Graduate studies committee
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- Bu səhifədəki naviqasiya:
- Distribution of Second Degree, Transfers, Special Not Working for a Degree and Old Returning for AY 2015-16
- Codes: App
- Leila Dagher Chairperson UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT ACADEMIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE A. MEMBERSHIP
- B. COMMITTEE POLICIES AND PROCEDURES
- C. COMMITTEE ACTIONS (See Appendix 1)
- Incomplete Grades, Grade Changes, Correction of Record
- D. RECOMMENDATIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS
- Houssam El-Rassy Chairperson Appendix 1: Major Actions Taken by the FAS USAAC, AY 15-16
- Fall 15 SPRING 16
- Total P 1 A 2 D 3
- TOTAL 0 57 33 91
- Subject P 1 A 2 D 3
- 2 Approved 3 Declined
- 4 Students in this category are readmitted on strict probation
- Major Actions Taken by the FAS USAAC (AY 15-16)
- (Students on Strict Probation)
- End of Fall 2015-16 Total*
- End of Spring 2015-16 Total*
- End of Summer 2015-16 Total*
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**Doesn’t represent counts per head
Codes: App.: Total Applicants; A: Accepted; D: Declined; E: Enrolled UNDERGRADUTE CURRICULUM COMMITTEE
Chairperson: Leila Dagher, Associate Professor, Economics Members:
Hala Abu Arraj, Associate Registrar Fatima Abu Salem, Associate Professor, CMPS Jean Azar, FAS Student Services Nadia Bou Ali, Assistant Professor, CVSP Joanna Doummar, Assistant Professor, Geology Hatim El Hibri, Assistant Professor, SOAS Rabih El Mouhayer, Assistant Professor, Education George Fargellah, student representative Faraj Hasanayn, Professor, Chemistry Rola Khishfe, Associate Professor, Education (Member of the Senate Academic Development Committee) Thomas Kim, Associate Professor, FAAH Wafic Sabra, Professor, Physics (Chair of the Senate Academic Development Committee)
In its first meeting, the Committee voted to give the Chairperson a mandate to rule on any recurrent petitions and to sign all equivalence forms and transfer of courses from other universities. All remaining student petitions and proposals submitted by departments were discussed during meetings. Circular votes were used only when necessary; less than four times during the year.
The committee met thirteen times during the 2015-2016 academic year. It approved 244 petitions (38 were declined), 213 course equivalences (20 were declined), 75 study abroad applications, and 12 course equivalence letters for students admitted as Junior transfers. The committee also discussed and approved the following departmental proposals: Complete restructuring of the MCOM program including adding several new courses, deleting some courses, changing pre and co-requisites, renumbering courses, freezing the diploma, altering the major requirements and introducing a Minor in Film and Visual Studies. Complete restructuring of the FAAH program including adding several new courses, deleting some courses, changing pre and co-requisites, renumbering courses and using new acronyms, and altering major and minor requirements. Adding a new English course ENG 245, changing the course description of several courses, and amending the Minor in Translation requirements. Modifying the Economics major requirements by reducing the number of economics electives by one and increasing the number of economics required courses by one. Adding a new economics course ECON 290 (special topics), changing the prerequisites of some courses, amending several course descriptions, revising the minor in Economics, and changing the requirements for undergraduate students taking economics graduate courses. Changing a few Sociology course descriptions and amending the Minor in Anthropology requirements. Adding a new geology course to the curriculum. Revising the course description of five Education courses including amending some prerequisites. Deletion of nine Biology courses that are no longer being offered, amending the course descriptions of four courses, and adding a new course. A revised Minor in Gender Studies. A revised Minor in American Studies. Introducing a new course Arabic 256, cross-listing a course with MEST, and changing the Minor in Arabic requirements. Changing the prerequisite of Chemistry 217/218 and amending the Minor in Chemistry requirements. Changing the prerequisites of Physics 235 and 225 and amending the major requirements. Modifying the Philosophy major requirements. Revising the course descriptions of Math 218 and 219. Introducing a new Psychology course, Psychology 229.
With the recent surge in interdisciplinary programs, discussing such programs among concerned departments and seeking feedback from all departments that might be affected has become an integral part of the process of creating such a program or making changes to an existing one. FAS departments should make sure that their policies and requirements apply to all students equally. Whether a student is a transfer student or on a scholarship should not be a reason to grant exceptions to existing requirements that otherwise would not have been granted. The practice of waiting to submit petitions during the semester when students are supposed to graduate should be discouraged and perhaps a deadline could be set whereby the students are obliged to petition for certain issues at least one semester before graduating. For courses that overlap significantly and for which it is explicitly mentioned in the catalog that students can receive credit for only one of the courses, the Registrar’s office should devise a way to automatically alert students to that issue while they are registering. There should be clear rules regarding cross or parallel registration in local universities to minimize any abuse of the system especially for courses that are seen as easier than their counter-parts offered at AUB. The committee recommended the addition of the following statement on both the Registrar’s and the GE course equivalency lists: “The list of previous course equivalence does not guarantee current or future equivalence. The approval of the Chairperson is still required for any course equivalence”. The general criteria for minor approvals especially in the humanities and social sciences should be clarified. Some members suggested requiring PLOs for all minors. Leila Dagher Chairperson UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT ACADEMIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE A. MEMBERSHIP Chairperson: Houssam El-Rassy, Associate Professor, Chemistry Members: Ghassan Antar, Associate Professor, Physics (2017) Gregory Allen Burris, Assistant Professor, Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies (2017) Fatimah El Jamil, Assistant Professor, Psychology (2017) Courtney David Fugate, Associate Professor, Civilization Sequence Program (2016) Patrick Kuehner Lewtas, Assistant Professor, Philosophy (2016) Digambara Patra, Associate Professor, Chemistry (2017) Haidar Safa, Associate Professor, Computer Science (2017) Hala Abu Arraj, Associate Registrar, Ex-Officio. Leila Knio, Student Services Officer. Jean Azar, Student Record Officer. Hussein Baydoun, Student representative (2016). B. COMMITTEE POLICIES AND PROCEDURES The Committee has the power to make exceptions to academic rules and regulations in special cases, by ruling on requests and petitions from FAS undergraduate students pertaining to their academic status and records. During the 2012-13 academic year, the Committee, with support form the FAS IT department, has introduced the Online Petitions and Forms System (OPFS). It is a web application that automates the process of submitting petitions and forms in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). Active FAS students can submit their petition forms online and track their progress. Advisors, course instructors, department chairs, as well as the chair of the committee and the Dean can submit their recommendation/decision electronically. Decisions are then forwarded to the registrar or other concerned parties for implementation. In line with a policy that was approved by the FAS in 2009, the Committee continued allowing students to repeat courses more than three times. The Committee authorized the Chairperson to act on “routine” requests such as correction of registration records, requests for make-up of incomplete course work and changes of grade. C. COMMITTEE ACTIONS (See Appendix 1) The Committee held 28 meetings throughout the academic year 2015-2016 to deal with the academic problems brought before it by undergraduate students.
Irregular Loads Permission to take less than 12 credits was granted by the Committee to graduating students, new students in their first year at AUB, students with health or family problems, students working for a second degree and, in few instances, students with work employment outside AUB. Students were permitted to take more than 17 credits provided that their average was above 80 during the last two regular semesters. The Committee continued to allow graduating students whose cumulative average is 80 or above to take up to 21 credits either in their last semester or in the one that precedes it provided they secure their adviser’s approval (see Appendix 1). Incomplete Grades, Grade Changes, Correction of Record Requests for make-up of incomplete work were approved for students with health and/or family problems. Requests for change of grade were considered only for errors done by course instructors in calculating or reporting final grades. The Committee honoured all correction-of-record requests from students, which were due to advising and/or registration issues (see Appendix 1). Requests for repeating a final exam were approved under very exceptional conditions such as a student suffering from a health problem while taking the exam. D. RECOMMENDATIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS The Committee’s recommendations are: To implement some changes to the online petitions approval process wherein the petitions should automatically go to the next step if no action is taken at a specific level within a week. This does not apply to the FAS student section, the chair of the FAS USAAC, and the Dean of FAS. To invite early in the Fall semester the FAS faculty members to a presentation on the duties of the committee followed by a discussion. The USAAC is also ready to give a short presentation during the FAS faculty meeting for elections. To recommend that course instructors mention to their students at the beginning of the semester that they cannot drop them from the course because of excessive absence if this will result in leaving them with less than 12 credits, even if this is mentioned in the course syllabus. The students who fall within this category are obliged to attend the lectures, otherwise they will receive a failing grade. To recommend the implementation of the drop decisions only at the end of the Spring semester of each academic year.
To recommend that non-graduating Arts and Sciences undergraduate students registered for less than 12 credits without securing the approval of the FAS Undergraduate Student Academic Affairs Committee to be dropped from all their courses at the end of the Drop and Add period. Houssam El-Rassy Chairperson Appendix 1: Major Actions Taken by the FAS USAAC, AY 15-16
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