Tea and coffee will be served in the foyer prior to the meeting.

That the recommendations of the Steering Committee be adopted without discussion for all items other than those starred.

That the Minutes of Academic Board meeting 4/99 held on 2 June 1999 be confirmed and signed subject to deletion of the second dot point included in the recommendation for item 3.1 – Leading the Way.

That Academic Board note the advice of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic and Planning), Professor AW Lindsay.

That Academic Board note the advice of the Acting Vice-Chancellor, Professor P LeP Darvall.

That Academic Board note the advice of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic and Planning), Professor AW Lindsay.

That Academic Board receive and note the document presented and note the advice of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic and Planning), Professor AW Lindsay.

The Acting Vice-Chancellor, Professor P LeP Darvall, will speak to this item.

That Academic Board receive and note the document presented and the advice of the Acting Vice-Chancellor, Professor P LeP Darvall.

That Academic Board receive and note for transmission to Council the Report of the Dean of Engineering, Professor Mike Brisk, and note the Dean’s comments.

That Academic Board approve the proposals of the Faculties of Arts, Business and Economics, Education, Engineering, Information Technology, Law and Medicine and the Victorian College of Pharmacy to establish the subjects listed below:

AGS1030 Ancient Athens: The Golden Age

AGS1040 Philip of Macedon & Alexander the Great

AGS2030 Ancient Greek Epic and Pre-Classical Greece

AGS2040 Ancient Greece through its Drama

AUS2021 Cultural Tourism (International)

DTS1420 Body, Voice, Text

DTS3400 Script Development

DTS2070/3070 Music Theatre

DTS2170/3170 Musical Theatre Workshop

DTS2510/3510 Choreographic Project

DTS2160/3160 Women and Theatre

DTS4760/VSA4760 Gender, Body and Performance

ENH4650/VSA4650/CLS4650 Seeing/Reading Text

ENH2120/3120 True North: Representations of the North of England

FRN3995 Language study abroad program

FRN1410 French Year 1 Level 4A

FRN1420 French Year 1 Level 4B

FRN2500/3500 French Noir

FRN1210 French Year 1 Level 2A/FRN1220 French Year 1 Level 2B

FRN2950/3950 Business French

FRN3240/4240 Introduction to Translation Subjects

GES2760 Re-Mapping Cultural Geographies

GES3490 Research in Human Geography

GRN3385/4385 The Age of Goethe: Literary Culture at the Dawn of Modernity

GRN3295/4295 Introduction to the study of German Media Culture

GRN3250/4250 German Travel Writing from the 18^th to the 20^th Century

GSC1613 Foundation Project

GSC1612 Knowledge and Context

GSC4413 Writing, Media Cultures, Citizens

GSC2510/3510 Governing Australia: Federal Politics and Policy (Distance Education)

HSY2490/3490 / WMN2490/3490 Australian Feminisms

HSY4500 Contours of Racial Thought

HSY2650/3650 Troubadours and Street-Singers: Music and Popular Culture 1100-1600

HSY2990/3990 The American Civil War

HSY3800 Teaching History

HSY4800 Teaching History

HSY4140 The Raj Imagined: Stories and Films of "British" India In Their Historical Context

HSY4180/GES4180 Plagues, people and the natural world

HSY4230 Happy Families: the Western European family, 17^th-19^th centuries

HSY4150 Freud, Sexuality and History

INM4929 Honours Thesis - Indonesian

INT3080 Second Languages in Use

JPS2140/3140 Japanese Culture in Japan

JWC2260/3260 Literature of Destruction and Redemption

JWC2090/3090 Contemporary Middle Eastern Politics

KOR2450/3450 Studies in translation: English - Korean, part 1

KOR2460/3460 Studies in translation: English - Korean, part 2

MUS2040 Music Composition and Technology Ensemble

RLT4400/HSY4400 Hildegard of Bingen and her world

RLT3980/HSY3980 Thinking God - Philosophical Theology and Postmodernity

RLT4780/HSY4780 Thinking God - Philosophical Theology and Postmodernity

RLT4600/HSY4600 The Search for Meaning: Expressions of Belief

VSA2460/3460 / CLS2460/3460 Cyberculture: From Digital to Virtual Representation

VSA2440/3440 / CLS2440/3440 Camera-culture: From Analogue to Digital Representation

VSA4100 Issues in Australian architecture and heritage

VSA3020 From Film Theory to Video Practice

WMN2040/3040 Feminism and Popular Culture: Reading Mainstream Cinema

WMN2030/3030 Women, Media, Consumption: Feminist Cultural Studies

WMN4940/HSY4940 Lovers and Letters: Researching Private Lives

WMN1010 Sex, Gender and Knowledge: Introduction to Women’s Studies

WMN4700 Issues in Feminist Cross-Cultural Research

ARY4050 The Archaeology of the Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt

ARY4730 Dissertation

CBL2213 Intermediate Business Chinese, part 1

CBL2223 Intermediate Business Chinese, part 2

GES3240 Sustainable Cities

HSY4020 Making Histories

HSY4030 Special Subject 1: first semester

HSY4040 Special Subject 1: second semester

HSY4210 Life Stories: Memory, Narrative and History

HSY4730 Reading and Writing Australian History

HSY4760 Gender and History

HSY4810 Biography and History

HSY4860 Social Theory and Social History

HSY4840 The Making of Modern Paris

INM2213 Intermediate Indonesian part 1 (Peninsula)

INM2223 Intermediate Indonesian part 2 (Peninsula)

JPL2213 Japanese 2B part 1 (Peninsula)

JPL2223 Japanese 2B part 2 (Peninsula)

JPL2313 Japanese 2C part 1 (Peninsula)

JPL2323 Japanese 2C part 2 (Peninsula)

VSA4002 Minor Thesis

VSA4009 Gender & Genre: Masculinity in Film

VSA4012 Approaches to Art History

VSA4022 Beyond the Museum

VSA4025 Museum Practice and Research

VSA4036 Nineteenth-Century Australian Art

VSA4056 Twentieth-Century Australian Modernism

VSA4042 Film Theory and Criticism: Part 1

VSA4052 Film Theory and Criticism: Part II

VSA4076 Australian Postmodernism

VSA4086 The Culture and Imagery of Cities

VSA4122 Australian Film History

VSA4292 Cultural Theory and Visuality

VSA4642 German Screen Studies

VSA4752 Southeast Asian and Indonesian Film and Television

VSA4032 Theory of Art History and Criticism

ANY3120 Magic, Science and Religion

ANY3530 Tradition and Change: The Dynamics of Culture, Colonialism and Modernity

ANY2490 Knowledge, power and social transformation in Southeast Asia

ANY2350 Questions of identity: Ethnicity, nationalism and globalisation

ARY3810 An Introduction to Middle Egyptian Language

GSC3512 United States Politics: Media and Power

INM2990 Language Study Abroad

ITA2990 Language Study Abroad Program

JPL1510 Japanese 1E: part 1

JPL1610 Japanese 1F: part 1

JPL1520 Japanese 1E: part 2

JPL1620 Japanese 1F: part 2

JPL2610 Japanese 2F: part 1

JPL2620 Japanese 2F: part 2

JPS4081 Critical issues in Japanese studies

JPS4082 Critical debate on contemporary Japan

SCY2272 Sociology of Popular Music

SCY3150 Sociological research techniques for public policy

SCY2142 Sociology of Education

SCY3042 Sociology of Ethnicity and Minority Relations

SCY4310 Population and Migration

SCY3100 Marx, Weber and Durkheim: Sociological Perspectives

WMN3110 Representations of Women and Gender in Australian Society

MGY5XXX Reading Unit

BTC2191 International Trade Law

MGC2XXX Asian Management

MKG24XX Business Marketing

MGC3104 Management Ethics

MGC3114 Strategic Management

MGC3124 International Management

MGC3134 The Management of Change

MGC3234 Services Management and Marketing

MGC3254 Management in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

MGC3264 International Industrial Relations

MGC3314 Managing Public Policy

MGC3414 Employee Relations Practice: Policy and Skills

MGC3424 Human Resource Development

MGC3434 International Human Resource Management

MGC3444 Equity Diversity and Participation

MGC3454 Managing Conflict

MGC3514 The Management of Technology

MGC3654 Management Research Methods

EDF2203 Curriculum Studies: Primary Studies of Society and Environment

EFF5101 Teaching in Schools

EDF5103 Primary Mathematics Education

EDF5104 Primary English Education

EDF5105 Curriculum Studies: Primary Studies of Society and Environmental Education

EDF5108 Primary Health and Physical Education

GED3854 Curriculum Design in Teaching English as a Foreign Language

CHE3130 Chemical engineering computer applications

CHE3101 Reaction engineering I

CHE3012 Heat and mass transfer I

CHE3103 Heat and mass transfer II

CHE3104 Momentum transfer II

CHE3108 Process design and operation I

CHE3109 Process design and operation II

CHE3111 Transport phenomena I

CHE3113 Thermodynamics II

CHE3118 Chemical engineering practice III

CHE4102 Reaction engineering II

CHE4114 Management

CIV3204 Engineering Investigation

CIV3205 Project Management for Civil Engineers

CIV3221 Building Structures and Technology

CIV3222 Bridge Design and Assessment

CIV3247 Geoengineering

CIV3248 Groundwater and Environmental Engineering

CIV3264 Urban Water and Wastewater Systems

CIV3282 Rural Road and Water Engineering

IND3313 Systems Modelling and Simulation I

IND3317 Design for Manufacture

IND3318 Professional Practice for Engineers I

IND4336 Systems Modelling and Simulation II

IND4337 Professional Practice for Engineers II

IND4338 Industrial Marketing

IND3319 Facilities Planning and Design

IND3320 Quality Systems and Control

IND3315 Engineering Economy

IND3316 Real Time and Information Systems

IND4309 Engineering Practices: Project Thesis A

IND4310 Engineering Practices: Project Thesis B

IND4313 Production Planning and Control

IND4314 Design of Productive Systems

IND4315 Computer Integrated Manufacturing

IND4316 Systems Reliability and Maintenance

GSE3701 Engineering Computer Applications

GSE3800 Mechatronics Project

GSE3801 Sensors and Artificial Perception

GSE3803 System Dynamics and Control

GSE3804 Production Engineering

GSE4703 Artificial Intelligence in Practice

GSE4803 Computer Systems & Networks

ECE3801 Bioelectricity

ECE3802 Medical Instrumentation

ECE3803 Clinical Engineering Management

ECE4804 Biomechanics

ECE4805 Medical Signal Processing

ECE4806 Medical Imaging Techniques

ECE4807 Biomedical Equipment Design, Development and Innovation

BUS2040 Business Systems for Multimedia and the Entertainment Industries

CPE3005 Networked Multimedia Systems

CSE3210 Software Component Technologies

CSE3231 Client – Server Database Systems

LAW4160 Negotiation and Mediation

CWH1001 Family Planning: Sexual and Reproductive Health

CWH1002 Women’s Health in Society

FOR2005 Adult Sexual Assault

FOR2006 Paediatric Forensic Medicine

MPH2071 Gender Issues in Public Health

BME1130 The Human Being in Health and

VCF1081/VCP1081 Physiology

VCF1021/VCP1021 Chemistry I

VCF1071/VCP1071 Formulation Chemistry I

VCF1091/VCP1091 Mathematics

VCF1101 Product Development I

VCF2041 Microbiology

VCF2031 Biochemistry

VCF2071 Formulation Chemistry II

VCF2101 Product Development II

VCF2021 Chemistry II

VCF2051 Industrial Experience I

VCF3101 Product Development III

VCF3071 Toxicology

VCF3051 Industrial Experience II

VCP4011 Pharmacy Practice IV

VCP4051 Clinical Pharmacy II

VCP4031 Pharmaceutics III

VCP4021 Drug Development

That Academic Board note that forty-six (46) subjects were disestablished by the Education Committee at its Meeting 4/99, all of which were from the Faculty of Arts.

That Academic Board approve the proposals of the Copyright Working Party Report on Intellectual Property Policy as detailed below:

That further consideration be given to the University’s position on ownership of computer software.

2 That university policy and procedures be amended to achieve the following

(i) a University claim to ownership of research materials and copyright works, other than publications, arising from research undertaken by teams of three or more staff where the research project is funded by an external body or by the University.

(ii) Where the outcome of the research would be a copyright work which the University does not wish to own, the researchers would be required to enter into an agreement regarding ownership of copyright in the complete work.

Researchers would have the right to negotiate a re-assignment of rights held by the University.

Where team research is undertaken with an external/Monash grant, the University’s Research Office should be responsible for ensuring that members of a research team enter into an agreement with the University under which Monash will own research materials and copyright works, other than publications, arising from the research project.

4. Where team research is undertaken with money from a faculty or department, that the Associate Deans (research) ensure that the researchers enter into agreements amongst themselves regarding ownership of research results and that ‘team research’ become a standard reporting item on the Research Committee’s agenda.

That after reviewing relevant policies in US universities, that the University develop its own policy on ownership of tangible research materials, with special reference to materials generated from team research.

6 That further consideration be given to circumstances in which the University might be paid a royalty share from the exploitation of copyright works.

That the Statutes and Regulations be amended to provide for University ownership of multimedia products by inter alia

adding "a multimedia product" to the exceptions in section 2.1.1 in the Regulations and by removing the exceptions in paragraph (e); and

deleting "cinematograph film" "sound recording" "television broadcast" and "sound broadcast" from the definition of "copyright work" in section 1.1. of the Statute and including these terms as "Subject Matter other than Works".

8. That consideration be given to investigating the merits of developing a multimedia policy.

9. That section 2.5 of Statute 11.2 and section 2.1 of the Intellectual Property Regulations, be amended to vest ownership of copyright in copyright works in the University and that section 2.6 be amended to achieve an effective grant of licence which will enable the University to use a copyright work in a multimedia work.

That staff be advised to inform their publishers that the University has a royalty free licence to use a copyright work for its educational and research purposes.

11 That Statute 11.2 be amended as follows

by adding course materials to the exception in subsection 2.3.2. There is also need for further consideration of circumstances in which an originator might be entitled to a share of revenue from the licensing or sale of a copyright work owned by the University

b) replacing subsection 2.15 with the following

"2.15 Prior to entering into an agreement to assign or licence a copyright work owned by the University, the University shall consult with the originator of the work and reach agreement on whether authorship of the work is to be acknowledged and if so, the form of that acknowledgment."

c) that the words ‘course materials’ be removed from subsection 2.10.1 of the Statute.

12 That Statute 11.2 provide that

"At the request of an originator, the University shall remove the acknowledgment of authorship carried on course materials created by the originator."

That Academic Board receive the Report of the LTOP Working Party on Non-Award Offerings/Quality Assurance [Non-Award Offerings] for comment and referral to the Committee of Deans for further consideration.

That Academic Board approve the proposal of the Board of the Faculty of Medicine to establish the Graduate Certificate in Women’s Health, to be offered by distance education through the Department of Community Medicine and General Practice, commencing semester one, 2000.

That Academic Board approve the proposal of the Board of the Faculty of Medicine to establish the Graduate Certificate in Culture, Trauma and Mental Health, to be offered as an on-campus course taught by the Department of Psychological Medicine (Monash Medical Centre), commencing semester two, 1999.

That Academic Board approve the proposal of the Board of the Victorian College of Pharmacy to establish the Bachelor of Formulation Science, to be offered initially as an on-campus course at the Parkville campus commencing semester one, 2000, noting the future intention of the College to also offer the course at the Malaysia campus and by distance education.

That, in relation to the Graduate Diploma in Diplomacy and Trade and the Master of Diplomacy and Trade, the Academic Board:

note that for both courses, it approved a change of title and a change of ownership from the Faculty of Arts to the Faculty of Business and Economics at its Meeting 4/99;

note that the Master of Diplomacy and Trade will be included in the Schedule of Exceptions in the Graduate Studies Policy; and

approve the proposal to include the option of distance education for both courses, in addition to their existing on-campus enrolment mode.

That Academic Board approve the proposal of the Board of the Faculty of Arts to amend the Bachelor of Arts as detailed in the documentation presented, including the establishment of:

a new discipline major titled Comparative Cultures (replacing the discipline major "Comparative Societies"), effective from 2000;

a combined major sequence in Anthropology and Koorie Studies; and

an honours program in Anthropology and Koorie Studies.

That Academic Board approve the proposal of the Board of the Faculty of Engineering to amend the Bachelor of Engineering / Bachelor of Laws as detailed in the document presented, including:

allowing admission to the double degree program at first year level; and

the addition of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management to the branches of engineering study available in the program.

That, on the recommendation of the Board of the Faculty of Engineering, Academic Board approve the amendments to the Bachelor of Computer Systems Engineering as detailed in the document presented, including proposed subject substitutions, the amended subject list and transitional arrangements.

That Academic Board approve the proposal of the Board of the Faculty of Engineering to amend the Bachelor of Engineering as detailed in the document presented, to include alternative subjects, to facilitate the offering of the Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management programs in Malaysia, and to provide further flexibility in the delivery of the programs at the Caulfield and Clayton campuses.

That, on the recommendation of the Board of the Faculty of Engineering, Academic Board:

approve a change to the existing subject CHE4118 – Chemical Engineering Research Project, from an elective to a core subject;

approve the introduction of the new levels three and four in the branch of Chemical Engineering from 2000; and

note the revised subject lists for the Bachelor of Engineering and the consequential amendments for the Bachelor of Arts / Bachelor of Engineering, the Bachelor of Engineering / Bachelor of Laws and the Bachelor of Science / Bachelor of Engineering double degree programs in the branch of Chemical Engineering.

That, on the recommendation of the Board of the Faculty of Engineering, Academic Board:

approve the introduction of the new level three in the branch of Civil Engineering from 2000; and

note the consequential amendments (detailed in the subject lists presented) to the Bachelor of Engineering / Bachelor of Laws and the Bachelor of Arts / Bachelor of Engineering double degree programs in the branch of Civil Engineering.

That, on the recommendation of the Board of the Faculty of Engineering, Academic Board:

approve the inclusion of the two existing subjects IND2352 Manufacturing Processes, and IND2382 Fluids and Energy, as core subjects in the Industrial Engineering & Engineering Management branch of the Bachelor of Engineering;

approve the introduction of the new levels three and four in the branch of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management from 2000; and

note the revised subject list for the Bachelor of Engineering in the branch of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management.

That, on the recommendation of the Board of the Faculty of Engineering, Academic Board:

approve the introduction of the new level three in the branch of Mechatronics Engineering from 2000; and

note that retrospective approval is sought under item 4 of the Report for the establishment of the subject GSE4803 Computer Systems & Networks from the fourth year of the Mechatronics program, for introduction with effect from semester one, 1999.

That Academic Board receive and note the report of the PhD and Scholarships Committee held on 17 June 1999.

That Academic Board receive and note the report of the Committee of Associate Deans (Research) held on 6 May 1999.

That Academic Board receive and note the report of the General Library Committee held on 16 June 1999.

That Academic Board approve the appointment of Professor G Davison as Chair of the General Library Committee due to the departure of Professor T Threadgold.

That Academic Board receive and note the report of the Board of the Faculty of Arts held on 9 June 1999.

That Academic Board receive and note the reports of the Board of the Faculty of Business and Economics held on 19 May, 9 June and 30 June 1999.

That Academic Board receive and note the report of the Board of the Faculty of Education held on 12 May 1999.

That Academic Board receive and note the report of the Board of the Faculty of Engineering held on 26 May 1999.

That Academic Board receive and note the reports of the Board of the Faculty of Information Technology held on 5 May and 30 June 1999.

That Academic Board approve the proposal of the Board of the Faculty of Information Technology to disestablish the Centre for Information Management & Systems Practice.

That Academic Board approve the proposal of the Board of the Faculty of Information Technology to appoint Mr C Avram to membership of the University Admissions Committee.

That Academic Board receive and note the reports of the Board of the Faculty of Science held on 24 March and 12 May 1999.

That Academic Board receive and note the report of the Board of the Victorian College of Pharmacy held on 2 June 1999.

That Academic Board endorse for submission to Council the above draft legislation.

The Academic Board approve the proposals of the Boards of the Faculties of Arts & Design, Engineering, Law and Medicine to appoint to follows persons to fill casual vacancies on the Academic Board:

Dr R Nelson Faculty of Art & Design

Professor J Sheridan Faculty of Engineering

Professor J Jarvis Faculty of Engineering

Professor F Trindade Faculty of Law

Mr J Duns Faculty of Law

Assoc. Prof. S McNicol Faculty of Law

Ms E Lanyon Faculty of Law

Professor H Walters Faculty of Medicine

Assoc. Prof. M Storey Faculty of Medicine

Dr N Nichols Faculty of Medicine

That Academic Board receive and note the document detailing the current membership of the Board.

That Academic Board grant Dr Margaret Lindorff special leave from attendance at meetings of the Board from 21 July 1999 to 31 December 1999.

That Academic Board note the following information:

Nomination of candidates for two vacancies (one non-professorial and one professorial) for membership of Steering Committee and candidates for two vacancies (professorial) for alternate membership of Steering Committee will close at noon on Tuesday 27 July;

All members of Academic Board are eligible to vote and/or nominate candidates for each position;

Nomination forms may be obtained from the University Secretariat; and

If necessary, elections will be held on Tuesday 17 August.

Academic Board is invited to note that Professor A Duggan (member) and Professor T Threadgold (alternate) have resigned from their positions as Academic Board appointees on the Honorary Degrees Committee.

Nominations to fill both positions will be brought forward to the next meeting of the Academic Board on 1 September 1999.

That Academic Board nominate Professor Margaret Clayton as a representative of the Board on the Selection Committee for the Chairs of Education.

That Academic Board nominate Professor Thea Brown as a representative of the Board on the Selection Committee for the Chairs of Law.

That Academic Board receive and note the Annual Report of the Monash University Animal Welfare Committee.