Curricular Initiatives
Curricular initiatives may be discussed at chairs’ meetings before going forward to appropriate councils or to the Provost/VPAA. Please email Associate Dean Adam Davis with comments, questions or concerns. Two weeks from date of posting, items will be assumed to be noncontroversial, and moved forward.
Proposed Curricular Changes
PHYS
246
4/18/08
Change from PHYS 246 to PHYS
156. Course is taught at a 100-level.
PHYS 360
4/18/08
Inactivate. Course has not been
taught for over 5 years and no plans to offer it in the future.
PHYS
370
4/18/08
Inactivate. Course has not
been taught for over 5 years and no plans to offer it in the future
.
PHYS 383
4/18/08
Inactivate. Course has
been a component of our pre-engineering offerings, but in recent years it has
attracted only very minimal enrollments.
PHYS
387
4/18/08
Inactivate. Course has
not been taught in recent memory and no plans to offer it in the future.
PHYS
581
4/18/08
Inactivate. Course has
not been taught in recent memory and no plans to offer it in the future.
PHYS
581G
4/18/08
Inactivate. Course has
not been taught in recent memory and no plans to offer it in the future.
PHYS
640G
4/18/08
Inactivate. Course has
not been taught in recent memory and no plans to offer it in the future.
PHYS
680G
4/18/08
Inactivate. Course has
not been taught in recent memory and no plans to offer it in the future.
PHYS
681G
4/18/08
Inactivate. Course
has not been taught in recent memory and no plans to offer it in the future.
MATH
521
4/21/08
Course 521
and 521G are the same course, the catalog descriptions should match.
Changing 521 to match 521G.
THEA
278
4/21/08
Change to intensive
training in comic, dramatic, and lyric scene performance. Four to six
hours of laboratory experience each week. Prerequisites: THEA 277
and permission of instructor (by audition) Credits: 3 hours Change
that better clarifies the demands of the course.
THEA
359
4/21/08
Change to
advanced studies in heightened performance styles. May include poetic
language, verse, transatlantic dialect, acting Shakespeare, acting a song, or
other explorations of lyricism. Two hours of laboratory experience each
week. Prerequisites: THEA 278 and/or permission of instructor.
Credits: 3 hours. Change that better clarifies the demands of the
course.
THEA 399
4/21/08
Change to
Theatre Major or Theatre Minor or permission of instructor. To ensure
permission of instructor is obtained if not a registered Theatre major or minor.
THEA 478
4/21/08
Change to
historical trends and principles of theatrical costume design including
rendering techniques. Change to better clarify course content.
THEA
491
4/21/08
Change to
THEA 276 and THEA 277 and THEA 391 and THEA 393 and THEA 395 OR permission of
instructor. THEA 491 is a "capstone" type course so students enrolled must
have the experience from these pre-requisite courses.
THEA
495
4/21/08
Change to
assessment and portfolio completion for graduating theatre majors, including
research into graduate study, internships, and resume preparation. Two
hour laboratory session each week. Prerequisite: theatre major and
senior status Credits: 2 NOTE: Writing Enhanced.
HIST
371
4/28/08
Change from
Writing Enhanced to Non Writing Enhanced. To potentially increase
enrollment in the course especially since History majors already have enough
required courses that are WE to meet the WE requirement.
HIST 372
4/28/08
Change from
Writing Enhanced to Non Writing Enhanced. To potentially increase
enrollment in the course especially since History majors already have enough
required courses that are WE to meet the WE requirement.
HIST
373
4/28/08
Change from
Writing Enhanced to Non Writing Enhanced. To potentially increase
enrollment in the course especially since History majors already have enough
required courses that are WE to meet the WE requirement.
HIST
439
4/28/08
Change from
Writing Enhanced to Non Writing Enhanced. The WE status seems to be
discouraging some students from taking the class, History majors do not need
this or any other 300 or 400 class to be WE since they are required to take
other classes that are WE.
SPAN
501G 502G 560G 605G 4/29/08
Changing
prerequisites for courses to reflect BA in Spanish or BA in Romance Languages.
Romance Language BA's must complete SPAN 460 and SPAN 461 prior to enrolling in
these courses.
LING
319
5/02/08
Change to the
couse will introduce students to the linguistics of a specific language or
language family. Students will become familiar with relevant aspects of
phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and lexicon. Linguistics of the
Romance Languages, Field Methods, and Historical Linguistics will be regular
topics; other topics will be determined by faculty student interests.
LING
413
5/2/08
Change from
Prerequisite: LING 238, Credits: 3 hours, NOTE: General Honors Course to
Prerequisite: LING 238, Recommended: LING 323, Credits: 3 Hours, Note: General
Honors Course.
LING
417
5/2/08
Change from:
The development of the language from Old to Modern English, with Indo-European
sources. Change to: The development of the language from Old to Modern English,
with Indo-European sources. The consideration of linguistic changes within
a sociohistorical framework. The examination of primary texts from several
periods.
LING 498
5/2/08
Change from:
Prerequisites: LING 238 with a grade of "C" or higher; must be a BS linguistics
student or a BA English student with a concentration in linguistics; must have
senior status. Change to: Prerequisites: LING 238 with a grade of "C" or higher;
must be a BS linguistics student or a BA English student with a concentration in
linguistics; must have senior status or permission of the instructor.
HIST 426
5/2/08
Change from
WE to NO WE.
ENG 322
5/6/08
Change from
studies in World Cinema to Studies in World Cinema: Topics
MUSI
207
5/6/08
MUSI
201 should be added to the African / African-American Studies minor as an
elective option.