COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
COLLEGE ADVISORY COUNCIL
Arts Committee
MINUTES
20 February 2014
15:30, Room 219, Pray Harrold
Present: Peters (AAAS), Molloy (ART), Hammill (CMTA), Saunoris (ECON), Dunn (ENGL), Egge (HIST/PHIL), Plagens (PLSC),
Ensor (SAC), Currans (WGST), Vosteen (WL)
Ex-Officio: Mehuron (CAS Dean’s Office)
I. Call to Order: 15:30
II. Minutes of the Meeting of 23 January 2014: Approved (8 for, 0 against, 2 abstentions)
III. Old Business
A. College of Education
Proposal to Revise Program
Reading Minor and Language Arts Minor (B.A.)
Not Passed at the meeting of December 12, 2013, because there was no COE faculty vote on the proposal, raising questions about faculty input, and
because the proposal is not clear concerning what is meant by “substitute” in the proposed revision for the Reading Minor (students in the Reading minor
can substitute those courses or only those who are also minoring in the Language Arts Minor?) (Motion to Not Pass: 6 for, 0 against, 1 abstention). One
suggestion to make this clear to students was to create a separate list of Reading Minor courses for students also minoring in Language Arts.
Passed (7 for, 1 against, 2 abstentions)
B. College of Arts and Sciences
AAAS
Request for New Course
AFC244 Dimensions of Racism (Perspectives On a Diverse World)
At the meeting of November 7, 2013, this course was proposed as AFC 243 with the same title. The following text chronicles the reasons for which it
was tabled: “Tabled (11 for, 0 against, 1 abstention) because 1) the proposal lacks the required syllabus and bibliography, 2) to enable a discussion with
SAC and PLSC over potential impacts to existing courses on the same topic (ANTH/SOCL214, PLSC215, PLSC242, and PLSC243), and 3) to encourage
an Africology disciplinary focus on this interdisciplinary subject. There was also a comment that if intended to be included in programs, then Program
Revision proposals must also be submitted.”
Approved (9 for, 0 against, 1 abstention)
IV. New Business
A. College of Arts and Sciences
ART
1. Request for New Course
Art Minor
The ART new course and program
ARTS354 Poster Design
revision proposal were Approved
2. Proposal to Revise Program
Unanimously as a Package
ENGL
1. Requests for Course Revisions
The nine course revision proposals were Approved Unanimously as a Package
ENGL 518 Topics in English Education (pre-/corequisite)
WRTG 503 Rhetorical Theory and the Teaching Writing (pre-/corequisite)
WRTG 505 Rhetoric of Science and Technology (pre-/corequisite)
WRTG 514 Issues in Teaching of Writing (pre-/corequisite)
WRTG 517 Topics in the Teaching of Writing (pre-/corequisite)
WRTG 524 Advanced Technical Writing and Research (pre-/corequisite)
WRTG 526 Topics in Professional Communication (pre-/corequisite)
WRTG 596 Teaching Composition at the College Level (description)
WRTG 621 Research in Theory and Practice of Writing (pre-/corequisite)
2. Requests for New Courses
The two new course proposals were Approved Unanimously as a Package
WRTG 500 Introduction to Graduate Studies in Written Communication
WRTG 545 Writing Digital Media
3. Proposal to Revise Program
Written Communication (M.A.) Approved Unanimously
B. College of Business
Request for New Course
IMC 620 Business Marketing Passed (8 for, 0 against, 1 abstention)
V. Chair’s Remarks: none
VI. Adjournment: 16:00
Respectfully submitted,
Bradley Ensor, recording secretary