Report of the Committee on Educational Policy and the Curriculum
To be presented at the October 19, 2009 meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
(Information is from the September 22, 2009 CEPC meeting)
Recommendations for approval by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
The Committee recommends adoption of the following proposals. The text of each
proposal is given in bold face print.
The full text of syllabi, program descriptions, Undergraduate Record and Graduate
Record entries, as well as other documentation for these recommendations, are available
prior to the FAS meeting in the office of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences,
419 Cabell Hall. Changes approved by the FAS will appear and become effective in the
Fall 2010-2011 Undergraduate and/or Graduate Records, unless otherwise noted.
Course Changes
AFRICAN-AMERICAN and AFRICAN STUDIES PROGRAM
To change the subject area, catalog number and cross list in the Undergraduate
Record
ENAM 3510 TO AAS 3280 Reading the Black College Campus (cross list
with ENAM 3280)
ENAM 4500 TO AAS 4845 Black Speculative Fiction (cross list with ENAM
4845)
To change the course title and credit hours from 6.0 to 3.0 in the Undergraduate
Record
AAS 4080 Directed Reading and Research TO AAS 4080 Thesis
AMERICAN STUDIES PROGRAM
To count all American Studies (AMST) courses as fulfilling the Social Sciences Area
Requirement in the College of Arts & Sciences
AMST 4500 Fourth-Year Seminar in American Studies
AMST 2210 Arts of the Harlem Renaissance
AMST 3001 Theories and Methods of American Studies
AMST 2500 Major Works for American Studies
AMST 4893 Independent Study in Asian Pacific American Studies
AMST 3559 New Course in American Studies
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AMST 3180 Introduction to Asian American Studies
AMST 2001 Formations of American Cultural Studies
AMST 2559 New Course in American Studies
AMST 1559 New Course in American Studies
AMST 4993 Independent Study
AMST 3002 Introduction to the American Studies Major
AMST 3491 Rural Poverty in Our Time
AMST 2753 Arts and Cultures of the Slave South
AMST 2220 Race, Identity and American Visual Culture
AMST 2300 Introduction to U.S. Latino Studies
ANTHROPOLOGY DEPARTMENT
To add to the Undergraduate Record
ANTH 5360 World Mental Health
ANTH 3665 Trade Diasporas: Exchanges and Connection across Asia
ANTH 3274 Divine Kings: Earthly Powers and the Politics of Transcendence
ANTH 3175 Native American Art: The Astor Collection
ART-HISTORY DEPARTMENT
To add to the Undergraduate Record
ARAD 5200 Seminar in Development for the Arts (course will not count
towards the Humanities/Fine Arts area requirement)
ARTH 2751 American Art to the Armory Show
ARTH 2752 American Art Since Reconstruction
ARTH 2153 Romanesque and Gothic Art
BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT
To change the grading basis and prerequisite in the Undergraduate Record
BIOL 4915 Independent Research 5
BIOL 4916 Independent Research 6
BIOL 4918 Independent Research 8
BIOL 4912 Independent Research 2
BIOL 4917 Independent Research 7
To change the course description and prerequisite in the Undergraduate Record
BIOL 3250 Introduction to Animal Behavior
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To change the grading basis in the Undergraduate Record
BIOL 4911 Independent Research 1
To change the prerequisite in the Undergraduate Record
BIOL 3450 Biodiversity and Conservation
To change the course description, grading basis and prerequisite in the
Undergraduate Record
BIOL 4913 Independent Research 3
BIOL 4914 Independent Research 4
To add to the Undergraduate Record
BIOL 4215 Microbial Genomics
BIOL 5250 Ecological Issues in Global Change
BIOL 4290 Hormones and Behavior
BIOL 3360 Biological Therapy of Cancer
BIOL 4340 Experimental Foundations of Neurobiology
BIOL 4220 Introduction to Systems Biology
BIOL 4240 History and Philosophy of Biology
ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE DEPARTMENT
To add to the Undergraduate Record
ENSP 3200 An Irish Sense of Place: Literature, Music and the Arts
GERMAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE DEPARTMENT
To add to the Undergraduate Record
GETR 3710 Kafka and His Doubles
HISTORY DEPARTMENT
To add to the Undergraduate Record
HIUS 3182 Politics of Health Care in American: History, Policy and Society
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HIST 4400 Topics in Economic History
HIEU 3051 History and Civilization of France: Revolution to 1945
HILA 4701 The Inquisition in Spain and Latin American
HIME 5002 Seeking Justice in the Middle East
HIUS 2071 American Power and Energies – A History of the United States
HIEA 2072 Modern Japanese Culture and Politics
To change the catalog number and course title in the Undergraduate Record
HIEU 3030 Hispanic-Arab Civilization TO HIEU 3151 Islamic Iberia
MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT
To add to the Undergraduate Record
MATH 3000 Transition to Higher Mathematics
MIDDLE EASTERN AND SOUTH ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES
DEPARTMENT
Approved BETR as a new subject area
Approved Bengali language courses as meeting the Foreign Language area
requirement
To add to the Undergraduate Record
HIND 2060 Accelerated Intermediate Hindi
ARAB 4010 Advanced Arabic III
ARAB 4020 Advanced Arabic IV
ARTR 2500 Taboo and the Arabic Novel
PETR 5320 Life Narratives & Iranian Women Writers
PETR 3320 Life Narratives & Iranian Women Writers
SATR 1100 Under the Colonized Gaze: British Empire and its Indian
Subjects
BENG 1020 Elementary Bengali II
To change the course title in the Undergraduate Record
SAST 2050 Introduction to South Asian Civilizations TO Classics of
Indian Literature
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To change the course title, course description and prerequisite in the Undergraduate
Record
ARAB 3010 Readings in Literary Arabic TO Advanced Arabic I
ARAB 3020 Readings in Literary Arabic TO Advanced Arabic II
URDU 5020 Readings in Urdu TO Advanced Urdu II
URDU 5010 Readings in Urdu TO Advanced Urdu I
MUSIC DEPARTMENT
To add to the Undergraduate Record
MUSI 3040 Studies in the Twentieth-Century Music
MUSI 3370 Songwriting
To change the course title and description in the Undergraduate Record
MUSI 3050 Music in the 20th Century TO MUSI 3050 Music and Discourse
Since 1900
PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT
To add to the Undergraduate Record
PHIL 3780 Reproductive Ethics
To change the “Academic Standards” for the Philosophy major
SLAVIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE DEPARTMENT
To add to the Undergraduate Record
SLAV 2250 The Dark Side of the Twentieth Century: Between Auschwitz
and the Gulag
SOCIOLOGY DEPARTMENT
To change the course description in the Undergraduate Record
SOC 4055 Sociology of Law
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To add to the Undergraduate Record
SOC 3200 Sociology of Violence
SOC 2442 Systems of Inequality
SOC 3180 Sociology of Emotions
SOC 3310 Sociology of Self
SOC 3290 Sociology of Childhood
SOC 2500 Special Topics in Sociology (J-Term)
RELIGIOUS STUDIES DEPARTMENT
To add to the Undergraduate Record
JWST 2130 (cross list with existing MUSI 2130) Introduction to Jewish
Musical Traditions
SPANISH, ITALIAN and PORTUGUESE DEPARTMENT
To add to the Undergraduate Record
ITTR 3580 The Sister Arts: Literary/Artistic Relations in the Italian
Renaissance
STUDIES IN WOMEN AND GENDER PROGRAM
To change the catalog number in the Undergraduate Record
SWAG 2559 to SWAG 2400 Gender Death & Dying
SWAG 3559 to SWAG 3800 Queer Theory
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POLICY CHANGES
Beginning with the spring 2010, semester the College, along with the other
undergraduate schools, will have the same drop/add deadline. This deadline will be
the tenth day of instruction (or two full weeks from the first day of classes). The
withdrawal deadline, eight weeks from the first day of instruction, will remain the
same. The add/drop deadline will also be the deadline for electing the Audit or the
Credit/No Credit option.
Students in hybrid study abroad programs may henceforth take any combination of
direct credit and transfer courses, totaling at least 12 credits.
Submitted by,
Carl Trindle
Chair, CEPC
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