September 8, 1999



Report of the Committee on Educational Policy and the Curriculum

Approved at the February 29, 2016 meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

(Information is from the October 27, 2015 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, as well as other documentation for these recommendations, are available prior to the FAS meeting in the office of the College Registrar, 106 Monroe Hall. Changes approved by the FAS will appear and become effective in the Fall 2016-2017 Undergraduate Record, unless otherwise noted.

Course Changes

ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE DEPARTMENT

To add to the Undergraduate Record

ENPG 3800 Tutoring Peer Writers

ENWR 3500 Topics in Advanced Academic Writing

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES DEPARTMENT

To add to the Undergraduate Record

EVSC 4190 Ecosystem-Based Marine Conservation

INTERDISCIPLINARY ~ AMERICAN STUDIES PROGRAM

To drop the application process for the major in American Studies

MIDDLE EASTERN AND SOUTH ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES DEPARTMENT

To add to the Undergraduate Record

PERS 1060 Accelerated Persian

SOCIOLOGY DEPARTMENT

To add to the Undergraduate Record

SOC 4750 Racism

PROPOSED FORUMS

Proposal for Visions of the Good Forum

Submitted by,

Janet Herman

Chair, CEPC

Report of the Committee on Educational Policy and the Curriculum

Approved at the February 29, 2016 meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

(Information is from the December 8, 2015 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, as well as other documentation for these recommendations, are available prior to the FAS meeting in the office of the College Registrar, 106 Monroe Hall. Changes approved by the FAS will appear and become effective in the Fall 2016-2017 Undergraduate Record, unless otherwise noted.

Course Changes

HISTORY DEPARTMENT

To add to the Undergraduate Record

HIUS 3173 The Vietnam War in American Film

RELIGIOUS STUDIES DEPARTMENT

To add to the Undergraduate Record

RELC 2850 The Kingdom of God in America

SPANISH, ITALIAN & PORTUGUESE DEPARTMENT

To add to the Undergraduate Record

KICH 1010 Introduction to Maya K’iche’ I

INTERDISCIPLINARY~STATISTICS DEPARTMENT

To add to the Undergraduate Record

STAT 3250 Data Analysis with Python

STAT 3118 Probability for Statistics

STAT 4210 Big Data Tools

STAT 4170 Financial Time Series and Forecasting

STAT 4260 Databases

STAT 4220 Applied Analytics for Business

STAT 3119 Matrix Algebra for Statistics

WOMEN GENDER & SEXUALITY PROGRAM

To add to the Undergraduate Record

WGS 2896 Front Lines of Social Change Part II: Social Justice in Our Community

PROGRAM CHANGES

WOMEN GENDER & SEXUALITY PROGRAM

To require two 4000-level courses instead of the senior seminar for the WGS major (and one for the WGS minor)

GLOBAL STUDIES ~ GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTS AND SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAM

To allow Global Studies~ Global Environments & Sustainability majors to count 4 of their major courses as "inside" of the College

PROPOSED FORUMS

Proposal for Forum in the Arts: Creative Processes and Practices

Submitted by,

Janet Herman

Chair, CEPC

Report of the Committee on Educational Policy and the Curriculum

Approved at the February 29, 2016 meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

(Information is from the February 10, 2016 CEPC meeting)

Recommendations for approval to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

The full text of syllabi, program descriptions, Undergraduate Record, as well as other documentation for these recommendations, are available prior to the FAS meeting in the office of the College Registrar, 106 Monroe Hall. Changes approved by the FAS will appear and become effective in the Fall 2016-2017 Undergraduate Record, unless otherwise noted.

The Committee recommends adoption of the following new courses.

NEW COURSE PROPOSALS

AMERICAN STUDIES PROGRAM

To add to the Undergraduate Record

AMST 3630 Vietnam War in Literature and Film

ANTHROPOLOGY DEPARTMENT

To add to the Undergraduate Record

ANTH 2621 Culture, Gender and Violence

BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT

To add to the Undergraduate Record

BIOL 2900 Teaching Methods for Undergraduate Teaching Assistants

BIOL 4135 Biology of Aging

ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT

To add to the Undergraduate Record

ECON 4440 Economic Inequality

ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE DEPARTMENT

To add to the Undergraduate Record

ENMC 3630 Vietnam War in Literature and Film

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES DEPARTMENT

To add to the Undergraduate Record

EVSC 4452 Global Climate Variability Seminar

GERMAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE DEPARTMENT

To add to the Undergraduate Record

GETR 3770 Women Writers: Women on Women

HISTORY DEPARTMENT

To add to the Undergraduate Record

HIUS 3853 From Redlines to Subprime: Race and Real Estate in the US

HIUS 2052 America and War Since 1900

HIST 3854 Reasoning from History

LIBERAL ARTS SEMINAR PROGRAM

To add to the Undergraduate Record

LASE 3200 Liberal Arts and Professional Engagement

MIDDLE EASTERN AND SOUTH ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES DEPARTMENT

To add to the Undergraduate Record

ARTR 3245 Arabic Literary Delights

PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT

To add to the Undergraduate Record

PHIL 3010 Darwin and Philosophy

PSYCHOLOGY DEPARTMENT

To add to the Undergraduate Record

PSYC 4155 Autism: From Neurons to Neighborhoods

PSYC 4255 Behavioral Epigenetics

PSYC 4695 Social Cognition and Social Change

PSYC 3235 Introduction to Epigenetics (course to be approved for the math/science College area requirement)

RELIGIOUS STUDIES DEPARTMENT

To add to the Undergraduate Record

RELG 3305 Basic Philosophy Plato to Kant

RELI 3415 Medieval Books and Scholars

RELG 3333 Literature and Ethics

The Committee recommends adoption of the following program changes.

PROGRAM CHANGE PROPOSALS

AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE PROGRAM

To propose a Minor in American Sign Language

ASTRONOMY – PHYSICS BS MAJOR

To request the addition of the Distinguished Majors Program (DMP) to the new Bachelor of Science major in Astronomy-Physics

GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT STUDIES MAJOR

To change the pre-requisite for the GDS Major from ECON 2010 to either ECON 2010 or ECON 2020

Submitted by,

Janet Herman

Chair, CEPC

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