Date: April 27, 2000
To: Faculty Senate
From: Steven Neshyba
Subject: Curriculum Committee Final Report for 1999-2000
This is a report of the activities of the Curriculum Committee for the year 1999-2000. These
activities can be summarized as follows:
1. We have evaluated nearly all courses currently offered for University core fulfillment, including
new courses proposed this year. This evaluation was done by reading course syllabi and
consulting with faculty members teaching in the core. The latter was widely felt to be an especially
useful, informative part of the process.
2. Committee members went about this process with the expectation that new core definitions
would soon replace existing ones. We felt a good understanding of how the present guidelines
work in practice would be important in drafting new guidelines. We tended to focus on ways we
found the present language especially easy or hard to interpret. Although the Committee itself was
not charged with drafting new core guidelines, most members of the committee are presently
serving on task forces assigned that job.
3. We suggested a revision to the calendar which would create more non-teaching days in the Fall
semester. The faculty chose not to act on our recommendation.
For the forthcoming year, we recommend the Curriculum Committee be charged with the following
tasks.
1. The Curriculum Committee should go about its regular business of departmental reviews, new
core course proposals, and laying out the academic calendar (vide infra).
2. The Curriculum Committee should work with task forces writing the new core guidelines,
according to procedures set forth by the faculty.
3. The Curriculum Committee found it difficult to complete the review of the entire core in one
year. We recommend that next year's Curriculum Committee discuss ways to change the fallow
year process in such a way that the work involved be reduced in some way. One possibility to
explore is putting the core review on a rotating basis, so that different core areas would be
evaluated on different years.
Below is a detailed list of actions taken by the Curriculum Committee this year.
Curriculum Committee
Disposition of 1999-2000 Agenda
I. Departmental Reviews
2/22/2000
Writing in the Major programs approved for Asian Studies, Art, Biology,
Business and Public Administration, Chemistry, Communication and
Theatre Arts, Comparative Sociology, Economics, English, Exercise
Science, Foreign Languages and Literature, Geology, History,
International Political Economy, Music, Occupational Therapy,
Philosophy, Politics and Government, Psychology, and Religion.
2/22/2000
Revision of the BPA degree requirements and new courses approved;
final approval for ongoing courses: BPA 360, Issues in the Legal
Environment of Business, BPA 416, Financial Reporting for Private
Sector Organizations, BPA 417, Financial Reporting and Management
Control for Government and Nonprofit Organizations, BPA 490, Senior
Integrative Seminar: Case Analysis and Research
3/28/2000
Women Studies Program curriculum review approved.
4/12/2000
Biology Department curriculum review approved.
4/25/2000
Revised Occupational Therapy Graduate Program approved.
II. On-going business
Academic Calendar
10/12/1999
Academic Calendar for 2000-2001 approved and sent to Faculty Senate.
11/23/1999
Recommend to the Faculty Senate that the fall-semester calendar have a
fall break on Monday and Tuesday and that Wednesday be added to the
current Thanksgiving break.
Action on new core courses
10/12/1999
FL 320, Modern Japanese Literature, approved for Humanistic
Perspective Core.
10/12/1999
SCXT 321, Psychiatry and Race, approved for Science in Context Core
for one year only.
11/2/1999
PHIL 109, Religion and Philosophy of Literature, approved for Humanistic
Perspective Core.
11/9/1999
HIST 254, African American Voices: A Survey of African American
History, approved for Historical Perspective Core.
11/9/1999
REL 290, Mysticism and Esotericism, approved for Humanistic
Perspective Core.
11/16/1999
FL 150, Film, Memory, and the Imagination of Disaster: A Freshman
Seminar in Writing, approved for Communication I Core.
2/29/2000
SCXT 312, Issues in Science and Religion: Biological Freedom and
Human Responsibility, approved for Science in Context core.
3/7/2000
REL 103, Introduction to Ethics, approved for the Humanistic Perspective
Core.
3/28/2000
IPE 250, Britain Today: Issues & Perspectives, approved for Society
core.
3/28/2000
REL 205, Holocaust: Courage and Complicity, approved for the Historical
Perspective Core
Action on core categories
Reaffirmed for Communication I core:
2/1/2000
EDUC 110, Contact Zones: Ways of Being, Knowing, and Writing
at the University
2/1/2000
ENGL 101, Freshman Seminar in Writing
2/1/2000
HIST 100B, The History of Exploration: A Freshman Seminar in
Writing
2/1/2000
HIST 100C, Scholars and Warriors in China and Japan: A
Freshman Seminar in Writing
2/1/2000
HON 101, A Freshman Seminar in Writing
2/1/2000
HUM 110, Utopia/Anti-Utopia: A Freshman Seminar in Writing
2/1/2000
HUM 120, Crisis and Culture
2/1/2000
FL 150, Film, Memory, and the Imagination of Disaster
3/28/2000
HUM 111, Legends of the Fall: A Writing Intensive Humanities
Seminar
3/28/2000
HUM 113, The Genealogy of "Race": A Writing Intensive
Seminar
Reaffirmed for Communication II-A core:
2/22/2000
CTA 101, Presentational Communication
2/22/2000
CTA 104, Freshman Seminar: The Argumentative Context of
Social Policy and the Supreme Court
2/22/2000
CTA 105, Freshman Seminar: The Rhetoric of Dissent: From
Abolition to Civil Rights and Beyond
2/22/2000
CTA 202, Group Decision-Making Process
2/22/2000
CTA 204, Argumentation and Debate
Reaffirmed for Communication II B core:
3/28/2000
CHIN 101/102, Elementary Chinese
3/28/2000
CHIN 201/202, Intermediate Chinese
3/28/2000
CHIN 301/302, Advanced Chinese
3/28/2000
FREN 101/102, Elementary French
3/28/2000
FREN 201/202, Intermediate French
3/28/2000
FREN 230, Advanced French
3/28/2000
FREN 240, French Studies in Commerce and the Media
3/28/2000
FREN 250, Culture and Civilization of France
3/28/2000
FREN 301, Introduction to French Literature I
3/28/2000
FREN 311, Introduction to French Literature II
3/28/2000
FREN 402, Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century French
Literature
3/28/2000
FREN 403, Nineteenth-Century French Literature
3/28/2000
FREN 404, Twentieth-Century French Literature
3/28/2000
FREN 480, Seminar in French Literature
3/28/2000
GERM 101/102, Elementary German
3/28/2000
GERM 201/202, Intermediate German
3/28/2000
3/28/2000
3/28/2000
3/28/2000
3/28/2000
3/28/2000
3/28/2000
3/28/2000
3/28/2000
3/28/2000
3/28/2000
3/28/2000
3/28/2000
3/28/2000
3/28/2000
3/28/2000
3/28/2000
3/28/2000
3/28/2000
3/28/2000
3/28/2000
3/28/2000
3/28/2000
3/28/2000
3/28/2000
3/28/2000
GERM 230, Advanced German
GERM 250, Culture and History of Germany
GERM 301, Introduction to German Literature I
GERM 311, Introduction to German Literature II
GERM 402, Romanticism
GERM 403, Novelle
GERM 404, Modern Literature
GERM 480, Seminar in German Literature
GRK 101, Introduction to Ancient Greek I
GRK 102, Introduction to Ancient Greek II
JAPN 101/102, Elementary Japanese
JAPN 201/202, Intermediate Japanese
JAPN 301/302, Third Year Japanese
LAT 101, Elementary Latin I
LAT 102, Elementary Latin II
SPAN 101/102, Elementary Spanish
SPAN 201/202, Intermediate Spanish
SPAN 230, Advanced Spanish
SPAN 240, The Uses of Spanish
SPAN 250, Hispanic Cultural Studies
SPAN 301, Hispanic Literary Studies
SPAN 311, Literature of the Americas
SPAN 402, Spanish Literature of the Golden Age
SPAN 403, Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Spanish
Literature
SPAN 404, Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature
SPAN 480, Seminar in Hispanic Literature
Reaffirmed for Mathematical Reasoning core:
2/22/2000
CSCI 161, Introduction to Computer Science
2/22/2000
CSCI 261, Computer Science II
2/22/2000
HON 213, Mathematical Reasoning: Foundations of Geometry
2/22/2000
MATH 103, Introduction to Contemporary Mathematics
2/22/2000
MATH 121, Calculus and Analytic Geometry I
2/22/2000
MATH 122, Calculus and Analytic Geometry II
2/22/2000
MATH 221, Multivariate Calculus
2/22/2000
MATH 232, Linear Algebra
2/22/2000
MATH 257, Finite Mathematics
2/22/2000
MATH 258, Calculus for Business, Behavioral and Social
Sciences
2/22/2000
MATH 271, The Elements of Applied Statistics
2/22/2000
PHIL 108, Freshman Seminar: Infinity and Paradox
2/22/2000
PHIL 172, Logic and Language
2/22/2000
PHIL 273, Formal Logic
Reaffirmed for Natural World core:
3/28/2000
BIOL 101, Introduction to Biology
3/28/2000
BIOL 111, Principles of Biology
3/28/2000
BIOL 112, Diversity of Life
3/28/2000
CHEM 110/111, Fundamental Chemistry I, II
3/28/2000
ENVR 105, Environmental Science
3/28/2000
GEOL 101, Physical Geology
3/28/2000
GEOL 102, Principles of Historical Geology
3/28/2000
GEOL 104, Physical Geology of North America
3/28/2000
GEOL 105, Oceanography
3/28/2000
GEOL 110, Regional Field Geology
3/28/2000
3/28/2000
3/28/2000
3/28/2000
3/28/2000
3/28/2000
3/28/2000
3/28/2000
3/28/2000
3/28/2000
3/28/2000
GEOL 151, The Earth Revealed
HON 212, The Natural World
PHYS 105, Historical Development in the Physical Sciences:
Classical Physics
PHYS 107, Light and Color
PHYS 109, Astronomy
PHYS 110, Stellar and Galactic Astronomy
PHYS 111/112, General College Physics
PHYS 121, General University Physics
PHYS 122, General University Physics
PHYS 205, Physics of Music
PHYS 299, The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy
Reaffirmed for the International Studies core:
11-16-1999
CSOC 209, Africa and the Diaspora
11-16-1999
CSOC 240, Tourism and the Global Order
11-16-1999
ECON 162, Introduction to International Economic Studies
11-16-1999
HIST 283, The United States and Latin America
11-16-1999
IPE 201, Introduction to International Political Economy
11-16-1999
LAS 100, Introduction to Latin American Studies
11-16-1999
PG 102, Introduction to Comparative Politics
11-16-1999
PG 103, Introduction to International Relations.
11-30-1999
BPA 270,Business in the International Context
Reaffirmed for Science in Context core:
2/29/2000
SCXT 305, The Idea of Archaeology
2/29/2000
SCXT 310, Health and Medicine
2/29/2000
SCXT 314, Cosmological Thought
2/29/2000
SCXT 320, Science and Racial Prejudice
2/29/2000
SCXT 321, Psychiatry and Race
2/29/2000
SCXT 325, Science and Policy
2/29/2000
SCXT 328, Biology at the Bar: Science in Legal Context
2/29/2000
SCXT 330, The Idea of Evolution
2/29/2000
SCXT 335, Thinking about Biodiversity
2/29/2000
SCXT 345, Physics in the Modern World: Copenhagen to
Manhattan
2/29/2000
SCXT 350, Cognitive Science: An Interdisciplinary Approach
2/29/2000
SCXT 360, Origins and Early Evolution of Life
Reaffirmed for Comparative Values core:
3/7/2000
HIST 309, European Peasants and Their World)
3/7/2000
HIST 333, Russia and the West: Search for Cultural Identity)
3/7/2000
HIST 334, Cross-Cultural Encounters: Europe and the World,
1492-1800)
3/7/2000
HIST 348, Japan’s Modern Century)
3/7/2000
HIST 355, African-American Women in American History)
3/7/2000
HIST 375, Women and Social Change in the U.S. Since 1880)
3/7/2000
HUM 302 / FL 393, Individuality and Transcendence in Medieval
Literature)
3/7/2000
HUM 306, Cultural Identity in Japan and the United States)
3/7/2000
HUM 307, Shanghai and Tokyo in the 1920s)
3/7/2000
FL 383, Latino Literature: Borders, Bridges, and Fences)
3/7/2000
FL 395, Islamic Tradition)
3/7/2000
REL 302, Ethics of Responsibility and Difference)
3/7/2000
REL 370, Images of Evil in Twentieth-Century Fiction)
3/7/2000
HON 401, Some Classics of Islamic, Indian, and East Asian
3/7/2000
3/7/2000
3/7/2000
3/28/2000
3/28/2000
3/28/2000
3/28/2000
3/28/2000
3/28/2000
3/28/2000
3/28/2000
Civilizations)
CLSC 302, Pagans and Christians)
CSOC 470, Technology and Cultural Values)
EDUC 418, Comparative Education)
BPA 407, Professional and Personal Ethics
CSOC 460, Moral Consciousness and Social Action
CTA 440, Gender and Communication
ENGL 375, The Harlem Renaissance
ENGL 377, Literature in a Changing World Order
FL 375, Nationalism and Modern Japanese Literature
HUM 305, Modernization and Modernism
PG 344, American Political Thought
Reaffirmed for Fine Arts core:
2-29-2000
ART 275, Studies in Western Art I: Ancient Art to Renaissance
2-29-2000
ART 276, Studies in Western Art II: Renaissance to Modern Art
2-29-2000
ART 277, History of Modern Art
2-29-2000
ART 278, Survey of Asian Art
2-29-2000
CTA 270, The London Stage
2-29-2000
CTA 275, Theatre Survey
2-29-2000
ENGL 220, Introduction to Literature
2-29-2000
ENGL 267, Form and Perspective: Literature as Art
2-29-2000
FL 300, Introduction to Literary Studies
2-29-2000
HON 206, The Arts of the Classical World and the Middle Ages
2-29-2000
MUS 100, Survey of Music Literature
2-29-2000
MUS 220, Survey of American Musical Theater
2-29-2000
MUS 221, Jazz History
2-29-2000
MUS 222, Music of the World’s Peoples
2-29-2000
MUS 230, History and Literature of Music I
2-29-2000
MUS 274, The Age of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven
2-29-2000
MUS 275, Romanticism in Music
2-29-2000
MUS 276, Twentieth-Century Music
Reaffirmed for Historical Perspective core:
2/22/2000
ASIA 144, Asian Societies Past and Present
2/22/2000
ASIA 150, The Civilization of India
2/22/2000
CLSC/HIST 211, History of Ancient Greece
2/22/2000
CLSC/HIST 212, Roman History
2/22/2000
CSOC 215, Race and Ethnic Relations
2/22/2000
CSOC 344, Slavery and Freedom
2/22/2000
HIST 101, Roots of the Western Experience
2/22/2000
HIST 102, Western Civilization
2/22/2000
HIST 152, Survey of United States History to 1877
2/22/2000
HIST 153, The United States since 1877: A Perspective on
American Concerns
2/22/2000
HIST 215, Environmental History in Global Perspective
2/22/2000
HIST 230, The Roots of English Society and Politics
2/22/2000
HIST 231, Modern British Society and Politics
2/22/2000
HIST 245, Chinese Civilization
2/22/2000
HIST 247, The Forging of the Japanese Tradition
2/22/2000
HIST 280, Colonial Latin America
2/22/2000
HIST 281, Modern Latin America
2/22/2000
HON 210, The Classics: Historical Perspective
2/22/2000
REL 200, The History and Literature of Ancient Israel
2/22/2000
REL 253, Religion and Society in the Ancient Near East
3/7/2000
REL 204, Religions of the Book: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
3/28/2000
3/28/2000
3/28/2000
ECON 221, History of Economic Thought
HIST 233, The Making of Modern England: The Anglo-Saxon
Age to the Eve of the Industrial Revolution
HUM 201, The Arts, Ideas, and Society: Western Tradition
Reaffirmed for the Humanistic Perspective Core:
11-16-1999
CLSC 210, Greek Mythology
11-16-1999
CLSC 222, Greco-Roman World
11-16-1999
CLSC 230, The Classical Tradition
11-16-1999
CLSC 231, Greek and Roman Epic: Genre and Meaning
11-16-1999
ENGL 234, Autobiography/Biography: The Self As Hero
11-16-1999
Engl 236, Literature and the Quest for Human Identity
11-16-1999
ENGL 239, Loss and Renewal: American Voices, American
Identity
11-16-1999
ENGL 255, Introduction to Shakespeare
11-16-1999
FL 115, The Problem of Theodicy in World Literature
11-16-1999
FL 265, The Lyric and Narrative Codes of Premodern Japanese
Literature
11-16-1999
FL 390, Modern French Theatre: From Cocteau to Beckett
11-16-1999
HIST 371, American Intellectual History to 1865
11-16-1999
HUM 206, The Classics of Russian Literature
11-16-1999
HUM 208, Classics of East Asia
11-16-1999
REL 101, Introduction to the Study of World Religions
11-16-1999
REL 108, Desire and Discipline: The Question of the Ascetic
Imperative in Culture and Criticism
3-28-2000
CSOC 212, Women, Men and Society
3-28-2000
HON 211, The Classics: Humanistic Perspective
3-28-2000
PHIL 107, Making Choices about the Environment: A Freshman
Seminar
4-25-2000
ENGL 230, Literature of the Human Experience
4-25-2000
ENGL 235, Literature by Women
4-25-2000
PHIL 106, Introduction to Philosophy
4-25-2000
PHIL 215, Ancient Philosophy
4-25-2000
REL 233, Japanese Religious Traditions
Reaffirmed for the Society core:
11/30/1999
CSOC 103, Social Problems
11/30/1999
CSOC 200, Cultural Anthropology
11/30/1999
CSOC 316, Social and Cultural Change
11/30/1999
ECON 170, Principles of Economics
11/30/1999
HIST 374, Women and Social Change in the U.S. before 1880
11/30/1999
HON 214, Society
11/30/1999
PG 101, Introduction to U.S. Politics
11/30/1999
PSCY 281, Social Psychology
11/30/1999
REL 112, Archaeology and Religion
3/28/2000
CSOC 204, Social Stratification
3/28/2000
PG 104, Introduction to Political Theory: The Perennial Issues
III. Other Curricular Business
9/21/1999
English Department granted a one-year deferral of its curriculum review
to 2000-2001.
11/30/1999
Hannah Aoyagi’s Special Interdisciplinary Major in Environmental Policy
approved.
2/1/2000
Approval for University of Durham and the University of Lancaster to be
added to the list of affiliated study-abroad programs.
2/29/2000
Politics and Government granted a one-year deferral of its curriculum
review to 2001-2002.
IV. Business to be carried over to 2000-2001
Mathematics and Computer Science writing in the major program
Physics, Bachelor of Arts, writing in the major program
Fallow-year review of Natural World core courses CHEM 102 and PHYS 106
Fallow-year review of Comparative Values core courses PHIL 382, 386, 388, 390,
REL 301.
Fallow-year review of International Studies core course PG 341.
Fallow-year review of Humanistic Perspective core courses HUM 200, PHIL 252,
REL 102.
Fallow-year review of Society core course CTA 442.
Review of REL 218 for Humanistic Perspective core.
Review of HIST 340 for Comparative Values core.
V. Departmental reviews scheduled for 2000-2001
African American Studies
Classics
Dual Degree Engineering
English
Geology
Latin American Studies
Learning Skills Curriculum
Mathematics and Computer Science
Physical Therapy
Psychology
Study Abroad