UWM College of Letters and Science

University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
College of Letters and Science

1998-99
Course and Curriculum Committee
Minutes #3
Thursday, October 29, 1998


Present: Osei-Mensah Aborampah, James Coggins, Michael Day, Connie Horstman, Bill Kean, Robert Moore, Rachel Skalitzky, Cam Tatham, Roy Swanson
Excused: Jack Johnson (ex officio), Magda Kandil

  1. Call to Order
    The chair, Bill Kean, called the meeting to order at 2:09 p.m. in HLT 241.

  2. Automatic Consent
    1. Minutes #2, October 8, 1998, were amended (Section V.H.) to clarify the prerequisite for W-I courses. For courses to be designated as W-I, they must carry the following prerequisite: "satisfaction of the GER composition requirement." The intention of this requirement was to establish the current GER composition requirement as the prerequisite. We will continue for some time to have many students on campus who have satisfied an older GER composition requirement. Rather than carrying the prerequisite as indicated above, W-I courses will have the requirement spelled out in the prerequisite as follows: "a grade of C or better in English 102 or score of 637 or higher on EPT."

    2. Automatic Approvals – None

    3. Special Listing Request Forms Received – There were no objections to any special listings.

  3. Procedural Matters - None

  4. Old Business - Discussion of the Concentrated Study in Two Departments or Curricular Areas was deferred until the next meeting to allow sufficient time to compile enrollment statistics.
  5. New Business
    1. The following program change was recommended to the dean for approval:
      · proposal for revision of the Communication major

    2. The following CAR forms were recommended to the dean for approval:

      DEPT CRSE # TITLE CRS ACTION
      Comm 245-510 Organizational Communication Analysis 3 cr desc, prer
      Econ 296-301 Intermediate Price Theory 3 cr prer
      Econ 296-465 International Finance 3 cr # (576)
      History 448-354 France from Napoleon to World War I, 1804-1914 3 cr grad cr
      History 448-355 France from World War I to European Integration, 1914 to the Present 3 cr grad cr
      History 448-420 The History of the American Presidency: A Biographical Approach 3 cr new
      MassCom 584-361 Media Ethics
      (approved with the recommendation that the department include in the course a definition of ethics and differentiation of ethics from morality)      		 3 cr delete
      Portug 782-110 Accelerated Portuguese I 3 cr new
      Portug 782-111 Accelerated Portuguese II 3 cr new
      Spanish 912-204 Fourth-Semester Spanish 3 cr desc
      Womens 958-380 Honors Seminar: (Subtitle)
      (approved with the recommendation that a number of corrections be made in the syllabus; these will be communicated directly to the Coordinator)      		 3H cr new

    3. The following GER forms were recommended for approval:

      DEPT CRSE # TITLE CRS ACTION
      MassCom 584-361 Media Ethics 3 cr GER-HU
      Wmns 958-380 Honors Seminar: (Subtitle) 3H cr GER-SS

    4. The following course request was tabled until the next meeting; the instructor will be invited to the meeting to discuss the course.

      DEPT CRSE # TITLE CRS ACTION
      Portug 782-360 Brazilian Culture: (Subtitle) 3 cr new/GER-HU

    5. Other New Business – The chair reported that he had received a proposal from Norm Lasca to amend the English Composition Requirement of the L&S degree by removing the 3-credit parameter for courses to qualify as W-I. The Committee members agreed to forward the proposal to the W-I subcommittee for its input.

  6. Adjournment--The meeting was adjourned at 3:15 p.m.


Respectfully submitted,


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


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