Secretary to the Faculty
Smith College
Northampton, Massachusetts 01063
T (413) 585-3000 F(413) 585-3070
Faculty Action Sheet
At the sixth regular meeting of the 2013-2014 academic year on 26 March 2014 (Conference Room,
Alumnae House), the following actions were taken by the Smith College faculty:
I.
The faculty voted to approve 26 February 2014 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.
B.
C.
SOC 239 How Power Works
Curricular Items
1.
Change in the minor and major requirements for the MTH department.
2.
Request from GEO to increase the number of credits for intermediate and
advanced courses with labs from 4 to 5.
3.
Dual prefix IDP 120 Community-Based Learning: Ethics and Practice as IDP
120/CCX 120 Community-Based Learning: Ethics and Practice.
4.
Remove the dual-prefix for PSY 301 Research Design and Analysis and MTH
290 Research Design and Analysis
5.
ECO 264 Partisan Economic Issues has been renumbered to ECO 234 and the
description and prerequisites have been modified to ECO 150, ECO 153, AND
ECO 220 or its equivalent.
Experimental Courses Converted to Permanent Offerings
1.
EAS 200 Colloquium: Topics in East Asian Studies, Topic: Difficult Female
2.
EAS 210 Colloquium: Culture and Diplomacy in Asia
3.
EAS 217 Korean Popular Culture: Translating Tradition into Pop Culture
4.
EAS 220 Colloquium: Environment and Society in Contemporary China
5.
ECO 364 Seminar: The Economics of Future Technology
6.
PHI 204 Design: Philosophical Inquiries
III. The Committee of Academic Priorities recommended and the faculty approved a proposal for a
new program: Program in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies.
Respectfully submitted,
Amy Rhodes, Secretary of the Faculty
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