University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Mānoa Faculty Senate
Presented to the Mānoa Faculty Senate by the Senate Executive Committee (SEC) for a Senate
vote on November 16, 2011.
November 7, 2011
MOTION TO APPROVE SEC RECOMMENDATION TO TEMPORARILY SUSPEND
THE SENATE’S 12/2010 RECOMMENDATION ON 60 NON –INTRO COURSE CREDIT
REQUIREMENT PENDING COMMITTEE REVIEW
The Senate Executive Committee (SEC) recommends that the Senate vote to temporarily
suspend the Senate’s 12/2010 Recommendation on 60 Non-intro Course Credit Requirement
pending the Committee on Academic Policy and Planning’s (CAPP) reconsideration of the
policy provision requiring 45 credits of upper division course work.
RATIONALLE
The Manoa Faculty Senate approved CAPP’s 12/2010 Recommendation on 60 Non-intro Course
Credit Requirement unanimously. Multiple faculty members have asked the Senate to reconsider
the provision requiring 45 credits of upper division course work. Specifically, the request is to
reduce the 45 upper division credit requirement. The rationale for this request is that the
requirement will have a disparate and bad consequence for majors that require many difficult 200
level courses. For example, substantive and difficult courses with low survival rates populate the
200 level in the Natural Sciences (4 semesters of engineering calculus, organic chemistry), but
aren't counted as "upper division".
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