The disagreement between the journalism department and the School of Technology continued during the Council on Academic Affairs meeting Thursday.

Introduction to Visual Communication for Journalists, JOU 2950, was approved Feb. 6 and added to the journalism department’s curriculum.

However, opponents from the School of Technology, assistant technology professor Phil Age and department chair Mahyar Izadi, came to Thursday’s meeting to get the CAA to reconsider.

Age said his concern, and the concern of other technology professors is the journalism class duplicates INT 1363, Graphic Communications Technology.

“This is a major content overlap,” Age said. “I’m representing other faculty members in the technology department. It’s not just me.”

The CAA voted to postpone the approval of the class until the two departments meet and present a document listing the their disagreements and signatures to the council.

“The journalism department’s position is there is no duplication in course content,” said Les Hyder, journalism department chair. “The course we present is specifically designed to meet the needs for journalism majors. The technology class has a more generic focus.”

Revisions were made to the proposed journalism class and presented at the Feb. 6 meeting, which included a prerequisite of only allowing journalism majors and minors to take the class.

The reason, according to journalism professor Brian Poulter, was to assure the class was not intended to take students away from class INT 1363.

Age said that was a concern for him before the revision was made.