February 4, 2014 Academic Council Agenda

Our next meeting will be Tuesday, February 4, 2014 from 10:30-11:45 a.m. in THC 305.  Please review the agenda below and the cited materials in advance of the meeting.

Approval of minutes from the January 21, 2014 meeting.


Consent Agenda:
  
New Courses
BCMB 300 Biochemistry Junior Seminar 
BCMB 310 Biochemistry Senior Seminar
BCMB 311 Biochemistry Senior Seminar 
BIOL 200 Integrated Biological Principles I
BIOL 202 Integrated Biological Principles II
BIOL 317 Mechanochemical Cell Biology 
BIOL 320 Experimental Design and Biostatistics
DANC 251 Contemporary Dance I
DANC 319 Collaborative Arts Lab
DANC 365 Advanced Contemporary Dance 
ENGL 239 Vampires
ENGL 240 Literature after 9/11 
ENVR 109 Introduction to Ecology   BIOL109
ENVR 110 Pollutants in the Environment     syllabus     schedule  
ENVR 111 Marine Biology of the Chesapeake Bay   BIOL111
ENVR 321 Land Use Law      syllabus 
ENVR 322 The Global Impact of Climate Change
ENVR 323 The Geology of Disaster
ENVR 324 Environmental Law     syllabus  
LAIS 357 Seville in History and Fantasy 
LAIS 361 Spanish Misfits 
LAIS 453 Romantic Spain
LAIS 476 Literary Journalism in Latin America 
MLC  312  Italian in the Media 
MUS 235 I Want My MTV
MUS 236 The Grotesque in the Arts       syllabus   
PHYS 201 Einstein's Relativity
PHYS 202 Particle/Wave Duality and the Quantum Revolution
PHYS 231 Experimental Physics

Revised Courses
Art 311 to change to ARTH211 
LAIS 309 Spanish Writing Workshop
MUS 129 and MUS 205 changes
MUS 206 Selected Topics in Vocal Performance 
PHYS 205 Introduction to Modern Physics
PHYS 479 Special Topics

Revised Majors
Art/Art History
Biology part 1
Biology part 2
BMB


 


Discussion Agenda:

1. Contingent Faculty Reform Initiative 
2. DAC bylaws