A&S; Curriculum Committee Minutes, 12/3/98
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
CURRICULUM COMMITTEE MINUTES
December 3, 1998
Members Present: R. Baldwin, J. Hart, T. Mackey, S. Maloney (Chair), M. Rohmann, M. Stenger, R. Taylor
Members Absent: R. Sahoo
Professor Maloney called the meeting to order at 3:05 p.m.
The minutes of the meeting of October 19 were approved as distributed.
The committee approved the objectives for the Humanities major.
The committee approved changes to the BA/BS requirements in Pan-African Studies, subject to certain clarifications to be made by Dean Taylor with the department chair.
The following changes were approved to the B.A. in Theatre Arts:
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- TA 366 and TA 364 to be added as options in the major core sequence of 360,
361, 371
- TA 326, 362, and 365 be added to options in the same category as 322, 323, 366, and 460
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- Addition of TA 366 and 364 to the core as above
- TA 323 to become an alternative to TA 330
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- TA 323 to become an alternative to TA 330
- TA 366 to become an alternative to TA 361
- TA 364 to become an alternative to TA 371
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ANTH 346: Urban Anthropology (title change)
ANTH 333: Development Anthropology (title/description change)
HUM 316: Modern Islamic Thought (cross-cultural GER)
HUM 317: Modern Jewish Thought (cross-cultural GER)
HUM 381: Russian Culture (cross-cultural GER)
HUM 387: The Holocaust and the Western Imagination (historical studies GER; effective immediately)
HUM 377/PAS 317: African-American Religion (cross-cultural GER)
HUM 379/PAS 328: African-American Islam (cross-cultural GER)
HUM 368: Theories of Theatrical Performance (new course)
(The committee did not approve HUM 396: Futuristics for cross-cultural GER)
HIST 514: U.S. Peace Movement (new course)
SPAN 331: Culture of Spain (description change; cross-cultural GER)
ENGL 626: ESL Endorsement Portfolio (new course)
POLS 345: Postcommunist Political Systems (title change)
POLS 380: Elements of Political Theory (WR credit effective 99F)
POLS 504: Topics in Political Theory (WR credit)
SOC 340: Mental Health and Illness (new course)
SOC 341: Sociology of Disability (new course)
SOC 440: Genetics, Science, and Society (new course; WR credit)
SOC 441: Medical Demography (new course)
PAS 313: Urban Ritual Violence (new course; Humanities and cross-cultural GER)
PAS 561: Africa: Environment and Resources (new course; submission to Graduate School deferred for cross-listing with GEOG)
TA 322/PAS 354: African-American Theatre Workshop (new course in PAS; cross-listing)
TA 326/PAS 355: Cultural Diversity in Performance (description change to TA 326; new course in PAS; cross-listing)
TA 364/PAS 351: Broadway Plays By and About African-Americans (prerequisite change to TA 364; new course in PAS; WR credit; cross-listing)
TA 366/PAS 356: History of African-American Theatre (new course in PAS; WR credit, cross-listing)
GERM 303: Children's Literature (new course)
GERM 520: Age of Goethe (new course)
ITP 120: Fingerspelling (description/level change)
ITP 125: Voice-to-Sign: Theory (level change)
ITP 220: Processing Interpreting Skills (new course)
ITP 225: Voice-to-Sign: Interpreting (description/level change)
ITP 265: Voice-to-Sign: Transliterating (description/level change)
ITP 270: Sign-to-Voice: Interpreting (description/level change)
ITP 299: Practicum in Interpreting (description/level change)
ITP 310: Interpreting as Private Practice (new course)
ITP 370: Settings and Interpreting Specialties (new course)
ITP 390: Linguistics and ASL 1 (new course)
ITP 470: Pre-practicum in Interpreting (new course)
ITP 490: Linguistics and ASL II (new course)
ASL 301: American Sign Language V (new course)
ASL 302: American Sign Language VI (new course)
A graduate certificate in Pan-African Studies was approved and will be forwarded to the Graduate School.
A student petition regarding the use of courses for elective credit was approved.
The meeting was adjourned at 4:45 p.m.