied Data Science / Machine Learning Capstone (3-3-1) CSIS 3301 Essentials of Technology Management (3-3-1) CSIS 3313 Information Security Standards, Risk Management, and Compliance (3-3-1) CSIS 3333 Information Security: Cybersecurity (3-3-1) CSIS 3353 Cyber Law and the Legal System (3-3-1) CSIS 3383 Cloud SDN (3-3-1) CSIS 3385 Database and Web Vulnerability and Security (3-3-1) CSIS 4320 Malware Analysis (3-3-1) CSIS 4323 IT Security Auditing (3-3-1) CSIS 4355 Software Assurance (3-3-1) CSIS 4385 Cybersecurity Capstone (3-3-1) Linda Smarzik informed the committee that the BAS will have three specializations, effective Spring 2020: 1) Cybersecurity Specialization 2) Data Science Specialization 3) Software Development Specialization Mary added that HLC and RGC will have specialized labs for cybersecurity courses. The program has local industry and leaders support and ACC has officially notified UT Austin and TX State. Linda and Mary are currently working on Articulation Agreements; Dr. Cook met with UT in March and an agreement is in the process of being finalized. Committee asked how students will be accepted and evaluated/placed into the program. Application and evaluation processes were discussed on entrance to the program and department approval stipulated on courses or at least courses that do have prerequisites. Misty Rasmussen informed the committee that since ACC’s degree level change was already SACSCOC approved, then this BAS degree can be advertised with the standard disclaimer that it is pending SACSCOC approval, once approved by the Board and THECB. Mike Midgley informed the committee that new costs will not exceed $2 million during the first five years of the program; therefore will not require additional THECB Board review beyond the usual review process. Projected timeline: Curriculum and Programs Committee approve April 19, Board of Trustees approve May 6, and then submission to THECB and SACSCOC early May. Linda and Mary will return to April 19 meeting to present finalized budget information, Articulation agreements, crosswalk of lower division courses and certificates to the three BAS specializations, along with an application/evaluation process and program-level student learning outcomes, and will present at April 19 meeting. New course applications requiring department approval will be revised.

Revise Awards Computer Programming AAS – updating courses, footnote Computer Programming–Game and Visualization Programming AAS – replacing two topic courses Computer Programming–Data Science Track Level 1 Certificate – updating courses Discussion about proposed updates in Computer Programming AAS affecting Math course prerequisite requirements. Also proposed Computer Programming–Game and Visualization Programming AAS still lists MATH 1316 Trigonometry course, which is being phased out. Matthew Daude moved to accept Computer Programming AAS, with resequencing of Math courses, and Computer Programming–Data Science Track Level 1 Certificate award plan revisions; motion second by Gina Swearengin. Approved. Need to return: Computer Programming–Game and Visualization Programming AAS revised award plan still includes MATH 1316 Trigonometry course, scheduled to expire from catalog 2019-20. Mary will provide replacement MATH course and re-sequence courses. Deferred until the April 19 meeting. Add Courses ITSE 1333 Mobile Application Development (3-3-1) ITSE 2343 Advanced Mobile Programming (3-3-1) Cathy Angell moved to approve new courses; motion second by Ron Johns. Approved.

Revise Award Diagnostic Medical Imaging-Radiography AAS – updating courses Modify Courses RADR 2213 Radiation Biology and Protection (2-2-0) – removed semester offered in course description RADR 2217 Radiographic Pathology (2-2-0) – removed semester offered in published note RADR 2233 Advanced Medical Imaging (2-2-0) – removed semester offered in in course description James Friedrichsen moved to approve revisions to award and courses; motion second by Cathy Angell. Approved.

Revise Awards – Curriculum and Programs approved 2/15/2019; additional edits needed Pharmacy Technician AAS – replacing PHRA 2391 with PHRA 2371 Pharmacy Technician Level 2 Certificate – replacing PHRA 2391 with PHRA 2371 Add Course PHRA 2371 Advanced Pharmacy Practice (3-3-1) – Local Needs course; new course for C2 and AAS in Pharmacy Tech needed to comply with new accreditation standards. James Christianson moved to approve revised awards and course addition; motion second by Ron Johns. Approved.

Modify Course FIRS 1203 Firefighter Agility and Fitness (2-1-2) – course capacity change from 30 to 20 James Friedrichsen moved to approve course capacity change; motion second by Ron Johns. Approved.

Revise Award Paralegal Studies AAS – adding BCIS1305 (Business Computer Applications) as a required course and combine the current math course options and current biology course options into one item, so students will only be required to complete one math or one biology, but not both. Committee asked about missing advisory committee minutes. Shawn stated they were provided but inadvertently not included in the final agenda packet; advisory committee did support award revisions. Mary Kohls moved to approve Paralegal AAS award plan changes; motion second by James Christianson. Approved.