The AP&CC held ten meetings during the academic year to carry out its functions as authorized by L&S Faculty Document No. 694. The Committee met on the following dates: September 14, October 12, November 9, and December 7, 2006 and January 16, February 12, February 26, March 12, April 9, and May 7, 2007.

Procedural Matters

1. Michael Weinert was elected Co-Chair for the 2006-2007 academic year.
2. Jeffrey Oxford was elected Chair for the 2007-2008 academic year.
3. Sub-committee chairs were elected: HU - Jeffrey Oxford, NS - Kris Sureus, SS - Steven Redd.
4. The Committee authorized the Chair to act on behalf of the Committee to approve non-controversial items submitted during Summer, 2007.
5. The Committee authorized "Automatic Approval" for the following items: program changes needed to incorporate approved research requirement proposals into the catalog descriptions of majors; changes to add retro credit statements for foreign language courses; dropping the international statement and seminar statement from course descriptions.
6. A subcommittee to study whether or not students should be able to fulfill a minor for which all courses are completed in the context of a major was appointed with the following members: Connie Jo, Jonathan Kahl, Jeffrey Oxford, Kristine Surerus.
7. The international subcommittee submitted a report summarizing their actions and met with the AP&CC on 2-26-07 to discuss the report. At that meeting, the AP&CC agreed that the subcommittee should disband and international course business should go directly to the AP&CC.
8. A group comprised of the Associate Deans, Kathryn Dindia (as out-going chair), Jeffrey Oxford (as in-coming chair), and Connie Jo was formed over the summer to formulate recommendations about assessment of L&S degree requirements.

Legislative Recommendations

In addition to Course Action and Special Listing Requests, which are discussed below, a number of recommendations were forwarded to the Dean for his action or referral to the L&S Faculty:

1. The Committee recommended approval of two new minors:
   • Conservation and Environmental Science (undergraduate)
   • Chinese (undergraduate)
2. The Committee recommended approval of the following name changes:
   • The Department of Journalism and Mass Communication renamed the School of Journalism and Media Communication.
   • Master of Arts in Mass Communication renamed Master of Arts in Media Studies.
   • Comparative Study of Religion Major renamed Religious Studies Major.
   • Hebrew Studies Major renamed Jewish Studies Major.
   • Hebrew Studies Minor renamed Jewish Studies Minor.
3. The Committee recommended approval of "Honors in the Major" for the Department of Economics.
4. The Committee recommended approval of a Preliminary Entitlement to Plan a major in Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies.
5. The Committee recommended approval of changes to the following graduate programs:
   • M.A. in History/Public History Specialization
   • M.S. in Nonprofit Management and Leadership
   • M.A. in Sociology
6. The Committee recommended approval of changes to the following majors:
   • Organizational Administration (CIM)
   • Hebrew Studies Major
   • Classics
   • Art History (summer approval)
   • Jewish Studies (summer approval)
7. The Committee recommended approval of changes to the following minor:
   • Hebrew Studies Minor
8. The Committee recommended approval of changes to the following certificate program:
   • Certificate in Nonprofit Management (graduate program)
9. The Committee recommended approval of proposals to eliminate the following:
   • Microbiology option of the Biological Sciences Major
   • Biotechnology Certificate (undergraduate program)
10. The Committee recommended that the College develop an on-line system for inputting major and minor forms and that the minor form be revised.
11. The Committee accepted the report of the "subcommittee on minors" and voted to recommend to the dean that individuals be allowed to earn a minor that is completed automatically within the context of a major as long as the minor is in a different curricular area. "Curricular area" was defined as an area for which a major and/or a curricular area code exists.
12. The Committee recommended approval of changes for declaring the major in Journalism and Mass Communication.

New L&S Degree Requirements

1. The Committee approved research proposals and program changes to integrate the research requirement into their programs for the following majors:
   • Africology
   • Anthropology
   • Art History
   • Biological Science
   • Biochemistry
   • Chemistry
   • Classics (Greek, Latin, and Classical Civilization Options)
   • Communication
   • Comparative Literature
   • Comparative Study of Religion
   • Conservation and Environmental Science
   • Economics
   • English
   • Film Studies
   • French
   • Geography
   • Geosciences
   • German
   • History
   • International Studies
   • Italian
   • Jewish Studies
   • Journalism and Mass Communications
   • Linguistics
   • Mathematics
   • Microbiology
   • Organizational Administration
   • Philosophy
   • Physics
   • Political Science
   • Psychology
   • Sociology
   • Spanish
   • Russian
   • Women's Studies
2. The L&S Faculty had charged the curriculum committee to develop a strongly-supported proposal to not accept Sport and Recreation courses toward the L&S degree. However, after some discussion, the Committee agreed to go back to the Faculty with a recommendation that this issue be dropped.

Other Committee Actions

1. The following curricular areas were recommended for approval: Religious Studies, Scandinavian Studies, and Translation.
2. Committee members agreed to accept the Graduate School's "Undergraduate/Graduate Course Proposal Form" in lieu of a syllabus when the only change on a CAR form is to change a course from U to U/G.
3. Committee members agreed that assessment of the research requirement should be completed once a year by departments in conjunction with the department's report of the assessment of the major.
4. Committee members agreed that the extraordinary accommodations subcommittee needs to be reconstituted.
5. Kathryn Dindia reported to the committee that she was told by Dean Meadows that curricular matters submitted to the College should not be stopped by Associate Deans. The L&S AP&CC should be allowed to review such matters. After the Committee reviews a matter, the Dean decides whether or not to approve it.
6. The Committee's discussion about the proliferation of U/G courses yielded no action.
7. A review of fall semester independent study proposals indicated that the Committee's concern about inadequate faculty oversight of independent studies in non-departmental curricular areas was not justified.
8. Committee members agreed that the international and seminar statements should be removed from all course descriptions that have these statements.
9. The Committee clarified that automatic approval for global studies courses to meet the international requirement applied only to courses under the Global curricular area.
10. The Committee approved the syllabus model developed by Connie Jo.
11. The Committee decided that there was no compelling reason to change the policy that allows only one specialty option within a major to be printed on a student's transcript.
12. The Committee sent a memo to the campus APCC regarding the ten-year-review-related moratorium on curriculum matters.
13. The Committee approved Global Studies' Policies and Procedures.
14. The Committee recommended against approval of the Service Learning courses put forward by Cultures and Communities.

Course Review and Approval

A primary function of the Committee is to review all requests for new courses, modifications of existing courses, course deletions, and changes to GER and/or undergraduate/graduate status. Including summer activities, the following course actions were approved (includes multiple actions for some courses).

Type of Action	Number		Type of Action	Number
New courses	109		Title change	37
Deleted courses	19		Credit change	12
Drop/add grad cr	7		Description change	62
Jointly-offered status	6		Prerequisite change	834
Number change	26		GER/CD requests	29

The course action request forms submitted by departments/curricular areas were as follows:

Africology	8		Geography	35		Linguistics	11
Anthropology	20		Geosciences	9		MAFLL	6
Arabic	8		German	32		Mathematics	13
Art History	63		Global Studies	13		Mathematical Statistics	3
Astronomy	2		Greek	3		Peace Studies	1
Atmospheric Sciences	7		Hebrew Studies	17		Philosophy	37
Biological Sciences	28		History	193		Physics	7
Celtic Studies	1		Honors	5		Polish	5
Chemistry	6		International Studies	4		Political Science	80
Chinese	17		Italian	23		Portuguese	9
Classics	13		Japanese	16		Psychology	3
Communication	9		Jewish Studies	8		Russian	21
Comparative Literature	38		Journalism/Mass Com	12		Serbo-Croation	3
Conserv & Envir Science	3		Korean	10		Sociology	24
Economics	14		Latino	7		Spanish	20
English	28		LesbGay	9		Translation	9
Ethnic Studies	1		L&S Humanities	6		Urban Studies	3
Film Studies	2		L&S Natural Science	4		Women's Studies	10
FLL	2		L&S Social Science	3
French	38		Liberal Studies	1		Total # CAR forms:	983

In addition, the Committee approved the following course-related actions:

215	Special Listing Requests
306	Courses/topics added to the approved international courses list

 

Respectfully submitted,

2006-2007 Academic Policies and Curriculum Committee
College of Letters and Science

John Berges, Biological Sciences
Kathryn Dindia, Communication
Douglas Howland, History
Connie Jo, L&S Administration (ex officio)
Jay Moore, Psychology
Thomas O'Bryan, L&S Administration (ex officio)
Jeffrey Oxford, Spanish and Portuguese
Samantha Prahl, Student member
Steven Redd, Political Science
Kim Romenesko, L&S Administration (staff support)
Peter Sands, English
Kris Surerus, Chemistry
Charles Schuster, L&S Administration (ex officio)
Michael Weinert, Physics

Report prepared by Kim Romenesko