March 19, 2013 Academic Council Agenda

Our next meeting will be Tuesday, March 19, 2013 from 10:30-11:45 a.m. in the Tyler Haynes Commons Room 305. Please review the agenda below and the cited materials in advance of the meeting.

Approval of minutes from the March 5, 2013 meeting.

Consent Agenda:

"Our colleagues in the Business School have made changes to the Economics major that require A&S approval because it will affect the A&S Economics major. The major change involves the statistics requirement. The rationale for the change is included in the first document. Last year the Business School approved a change to replace the two-semester statistics sequence (BUAD 201 & BUAD 301, Statistics for Business and Economics I & II) with a one-semester course (BUAD 202) with the understanding that a department could add a second-level statistics course. The Economics Department decided that their majors needed a second semester course. The ECON310 course (the second document) has been slightly modified and will now focus on trade. A new 300-level ECON course will focus on international monetary aspects of finance." 

ECON Major Changes

ECON 310

Discussion Agenda:

-Report on annual performance reviews 
-Honors theses and faculty time -- Suzanne Jones