Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1978 [PAGE 576]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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200, beginning with FY 1979, to serve the increased graduate enrollment expected by September 1978 and to maintain approximate parity among the campuses. I recommend approval. O n m o t i o n of M i s s W i n t e r , t h i s r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s a p p r o v e d . President's Report on Actions of the Senates Revision and Renaming of the Curriculum in Medical Art, Medical Center (15) T h e Medical Center Senate has approved a recommendation from the School of Associated Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, that the Curriculum in Medical Art be renamed the Curriculum in Biocommunication Arts. This name change is reflective of the revision of the Curriculum in Medical Art which will offer the student a greater variety of options in the field of biocommunication and will reduce the total number of undergraduate entry credit hours from 96 to 64 semester hours, permitting the award of the baccalaureate degree in four instead of five years. The biocommunication artist is a specialist in development of visual aids which clarify and help communicate the knowledge and methodology of the health sciences. Some biocommunication artists concentrate their efforts in other specialties such as photography; instructional design for audiovisual programs; design and production of portable exhibits and museum displays; three-dimensional anatomical models and patient simulators for training health care personnel; or prosthetic devices for patients with facial defects caused by tumor surgery, injury, or congenital malformation. Revision of the Curriculum in Medical Record Administration, Medical Center T h e Medical Center Senate has approved a recommendation from the School of Associated Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, for a revision in the Curriculum in Medical Record Administration featuring guided self-paced individualized learning. T h e revised curriculum will facilitate the admission of students from a variety of educational backgrounds and institutions and will provide expanded career mobility for its graduates. Students are admitted following three years of undergraduate study and will master the specified competencies of the Curriculum in Medical Record Administration at their own pace by completing their medical record education in a minimum of 4 quarters or a maximum of 8 quarters. The revised curriculum consists of fifty-one study modules directed at integrating the knowledge, skills, and attitudes required of a beginning medical record administrator. Transfer of Administration of Doctoral Program in Theatre, Urbana T h e Urbana-Champaign Senate has approved a recommendation from the Department of Theatre that the administration of the Ph.D. program in theatre be formally transferred from the Department of Speech Communication to the Department of Theatre. The program, known as a Doctor of Philosophy in Speech with a Theatre Option, was approved in 1953 for the Department of Speech. In 1968, when the Department of Theatre was established as an autonomous unit in the College of Fine and Applied Arts, the administration of the doctoral program was kept in the Department of Speech, although most of the research for the dissertation of the ninety-six persons who have received the Ph.D. in theatre has been directed by members of the theatre faculty. T h e faculty of each department has agreed to the change.

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