Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities
Faculty Board
SSH06-A1
NOTICE OF MEETING
A Meeting of the Faculty Board will take place on Tuesday 23 May 2006 at 9.30 am in the Council Chamber, Administration Building 2.
AGENDA
1. Apologies for Absence
2. Business of
the Agenda
Any
member wishing to unstar an item is asked to notify the Secretary by midday on
Monday 22 May 2006. Starred items will otherwise be taken without discussion.
Please
note that those papers for items in Section B and C which are not circulated
with this agenda will be found on the University Web pages linked to the
following URL:
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/admin/committees/ssh/index.html
3. Minutes (previously circulated)
SSH05-M3
To
confirm and sign, subject to any amendment, the Minutes of the Meeting of the
Social Sciences and Humanities Faculty Board held on 8 November 2005.
4.
Matters Arising
from the Minutes Not Appearing Elsewhere on this Agenda
SECTION A - Items for Discussion/Report
5. Dean’s and Associate Dean’s Reports
To receive reports from:
5.1 The
Dean
5.2 The Associate Dean (Research)
SSH06-P15
5.3 The Associate Dean (Teaching)
SSH06-P16 (to be electronically
circulated)
6. Award of degrees (to be tabled)
To award Higher Degrees to candidates whose examinations have been
conducted since the last meeting of Senate.
7. Destination statistics
for 2005 Graduates
To receive a presentation from the Faculty Careers Advisors of the destination
statistics for the Faculty’s 2005 Graduates.
( Ms Ivana Morton-Holmes and
Carolyn McBride to attend for this item)
8. RAE
To receive a verbal report from the Faculty’s RAE panel chairs on
the progress of the RAE.
(Professor Peter Golding, Professor Mike
Smith and Professor
SECTION B: Formal ‘starred’ items for
Approval
*9. Prize
Assessors
SSH06-P17
To
approve the appointment of Mr Jim White, LUSAD to a Prize Assessor Panel in
respect of the Sir Robert Martin Faculty (SSH) Prize.
*10. Associate
Dean (Teaching) Action
To ratify
actions taken by the Associate Dean (Teaching) in approving the following:
i. Waivers
of Programme Regulations
ii. Appointment
of Programme Boards
iii. Credit
Transfers
iv. Appointment
of Examiners of the University
v. Appointment of External
Examiners/External Programme Assessors
Further details of the actions are available from the Faculty Board
Secretary upon request.
SECTION C: Items for Information
*11. Curriculum
Sub-Committee
11.1 Recommended
New Programme Proposals
To note that
Curriculum Sub-Committee will be recommending the following new programme
proposals to Learning and Teaching Committee, subject to certain requirements
being resolved to the satisfaction of the AD(T), prior to the meeting of
Learning and Teaching Committee on 8 June 2006:
i.
Part-time
MSc Strategic Automotive Dealership Management (
commencing
July 2006.
ii.
MA
Creative Writing commencing October 2006.
iii.
Part-time
PGCert Healthcare Fire Safety Management commencing October 2006.
iv.
BA
3D Design commencing October 2007 (including discontinuation of three existing
3D Design programmes in Ceramics, Furniture, Silversmithing and Jewellery with
final recruitment in October 2006).
v. MSc Business Analysis and Management
commencing October 2007.
11.2 Programme Title Change
To note that Curriculum
Sub-Committee will be recommending a proposed programme title change to
Learning and Teaching Committee, prior to their meeting on 8 June 2006:
MSc Economics and Finance / Financial Economics /
International Finance and Economics / Monetary Economics with effect from
2006-07.
11.3 Discontinuation of Programmes
To note that Curriculum Sub-Committee will be recommending
to Learning and Teaching Committee prior to their meeting on 8 June 2006 to
discontinue the following programmes (proposed date of last intake shown in
brackets):
i. MSc
Transatlantic Relations (October 2005).
ii. MSc International Relations of the
European Union (October 2005).
iii. MSc Policy-Making in the European Union
(October 2005)
iv. MSc Globalization and
v. MSc Globalization, Development and
Difference (n/a)
*12. Staff/Student
Committees
To note that reports of the Staff/Student Committee meetings had been deposited with the Faculty Board Secretary as follows:
Department of Economics (undergraduate) 16 November 2005, 22 March 2006
Department of Economics (postgraduate) 30 November 2005
MBA 15 November 2005, 16 March 2006
Department of Geography 30 November 2005, 1 March 2006
Department of English & Drama (joint) 8 March 2006
Department of Social Sciences (undergraduate) 1 March 2006
Department of English 2 November 2005, 25 January 2006
Department of Drama 9 November 2005, 18 January 2006
Postgraduate Cert in Management (BPIF) 5 January 2006
MSc Management/MSc International 7 December 2005, 26 April Management/MSc Marketing & Management/ 2006
MSc Finance & Management
Postgraduate Diploma/MSc Diploma in 10 April 2006
Industrial Sales & Strategic Marketing
Postgraduate Diploma in Management 27 April 2006(NG Bailey)
*13. Membership
of Faculty Board
SSH06-P20
To note vacancies for elected departmental representatives of the Faculty Board for the session 2006-2007: LUSAD (1), Department of Social Sciences (2)
14. Any
Other Business
*15. Date
of Next Meeting
The next Faculty Board meeting will
take place prior to a Directorate meeting on Tuesday 14 November 2006.
Author – Ms S J McKinley
May 2006
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