University of Puget Sound
Office Memorandum
Date:
To:
From:
May 1, 2001
Faculty Senate
Matthew Warning, Curriculum Committee Chair
Subject:
Curriculum Committee Final Report for 2000-2001
This is a report of the activities of the Curriculum Committee for the year 2000-2001. The
committee’s activities included, but were not limited to:
1. evaluating the proposed objectives and guidelines for new core rubrics paying particular
attention to clarity and consistency;
2. revising the curriculum statement to accord with the proposed core and to address a
variety of outstanding concerns;
3. evaluating eight departmental reviews;
4. approving 16 new courses for the existing core; and
5. reaffirming 11 core courses carried over from the fallow-year review.
The attached “Disposition of 2000-2001 Agenda” provides a more detailed description of these
activities and lists other miscellaneous business the committee undertook. As you can see, this
was a very busy year for the committee.
For the forthcoming year, we recommend the Curriculum Committee be charged with the following
tasks:
1. review the question of whether to affiliate with special domestic programs;
2. review and assess the Special Interdisciplinary Major;
3. re-examine the maximum number of units permissible for a major and limits on
numbers of units that may be directly or indirectly (i.e., cognates) required for a major;
4. assess the fallow year core procedures; and
5. evaluate the departmental/program reviews for Chemistry, History, Geology,
Internships, Latin American Studies, and Physics.
Curriculum Committee
Disposition of 2000-2001 Agenda
I. Departmental Reviews
1-30-2001
Study Abroad curriculum review approved.
2-13-2001
Mathematics and Computer Science curriculum review approved.
2-20-2001
Psychology curriculum review approved.
2-27-2001
Physical Therapy curriculum review approved.
2-27-2001
Politics and Government curriculum review approved.
4-10-2000
African American Studies curriculum review approved.
4-10-2000
Dual Degree Engineering curriculum review approved.
4-24-2000
Learning Skills curriculum review approved.
II. On-going business
Academic Calendar
9-13-2000
Academic Calendar for 2002-2003 and basic calendars for 2003-2004
and for 2004-2005 approved and sent to Faculty Senate.
9-13-2000
Amended Guidelines for Setting Academic Calendar (addition of Term D
to the Summer term) approved and sent to Faculty Senate.
Action on new core courses
9-13-2000
HIST 340,Tolstoy, Gandhi, and King: A History of Non-Violent Social
Change in the Twentieth Century, approved for Comparative Values core.
9-26-2000
REL 234, Religious Traditions of China, approved for Humanistic
Perspective core.
9-26-2000
REL 369 Power, Gender, and Divinity: The Construction of Goddesses,
approved for Comparative Values core.
10-3-2000
SCXT 318, The Science of Gender, approved for Science in Context core
through Fall 2001.
10-3-2000
SCXT 352, Memory in a Social Context, approved for Science in Context
core through Fall 2001.
10-3-2000
SCXT 322, Water Resources, approved for Science in Context core
through Fall 2001.
10-3-2000
FL 365, Japanese and Asian Film, approved for Fine Arts core.
10-17-2000
REL 218, Crime and Punishment, approved for Humanistic Perspective
core.
12-5-2000
HIST 145, Sightings: China in European and American Perception, A
Freshman Seminar in Historical Perspective, approved for Historical
Perspective core.
12-5-2000
HUM 310, Postmodernism and Japanese Mass Culture, approved for
Comparative Values core.
12-5-2000
FL 380, Women and Revolution in Latin American Literature, approved
as Comparative Values core.
12-5- 2000
CLSC 305, Inventing the Barbarian, approved as Comparative Values
core.
1-23-2001
COMM 106, Freshman Seminar: Science and the Struggle for Equality,
approved for the Communication II-A core
2-13-2001
HIST 341,The Struggle for Modern Vietnam, approved for Comparative
Values core.
3-6-2001
HUM 304, Ancients and Moderns, approved for Comparative Values
core.
4-24-2001
HUM 202, Arms and Men: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of
Character, approved for Humanistic Perspective core.
Continuation of Fallow-year Review
9-26-2000
Reaffirmed for Humanistic Perspective: PHIL 252, Philosophy in
Literature.
2-13-2001
Physics Bachelor of Arts writing in the major program approved.
3-6-2001
Reaffirmed for Natural World: PHYS 106, Historical Development in the
Physical Sciences: Modern Physics
3-6-2001
Reaffirmed for Comparative Values: PHIL 386, Existentialism
3-6-2001
Reaffirmed for International Studies: PG 341, Modern Political Theory
3-6-2001
Reaffirmed for Society: COMM 442, Persuasion and Social Influence.
3-27-2001
Reaffirmed for Comparative Values:
PHIL 382, Philosophy of Religion
PHIL 388, Marxism
PHIL 390, Feminism and Philosophy
4-10-2000
Reaffirmed for Natural World: CHEM 102., Chemistry in Context
4-24-2001
Reaffirmed for Humanistic Perspective: REL 102, Jesus and the Jesus
Tradition
III. Other Curricular Business
9-13-2000
Geology Department granted a one-year deferral of its curriculum review
to 2001-2002.
9-13-2000
Classics Department granted a one-year deferral of its curriculum review
to 2002-2003.
9-26-2000
A six-week minimum for summer study-abroad sessions, with the
exception of the existing summer program at Salamanca and the existing
two courses in the Study Abroad Archaeology Program, approved.
11-7-2000
Jennifer Knighton's Special Interdisciplinary Major in Environmental
Policy approved conditionally. Final approval by Associate Dean in
January.
11-7-2000
Proposed core guidelines from the eight Curriculum Task Forces
approved and sent to Faculty Senate.
1-30-2001
Revision of the Faculty Curriculum Statement approved and sent to
Faculty Senate.
2-13-2001
Revision of curriculum proposal forms for proposed core approved.
3-6-2001
Japanese Studies minor approved.
3-27-2001
Approval of recommendation to the University of the new one-year
program leading to a Master's of Science in Occupational Therapy.
4-24-2001
Approval of interpretation of Science in Context prerequisites.
5-1-2001
Asian Studies Program granted a one-year deferral of its curriculum
review to 2002-2003.
IV. Business to be carried over to 2001-2002
Review and assessment of the Special Interdisciplinary Major
Assessment of Fallow Year core review procedures
Review of the nine-unit major
Continuation of the English Curriculum Review
Question of affiliation with special US-based programs
V. Departmental reviews scheduled for 2001-2002
Chemistry
History
Geology
Internships
Latin American Studies
Physics