Millersville University Faculty Senate
Action Summary
Faculty Senate Meeting
April 29, 2008

The minutes of the April 15, 2008 meeting of the Faculty Senate were approved as modified for clarification.

(1) NEW UNDERGRADUATE COURSE
WSSD454: Leadership Development in Sports, 3 credits. Proposal to create a course that covers key leadership issues and skills relevant to coaching was approved without dissent.

(2) CHANGE IN UNDERGRADUATE CURRICULUM
PHYS: BS majors. Proposal to reduced credit hours in PHYS233 and PHYS334 and add PHYS471 to required courses was approved without dissent.

(3) NEW UNDERGRADUATE COURSE
BIOL352: Nutritional Science, 3 credits, W. Proposal to create a course that emphasizes biological and biochemical aspects of nutrition to be taken by Biology majors/minors instead of BIOL256 was approved without dissent.

(4) CHANGE IN UNDERGRADUATE COURSE
BIOL256: Nutrition. Proposal to specify that course does not count towards Biology major/minor was approved without dissent.

(5) CHANGE IN UNDERGRADUATE COURSE
BIOL291: Marine Biology, 4 credits, G2, L. Proposal to change course credits from 3 to 4 and add G2 and L labels was approved without dissent.

(6) CHANGE IN UNDERGRADUATE COURSE
BUAD364: Cost Accounting. Proposal to add C- or better in BUAD306 as a prerequisite was approved without dissent.

(7) CHANGE IN UNDERGRADUATE COURSE
BUAD362: Intermediate Accounting II. Proposal to add C- or better in BUAD341 as a prerequisite was approved without dissent.

(8) CHANGE IN UNDERGRADUATE CURRICULUM
BUAD: BS majors. Proposal to create an 8-course “Business Foundations Block” that must be completed by BUAD majors with grade and QPA restrictions before taking upper-level business courses was approved without dissent.

(9) NEW UNDERGRADUATE COURSE
ENGL280: Rhetoric of the Color Line, 3 credits, W. Proposal to create a course that studies how rhetorical principles can be used to critique the way race relations have been shaped through racial dominance and resistance arguments was approved without dissent.

(10) NEW UNDERGRADUATE CURRICULUM
ENGL: Writing Studies option. Proposal to create an option for ENGL BA or BSE majors to study the discipline of writing and its sub-fields was approved without dissent.

(11) CHANGE IN UNDERGRADUATE CURRICULUM
ENGL: Writing Studies minor. Proposal to change the minor name from Writing to Writing Studies and introduce a new course of study was approved without dissent.

A Kunz/Luek motion that Dr. Thomas L. Kruse be granted the honorary title of Professor of Social Work Emeritus was approved without dissent.

A Scott/Igyor motion that Carol Sperry be granted the honorary title of Assistant Professor Emerita of Educational Foundations was approved without dissent.

A Mowrey/Miller motion to close nominations and unanimously elect all unopposed candidates was approved without dissent.

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