1. Call to Order
   The chair, Bill Kean, called the meeting to order at 8:40 a.m. in Lapharn 380.

2. Automatic Consent
   1. Minutes #11, May 8, 1998, were approved as submitted.
   2. The Report of Summer Actions was amended to include the following courses; the amended report was approved.

      FLL/Hebr St 440-255	The Politics of American Jewish Identity	3 cr	new/GER-HU
      FICL/CompLit 260-460	Film-Fiction Interaction 1	3 cr	desc, prer
      FICL/CompLit 260-461	Film-Fiction Interaction II	3 cr	prer
      FICL/CompLit 260-464	Seminar in Comparative Literary Criticism	3 cr	title
      FICL/CompLit 260-501	Seminar in Literary Research in the Humanities	3 cr	title
      FICL/CompLit 260-504	Seminar in the Novel: (Subtitle)	3 cr	title, desc, prer
      FICL/CompLit 260-505	Seminar in Forms of Narrative Fiction from 1945 to the Present	3 cr	title, desc
      FICL/CompLit 260-506	Seminar in the Shorter Forms of Fiction	3 cr	title
      FICLCompLit 260-533	Seminar in Trends in Modern Literature: (Subt.)	3 cr	title, desc, prer
      FICL/French 400-210	French Immersion: Intermediate	1-2 cr	new
      FICL/French 400-323	Approaches to Theatre and Cinema	3 cr	delete
      FICL/French 400-351	Cinema of the French-Speaking World: (Subtitle)	3 cr	new/GER-HU
      FICL/French 400-410	French Immersion: Advanced	1-2 cr	new
      FICL/French 400-526	Seminar in Advanced Translation	3 cr	title
      L&S HU 530-290	Creativity, Performance, and the Fine Arts	1-3 cr	new
      Poli Sci 778-185	Great Decisions Lecture Series in International Relations	1 cr	new

   3. Automatic Approvals - None
      
   4. Special Listing Request Forms Received - None
      
   5. The 1997-98 C&CC Annual Report was approved with the following additions:

      Legislative Recommendations
      Approve revisions in the descriptions of the French and Italian majors.
      Approve revision of the requirements to declare the Psychology major.
      Approve changes in the Physics major.
      Delete the 518 LLL curricular area code.
      Approve the 393 FLL curricular area code.
      Approve the proposal for internship courses in all L&S departments and curricular areas.
      Approve the proposal to substitute a gateway course in the Asian Studies Certificate Program (action later withdrawn).
      Support the development of an US BA with a committee interdisciplinary major in Organizational Administration, provided funds were not diverted to it from other programs.
      Support allowing U/G courses to carry distribution credits.
      Recommend the campus response to the General Education Transfer Working Group Report.
      Approve amending the math science major to add a computational sciences option.
      Approve the 261 Computational Sciences curricular area code.
      Approve the change in name of the 520 curricular area code from FOLALIT to MAFLL.
      Approve a definition of upper-division, advanced level courses.

      New L&S Degree Requirements Implementation Policies
      

      6. Recommendation that no specific guidelines for capstone courses were needed to allow departments maximum flexibility in designing ways to meet this requirement.
      7. Approved a change in the definition of W-I courses.\

   Procedural Policies

   1. Agreed to meet on alternating days for the Spring Semester to accommodate individual scheduling conflicts.

      Added the notation "chair" after Madeleine Velguth's name.

3. Procedural Matters
   1. Rachel Skalitzky was elected co-chair unanimously.
   2. Sub-committee chairs were elected: Roy Swanson for HU; Magda Kandil (or Osei-Mensah Oborampah if Kandil cannot serve) for SS; Bob Moore for NS.
   3. Committee members agreed to meet approximately every third week on Thursdays at 2:00 p.m. Horstman was asked to schedule the meetings to avoid conflicting with meetings of the Faculty Senate.

4. Old Business
   
   1. Bill Kean reported on his meeting with the Dean and representatives of the GPC and the AP concerning the Dean's request for faculty advice on the PAR response to the Vice Chancellor. The Dean recommended that two representatives of each committee be appointed to draft a response that then would be reviewed by all three committees. He suggested that the response focus on what we are doing that is positive rather than what was wrong with PAR Bob Moore distributed a paper he had prepared on problems he saw with the PAR, and he indicated that the Senate's intention to repeat the PAR every few years required that the PAR process be evaluated. The members of the Committee agreed to attach Moore's report to its response to the Dean. Bob Moore and Rachel Skalitzky agreed to serve as the C&CC representatives to the US committee charged with recommending the L&S response.

5. New Business
   
   1. The following program changes were recommended for approval:
      • advanced natural sciences status for Geog 416-306
      • proposal for revision of the geography minor
      • proposal for revision of the French major
      • proposal for approval of a new minor in Business Spanish
      • proposal for revision of the Spanish major
   2. The following CAR forms were recommended for approval:
      

      DEPT/CRSE#	TITLE	CRS	ACTION
      Commun 245-500	Communication and Community Services	3 cr	new
      FICLJCompLit 260-350	Topics in Comparative Literature: (Subtitle)	3 cr	new
      FICL/CompLit 260-360	Seminar in Literature and Cultural Experiences: Subtitle	3 cr	new

      The English Department wished to go on record stating that it is aware of possible areas of over lap with Comp Lit, that it sees no particular reason to object to the above courses now, and that the departments will exchange information about areas of overlap.

      History 448-468	The American Feminist Movement	3 cr	title, desc
      Masscom 584-250	Principles of Telecommunications	3 cr	delete
      MassCom 584-675	Electronic Media Policy	3 cr	delete
      Masscom 584-676	Cable Communication Systems	3 cr	delete

   3. The following GER forms were recommended for approval:
      

      DEPT/CRSE#	TITLE	CRS	ACTION
      Commun 245-661	Current Topics in Communication: (subtitle "Rhetoric of Sojourner Truth" only)	3 cr	HU/CD
      History 448-274	Ancient Egyptian Civilization	3 cr	HU

   4. The assessment of the New US Degree Requirements by the year 2001 was discussed. Committee members agreed that assessment should begin with reports from the existing subcommittees. Where there is not a subcommittee for a particular new requirement, departments will be asked to respond to their experiences with that requirement.

6. Adjournment-The meeting was adjourned at 10:35 a.m.

Respectfully submitted,


Connie J. Horstman
Special Assistant to the Dean and
Distinguished Advisor
Secretary to the L&S Faculty