Faculty Senate Electronic Meeting - September 23-27, 2019
Date: 09-23-2019 to 09-27-2019
Subject: Faculty Senate Electronic Meeting Minutes
Attendance: Andrey Simonov (Chair), Sijie Sun (Vice Chair), Terrance Jalbert, Keisuke Nakao, Todd Inouye, Sukhwa Hong, Amirhossein Mohammadian, Angela Faanunu, Benjamin Zenk, James Czarski, Deborah Hughes, Helen Tien, Marcia Sakai, Emmeline de Pillis (ex officio)
Topics:
- Permission to use MGT and BUS courses in ESJ track
Report: Include MGT 423 Business Ethics (3) Business and Society and MGT 490 Strategic Mgt (3) Strategic Management as electives in the Ethics and Social Justice track of the Philosophy major. Also including BUS 290 Critical Thinking (3) Critical Thinking as an option to fulfill the reasoning requirement in both the current Philosophy major and the proposed Ethics and Social Justice track of the Philosophy major.
Actions:
• Todd Inouye moved to motion, and the motion was seconded by Sukhwa Hong. The discussion was raised about the prerequisites for MGT 423 Business Ethics (3) and MGT490.
• The motion was approved with 8 votes in favor, 0 against, 1 abstained.
- Dr. Sukhwa Hong's QBA new course offering
Report: add the courses QBA 200 Intro to Business Analytics (3) , QBA 465 Text Mining for Social Science (3) , and modify QBA 362 Business Analytics (3) as noted
Actions:
• Terrance Jalbert moved to motion, and the motion was seconded by Amirhossein Mohammadian
- QBA200 as part of GE
Report: Position QBA 200 Intro to Business Analytics (3) as a part of UH Hilo general education especially for quantitative reasoning. Please see the description below.
Actions:
• Sukhwa Hong moved to motion, and the motion was seconded by Todd Inouye.
• Terrance Jalbert offer the amendment to the motion to submit QBA200 for possible GE certification, the motion was seconded by Sukhwa Hong.
• The motion was approved with 6 votes in favor, 0 against, 0 abstained.
- International Studies Tourism Certificate
Report: Modify requirements for International Studies Tourism Certificate because it contains ECON 210 (Intro To Global Economy) & ECON 360 (International Trade & Welfare), which we are deactivating. Specifically, we need to remove ECON 210 and also need to replace ECON360 with ECON 361 International Finance (3) (International Finance).
Actions:
• Sijie Sun moved to motion, and second by Sukhwa Hong.
• The motion was approved with 7 votes in favor, 0 against, 0 abstained.
- Math Requirements
Report: The background of Math requirement is
_It appears the reason for the wording of the Business requirement MATH 125 Applied Calculus (3) /MATH 135 Precalc: Elementary Functions (3) /MATH 241 Calculus I (4) or higher is because in the old numbering system we had
115 as Applied Calculus
121 as Statistics
So the requirements with the old numbering system appeared as MATH 115 Intro to Stats and Prob (3) /MATH 135 Precalc: Elementary Functions (3) /MATH 241 Calculus I (4) or higher. If worded as MATH 115 Intro to Stats and Prob (3) or higher, then students would be able to take Statistics to fulfill the math requirement, which probably is not what the college want. They want students to have a course in algebra, functions, and possibly some calculus. Now that Applied Calculus is 125 and Statistics is 115, it is possible to have MATH 125 Applied Calculus (3) or higher. _
The motion is
• Modify the Quantitative Reasoning requirement for BBA majors from "MATH 125 Applied Calculus (3) /MATH 135 Precalc: Elementary Functions (3) /MATH 241 Calculus I (4) or higher, with "C" or better" to " MATH 125 Applied Calculus (3) or higher, with "C" or better."
• Modify the Prerequisite for Econ 130 and Fin 320 from "MATH 125 Applied Calculus (3) /MATH 135 Precalc: Elementary Functions (3) /MATH 241 Calculus I (4) or higher, with "C" or better" to " MATH 125 Applied Calculus (3) or higher, with "C" or better"
Actions:
• Sukhwa Hong moved to motion, and the motion was second by Sijie Sun
• The motion was approved with 8 votes in favor, 0 against, 0 abstained.
- Modify requirements to allow two economics courses for the Finance, Management, and Professional Studies business concentrations.
Report: The details regarding the changes include:
Actions:
• Amirhossein Mohammadian moved to motion, and the motion was second by Marcia Sakai
• The motion was approved with 7 votes in favor, 0 against, 1 abstained.
- Cross-list QBA200, 362, 465 with DATA 200 Intro to Business Analytics (3) , 362, 465.
Report: The data science team is launching new alpha, DATA and they like to cross-list QBA 200 Intro to Business Analytics (3) , QBA 362 Business Analytics (3) , and QBA 465 Text Mining for Social Science (3) with DATA 200 Intro to Business Analytics (3) , DATA 362 Business Analytics (3) , and DATA 465 Text Mining for Social Science (3) . The discussion is to modify the motion to cross-listing QBA 200 Intro to Business Analytics (3) , QBA 362 Business Analytics (3) , and QBA 465 Text Mining for Social Science (3) with DATA 200 Intro to Business Analytics (3) , DATA 362 Business Analytics (3) , and DATA 465 Text Mining for Social Science (3) , contingent on the letter from CNHS dean indicating that CS would not offer DATA on its own without CoBE agreement.
Actions:
• Sukhwa Hong moved to motion, and the motion was second by Amirhossein Mohammadian
• The motion was approved with 9 votes in favor, 0 against, 1 abstained.