Secretary to the Faculty
Smith College
Northampton, Massachusetts 01063
T (413) 585-3000 F(413) 585-3070
Faculty Action Sheet
At the seventh regular meeting of the 2010-2011 academic year on April 27, 2011 (Conference Room,
Alumnae House), the following actions were taken by the Smith College faculty:
I.
The following items were recommended by the Committee on Academic Priorities and
APPROVED by the faculty
A.
Curricular items as listed on the CAP document
1.
New Courses As Permanent Offerings
ANT 221 Archaeological Method, Theory and Practice
BIO 157Y Form, Function and Genetics of Novel Bacteriophage
CLS 203 Reading Ancient Rome
ENG 314 Seminar: Material Modernism
FLS 234 The Art of Film
POR 280/SPN 280 Latin Voices in Translation: Literature from the Margins of
Modernity
2.
New topics as permanent offerings
AMS 100 Ideas in American Studies
Topic: Thinking through Disability
AMS 220 Colloquium
Topic: Culture and Community in Northampton, Massachusetts: 1654 to the Present
ENG 120 Colloquia in Literature
Topic: Literatures of the American West
ENG 120 Colloquia in Literature
Topic: The Fictions of Women’s Lives
SPN 240 From Page to Stage
Topic: Argentina 2000-2011: Searching from the Stage
3.
New Concentrations
Book Studies Concentration
Environmental Concentration

4.
Curricular Changes (effective 2011-2012): a) Changes to the Environmental Science and Policy minor
Respectfully submitted,
Jeffry Ramsey
Secretary of the Faculty b) Requests from Economics :
(1) Change in prerequisites: ECO 240 Econometrics from ECO 150,
153, and 190 to ECO 150, 153, MTH 111, and either ECO 220, MTH
245 or MTH 247
(2) Change in level and increase in credits: ECO 190 Introduction to
Statistics and Econometrics 4 credits to ECO 220 Introduction to
Statistics and Econometrics 5 credits c) Requests from the Applied Statistics Program :
(1) Change in credits for MTH 190/PSY 190 Statistical Methods for
Undergraduate Research from 4 to 5
(2) Change in credits for GOV 190 Empirical Methods in Political
Science from 4 to 5 d) Dual Prefix designation for GOV 228/EAS 228 Government and Politics of Japan e) From (E) to permanent status for the following courses:
EDC 240 How Do We Know Students Are Learning?
IDP 150j Introduction to Autocad
IDP 151j Introduction to Solidworks
IDP 250j Applied Design and Prototyping: Design It! Make It!
PRS 309 Art/Math Studio, now IDP 325 Art/Math Studio
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