A&S; Curriculum Committee Minutes, 4/20/98
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
CURRICULUM COMMITTEE MINUTES
April 20, 1998
Members present: S. Davis, M. Rohmann, P. Sahoo, E. Segal (Chair), R. Taylor
Members absent: J. Hart, S. Maloney, M. Stenger
Guests: D. Imbroscio (POLS)
The minutes of the meeting of March 30, 1998, were approved as distributed. Professor Imbroscio responded to questions about the proposal from the Department of Political Science for a combined BA or BS/MA degree. The combined degree will permit UofL students meeting certain prerequisites within their undergraduate major to complete the non-thesis option of the MA with 30 rather than 36 credit hours. The committee approved the proposal, which will be forwarded to the Graduate Council. The committee approved changes to credit for the Advanced Placement examination in physics, necessitated by changes to the examination (division of the Physics-C exam into two exams, C-Mech and C-E&M;). The changes had been in effect for several years, and placement credit had been determined in the interim according to a policy acceptable to the chair of the department. As no new policy statement had been forthcoming from the department, the chair was asked to notify the committee if the interim policy should not be included in the catalog. There being no objection to this, the following policy was approved by the committee, effective immediately: Physics C-Mech Examination: 4 hours credit for scores of 3, 4, or 5. May be used in place of Physics 298 and 295: Introductory Mechanics, Heat and Sound and Laboratory I. Physics C-E&M; Examination: 4 hours credit for scores 3, 4, or 5. May be used in place of Physics 299 and 296: Introductory Electricity, Magnetism and Light and Introductory Laboratory II. The committee approved a policy proposed by the Undergraduate Council that all entering students with an ACT composite score of 18 or lower will be required to take the University Placement Examination in Reading and to enroll in appropriate reading and/or study skills courses if so indicated by the test results. The following course actions were approved, effective 98F unless otherwise noted: MILS 410: Independent Study in Leadership (new course; effective 98U) HIST 329: History of the New South (new course) POLS 563: Women and Leadership in Developing Countries (WR credit) The committee then returned to its consideration of courses which had been submitted for cross-cultural general education credit. In the absence of action on the definition of cross-cultural courses are the recent Faculty Assembly meeting, the committee determined to apply its own best judgment on the intent of the requirement. The following courses were approved for cross-cultural credit, effective 98F: HIST 332: Latin America, 1820-Present HIST 334: History of Mexico HIST 378: Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey from 1800 HIST 399: The Vietnam War HIST 533: Twentieth-Century Latin America HIST 592: East Asia in Conflict HIST 594: Studies in Middle Eastern History ANTH 324: Religion in South Asian Society PAS 333: Women's Health in Africa PAS 334: African Development PAS 342: African, African-American and Caribbean Women Novelists PAS 360: African Diaspora in the Caribbean and Latin America PAS 366: Inequality and Health: the Black Experience PAS 375: Public Health in Africa PAS 384: Disease, Ecology, and Environmental Management in Africa (cross-listed with GEOG 362) PAS 396: History of the Caribbean PAS 560: Geography and Nutrition Among Africans and African-Americans (cross-listed with GEOG 520) TA 326: Cultural Diversity in Performance TA 362: Off-Broadway Plays by and about African-Americans TA 363: African-American Woman Dramatists TA 364: Broadway Plays about African-Americans TA 366: History of African-American Theatre The following courses were not approved for the cross-cultural requirement: HIST 309: Europe from 1800-Present HIST 322: History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1900-Present HIST 323: History of the Family, 1700-Present HIST 355: European Ideas and Ideologies HIST 362: The United States and the Middle East HIST 366: English History: Tudor Age to Welfare State HIST 367: British Imperialism HIST 381: Europe in the Nineteenth Century HIST 382: Europe in the Twentieth Century HIST 384: Modern Culture HIST 386: Modern Germany, 1848-1945 HIST 387: The Holocaust and the Western Imagination HIST 538: Black Leadership HIST 547: Studies in Russian History HIST 560: The Great War, 1914-1918 HIST 563: The Middle Eastern Wars II HIST 577: French Revolution and Napoleon HIST 578: Studies in European History HIST 579: History of European Ideas HIST 582: Contemporary Europe Since 1945 HIST 585: The Third Reich HIST 593: American Images of the Middle East PAS 200: Introduction to African-American Studies PAS 215: Black Writing Strategies PAS 540: Pedagogy of African Studies TA 322: African-American Theatre Workshop TA 323: Acting/Directing the Black Experience In response to a question from the Advising Center, the committee ruled that all individual student appeals for exceptions to the application of transfer credits toward degree requirements should be directed to the Committee on Admissions and Appeals. Having completed action on all items on the agenda, the committee adjourned. Further meetings are not planned until the fall semester. [6/9/98]