Committee on Courses of Instruction
Annual Report 2000-2001
Nancy Byl, PhD
Chair
The Committee on Courses of Instruction (COI) held six meetings during the 2000-2001 academic year. Four of the meetings were conducted to review and approve individual courses from all four schools and two meetings were held to evaluate and award Instructional Improvement Grants applications in conjunction with the Library.
The Committee’s work included reviewing and acting on the following:
- Formal and final approval of new courses
- Modifications to courses already approved
- Deletion of courses
- Proposal for revision of Committee bylaws
- Instructional Improvement Grants
- Consideration of web based teaching policy guidelines
- Participation in the Senate’s Distance Learning Task Force
Reviewing Courses of Instruction
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The Committee reviewed 235 courses and approved the following. (Results of reviews are broken out by School.)
New Courses Added
- Dentistry 38
- Medicine 57
- Nursing 21
- Pharmacy 49
Course Changes Approved
- Dentistry 2
- Medicine 19
- Nursing 18
- Pharmacy 11
Courses Deleted
- Dentistry 0
- Medicine 5
- Nursing 13
- Pharmacy 2
Revisions to Committee Bylaws
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The Committee proposed a revision to its bylaws and transmitted its recommendations the Committee on Rules & Jurisdiction for consideration. The recommended bylaw revision seeks to acknowledge and define the Committee’s role in reviewing and recommending awards for Instructional Improvement Grants. No additional changes were proposed.
Instructional Improvement Grant Program
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The Library Department now coordinates all available funds for Instructional Improvement Grants and has utilized the assistance of the Committee on Courses of Instruction for some time now to review and make recommendations for awarding of Instructional Improvement Grants. This combined approach successfully streamlines the application and review process for both the faculty and the review committee. This year the COI reviewed a total of 26 applications. A total of ten applicants were awarded $80,269 from the 2000-2001 budget of $97,000. See Appendix A for results. The Library Department indicates that unspent funds are to be rolled over into the 2001-2002 grant budget.
The Committee was asked to consider two new web-based courses for the School of Nursing this year. A policy to guide the Committee in approving such web-based courses does not yet exist. The COI grew concerned that web-based learning may burden instructors with a greater workload than traditional seminar-based learning and, in addition, do so without adequately crediting faculty members for time spent on preparation and teaching within the tenure review process.
Drawing on the completed work of the Task Force on Distance Learning, Chair Byl sent a letter to the outgoing and incoming Chairs of the Academic Senate. The letter recommended that the Senate Chair direct the COI, the Committee on Educational Policy Committee and the Committee on Faculty Welfare work together to outline a campus wide policy on web-based teaching. Chair Byl expressed concern that clearer standards and guidelines are needed to address issues of student-faculty interaction, assignment of academic units, faculty preparation and class time, special fees for the class (or tuition), requirements for traditional registration as a UCSF student, and requirements for assigning a grade (e.g. written examinations).
Issues for the 2001-2002 Academic Year
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Suggested new topics for next year include:
- Clarification of the policies and standards for web-based courses
- The correlation between course numbers and type of courses should be clarified across schools
- Continued discussion of the value of reintroducing a printed version of the UCSF general course catalog
Respectfully submitted,
Committee on Courses of Instruction
Nancy Byl, Chair,
Noreen Facione
Daniel Fried
Linda Liu
Gary McCart
Steve Kahl, ex officio
Don Curtis, ex officio
Phil Ursell, ex officio
Kathleen Puntillo, ex officio
Helen Hays-Thomas, Registrar, Exec. Sec.
Prepared by
Christopher Theisen
Administrative Analyst
514-2696
ctheisen@senate.ucsf.edu
July 25, 2001
COI Annual Report 00-01.doc
Appendix A: Instructional Improvement Grant Program 2000-2001 Results
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Applicant's Name
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Department & School
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Status (student, faculty, staff, postdoc, resident)
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Title of Project
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Amount Granted
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Jean Pouliot
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Radiation Oncology
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Associate Professor
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Instr. Multimedia on Portal Imaging Tech. In Radiation Oncology.
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$9,438
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Barbara Sauer, Lloyd Young, & Christopher Cullander
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Clinical Pharmacy
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Clinical Prof & Vice Chair; Prof and Chair, Assistant Dean
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Extending Our Reach: Web-based Faculty Development for WOS Clinical Faculty.
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$8,300
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Margaret McNamara
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Pediatrics
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Asst. Clinical Professor of Pediatrics
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Identifying & Responding to Families Affected by Domestic Violence: A Video Guide to Domestic Violence Screening
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$9,450
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Sharad Jain
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Medicine
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Asst. Clinical Professor of Medicine
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Dev. Of a teaching module to teach medical students about caring for homeless patients.
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$6,250
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William Shore, Arianne Teherani & Carol Hodgson
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Family & Community Medicine
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Professor; Staff; Staff
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Development of WebCT cases for the new integrated Family & Community Medicine/Surgical Subspecialty Core Clerkship.
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$7,180
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Karen Hauer & Preetha Basaviah
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Medicine
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Faculty; Asst. Clinical Prof of Medicine
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Enhancing Medicine Core Clerkship Physical Diagnosis Instruction through Web-based and Patient-based Experiential Learning.
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$8,798
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Eva Aagaard
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Div. Of Gen. Internal Medicine
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Asst. Clinical Professor of Medicine
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Housestaff Handbook of Outpatient Internal Medicine.
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$2,364
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Jonathan Strober & Elliott Sherr
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Pediatrics & Neurology
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Assistant Clinical Professor; Adjunct Professor
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The Infant Nurologic Examination: An Annotated Instructional Video.
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$9,940
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William Colman & Sigurd Berven
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Orthopaedic Surgery
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Assistant Professor in Residence
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Computer Simulation in Orthopaedic Surgery-An Instructional Program for Medical Students and Residents.
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$8,550
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Jesse Gray
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Biochemistry
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Graduate Student
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Interactive Software Tutorials for Teaching Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
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$10,000
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TOTAL OF GRANT PROPOSALS
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$80,270
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