Minutes
LAS Curriculum and Requirements Committee
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
8:00 a.m. – COH 2025A
Present – Members: Curt Holder, Bob Durham, Edgar Cota-Torres, Lynda Dickson.
Ex-officio: Ruth Sansing, Tom Christensen, Sue Byerley, Sheryl Botts.
A.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES – March 11, 2009 UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED
B.
OLD BUSINESS
C.
NEW BUSINESS
1.
New Course Proposals:
HIST 403 The Ottoman Empire, 1400-1800
UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED
HIST 404 Reconsidering the Late Ottoman Empire and
Early Turkish Republic, 1800-1938
UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED
HIST 368/WEST 3680 Islam and the West: Contacts,
Representations, and Approaches (Carole Woodall)
UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED
2.
New Course Proposal:
WEST 3060 Multi-racial Identities
UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED
(Andrea Herrera)
3.
New Minor:
Women’s and Ethnic Studies (Andrea Herrera)
UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED
4.
New Course Proposal:
WEST 3560/GRNT 356 Women and Aging International:
Diversity, Challenges and Contributions
(Becky Thompson or Lee Ann Mjelde-Mossey)
UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED
5.
New Course Proposals:
WEST 2910 Writing as if Your Life Depends Upon It
UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED
WEST 3670/SOC 367 Cross Cultural Alliance Building:
Study in Cuernavaca, Mexico (Becky Thompson)
UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED
6.
New Course Proposal:
ENGL 200 Introduction to English Studies
(Katherine Mack/Susan Taylor)
UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED
7.
New Course Proposal:
PHIL 308 Religion in a Consumer Culture
(Mary Ann Cutter)
UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED
Future meetings:
May 13