October 2, 2012 Academic Council Agenda

Our next meeting will be Tuesday, October 2, 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 September 18, 2012 meeting.


Consent Agenda

ARTS 109 Foundation Film and Video

ARTS 269 Thematic Explorations in Film and Video

ARTS 299 Advanced Film and Video

ARTS 375 Interdisciplinary Arts Seminar

BIOL 114 Introduction to Animal Behavior

CHEM 313 The Natures of the Chemical Bond

CLSC 320 Cultural property:  archaeology, ethics, and law

CMSC 344 Advanced Computer Architecture

FMST 302 Intermediate Film Production

FREN 481 Traduction

FREN 486  Paris as visual cliche'

MLC 362 History of the Romance Languages

RHCS 350 Rhetoric in a Globalized World

THTR 305 Sound Design

Revised Course Proposals
Title Changes:

MLC 325 Revolution and Modernity in Chinese Literature (formerly Representing the Chinese Empire (Modern Chinese Literature and History in Contemporary Perspective))

PLSC 364 Child Health and Policy (formerly Mental Health and Policy)

Course Number Change:

ENGL 201 The Art of Writing:  Aims, Modes, Process (formerly ENGL 382)


Discussion Agenda:

1. The department of MLC moves that Academic Council approve the following proposed courses:  MLC 242 From Scheherazade to Jasmine:  The Arabian Nights in World Literature and Culture
   
   MLC 243 Politics and Social Movements in  Modern Middle Eastern Literatures
   
   MLC 244 Writing Women in Modern Arabic Fiction
   
   MLC 347 Islam, Nationalism, and the West--Modern Thought in the Arab World
   
   
2. The department of MLC moves that Academic Council approve the proposed Arabic Studies Major 


3. Department chairs will meet in small groups to discuss calibrations of merit scores. Other members of Academic Council may adjourn.