Academic Council February 21, 2012 Agenda

 Our next meeting will be Tuesday, February 21, 2012 from 10:30-11:45 a.m. 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 January 17, 2012 meeting.

Approval of Consent Agenda

Discussion agenda

1. Arts initiative
2. Annual performance reviews
3. Merit review process revisions 
4. Interdisciplinary Programs and Joint Appointments

Consent Agenda

Major/Minor Changes:

BMB Major Change

CHEM Major Change 

CMSC Minor Change  

EDUC Minor

FMST Major 

HCS Major 

HCS Minor 

IDST Honors Program

Luso-Brazilian Studies Minor  

PLSC 270 Social Science Inquiry 

New course proposals:

ARAB 111-112 Accelerated Beginning Arabic

ARAB 211-212 Accelerated Beginning Arabic 2 


ARAB 311-312 Accelerated Intermediate Arabic

ARTS 210 Sculpting the Human Figure 

BIOL 206 Cell Structures and Function SA

BIOL 335 Structural Biology 

EDUC 220 Education in America

EDUC 333 Alternate Approaches to K-12 Education

EDUC 334 American Educational History 


EDUC 335 Education and Globalization 

EDUC 337 Education and Public Policy

EDUC 339 Education of Minority Groups in America 

EDUC 340 Gender and Education 

EDUC 341 Leadership and Education

EDUC 344 School Law for the Layman

EDUC 345 Urban Education

EDUC 346 Philosophy of Education


EDUC 440 Contemporary Issues in Education

FMST 388 Individual Internship 

GEOG/IS 325 Latin Amerian Geographies: Transnational and Local Connections

HCS 390-391 Senior Capstone I and II


LAIS 307 Spanish in Law and Justice


Course Number/Title Changes 

HCS 200 The Medical Humanities (formerly IDST 200) 

HCS 201 Doctors Becoming Doctors (formerly IDST 201)

HCS 240 Law and Medicine (formerly IDST 240)

LAIS 333 Portuguese for Spanish Speakers (formerly LAIS 313)

LAIS 343 Mapping Luso-Brazilian Cultures (formerly LAIS 323)


LAIS 353 Introduction to Luso-Brazilian Literatures (formerly LAIS 333)

MLC 260 Literature and Social Change in Eastern Europe (formerly Nature, Nurture, Neurons: Science and Society in Czech and Polish Literature) 

MLC 232 Russian Painting: 19th Century (formerly MLC 332 Conscience and Consciousness in 19th Century Russian Painting) 

MLC 233 Russian Painting: 20th Century (formerly MLC 333 Geometries of Being: Transitions to Modernity in Russian Painting, 1895-1934)

SDLC Proposals 

SDLC 105 Introduction to Self-Directed Language Learning 

SLDC 110 Self-Directed Language Learning I

SLDC 111 Self-Directed Language Learning II

SLDC 112 Self-Directed Language Learning III

SLDC 113 Self-Directed Language Learning IV

SWAH 110  Mentored Self-Instruction in Swahili (formerly MLC 110: Self-Directed Language Learning: Swahili) 

SWAH 111, 112, 113 Mentored Self-Instruction in Swahili (formerly MLC 111, 112, 113 Self Directed Language Learning: Swahili)