Master's and Specialist Program Team Meeting Report

Report for Meeting Scheduled:
Sunday, March 04, 2001 at 01:00 PM

1. Called to Order: 1:00
   • Presiding: Beth Logan

   • Members Present:
     Ron Blazek, Eliza Dresang, Misook Heo, Beth Logan, Margie Thomas

   • Members Who Arrived Late:
     

   • Absent Members:
     Anthony Chow, Linda Carruth, Jeff Shim, Stephanie Maatta

   • Others in Attendance: Kathy Burnett and Michelle Besant

2. Special Orders:
   

3. Reports of Sub-Teams:
   REPORT OF MASTER'S AND SPECIALIST TEAM MEETING -MARCH 4, 2001 Revisiting the Master's Curriculum Much discussion and thoughtful suggestions from our faculty guests resulted in the following new plan for restructuring the Master's Degree. PLEASE GIVE US YOUR COMMENTS OR IDEAS ON THE FOLLOWING ASAP. There should be a single Master's Degree (as stated earlier), but the divisions within this degree will be at the Track or Focus level. Below is a tentative list of Tracks and their sub-areas that were identified at the meeting: 1. School Media and Youth Services 2. Information Architecture - includes Web Development Archives and Records Management Information Organization 3. Information Resources and Services - includes Reference Services Collection Management 4. Information Technology - includes Networks and Telecommunications IR Systems Database Management Questions remaining: Where does Management fit into this grouping? Should Track 5 be Information Management? Is it possible to have pre-reqs for individual tracks/courses that must be completed before the student is eligible? Even if these are not offered in our school; a programming language, for instance, for the Information Technology track? Does this effectively specify the tracks and their components (for instance, does web development belong in track 4?) We anticipate considerable course cross-over, but initial assignment of courses to separate tracks may have to be examined periodically as the curriculum is revised. What about the core that will support this structure? What are the courses that are to be required of everyone? Should the present 6 hour format be retained? Most in the meeting agreed that perhaps individual courses might better serve a new structure? If this is done, what does need to be included in the core? (One suggestion was the need for an ethics and policy component with this or a related title to distinguish it from basic management) What current courses can be combined, rewritten, or enlarged? Which new courses should be added? Which courses need to be deleted altogether?

4. Reports of Special Teams and other Team Business:
   

5. Unfinished Business:
   

6. New Business:
   

7. Announcements:
   

8. Adjourned: 2:00

Agenda Posted by Beth Logan (logan@lis.fsu.edu) on 03/05/2001 at 15:03:13