COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES - Oakland



COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

COMMITTEE ON INSTRUCTION

Minutes #2

September 19, 2019

217 Varner Hall

MINUTES

Present: A. Banes-Berceli, S. Dykstra, D. Kidger, E. Shesko, M. Schoen, C. Su, C. Vanderkaay, D. Wendell

1. Committee approved Minutes #1, September 12, 2019.

2. Committee approved the request from the Student Academic Support Committee to add the following language for the CAS new course syllabi requirements under the “Recommended Items” category:

MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES

Oakland University is committed to advancing the mental health and well-being of its students. If you or someone you know is feeling overwhelmed, depressed, and/or in need of support, services are available. For help, contact the OU Counseling Center at Graham Health, (248) 370-3465 or the SEHS Counseling Center at 250A Pawley Hall, (248) 370-2633,. Student resources can also be found at .

3. Committee approved the request from the Department of Biology to make the following changes to catalog copy:

Requirements for the major in biology, B.S.

4. 8 credits of BIO 4000-level lecture courses from the following list are required in the major.

Note: BIO 3920, BIO 4111, BIO 3333 (formerly 4333), BIO 4932, BIO 4995, BIO 4970 and BIO 4997 do not satisfy this requirement for 4000-level lecture courses but may be used to fulfill additional biology elective credits.

• BIO 4100 - Advanced Visceral Human Anatomy

• BIO 4112 - Advanced Musculoskeletal Human Anatomy

• BIO 4120 - Neuroanatomy

• BIO 4210 - Molecular Biology

• BIO 4220 - Cell Biology of Cancer

• BIO 4222 - Stem Cell Biology

• BIO 4224 - Science of Vision

• BIO 4226 - Immunology

• BIO 4230 - Cellular Biochemistry

• BIO 4232 - Biochemistry II

• BIO 4320 - Medical Parasitology

• BIO 4330 - Stream Ecology

• BIO 4334 - Topics in Physiological Ecology

• BIO 4336 - Topics in Community and Population Biology

• BIO 4338 - Food Systems Biology

• BIO 4342 - Topics in Evolutionary Biology

• BIO 4350 - Topics in Behavioral Biology

• BIO 4380 - Ecological Problem Solving

• BIO 4400 - Advanced Genetics

• BIO 4412 - Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics

• BIO 4510 - Virology

• BIO 4511 - Microbial Biotechnology

• BIO 4530 - Medical Microbiology

• BIO 4610 - Advanced Topics in Cell Physiology

• BIO 4620 - Advanced Human Physiology

• BIO 4622 - Endocrinology

• BIO 4930 - Introduction to Human Subjects Research I

Note: Select BIO 4900 courses may also be used to fill this requirement. Please check with your faculty adviser.

Note: BIO 3920, BIO 4111, BIO 3333 (formerly 4333), BIO 4932, BIO 4995, BIO 4970 and BIO 4997 do not satisfy this requirement for 4000-level lecture courses but may be used to fulfill additional biology elective credits.

Requirements for the major in biology, B.A.

4. Four credits of BIO 4000-level lecture courses from the following list are required in the major.

Note: BIO 3920, BIO 4111, BIO 3333 (formerly 4333), BIO 4932, BIO 4995, BIO 4970 and BIO 4997 do not satisfy this requirement for 4000-level lecture courses but may be used to fulfill additional biology elective credits.

• BIO 4100 - Advanced Visceral Human Anatomy

• BIO 4112 - Advanced Musculoskeletal Human Anatomy

• BIO 4120 - Neuroanatomy

• BIO 4210 - Molecular Biology

• BIO 4220 - Cell Biology of Cancer

• BIO 4222 - Stem Cell Biology

• BIO 4224 - Science of Vision

• BIO 4226 - Immunology

• BIO 4230 - Cellular Biochemistry

• BIO 4232 - Biochemistry II

• BIO 4320 - Medical Parasitology

• BIO 4330 - Stream Ecology

• BIO 4334 - Topics in Physiological Ecology

• BIO 4336 - Topics in Community and Population Biology

• BIO 4338 - Food Systems Biology

• BIO 4342 - Topics in Evolutionary Biology

• BIO 4350 - Topics in Behavioral Biology

• BIO 4380 - Ecological Problem Solving

• BIO 4400 - Advanced Genetics

• BIO 4412 - Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics

• BIO 4510 - Virology

• BIO 4511 - Microbial Biotechnology

• BIO 4530 - Medical Microbiology

• BIO 4610 - Advanced Topics in Cell Physiology

• BIO 4620 - Advanced Human Physiology

• BIO 4622 - Endocrinology

• BIO 4930 - Introduction to Human Subjects Research I

Note: Select BIO 4900 courses may also be used to fill this requirement. Please check with your faculty adviser.

Requirements for the liberal arts minor in biology

Students in other departments who wish to minor in biology must take a minimum of 20 credits in biology, including the following courses. At least 12 credits not being used to fill any other program are required. At least 8 of the credits offered for the minor must be taken at Oakland University. Students majoring in other life science areas should read the restrictions on dual use of courses to satisfy both major and minor requirements.

4. Committee deferred request from the Department of English to make the following changes to catalog copy:

Creative Writing, B.A., Specialization in Fiction

Requirements for the liberal arts major in creative writing, B.A. specialization in fiction

The creative writing major with a specialization in fiction requires a total of 44 credit hours, including five creative writing workshops (20 credits), two cognate courses (8 credits), and either four English electives or three English electives and an additional creative writing workshop (16 credits). One of the creative writing workshops must be a 4000-level course; this class will provide a capstone experience and require a creative thesis. Students are encouraged to take at least three of their five required workshop classes before taking the capstone.

Students must earn at least a B- in each creative writing workshop course and at least a C in each literature course to have it count toward the major. Students who don’t earn a B- in a creative writing workshop course must re-take that course to earn at least a B- before proceeding on to the next course in the sequence. Only one 1000-level course will be accepted for credit in the major.

5. Sixteen elective credits

• 8 of these elective credits must be taken at the 3000 level and cannot include CW courses workshops.

• 12 of these elective credits must be from the following group: CIN 2100, CIN 2320, all ENG courses.

• Students may use the remaining 4 elective credits to take: another CW course, or another ENG course.

• CIN ENG 2100 can replace one of these 3000-level electives.

6. At least twenty credits in English courses must be taken at Oakland.

7. An introductory two-semester sequence in a foreign language, or one semester of a foreign language at the 1150 level or higher with a minimum grade of C

Note

Should there be changes made to catalog listings of requirements for the creative writing degree in future years, students have the option of using any new course approved to satisfy their degree requirements, regardless of the catalog copy in current usage when they started their program.

Students majoring in creative writing may not use the ENG rubric to satisfy the College of Arts and Sciences exploratory requirement. Students using this catalog to meet creative writing major requirements may also use any course subsequently approved as satisfying requirements under the various workshop and cognate elective course options that is published in a later catalog.

Creative Writing, B.A., Specialization in Literary Nonfiction

Requirements for the liberal arts major in creative writing, B.A., specialization in literary nonfiction

Students must earn at least a B- in each creative writing workshop course and at least a C in each literature course to have it count toward the major. Students who don’t earn a B- in a creative writing workshop course must re-take that course to earn at least a B- before proceeding on to the next course in the sequence. Only one 1000-level course will be accepted for credit in the major. The 44 credits (exclusive of composition courses used to satisfy the university writing proficiency requirement) are distributed as follows:

3. Two additional workshop courses, chosen from

• CW 2100 – Introduction to Prose and Poetry Writing (4)

• CW 2400 - Intro to Screen/TV Writing (4)

• CW 3200 - Workshop in Fiction (4)

• CW 3300 - Workshop in Poetry (4)

• CW 3400 - Screenwriting (4)

• CW 3600 - Playwriting (4)

• CW 4200 - Advanced Workshop in Fiction (4)

• CW 4300 - Advanced Workshop in Poetry (4)

• CW 4400 - Advanced Screenwriting (4)

• WRT 3086 - Workshop in Creative Non-Fiction (4)

Note

Should there be changes made to catalog listings of requirements for the creative writing degree in future years, students have the option of using any new course approved to satisfy their degree requirements, regardless of the catalog copy in current usage when they started their program.

Students majoring in creative writing may not use the ENG rubric to satisfy the College of Arts and Sciences exploratory requirement. Students using this catalog to meet creative writing major requirements may also use any course subsequently approved as satisfying requirements under the various workshop and cognate elective course options that is published in a later catalog.

Creative Writing, B.A., Specialization in Poetry

Requirements for the liberal arts major in creative writing, B.A., specialization in poetry

Students must earn at least a B- in each creative writing workshop course and at least a C in each literature course to have it count toward the major. Students who don’t earn a B- in a creative writing workshop course must re-take that course to earn at least a B- before proceeding on to the next course in the sequence. Only one 1000-level course will be accepted for credit in the major.

5. Sixteen elective credits

• 8 of these elective credits must be taken at the 3000 level and cannot include CW courses workshops.

• 12 of these elective credits must be from the following group: CIN 2100, CIN 2320, all ENG courses.

• Students may use the remaining 4 elective credits to take: another CW course, or another ENG course.

• ENG 2100 can replace one of these 3000-level electives.

Note

Should there be changes made to catalog listings of requirements for the creative writing degree in future years, students have the option of using any new course approved to satisfy their degree requirements, regardless of the catalog copy in current usage when they started their program.

Students majoring in creative writing may not use the ENG rubric to satisfy the College of Arts and Sciences exploratory requirement. Students using this catalog to meet creative writing major requirements may also use any course subsequently approved as satisfying requirements under the various workshop and cognate elective course options that is published in a later catalog.

Creative Writing, B.A., Specialization in Screenwriting

Requirements for the liberal arts major in creative writing, B.A., specialization in screenwriting

Students must earn at least a B- in each creative writing workshop course and at least a C in each literature course to have it count toward the major. Students who don’t earn a B- in a creative writing workshop course must re-take that course to earn at least a B- before proceeding on to the next course in the sequence. Only one 1000-level course will be accepted for credit in the major.

2. Required courses

• CIN 1150 - Introduction to Film (4) or CIN 2100 - Film and Formal Analysis (4)

• CW 3400 - Screenwriting (4)

• CW 4400 - Advanced Screenwriting (4)

5. Sixteen elective credits

• 12 of the 16 elective credits must be from the following group: CIN 1150, CIN 2100, CIN 2320, all ENG courses.

• Students may use the remaining 4 elective credits to take: another CW course, or another ENG course.

• 8 of the 16 elective credits must be ENG courses taken at the 3000 level.

• Students must take CIN 1150 or CIN 2100 as a prerequisite for CW 3400; either can substitute for 4 of these 8 3000-level ENG elective credits.

• 4 of these elective credits must be taken at the 3000 level.

• 12 of these elective credits must be from the following group: CIN 2100, CIN 2320, all ENG courses.

• CIN 1150 counts toward the 16-credit elective requirement

6. At least twenty credits in English courses must be taken at Oakland.

7. An introductory two-semester sequence in a foreign language, or one semester of a foreign language at the 1150 level or higher with a minimum grade of C

Note

Should there be changes made to catalog listings of requirements for the creative writing degree in future years, students have the option of using any new course approved to satisfy their degree requirements, regardless of the catalog copy in current usage when they started their program.

Students majoring in creative writing may not use the ENG rubric to satisfy the College of Arts and Sciences exploratory requirement. Students using this catalog to meet creative writing major requirements may also use any course subsequently approved as satisfying requirements under the various workshop and cognate elective course options that is published in a later catalog

5. Committee approved the request from the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures to make the following course title changes:

FRH 4200 Modern and Contemporary French Literature - Twentieth Century

GRM 4200 Modern and Contemporary German Literature - Twentieth Century

JPN 4200 Modern and Contemporary Japanese Literature - Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

6. Committee approved the request from the Department of Physics to make the following course prerequisite change:

PHY 3660 - Vibrations and Waves (4)

Oscillations; mechanical waves in one, two and three dimensions; sound.

Prerequisite(s): PHY 1020 or 1520 and or PHY 1620; MTH 1555 recommended.

7. Committee approved the request from the Department of Sociology, Anthropology to make the

following changes to catalog copy:

Requirements for the liberal arts major in sociology, B.A. program

To earn a Bachelor of Arts with a major in sociology, students must complete a minimum of 44 credits, 20 of which must be taken at the 3000-4000 level including:

1. Core

• SOC 1000 - Introduction to Sociology (4)

• SOC 4000 2000 - Sociological Theory (4)

• SOC 2010 - Introduction to Methods of Social Research (4)

• SOC 2020 - Social Statistics with Computer Applications (4)

• SOC 4970 - Applying the Sociological Imagination (4)

2. Capstone

• SOC 4970 - Capstone: Applying the Sociological Imagination (4)

3. One course from each of the following categories:

8. Committee approved the request from the Department of Sociology, Anthropology to make the following prerequisite change:

CRJ 4970 - Capstone: Criminal Justice Policy Analysis

Capstone seminar in which students demonstrate the ability to link theoretical knowledge and empirical evidence about a key criminal justice question to inform and improve public policy. Satisfies the university general education requirement for the capstone experience. Satisfies the university general education requirement for a writing intensive course in the major. Prerequisite for writing intensive: completion of the university writing foundation requirement.

Prerequisite(s): CRJ 4950 and approval of director of field services and student support.

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