Thursday, November 18, 2010

Faculty Meetings: November 18, 2010 Agenda

Our next faculty meeting will be held this coming Thursday, November 18, starting at 4:00 p.m. in the Brown Alley Room in Weinstein Hall.

Our agenda will be:
  • Approval of minutes from our October 20, 2010 meeting. (please see below)
  • Approval of Academic Council actions shown below
  • Status of FY12 capacity auditDiscussion of proposed changes for hiring faculty with tenure (see attached)
  • Other Business

Next A&S Faculty Meeting
Pre-holiday gathering, Tuesday, December 7, 2010, in the Brown Alley Room of Weinstein Hall beginning at 3:30 p.m.

Actions for Academic Council approval on November 2, 2010

History

New course proposals:

HIST 229 Anglo-Saxon England
1 unit
Prerequisites (if any):  None

HIST 230 Norman and Plantagenet England
1 unit
Prerequisites (if any):  None

HIST 231 The Late Middle Ages
1 unit
Prerequisites (if any):  None

HIST 238 France: The Age of Absolutism, 1610-1780
1 unit
Prerequisites (if any):  None

HIST 239 The French Revolution
1 unit
Prerequisites (if any):  None

HIST 260 Colonial Latin America
1 unit
Prerequisites (if any):  None

Course number change:

HIST 232 The Renaissance (formerly HIST 230)
1 unit
Prerequisites (if any):  None

Actions pending Academic Council approval on November 16, 2010

History

Please see amended minutes from the November 2, 2010 Academic Council meeting for course number revisions.

Modern Literatures & Cultures

New honor programs:

French Honors program (approved by the Honors Committee, Emma Goldman, chair, 2010-11)

Italian Honors program (approved by the Honors Committee, Geoff Goddu, chair, 2009-10)

New course proposals:


ITAL 491 Honor Thesis 1
0.5 unit
Prerequisites (if any): None

ITAL 492 Honor Thesis 2
1 unit
Prerequisites (if any): None

Revised course credit:


ARAB 495 Independent Study
0.5-1 unit (current description stipulates full unit credit; for flexibility, we need to establish the possibility of a half-unit independent study option)
Prerequisites (if any): Permission of instructor

Revised course title:

GERM 472 Culture Wars & Identity Debates in German Society from Empire to EU (replaces previous title: Multiculturalism, Identity and Authorship in the German Context)
1 unit
Prerequisites (if any): One 300-level German course

Religion

Proposed change to religion major and minor (see catalog changes):

The religion department proposes to eliminate RELG 401 as a requirement for the religion major. The religion major would be composed of nine courses. RELG 400 would be the capstone experience, with the expectation that students will take the course in their junior year and only enroll in it as seniors with permission from the department.

We also propose to amend the religion minor to include RELG 400 instead of one of the 300-level electives.

Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies/Law

Justification of course credit for cross-listed courses:

WGSS 379/LAW Special Topic: Feminist Legal Theory Seminar
1 unit

WGSS 379/LAW Special Topic: Muslim Family Law
1 unit

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