Academic Council: September 13, 2011

Our next meeting will be Tuesday, September 13, 2011, from 10:30-11:45 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 April 19, 2011 and August 17, 2011 meetings

Discussion Agenda

1. Budget process
2. Associate deans
3. Annual performance reviews
4. Ad Hoc Faculty Annual Performance Review Committee
5. Course proposal process (Associate Dean Scott Johnson)

General Information Items

Department Chairs and Divisional Alignment

                                             
                                   Tripartite     Quadripartite
Art & Art History              I                     III                    Tanja Softic*
Biology                             III                     II                    Gary Radice
Chemistry                         III                     II                    Lisa Gentile*
Classical Studies               I                     IV                   Dean Simpson
Education                         II                      I                    Tricia Stohr-Hunt*
English                              I                     IV                   Suzanne Jones
Geography                        II                      I                     Chris Stevenson*
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                    Gene Anderson
Philosophy                        II                     III                    Nancy Schauber
Physics                             III                     II                    Con Beausang*
Political Science               II                      I                   Andrea Simpson
Psychology                      III                     I                     Jane Berry*
Religion                           II                     III                  Jane Geaney
RHCS                              II                     III                   Mari Lee Mifsud*
Sociology & Anth.          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                                                        Bert Ashe
BMB                                                          Krista Stenger & Michelle Hamm
Criminal Justice                                                          Joan Neff
Environmental Studies                                                Chris Stevenson
Film Studies                                                                Abigail Cheever
Interdisciplinary Programs                                         Scott Davis
International Studies                                                   John Gordon
Jewish Studies                                                            Sam Abrash
PPEL                                                                           David Lefkowitz
WGSS                                                                         Crystal Hoyt

Dean’s Advisory Council

Scott Davis - Academic Council Interdisciplinary Programs (12)
Sharon Feldman - Academic Council Division I (13)
Nancy Schauber - Academic Council Division II (12)
Gary Radice - Academic Council Division III (14)
Tricia Stohr-Hunt - Planning and Priorities Division I (13)
Lisa Gentile - Planning and Priorities Division II (12)
Geoff Goddu - Planning and Priorities Division III (14)
Kathrin Bower - Planning and Priorities Division IV (14)

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.  All course proposals are on the Arts & Sciences website at http://richmondas.blogspot.com/search/label/academic%20council

Course Number & Title Change:

ART 218 Modern Art, 1900-1960 (formerly ART 318 20th Century Art)

Course Number Changes:

ART 223 Studies in the History of Photography (formerly ART 323)

RELG 240 Lost Christianities (formerly RELG 340)
RELG 347 Women in Early Christianity (formerly RELG 247)

Course Title Changes:

ENGL 401 Creative Writing Portfolio (formerly Creative Writing Seminar -- course no longer required for the minor in creative writing)

LAIS 151 Spanish for Advanced Beginners (formerly Accelerated Elementary Spanish)
LAIS 302 Spanish in Fiction (formerly Spanish through Literature)

ARAB 101-102 Elementary Arabic (formerly Introduction to the Arabic Language & Culture)
ARAB 201-202 Intermediate Arabic (formerly Intermediate Arabic Language & Culture)
ARAB 301 Advanced Arabic (formerly Arabic in the Media)
ARAB 302 Advanced Arabic 2 (formerly Arabic in Literature)
CHIN 401 Advanced Chinese I (formerly Crossing Cultural Boundaries)
CHIN 402 Advanced Chinese II (formerly Advanced Chinese Syntax and Conversation)
ITAL 305 Writing in Italian Culture and Literature (formerly Advanced Grammar and Composition)

RELG 281 Introduction to Islam (formerly Islam Muhammad to the Modern Age)
RELG 341 Peter, Paul, [Mary] and Mary (formerly Paul and Christian Origins)

Major/Minor Revisions:

Art & Art History (see documents below)

Philosophy (see documents below)

New Course Proposals:

ART 219 Alternative Photographic Processes

JOUR 314 Literary Journalism 

ARAB 401 Arabic in the Media
ARAB 402 Introduction to Arabic in Literature 

MUS 208 Global Pop (FSVP)

RELG 385 Sufism: Introduction to Islamic Mysticism

DANC 218 Capoeira Angola
DANC 251 Contemporary Dance Technique
THTR 229 Going Solo: The Politics of Identity in Contemporary Solo Performance
THTR 239 Latina/os On Stage: From the Barrios to Broadway

WGSS 202 Feminist and Queer Theories

Unit Revision:

IDST 281 Principles of the Natural Sciences II - Zero units of credit (formerly 0.25 - see justification in documents below)



Next Meeting
We will meet on Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at 10:30 in THC 305.