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 2013-2014 academic year on January 29, 2014 (Conference Room,
Alumnae House), the following actions were taken by the Smith College faculty:
I. The faculty voted to approve 20 November 2013 meeting minutes.
II. The following items were recommended by the Committee on Academic Priorities and approved
by the faculty:
A.
B.
C.
New First-Year Seminars as Permanent Offerings
1.
FYS 122 Eden and Other Gardens
2.
FYS 121 Literature of the Fantastic: Dystopian Worlds
New courses as Permanent Offerings
1.
AMS 324/CSC 324 Seminar: Computer Science and American Studies
2.
ARH 281 Modern, Postmodern, Contemporary
3.
BKX 400 Special Studies
4.
GOV 234 Colloquium: Comparative Responses to AIDS in Africa
5.
ITL 200 Made in Italy: Italian Design and World Culture
6.
SAX 400 Special Studies
7.
SOC 329 Seminar: Sociology of the Body
New topics as Permanent Offerings
1.
ARH 280 Art Historical Studies (C). Topic: Modernism and the Neo-AvantGardes
2.
ARH 280 Art Historical Studies (C). Topic: Trading Partners: Visual Culture
and Economies of Exchange
3.
SPN 230 Latin American and Peninsular Literature (C). Topic: Doméstica:
Precarious Subjects and the Politics of Intimacy in Literature and Film
4.
SPN 245 Topics in Latin American and Peninsular Studies (C): Topic: Jewish
Women of the Muslim Mediterranean
D.
Curricular Items
1.
Changes to JUD major requirements.
2.
PHY Requests
a)
Remove PHY 315 Modern Physics II from the major requirements.
b)
Remove PHY 315 Modern Physics II as a prerequisite for PHY 319
Thermal Physics and PHY 327 Quantum Mechanics.
c)
Rename PHY 215 from Modern Physics I to Introductory Physics III.
d)
Convert PHY 109 into a colloquium PHY 209 with an enrollment limit of
20.
3.
4.
EGR Requests to Implement Changes to Honors Program
a)
Rename EGR 410D from Engineering Design Clinic to Engineering
Design and Professional Practice
b)
Rename EGR 422D from capstone Design with Industry to Design Clinic
c)
Rename EGR 431D from Capstone Design with Faculty with Honors to
Honors Capstone Design with Faculty
d)
Convert EGR 432D Capstone Design with Industry with Honors course to
a 1-credit supplement to EGR 422D
e)
Rename EGR 432D from Capstone Design with Industry with Honors to
EGR 432 Honors Design Clinic
Convert PRS 319 South Asians in Britain and America to ENG 319 South
Asians in Britain and America.
Respectfully submitted,
Amy Rhodes
Secretary of the Faculty
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