Academic Council: August 31, 2010 Agenda

Our next meeting will be Tuesday, August 31, 2010, from 10:30-11:45 in the Keller Hall Reception Room (KHRR). Please review the agenda below and the cited materials in advance of the meeting.

Approval of Minutes from April 20, 2010 Meeting

Introductions of department chairs and coordinators

General Informational Items

Please read each item below.  We can discuss any item you wish, but my goal is to try to move through this part of the meeting quickly by not having to provide this information orally.

Fall Semester Academic Council meetings
Meetings will be held in Tyler Haynes Commons, Room 305, unless otherwise noted.

• Tuesday, September 7
• Thursday, September 16 (with Witt Kieffer search firm for dean’s search; location TBD)
• Tuesday, September 21 (THC 331)
• Tuesday, October 5
• Tuesday, October 19 (to be held in the Keller Hall Reception Room)
• Tuesday, November 2
• Tuesday, November 16
• Tuesday, November 30

Lunchtime Forum Series
Please encourage your faculty to attend the Lunchtime Forum. All current and retired faculty and staff are invited, on the following dates, to pick up a free lunch in the HDC, Richmond Room (lower level) between 11:30 and noon and enjoy refreshment and conversation until the forum presentations begin at noon. The 20-minute presentations, intended to share ongoing research in terms understandable to a broad audience, will be followed by a half-hour of discussion, ending promptly at 1:00. This year’s schedule:

• Wednesday, October 13: Elizabeth Schlatt (Museums), “Iceland, Curators, and Icelandic Curators”
• Wednesday, November 10: Robert Hodierne (Journalism), “Combat Outpost: Afghanistan, a documentary film”
• Tuesday, February 8: Jeni Burnette (Psychology), “Mindsets Matter: A Social Cognitive Approach to Dieting Motivation”
• Tuesday, March 15: Joanne Kong (Music), “Franz Liszt (1811-1886): 19th-Century Pianism and the Romantic Ideal”
• Tuesday, April 5: Rick Mayes (Political Science), “Candyland and the Growing Pediatric Obesity Epidemic in the U.S.” (To be held in Alice Haynes Room in the Commons)

Jewish Holidays

Please remind your faculty to be sensitive to the Jewish Holidays our students may be observing in September (Rosh Hashanah on September 9 and 10 and Yom Kippur on September 18). As you will recall, Jewish holidays are observed from sundown to sundown.
 

A&S Undergraduate Student Symposium
Please encourage your faculty and students to participate in the Student Symposium on April 15, 2011.
 

Department Chairs and Divisional Alignment

	Tripartite	Quadripartite
Art & Art History	I	III	Tanja Softic
Biology	III	II	Malcolm Hill*
Chemistry	III	II	Lisa Gentile
Classical Studies	I	IV	Dean Simpson
Education	II	I	Tricia Stohr-Hunt
English	I	IV	Suzanne Jones*
History	II	III	Hugh West*
Journalism	II	IV	Mike Spear*
LAIS	I	IV	Sharon Feldman*
M&CS	III	II	Lewis Barnett
MLC	I	IV	Yvonne Howell
Music	I	III	Jeffery Riehl (Fall 2010)/Gene Anderson (Spring 2011)
Philosophy	II	III	Nancy Schauber*
Physics	III	II	Ted Bunn (2010-2011)
Political Science	II	I	Vincent Wang*
Psychology	III	I	Jane Berry
Religion	II	III	Jane Geaney
R&CS	II	III	Mari Lee Mifsud
Sociology & Anthropology	II	I	Carol Wharton
Theatre & Dance	I	III	Dorothy Holland

* Due for chair review and election

Tripartite Divisions:

Division I - Arts/Languages and Literatures (Art & Art History, Classical Studies, English, Latin American & Iberian Studies, Modern Literatures & Cultures, Music, Theatre & Dance);
Division II - Humanities and Social Sciences (Education, Geography, History, Journalism, Philosophy, Political Science, Religion, Rhetoric & Communication Studies, Sociology & Anthropology);
Division III - Mathematics/Computer Science, Natural and Psychological Sciences (Biology, Chemistry, Math & Computer Science, Physics, and Psychology)

Quadripartite Divisions:

Division I - Social Sciences (Education, Geography, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology & Anthropology);
Division II - Math and Natural Sciences (Biology, Chemistry, Math & Computer Science, Physics);
Division III - Humanities, Fine Arts (Art & Art History, History, Music, Philosophy, Religion, Rhetoric & Communication Studies, Theatre & Dance);
Division IV - Languages & Literatures (Classical Studies, English, Journalism, Latin American & Iberian Studies, Modern Literatures & Cultures)
 

Interdisciplinary Program Coordinators

American Studies	Doug Winiarski (Fall 2010)/Bert Ashe (Spring 2011)
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	Krista Stenger & Jon Dattelbaum
Criminal Justice	Joan Neff
Environmental Studies	Chris Stevenson
Interdisciplinary Studies	Scott Davis
International Studies	John Gordon
Philosophy, Politics, Economics, & Law (PPEL)	David Lefkowitz
Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies (WGSS)	Lucretia McCulley
Film Studies	Abigail Cheever

Dean’s Advisory Council

John Gupton - Planning and Priorities Division II (11)
Sharon Feldman - Academic Council Division I (12)
Scott Davis - Academic Council Interdisciplinary Programs (12)
Dorothy Holland - Planning and Priorities Division III (13)
Libby Gruner - Planning and Priorities Division IV (13)
Nancy Schauber - Academic Council Division II (13)
Malcolm Hill - Academic Council Division II (13)
Dan Palazzolo - Planning and Priorities Division I (13)

Consent Agenda

Again this year we will use the Consent Agenda to deal with routine business that requires Academic Council action and would not be expected to generate discussion. Any item can be moved from the Consent Agenda to the Discussion Agenda.

Change to History Major

Approved by the history faculty on May 4, 2010

• Number of units required for the major will be raised from 9 to 10
• The number of 300-level colloquia required will be raised from 1 to 2
• The course number for History 100 will be changed to History 199 and its title from “Introduction to Historical Thinking” to “Elements of Historical Thinking”
• History 120 (United States to 1877) and History 121 (United States since 1877) will be dropped from the curriculum

Modern Literatures & Cultures
Revision to Italian Major

We propose to eliminate ITAL 498 and ITAL 499 as requirements for the Italian Major. The Italian Major would be comprised of 9 units and 400-level seminars taken on campus would serve as the Italian Major capstone experience.
Music

Course Number Change

MUS 221 Music in Film (formerly MUS 121)
1 unit
Prerequisites (if any): None
Theatre

Course Title Changes

THTR 341 Practicum: Costume/Makeup
0.25-1 unit
Prerequisites (if any): None

THTR 342 Practicum: Other
0.25-1 unit
Prerequisites (if any): None
 

Discussion Agenda

• Updating committee charges http://as.richmond.edu/resources/policies/committees.html
• Chair & program coordinator reviews and elections
• Awards and invitations to prominent speakers
• Capstone experience: Assessment results presentation (Ashley Patterson)
• Admission events (Gill Villanueva)
• Other business

Next Meeting

We will meet on Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 10:30 in the Tyler Haynes Commons, Room 305 (THC 305).