Today the Council on Academic Affairs will consider updating the catalog descriptions of two elementary education courses and changing the prerequisites for a communication disorders and sciences course.

CAA Chair Andrew Methven said he thinks the catalog description changes are simply meant to make the language used more current.

The two courses with descriptions under revision are ELE 3250, “Facilitating Learning in Early Childhood Programs,” and ELE 3281, “Developmental Reading in Early Childhood.” Both are three-credit courses.

The CAA’s second order of business will be a request for executive action from the College of Sciences. The college has asked the CAA to approve a change in the prerequisites for CDS 4900, “Clinical Practices.”

Chair of the Communication Disorders and Sciences Department, Gail Richards, said the current prerequisite for the course is a grade point average of at least 2.85 in classes taken within the major. The change would lower that requirement to 2.75.

Richard said the prerequisite change is one part of what will be a modified minimum GPA requirement for the entire communication disorders and sciences major.

Lowering the required GPA for entering the communication disorders and sciences major is scheduled to be addressed at next week’s CAA meeting.

Richards said she wasn’t sure why the two items where split up.

Methven said the two separate items may have caused some confusion.

“So, we may need to clarify that on Thursday,” he said.