Programs Committee- School of Education

The Programs Committee for the School of Education met on Friday, March 19th at 12:30pm.

The agenda consisted of initiatives for changes from Curriculum and Instruction and Kinesiology.

First, a new program was proposed and passed for a graduate Certificate in French to accommodate needs from the graduate students in French Education, and to possibly generate more interest in the future.

Next, in conjunction with the Madison Metropolitan School District, C&I proposed a program for a new Certificate for 4K Professional Development in Early Childhood. This was created in order to further certify the EC teachers in the MMSD in working with 4yr-old students, as a new 4K program will start in the fall of 2011.

The majority of the meeting was spent updating/adding courses in the Kinesiology program. Ten courses were changed in either title, number of credits, or description (contact me for more specific information) and two changes were postponed due to lack of clarity. More significantly, there was an additional Graduate program added; a non-thesis option for an MS in Kinesiology. There is believed to be a lot of demand for a non-thesis program, and the Department was able to pull from already-existing courses and compile the program.

Other announcements: The Dance Program applied to become a department and was successful, so the University will have a Dance Department in the future.

Overall, this was a very productive meeting.

Contact me at: jabemis@wisc.edu