Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Academic Council: April 5, 2011 Agenda

Our next meeting will be Tuesday, April 5, 2011, from 10:30-11:45 in the Tyler Haynes Commons, Room 305 (THC 305). Please review the agenda below and the cited materials in advance of the meeting.

Approval of minutes from the March 15, 2011 meeting.

General Informational Items

N/A

Consent Agenda

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. 

English

Proposed revisions to creative writing minor:

The coordinators of the Creative Writing Program propose two changes in requirements for the Creative Writing minor. They want to drop the required creative writing seminar and one of the literature courses since literature is taught in all of the creative writing workshops. But six courses will still be required for the minor.
Film Studies

FMST 203 With Images and Sound:  Introduction to the Language of Film
1 unit
Prerequisites (if any):  None

Religion

New course proposal:

RELG 281 Islam: Muhammad to the Modern Age
1 unit
Prerequisites (if any):  None

Revised course proposals (title and/or catalog changes only):

RELG 241 Introduction to New Testament (formerly Introduction to Early Christian Era)
1 unit
Prerequisites (if any):  None

RELG 242 Jesus in History and Tradition (formerly Jesus and Christian Origins)
1 unit
Prerequisites (if any):  None

RELG 243 Ancient Mediterranean Religions (formerly The World of the New Testament)
1 unit
Prerequisites (if any):  None

RELG 247 Women in Early Christianity (formerly Women and Christianity: Origins through Middle Ages)
1 unit
Prerequisites (if any):  None

RELG 340 Lost Christianities (formerly Varieties of Early Christianity)
1 unit
Prerequisites (if any):  None

Discussion Agenda

  • Update on "handshake" profiles for new dean
  • Medical Humanities proposal (see attached)
  • Proposals to changing committee selection process (Proposed changes to committee selection process #1; Proposed changes to committee selection process #2)
  • Other business
Documents



Next Meeting

We will meet on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 at 10:30 a.m. in Tyler Haynes Commons, Room 305 (THC 305).

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