Monash University

Education Committee Meeting 4/99

Meeting No. 4/99 of the Education Committee was held on Wednesday, 23 June 1999 in the Council Room, first floor of Administration Building 3A, Clayton Campus, between 10:00am and 12:35pm.

Ms K Wilson-Reid
Executive Officer

Professor AW Lindsay (Chair)

Mr K Bensley

Associate Professor D Garrioch

Associate Professor A Farley

Associate Professor L Nethercott

Associate Professor P Gronn

Associate Professor K Ng

Associate Professor J Hurst

Mr C Avram

Ms E Lanyon

Professor L Piterman

Dr K Macrae

Dr M Morgan

Professor L Roller

Professor M King

Professor M Evans

Professor J Harris

Professor G Webb

Professor B Young

Professor L Johnson

Mr C Coles

Mr N Turner

Mr R Burnet

Dr P Rodan

Mr M Watson

Ms K Wilson-Reid

Ms F Walker

Professor G Taylor

Dr P James

Dr B McSherry

Professor P Stewart

Mr C Vernon

The Chair welcomed Professor P Stewart and Mr C Coles as new members of the Education Committee. Professor Lindsay introduced Ms E Lanyon to the Committee, who was attending as an alternate member for Dr B McSherry. On behalf of the Committee, the Chair also thanked retiring member Professor B Young for his involvement with and contributions to the work of the Education Committee throughout his period of membership.

The Chair briefly raised the issue of an alternative venue for Education Committee meetings taking into consideration the Committee’s increased membership during 1999. Members agreed that meetings of the Committee should continue to be held in the Sir George Lush Room.

The Chair, Professor A Lindsay, left the meeting at 11:30 am. Professor M Evans chaired the remainder of the meeting.

The Committee nominated items 5, 6, 7.2.1, 7.3, 8 (Proceedings No.7), 10.6 and 10.1.2 as additional items to be starred, and endorsed the recommendations for all items other than those starred. Members also nominated additional agenda items as follows:

6A Generic Skills and Development of ACER Test

6B GATE Review

6C Proforma for Major Amendments to Courses

6D Recognition of Teaching Practice and Promotion

6E Short Term Review of Teleteaching Report

6F Comments about Education Committee Evaluation

The Committee approved the Minutes of Meeting 3/99 held on Wednesday, 5 May 1999, which had previously been circulated.

A report from Meeting 4/99 of the Academic Board to the Education Committee was circulated (p 1-6).

The Committee noted that each recommendation in the Report of Meeting 3/99 of the Education Committee was approved as put forward to the Academic Board.

Two matters were however, referred to the Education Committee for consideration as detailed below. (These items were initially considered at Education Committee Meeting 3/99 as items 11.2.5 and 11.2.6.)

Separate proposals were put to the Academic Board to approve major amendments to the Graduate Diploma of Arts (Foreign Affairs and Trade) and the Master of Arts (Foreign Affairs and Trade). Academic Board approved the proposals of the Board of the Faculty of Business and Economics to:

amend the ownership and course structure of the Graduate Diploma of Arts (Foreign Affairs and Trade) and change the title of the course to the Graduate Diploma in Diplomacy and Trade; and

amend the ownership of the Master of Arts (Foreign Affairs and Trade) and change the title of the course to the Master of Diplomacy and Trade.

It was noted at Academic Board that the supporting documentation for the items (including one set of documentation relevant to both proposals) included a proposal to "add a distance education option to the current on-campus approval". (A copy of this documentation was circulated for reference.)

Members noted that as had been unclear to the Academic Board whether the distance education option had been explicitly addressed as part of the approval process for the major amendments to these courses, the Board had referred the matter back to the Education Committee for consideration.

In relation to the Graduate Diploma in Diplomacy and Trade and the Master of Diplomacy and Trade, the Education Committee:

noted that for both courses, Academic Board approved a change of title and a change of ownership from the Faculty of Arts to the Faculty of Business and Economics;

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

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

*4. ACADEMIC BOARD LTOP WORKING PARTY ON CROSS-FACULTY PROGRAMS

At its Meeting 3/99, the Academic Board approved recommendations contained in a summary of the Final Report of the Academic Board LTOP Working Party on Cross-Faculty Programs (Minute 4.1.2). A copy of this summary final report was circulated in the Education Committee agenda for information (p 7-10).

Two of the recommendations contained in the summary final report which were approved by the Academic Board (Recommendations 3 and 4) required action from the Education Committee.

Professor M Evans, Convenor of the Working Party on Cross-Faculty Programs, spoke to this item, highlighting the two recommendations from the Report which directly involved the Education Committee (detailed below), as well as various other aspects of the Report. Professor Evans also encouraged members to peruse the full version of the final report of the Working Party which was located on the web at the following address:

http://www.adm.monash.edu.au/apsu/abwp/mf/report.htm

Members noted the approved recommendations contained in the summary Final Report of the Academic Board LTOP Working Party on Cross-Faculty Programs, including the recommendations that Education Committee:

1. Invite faculties to:

identify areas of common interest which are relevant to policies approved by Academic Board 8/98, by 2000; namely, ‘that departments whose academic programs clearly overlap the scope of two faculties be given full academic status in each (i.e. their subjects be treated as subjects of each faculty for the purposes of each faculty’s rules), except where the relevant faculty makes a "specific, strong academic case"’;

explore the potential for cross-listing and collaboration in their range of subject offerings, and the sharing of subject modules where feasible; and

2. Identify and consider policies and procedures which are inconsistent across faculties and, where appropriate, develop a consistent overarching policy in the interest of consistent and equitable treatment of students; and that

where continuation of inconsistent policies and procedures is sought, faculties be asked to present a rationale to Education Committee for approval;

when subjects and majors are given full academic recognition in more than one faculty, all relevant policies be consistent.

Dr K Macrae highlighted that difficulties which had been experienced between the Faculties of Science and Arts in relation to the offering of Geography and Psychology subjects had been resolved, and thanked Associate Professor D Garrioch and Professor T Threadgold for their efforts towards that outcome. Dr Macrae added that the Working Party Report on Cross Faculty Programs had been a helpful tool in the resolution of those issues.

Professor Lindsay emphasised to Associate Deans Teaching the importance of communication and cooperation between cognate disciplines in and across faculties in order to increase flexibility for students in relation to subject offerings, and achieve maximum benefits for faculties in their delivery of subjects. Discussion ensued regarding various faculties’ existing practices and policies for cross-faculty involvement and subject offerings.

In relation to Recommendation 1 above, it was agreed that each Associate Dean Teaching would provide a report to Education Committee Meeting 7/99, including:

details of the Faculty’s subject offerings and current cross-listings (at departmental and faculty levels); and

details regarding which of their subjects could be cross-listed.

Associate Deans Teaching noted Professor Lindsay’s advice that each report should also highlight:

a) the progress made and resolutions reached by the Faculty;

b) what research or action was still required; and

c) any discussion/assistance which may be required from the Education Committee about issues identified as part of this process.

In relation to Recommendation 2 above, the Committee agreed to invite Associate Deans Teaching, Faculty Registrars, Student Services, Student Rights Officers and MUFSO to identify policies and procedures regarding cross-faculty offerings, with particular focus on those which were inconsistent across faculties, so that inconsistencies could then be considered by the Committee in a more systematic fashion. Professor Evans indicated that a standard letter would be forwarded to these groups including details of what was required through the audit.

(Secretarial Note: Submissions for Education Committee Meeting 7/99 are due by Wednesday, 13 October 1999.)

At its Meeting 3/99, the Education Committee established a working party to investigate and make recommendations about the ranking of student results (Minute No.7). An Interim Report from the Working Party on Ranking of Student Results was circulated (p 11-14).

Mr R Burnet suggested that rather than recommending the release of student rankings on a subject by subject basis, an automated approach should be considered through the development of Callista.

Some issues were raised in relation to assessment and the Chair noted that the topic of assessment could be included as an agenda item for a future meeting of the Committee of Associate Deans Teaching (CADeT). Professor G Webb agreed to produce a one page discussion paper for the future CADeT item.

The Committee endorsed the general directions currently being followed by the Working Party on Ranking of Student Results, however it encouraged the Working Party to research possibilities for the development of Callista so that a more automated, University-wide approach to the generation of reports for student rankings could be recommended in the Working Party’s final report.

At its Meeting 3/99, the Education Committee established a Working Party on Exclusion for Unsatisfactory Academic Progress to consider issues in relation to the University’s exclusion and exclusion appeals policies and procedures.

The Education Committee requested that members meet initially to draft Terms of Reference. The draft Terms of Reference were circulated (p 15-16).

The convenor of the Working Party, Associate Professor J Hurst, highlighted to members that the Working Party on Exclusion for Unsatisfactory Academic Progress would also absorb the work of the previous working group for the development of procedures for exclusion of double degree students, which were originally requested by CADeT at its Meeting 1/99.

Following brief discussion of the item, Education Committee approved the Terms of Reference for the Working Party on Exclusion for Unsatisfactory Academic Progress, subject to the following amendments:

amendment of the word "process" under point one, so that the point reads:

"The definition of and rationale and criteria for the University’s exclusion processes."; and

inclusion of reference to the development of procedures for double degree students under point three.

The Committee also agreed to a suggestion made by Professor Harris that the issue of student attendance at hearings be considered by the Working Party during its deliberations at point three of the Terms of Reference.

The final version of the Working Party’s Terms of Reference, including the amendments above, are attached to these Minutes for information. (Attachment A)

Professor G Webb introduced this item, advising that ACER had been contracted to produce a test for university students which would, amongst other objectives, demonstrate the generic skills and graduate attributes achieved by students during the undertaking of their awards.

Professor Webb invited members to forward relevant information to him regarding the points below, so that Monash could provide a response to ACER about this matter:

The attributes and generic skills expected of Monash graduates; and

Faculties’ strategies for the teaching and assessment of generic skills and graduate attributes.

Professor Lindsay highlighted that it would be also useful for the above information to be further considered by the Education Committee. It was agreed that information received would be circulated to a group including Dr K Macrae, Associate Professor A Farley and Professor G Webb for comment prior to a response being forwarded to ACER about this matter (which was required in three weeks), and then give consideration to this as an item to be included on a future agenda of the Education Committee.

The Committee noted Professor Lindsay’s advice that Monash’s current certification from GATE was about to expire, and that the University was submitting an application (by 16 July 1999) for a further five year GATE certification. The Chair informed members that GATE matters were managed through the Offshore Quality Assurance Committee (OQAC), and that Dr G McBurnie was currently preparing documentation for the application for re-accreditation. Members noted that Associate Deans Teaching or Associate Deans International may be required to sign off on the University’s submission.

Professor Lindsay advised that GATE representatives would be visiting the University in October 1999, with those most significantly affected being staff who acted as contacts for offshore courses.

Members noted that queries regarding the University’s application for further GATE accreditation could be directed to Dr G McBurnie, Professor J Harris or Professor G Webb. The Offshore Quality Assurance Committee is jointly chaired by Professor J Maloney and Professor A Lindsay.

A draft of a proforma for Major Amendments to Courses was tabled at the meeting.

The Chair informed members that the draft proforma tabled was intended to streamline processes, as an optional proforma, by assisting Associate Deans Teaching with Education Committee and Academic Board reporting requirements for major amendments to courses.

The Committee agreed that the draft proforma would be considered by Associate Deans Teaching, and also forwarded to Faculty Registrars, and that any comments about the proforma would be forwarded to the Executive Officer of the Committee, Ms K Wilson-Reid.

Secretarial Note: A copy of the draft proforma was electronically distributed to Associate Deans Teaching and Faculty Registrars following the meeting.

The Proforma for Major Amendments to Courses will be made available for use at the University Secretariat website (together with all other information relating to Education Committee procedures and proformas) at the address below:

http://www.adm.monash.edu.au/unisec/com/comind.htm

Professor G Webb advised the Committee that CHED was preparing information about recognition of good teaching models for the promotion of teaching staff.

Professor Webb invited members to suggest specific instances where good teaching practice had been demonstrated. A member suggested that it may be appropriate to approach individuals who had achieved awards for Excellence in Teaching for such information. Associate Deans Teaching and Deans were invited to forward examples of good teaching models to Professor Webb.

A member requested that copies of the publication titled "Short Term Review of Teleteaching Report", initiated by the Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic and Planning), be forwarded to members of the Committee for information.

(Secretarial Note: Copies of the Short Term Review of Teleteaching were circulated to members following the meeting. Further copies of the Report may be obtained upon request to the Centre for Learning and Teaching Support (CeLTS).)

Associate Professor J Hurst expressed concern regarding the lack of pre-requisites specified in some proposals which had been submitted for subjects past the first year level. Associate Professor Hurst informed members that the Working Party on Quality Assurance had attempted to define requirements for subjects at the different year levels, and highlighted the importance of inclusion of at least some indication of pre-requisites for these subjects. Following brief discussion, members noted that this matter could be given more careful attention by the Committee through its consideration of the upcoming report of the Working Party.

The relevance of the sub-heading "Staff Commitment" in course/subject proformas was raised. The Committee agreed that the matter of staff commitment was adequately addressed through other avenues and that it should be deleted from these proformas.

Further discussion occurred about how to write appropriate objectives for courses and subjects. Members were reminded about the document which was recently updated by Dr K Fraser, and endorsed by the Education Committee, titled "Guide for Writing Objectives for Courses and Subjects". Professor Evans also suggested that evaluators highlight good examples of objectives at future meetings of the Committee for reference. Professor Webb requested that evaluators forward good and bad examples of objectives to him for use in later training sessions. Professor Evans added that it may be useful to have mentors and/or develop guidelines for new evaluators.

A document was circulated (p 17-26).

The Committee received the Report of Meeting 3/99 of the Board of the Faculty of Arts held on Wednesday, 9 June 1999, noted the proceedings and considered each item requiring action separately for submission to Academic Board.

Documentation was circulated (p 27-32).

The Committee endorsed for submission to Academic Board 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.

Documentation was circulated (p 33-34).

The Committee endorsed for submission to Academic Board 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 combined major sequence in Anthropology and Koorie Studies; and

an honours program in Anthropology and Koorie Studies.

Documentation was circulated (p 35-42).

Members noted that the proposal under this item was conditional upon the establishment of four new subjects under agenda item 7.3.

Associate Professor Garrioch clarified a resource matter in relation to the teaching of new subjects in the Ancient Greek Studies minor.

The Committee noted that the Board of the Faculty of Arts had approved a minor amendment to the Bachelor of Arts to introduce a minor sequence in Ancient Greek Studies from semester one, 2000, which would include the following subjects:

PHL2130 Greek Philosophy - to be cross-listed as AGS2050

PLT2060 Images of democracy: early Greek origins - to be cross-listed as AGS2060

AGS1030 Ancient Athens: The Golden Age (new)

AGS1040 Philip of Macedon & Alexander the Great (new)

AGS2030 Ancient Greek Epic and Pre-Classical Greece (new)

AGS2040 Ancient Greece through its Drama (new)

A document was circulated (p 43-44).

The proposal under this item was conditional upon the establishment of the new subjects listed below. The Committee’s endorsement of these subjects was sought under item 7.3 – New Subject Proposals.

The Committee noted that the Board of the Faculty of Arts had approved a re-sequencing of subjects within the Bachelor of Arts and the Bachelor of Performing Arts including the addition of the following new subjects:

DTS1420 Body, Voice, Text

DTS3400 Script Development

DTS2070/3070 Music Theatre

DTS2170/3170 Musical Theatre Workshop

DTS2510/3510 Chorographic Project

Handbook entries were circulated (p 45-218).

New Subjects

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

DTS2/3160 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

GES2440 Environmental Policy and Management

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

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

HSY3800 Teaching History

HSY4800 Teaching History

ARY4050 The Archaeology of the Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt

ARY4730 Dissertation

CBL2213 Intermediate Business Chinese, part 1

CBL2223 Intermediate Business Chinese, part 2

GES2450 Coastal Geomorphology and Management

GES2140 Coastal Geomorphology and Management

GES2180 Biogeography – the Status of Australian Vegetation

GES2110 Soils, land use and the environment

GES2200 Climates of the Earth Boundary Layer

GES2220 Environmental Hydrology

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 (in addition to ANY2110)

ANY3530 Tradition and Change: The Dynamics of Culture, Colonialism and Modernity (in addition to ANY2530)

ANY2490 Knowledge, power and social transformation in Southeast Asia (in addition to ANY3490)

ANY2350 Questions of identity: Ethnicity, nationalism and globalisation (in addition to ANY3350)

ARY3810 An Introduction to Middle Egyptian Language (in place of ARY4810)

GSC3512 United States Politics: Media and Power (in addition to GSC2502)

INM2990 Language Study Abroad (in addition to INM3990)

ITA2990 Language Study Abroad Program (in addition to ITA3990)

JPL1510 Japanese 1E: part 1 (Refer to attached memorandum)

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 (in addition to JPS3081)

JPS4082 Critical debate on contemporary Japan (in addition to JPS3082)

SCY2272 Sociology of Popular Music (in addition to SCY3272)

SCY3150 Sociological research techniques for public policy (in addition to SCY2150)

SCY2142 Sociology of Education (in addition to SCY3142)

SCY3042 Sociology of Ethnicity and Minority Relations (in addition to SCY2042)

SCY4310 Population and Migration (in addition to SCY3310)

SCY3100 Marx, Weber and Durkheim: Sociological Perspectives

WMN3110 Representations of Women and Gender in Australian Society (in addition to WMN2110)

Following considerable discussion about various related issues, Education Committee endorsed for submission to Academic Board the new subjects listed above, subject to the following action:

that further consultation and collaboration would take place between the Faculties of Arts and Education regarding the subjects HSY3800/HSY4800 Teaching History;

that the Faculty of Arts provide clarification regarding the reasons for the significant difference in assessment and workload between the Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Science six point versions of the subject GES2440 Environmental Policy and Management; and

in relation to the assessment and workload for the subjects GES2450, GES2140, GES2180, GES2110, GES2200 and GES2220, the Committee reasoned that there was not a clear enough workload distinction between the six point Science Faculty versions and the (proposed) eight point Arts Faculty versions of these subjects. Education Committee recommended that these subjects be approved as six point subjects instead of eight points, particularly given the planned conversion to six points multiples for all subjects. Associate Professor Garrioch provided the Committee with a brief description of the rationale for the Faculty’s proposal to offer these subjects at eight points in 2000. The Committee requested that Associate Professor Garrioch forward a memorandum to the Executive Officer detailing the Faculty’s transition arrangements for those students who may be disadvantaged if the subjects were not offered at eight credit points in 2000.

Secretarial Note: Subsequent to the meeting, clarification was received regarding the differences in assessment/workload between the Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Science versions of the subject GES2440. Due to an error which had been made in relation to the proposal of this subject, the Arts Faculty advised that the subject should be withdrawn from the approval process at this time.

In addition, documentation was received from the Faculty of Arts following the meeting regarding the additional six Geography subjects which provided a detailed explanation of the Faculty’s rationale for offering the subjects at eight points in 2000, including clarification of the differences in assessment and workload between the Arts and Science versions of the subjects. The documentation contained a request from the Arts Faculty that the proposals for these subjects be returned to the Education Committee with the above-mentioned rationale to be endorsed as eight point subjects for offer in 2000.

Documentation was circulated (p 219-240).

The Committee noted the decision of the Board of the Faculty of Arts to amend the following subjects as detailed in the documentation presented:

FRN3080 French Language IIIB (Change to content > 25%)

HSY1010 Medieval Europe (Summer Semester)

ITA1070/1080 Italian IA/Italian IB (Distance Education)

INM2215 Intermediate Indonesian Part I

INM2225 Intermediate Indonesian Part II

SCY2021/3021 Sociology of the Mass Media – to be offered at Clayton and Caulfield (withdrawn from Peninsula)

SCY2272/3272 Sociology of Popular Music – to be offered at Clayton and Caulfield (withdrawn from Peninsula )

SCY2142/3142 Sociology of Education – to be offered at Clayton and Caulfield (withdrawn from Peninsula )

SCY2042/3042 Ethnicity & Minority Relations – to be offered at Clayton and Caulfield ( withdrawn from Peninsula)

SCY3310/SCY4310 Population and Migration now offered at Clayton and Caulfield

SCY2100 Marx, Weber and Durkheim: Sociological Perspectives now offered at Clayton and Caulfield

The Committee noted that the Board of the Faculty of Arts approved amendments to existing subjects as detailed in item 8 of the Faculty Board Report presented.

The Committee endorsed for transmission to Academic Board the proposal of the Board of the Faculty of Arts to disestablish the subjects listed below:

ARY4810 An Introduction to Middle Egyptian Language

ARY4720 Dissertation

ARY4040 Archaeology of the Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt

CBL2210 Intermediate Business Chinese, part 1

CBL2220 Intermediate Business Chinese, part 2

DTS1050 Music Theatre

DTS2270 Modern Drama

DTS3270 Modern Drama

GRN3255/GRN4255 German Drama, Theatre and Society

GRN3035 The Age of Goethe I

GRN3045 The Age of Goethe II

GSC4411 Reading the Post-Colonial: Text and Theory

GSC2504 Public and Social Policy

GSC2508 Australian Political Institutions

HSY4010 Making Histories

HSY4050 Special Subject 1: first semester

HSY4060 Special Subject 2: second semester

HSY4200 Life Stories: Memory, Narrative and History

HSY4830 Making of Modern Paris

HSY4870 Social Theory and Social History

HSY4900 Biography and History

HSY4930 Reading and Writing Australian History

HSY4960 Gender and History

LIN2170/3170 Linguistics for Language Learning

SPN4000 Spanish Language IV

SPN3070 Spanish Language IIIA

SPN3080 Spanish Language IIIB

SPN2150 Hispanic American Culture and Civilisation

VSA4000 Minor Thesis

VSA4007 Gender and Genre: Masculinity and Film

VSA4010 Approaches to Art History

VSA4021 Beyond the Museum

VSA4023 Museum practice and research

VSA4030 Theory of Art History and Criticism

VSA4034 Nineteenth-Century Australian Art

VSA4040 Film Theory and Criticism: Part 1

VSA4050 Film Theory and Criticism II

VSA4054 Twentieth-Century Australian Modernism

VSA4074 Australian Postmodernism

VSA4084 The Culture of Imagine of Cities

VSA4120 Australian Film History

VSA4290 Theory, Culture and Visuality

VSA4640 German Screen Studies

VSA4750 South east Asian and Indonesian Film and Television

WMN4025 Feminist Research

A document was circulated (p 241–246).

A member raised a query regarding the reasons for the decision of the Faculty of Business and Economics under Proceeding No.7 of the Faculty Board Report. Associate Professor A Farley clarified that in the specific instance where a student who was enrolled in a degree of the Faculty wished to undertake an off-campus subject available both via Open Learning and distance education (DE), the student was required to enrol in that subject via DE so that the subject enrolment would appear on the Faculty’s records and the student’s academic transcript. (It was noted that Open learning subjects were not recorded in this way.)

The Committee received the Report of Meeting 3/99 of the Board of the Faculty of Business and Economics held on Wednesday, 19 May 1999, noted the proceedings and considered each item requiring action separately for submission to Academic Board.

Handbook entries were circulated (p 247–256).

The Committee endorsed for submission to Academic Board the proposal of the Board of the Faculty of Business and Economics to establish the new subjects listed below:

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

A document was circulated (p 257–258).

The Committee received the report of Meeting 2/99 of the Board of the Faculty of Education held on Wednesday, 12 May 1999, noted the proceedings and considered each item requiring action separately for submission to Academic Board.

Handbook entries were circulated (p 259-266).

The Committee endorsed for submission to Academic Board the proposal of the Board of the Faculty of Education to establish the new subjects listed below:

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

A document was circulated (p 267–272).

The Committee received the Report of Meeting 2/99 of the Board of the Faculty of Engineering held on Wednesday, 26 May 1999 and considered each item requiring action separately for submission to the Academic Board.

A document was circulated (p 273-274).

The Committee endorsed for submission to Academic Board 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.

A document was circulated (p 275-278).

The Committee endorsed for submission to Academic Board 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 the addition of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management to the branches of engineering study available in the program.

As a result of the move of the School of Computer Science and Software Engineering to a standard six credit point format for all subjects a number of changes to the subjects offered in the BCSE were recommended.

A document was circulated (p 279-282) which contained an explanatory memorandum, an amended subject list and details of transitional arrangements to cater for students who were not following a standard progression.

Brief discussion occurred between Associate Professors J Hurst and K Ng regarding collaboration between the Faculties of Engineering and Information Technology in the offering of this award.

On the recommendation of the Board of the Faculty of Engineering, Education Committee endorsed for submission to Academic Board the proposed subject substitutions in the Bachelor of Computer Systems Engineering (BCSE), the amended subject list and transitional arrangements.

At the beginning of the meeting, the Committee noted that two minor amendments to wording in the attachments for this item were required, as detailed in the document which was tabled by Associate Professor Ng, and which is attached to these minutes for information. (Attachment B)

A document was circulated (p 283-292).

On the recommendation of the Board of the Faculty of Engineering, the Committee endorsed for submission to Academic Board the proposal to amend the Bachelor of Engineering to include alternative subjects (detailed in the document presented), 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.

Documentation was circulated (p 293-316).

At its Meeting 7/97, Education Committee approved major amendments to the Bachelor of Engineering to enable the offering of a single Engineering degree across four campuses in eight branches of Engineering. The common first year was introduced in 1998 and the second year in all branches in 1999. The Department of Chemical Engineering has now proposed the changes necessary to introduce the new levels three and four in 2000.

The Committee noted that details of consequential amendments to the Bachelor of Commerce / Bachelor of Engineering program were still being considered.

On the recommendation of the Board of the Faculty of Engineering, Education Committee:

endorsed the proposal to change the existing subject CHE4118 - Chemical Engineering Research Project, from an elective to a core subject;

endorsed the establishment of the new subject below:

CHE3130 Chemical engineering computer applications

endorsed the establishment of the following new subjects, which were proposed due to changes to credit point values:

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

noted the revised subject list 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.

Documentation was circulated (p 317-330).

Following the introduction of its new second level in 1999, the Department of Civil Engineering proposed the changes necessary to introduce its new level three in 2000.

The Committee noted that details of consequential amendments to the Bachelor of Commerce / Bachelor of Engineering program were still being considered.

On the recommendation of the Board of the Faculty of Engineering, Education Committee:

endorsed the establishment of the following new subjects:

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

noted 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.

Documentation was circulated (p 331-354)

Following the introduction of its new second level in 1999, the Department of Mechanical Engineering proposed the changes necessary to introduce the new Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management levels three and four in 2000. The Department had also made minor changes to the second year level.

On the recommendation of the Board of the Faculty of Engineering, Education Committee:

endorsed the inclusion of the following two existing subjects as core subjects in the Industrial Engineering & Engineering Management branch of the Bachelor of Engineering:

IND2352 Manufacturing Processes

IND2382 Fluids and Energy

endorsed the establishment of the new subjects listed below:

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

endorsed the establishment of the following new subjects, which were proposed due to changes to credit point values:

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

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

Documentation was circulated (p 335-362).

The second level of the Mechatronics Engineering branch of the Bachelor of Engineering was introduced in 1999. The Gippsland School of Engineering proposed the establishment of seven new subjects to enable the course to advance to third level in 2000. The subjects proposed were in line with the Faculty's original submission for the amended course in November 1997.

On the recommendation of the Board of the Faculty of Engineering, Education Committee:

endorsed the establishment of the new subjects listed below:

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

retrospectively endorsed the establishment of the following subject from the fourth year of the Mechatronics program, for introduction with effect from semester one, 1999:

GSE4803 Computer Systems & Networks

Documentation was circulated (p 363-366).

The Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering proposed changes to the credit point value of the subjects listed below in the biomedical engineering Bachelor of Science / Bachelor of Engineering program in Physiology and Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering.

Education Committee endorsed the proposal of the Board of the Faculty of Engineering to establish the new subjects listed below, due to changes being made to the credit point value of those subjects:

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

The Committee noted that the Board of the Faculty of Medicine approved an amendment to the code of the subject ECS2300 – Electrical Engineering, to become ECE2002 Electrical Engineering.

A document was circulated (p 367-368).

The Committee noted that the Board of the Faculty of Engineering approved amendments to the codes and titles of six existing subjects at the Gippsland School of Engineering as detailed in the document presented, in order to bring these subject titles into line with the new Mechatronics numbering system.

A document was circulated (p 369-372).

The Committee received the Report of Meeting 2/99 of the Board of the Faculty of Information Technology held on Wednesday, 5 May 1999, noted the proceedings and considered each item requiring action separately for submission to the Academic Board.

Handbook entries were circulated (p 373-378).

The Committee endorsed for submission to Academic Board the proposal of the Board of the Faculty of Information Technology to establish the new subjects listed below:

BUS2040 Business Systems for Multimedia and the Entertainment Industries

CPE3005 Networked Multimedia Systems

CSE3210 Software Component Technologies

CSE3231 Client – Server Database Systems

The Committee noted that the Board of the Faculty of Information Technology approved minor amendments to existing subjects as detailed under item 2 of the Faculty Board Report presented.

A document was circulated (p 379-380).

Education Committee received the Report of Meeting 1/99 of the Board of the Faculty of Law held on Wednesday, 21 April 1999, noted the proceedings and considered each item requiring action separately for submission to the Academic Board.

Handbook entries were circulated (p 381-384).

The Committee endorsed for submission to Academic Board the proposal of the Board of the Faculty of Law to establish the subjects listed below:

LAW4160 Negotiation and Mediation

LAW4161 European Union Law

A document was circulated (p 385-386).

The Education Committee received the Report of Meeting 3/99 of the Board of the Faculty of Medicine held on Wednesday 5 May 1999, and considered each item requiring action separately for submission to the Academic Board.

A document was circulated (p 387-400).

The new subjects CWH1001 and CWH1002, proposed under item 13.2 of the agenda, were associated with this proposal..

The Education Committee endorsed for submission to Academic Board 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.

An issue was raised under this item in order to highlight a matter for consideration at a future meeting. Professor Young posed a question to the Committee about whether a certain component of assessment, both for distance education and on-campus study, should be invigilated. It was agreed that each Associate Dean Teaching would investigate what (if any) policy their Faculty maintained in relation to invigilated assessment, and provide a brief written report to the Committee.

Handbook entries were circulated (p 401-416).

The Committee endorsed for submission to Academic Board the proposal of the Board of the Faculty of Medicine to establish the subjects listed below:

CWH1001 Family Planning: Sexual and Reproductive Health

CWH1002 Women’s Health in Society

FOR2005 Adult Sexual Assault

FOR2006 Paediatric Forensic Medicine

BME1130 The Human Being in Health and Illness (subject to ratification by the Faculty Board on 7 July 1999)

MPH2071 Gender Issues in Public Health (this subject was withdrawn by the Faculty of Medicine from a previous Education Committee agenda, and is now forwarded for endorsement following completion of the evaluation process)

(Secretarial Note: The proposal for establishment of the subject BME1130 was approved by the Faculty of Medicine Curriculum Review and Development Committee on behalf of the Faculty Board. Subsequent to the meeting, this proposal was ratified by the Faculty Board at its meeting held 7 July 1999.)

A document was circulated (p 417-420).

Education Committee received the Report of the Board of the Victorian College of Pharmacy held on Wednesday, 2 June 1999, and considered each item requiring action separately for submission to the Academic Board.

A document was circulated (p 421-436).

(Refer also to item 14.2 for the establishment of new subjects associated with the Bachelor of Formulation Science.)

Brief discussion occurred between Associate Professors K Ng and L Roller regarding cross-faculty consultation in relation to this proposal.

The Committee endorsed for submission to Academic Board 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.

Handbook entries were circulated (p 437-468).

(The new subjects below coded VCP4011 to VCP4021 were part of the fourth year of the Bachelor of Pharmacy, which was amended to become a four year degree by Academic Board at its Meeting 3/96 – Minute 14.5.1.)

The Committee endorsed for submission to Academic Board the proposal of the Board of the Victorian College of Pharmacy to establish the subjects listed below:

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

The next scheduled Meeting of the Education Committee will be held at 10.00 am on Wednesday, 4 August 1999.

All final submissions for that meeting are due on or before Wednesday, 21 July 1999. Please refer also to the 1999 Education Committee Submission Schedule and Evaluation Roster, which is located on the web at the following address:

http://www.adm.monash.edu.au/unisec/com/comind.htm

Professor Alan Lindsay (Chair)

Associate Professor David Garrioch

Dr Paul James

Mr Karen Bensley

Associate Professor Alan Farley

Associate Professor Les Nethercott

Associate Professor Peter Gronn

Associate Professor Kim Ng

Associate Professor John Hurst

Mr Chris Avram

Dr Bernadette McSherry

Professor Grahame Taylor

Professor Leon Piterman

Dr Kristina Macrae

Dr Michael Morgan

Professor Louis Roller

Professor Peter Stewart

Professor Max King

Professor Merran Evans

Professor John Harris

Professor Graham Webb

Professor Bill Young

Professor Les Johnson

Ms Claire Robinson (MONSU)

Mr Daniel Hickman (MSA)

Mr Ken Hull (MUGSU)

Ms Anne Purdham (MUBS)

Mr Chris Coles (MPA – Graduate Diploma)

Mr Noel Turner (MPA - Master by coursework)

Mr Robert Burnet

Mr Clive Vernon

Dr Paul Rodan

Ms Kerri Wilson-Reid (Executive Officer)

Ms Fiona Walker (Minute Secretary)

Faculty Registrars/Managers (*9)

Mr B Eddy

Ms M Fairbanks

Dr A Mitchell

Mr P Siggins

Ms J Buckingham

Ms C Holland