COLLEGE OF LETTERS & SCIENCES
CURRICULUM COMMITTEE

AGENDA

The Committee will meet  THURSDAY, April 21, 2005
at 2:15 PM in Salisbury 102


       
    1. Approval of the April 7, 2005 Minutes

    2. Announcements

    3. Election of  2 UCC Representatives.  Phil Johns and Anne Hamilton's terms expire at the end of this semester. This item was tabled at the last meeting.

    4. History

      1. New course HISTRY 422/622 "Great Trials in History" (This course explores major themes in the history of Western European and to a lesser extent the United States’ legal institutions and legal cultures from ancient Greece to modern times. It examines the social, political, legal, cultural and intellectual assumptions that shaped the great trials of the western historical tradition through intensive reading and discussion of both original historical evidence and modern interpretation).
      2. Change in the following History Majors:
        1. History Major 
        2. History Secondary Education Major
        3. History Public History Emphasis
        4. History with Social Studies Emphasis
(These revisions make clearer the application of courses to required areas and simplifies the AR).
  1. Change in the following History Minors:
    1. History Minor 
    2. History Elementary Education Minor
    3. History: Public History Minor
    4. History Secondary Education Minor
(These revisions make clearer the application of courses to required areas and simplifies the AR).
  1. Philosophy and Religious Studies
    1. Change in the Liberal Studies Major with Minor
    2. Change in the Liberal Studies Major with no Minor
(Updates course lists to add new courses to this interdisciplinary major [most of which have been developed by the respective departments since the Liberal Studies majors were originally approved]).
    1.   Sociology
      1. New Sociology major emphasis  "Sociology: Comparative Studies Emphasis."  (This emphasis was withdrawn from the last meeting agenda after it was decided that the programs and depts. consulted did not have enough time to look at the proposal). 
      2. Change in the following Sociology majors
        1. Criminal Justice Emphasis
        2. Sociology BSE
        3. Social Studies-Broadfield Major Sociology Option I Emphasis
        4. Social Studies-Broadfield Sociology II Emphasis
(Updates the majors to reflect current course offerings and redistribution of courses in groups).
      1. Change in the following Sociology minors
        1. Sociology Minor
        2. Criminal Justice Minor 
        3. Family and Health Studies Minor
(Updates the minors to reflect current course offerings and redistribution of courses in groups).
  1. Informational Items
    1. Change in the following Math and Computer Science submajors:
      1. Mathematics: Computer Emphasis (Changes the Unique Requirement from COMPSCI 171 to COMPSCI 172)
      2. Mathematics: Applied Mathematics
      3. Mathematics: Pure Math 
      4. Mathematics: Stat
(Adds COMPSCI 172 to the Unique Requirements).
  1. Requistie changes for the following Computer Science courses:
    1. COMPSCI 171 "Introduction to Programming" (Changes the prereq FROM  MATH 152 or MATH 143 or MATH 253 or concurrent registration in MATH 253 or cons. of instructor TO Prereq: MATH 141 or waiver of MATH 141).
    2. COMPSCI 302/502 "Computer Logic and Microprocessors"
    3. COMPSIC 307/507 "Micro Computer Applications"
    4. COMPSCI 372/572 "Intermediate Programming"
    5. COMPSCI 381 "Javascript and DHTML"
    6. COMPSCI 382 "PERL and CGI Scripting" 
(Removes COMPSCI 171as a prerequisite and adds COMPSCI 172 as a prerequisite ).
  1. Requisite changes for the following Math courses:
    1. MATH 141 "Intermediate Algebra"  (Removes 141B as a prerequisite).
    2. MATH 149 "Mathematics for the Elementary Teacher II ( FROM Prereq:  Satisfactory completion of MATH 111 with a grade of C or better. TO Prereq: Satisfactory completion of MATH 148 with a grade of C or better).
  1. Requisite changes for the following Biology courses:
    1. BIOLOGY142 Biology II: Animal Focus
    1. BIOLOGY 200 Writing in Biology
    2. BIOLOGY 251 Introduction to Genetics
    3. BIOLOGY 253 Introduction to Cell Biology
    4. BIOLOGY 254 Biotechnology Laboratory Methods I
(All of the above are adding the requirement of a grade of C or above to all requisite courses)
  1. Delete the following History courses:
    1. HISTRY 335 "Virtual History: Working with Computers and History"
    2. HISTRY 360 "Comparative Intellectual History: European and Asian thought"
    3. HISTRY 380 "Germany and Central Europe to 1815"
    4. HISTRY 381 "Modern Germany" 
    5. HISTRY 401 " Diplomatic History of the United States Since 1898" 
  2. Delete the following Math and Computer Science coures:
    1. COMPSCI 161 "Introduction to Computers"
    2. MATH 290 " Spatial Analysis"
    3. MATH 473 "Lightning Radiative Transfer"
    4. MATH 475 "Data Interpretation of Space Science"
    5. MATH 477 "Mathematical Scattering Theory and Applications" 
    6. MATH 483 "Mathemeatical Waves Propagation Theory and Applications"