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2/27/2019: Course Change Form COMM 301
No full textCOMM 301 will be removed from the catalog of courses and as a Common Core requirement. Instead, the proposed course COMM 201 will become the second required course in the COMM sequence. The current sequence means that there is often a gap of two years or more between the first and second courses in the COMM sequence, with the result that skills learned in 101 atrophy or are forgotten entirely. Consequently, students are not as prepared for advanced writing assignments in their upper-level courses. The removal of this course and its replacement with a 200-level course is intended to provide students with a stronger foundation in communication skills sooner in their academic careers
2/27/2019: Course Change Form COMM 101
No full textLearning outcomes, topics, and assignment guidelines for COMM 101 have been shifted to focus on preparing students to analyze and respond to multiple rhetorical situations. Rather than focusing on teaching specific genres (the report, the proposal, the academic essay), the goal of the revised course is to provide students with tools for understanding and reproducing any new genre they encounter. Providing students with a rhetorical vocabulary and toolset in COMM 101 will create a smoother transition through the COMM sequence, and better prepare students to successfully execute communication tasks in LS courses such as LS 201 and upper-level LS electives as well as in courses inside their major. Shifting the course away from teaching specific assignments to teaching specific skills also makes it easier for individual sections of COMM 101 to meet the needs of university initiatives such as the course clusters, while still ensuring consistency of instruction for all 101 students. With respect to assignment guidelines, requirements for crafting an argument and practicing reflection have been added, and the oral presentation requirement has been folded into the multi-modal composition requirement. Writers who practice reflection are more likely to develop and retain good writing habits, while composing an argument and producing multi-modal texts are important skills for the workplace. A stronger emphasis on these skills brings Kettering in line with what entry-level composition courses in similar institutions are doing. With respect to the elimination of the oral presentation requirement, individual instructors can still choose to teach presentations, as these qualify as multi-modal texts, along with other genres of public speaking such as podcasts or videos. Including oral presentation under the larger umbrella of multi-modal texts is not an indication that this skill is not needed, but an acknowledgment that students have other opportunities to practice public speaking, both in their other courses and in specialized classes such as COMM 313
8/28/2019: Course Change Form Mech 550
No full textMECH550 was originally conceived of as a Mezzanine Level course that could be taken by both undergraduate and graduate students. The content was the same for the two groups of students. The course is now being split into an undergraduate and graduate version of the class. The proposed MECH450 undergraduate class will use the same course material that had been offered in the Mezzanine MECH550 course. The MECH550 course was offered for the last 19 years and the undergraduate students have performed well with this course material. The only material difference for the undergraduate students is the course number change from MECH550 to MECH450. An advanced course MECH650 is being developed for the graduate students which incorporates additional and advanced course material
8/28/2019: Course Change Form MECH 541
No full textKettering University is eliminating 500 course numbers due to HLC concerns 500 level courses. Since our 500 level courses are defined as mezzanine they are not considered to be graduate courses by HLC. This puts a limit on how many 500 level courses a graduate student can take in the graduate program. According to HLC they cannot take more than five 500 courses. The Course Number is being changed to MECH-441
2/13:2019: Faculty Senate Approved Meeting Minutes
No full text1. Proposed Amendment 4 for PRC Proposal to Add Professor of Practice to Faculty Handbook - Vote to Approve: 10,2,0 - PASSED
2. Program Change for Online Business Programs: Remove Supply Chain and ERP Certificate - Vote to Approve: 13,0,0 - PASSED
3. Course Changes for MECH 330/331 and MECH 430/431 - Vote to Approve: 13,0,0 - PASSE
Coding and Robotics for Youth Services Librarians
No full textWant to offer coding or robotics for your patrons, but have no idea where to start? Join us for a webinar-based conversation with Computer Science Professor, Dr. Jim Huggins from Kettering University. In this webinar, Dr. Jim Huggins will discuss a number of simple activities for exposing middle school and high school students to computer science. The activities require little-to-no computing background for participants (or their leaders!), and some can be done without using computers at all
1/16/2019: Course Change Form MGMT 102
No full textSupports an emphasis on a systems approach that aligns better with the intended management focus on problem solving in increasingly complex systems with a particular emphasis on business systems
1/16/2019: Course Change Form MGMT 484
No full textThis proposal designates the course as in Management, and provides a new description that better conveys the course content and intent