Secretary to the Faculty
Smith College
Northampton, Massachusetts 01063
T (413) 585-3000 F(413) 585-3070
Faculty Action Sheet
At the fourth regular meeting of the 2012-2013 academic year on December 12, 2012 (Conference Room,
Alumnae House), the following actions were taken by the Smith College faculty:
I. The faculty voted to approve the November 28, 2012 meeting minutes.
II. The following items were recommended by the Committee on Academic Priorities and approved
by the faculty
A.
New Courses as Permanent Offerings
1)
ARH 110 Art and Its Histories
2)
ARH 141 Introduction to Art History: Western Traditions to 1500
3)
ARH 142 Introduction to Art History: Western Traditions – 1500 to the Present Time
4)
ARS 173 Cross-Disciplinary Foundations: 3D and Time-Based
5)
CLT 206 Empathy, Rage and Outrage: Female Genital Excision in Literature and Film
6)
EGR 328 Seminar: Wireless Sensor Networks
7)
EGR 350 Seminar: Engineering and Cancer
8)
ENG 247 Modes of Experiment in Postwar Poetry
9)
ENG 309 Seminar: Black Prison Intellectuals
10)
FRN 265 Les Années Noires: Living Through the Occupation, 1939-45
11)
FYS 107 Reading the Civil War
12)
GER 299 Exhibiting Popular Visual Art of Interwar Germany 1924-1940
13)
HST 241 (L) Soviet Union in the Cold War
14)
NSC 316 Seminar: Neuroscience in the Public Eye
15)
SWG 101 SWG Reads: Women, Race and Culture
16) THE 221 Rehearsing the Impossible: Black Women Playwrights Interrupting The Master
Narrative
B.
C.
New Topics as Permanent Offerings
1)
HST 313 (S) Problems in East Asian History
Topic: Women and Gender in Early Modern Asia
2)
MUS 205 Colloquium: Topics in Popular Music
Topic: Producing Popular Music: The American Music Industry
3)
POR 220 Topics in Portuguese and Brazilian Literature and Culture
Topic: Brazil in the News: Media, Society and Popular Culture
New Course as Experimental Offering
1)
D.
ENV 320 Environmental Justice
Curricular Changes
1)
Change to dual-prefix status: ENG 306/CLT 306 Seminar Foundations of Celtic Europe:
Old European, Indo-European, Etruscan, Greek, and Roman.
2)
Request from Studio Wing of Department of Art: Increase credits of ARS 399 Senior
Exhibition Workshop from 1 to 4
3)
Change in major requirements for Art History, Studio Art, and Architecture
4)
Change in Minor requirements for Art History
Respectfully submitted,
MJ Wraga
Secretary of the Faculty
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