Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee (ASCC)

Details

Date
2024-09-27
Time
9:00-11:00am
Location
156 University Hall
Agenda
  1. Discussion on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) software in grading (Guests: Ted Clark, Jim Fowler, Andrew Heckler)
  2. Introduction of new ODE Staff members Bob Mick, Kayla Hennis (Guest: E. Marsch)
  3. Discussion of software approval process (Guest: E. Marsch, K. Hennis)
  4. Revision to the Screenwriting Minor (Guest: E.J. Westlake)
  5. New Certificate: Civil Discourse for Citizenship (Guests: P. Turner and K. Joyce)
  6. Approval of 08-30-2024 Minutes
  7. Annual Report (I. Nagar, R. Steele)
  8. First-Year Seminar Report (T. Bitters)
  9. Informational Item: Portuguese Minor 
  10. Informational Item: Communication Minor
  11. Update: Recommended Diversity Statement (R. Steele)
  12. Subcommittee Updates
Notes

Course Updates:

• AAAS 2295 “Resisting Slavery in the Americas” (new course requesting GEN Foundation: Race, Ethnicity and Gender Diversity) https://ascnet.osu.edu/request/6029  
• Anthropology 2210 “Race, Ethnicity, Gender Diversity and Human Biology” (existing course with GEN Foundation: Race, Ethnicity and Gender Diversity requesting 100% DL) https://ascnet.osu.edu/request/6061 
• Anthropology 3310 (new course requesting GEN Theme: Traditions, Cultures, and Transformations) https://ascnet.osu.edu/request/6047 
• Anthropology 3360 “Anthropology of Human-Animal Shared Environments” https://ascnet.osu.edu/request/5890 
• Arabic 5405 “ALI Advanced Arabic for the Professions” (new course) https://ascnet.osu.edu/request/6042 
• ASL 4452 “Navigating Academia” (new course requesting 100% DL) https://ascnet.osu.edu/request/6031 
• Astronomy 2020 “The Night Sky” (new course requesting GEN Theme: Lived Environments) https://ascnet.osu.edu/request/5940 
• Classics 2206 “Politics and Political Thought in the Ancient World” (existing course with GEN Theme: Citizenship for a Diverse and Just World requesting 100% DL) https://ascnet.osu.edu/request/6057 
• Classics 3224 “Citizens and Subjects of Rome: Empire, Slavery, and Law” (new course requesting GEN Theme: Citizenship for a Diverse and Just World) https://ascnet.osu.edu/request/5823 
• Communication 2985 “Media and Well-Being” (new course requesting 100% DL and GEN Theme: Health and Wellbeing) https://ascnet.osu.edu/request/6022 
• English 3260 “Poetry and Transformation” (new course requesting GEN Theme: Traditions, Cultures, and Transformations) https://ascnet.osu.edu/request/5999 
• English 3262 “Adaptation and Literature” (new course requesting GEN Theme: Traditions, Cultures, and Transformations) https://ascnet.osu.edu/request/6000 
• English 3395 “Literature and Leadership” (existing course with GEN Theme: Citizenship for a Diverse and Just World requesting 100% DL) https://ascnet.osu.edu/request/6056 
• Ethnic Studies 3408 “Disaster, Displacement and Recovery in 21st Century Latinx Graphic Narratives” (new cross-listed course requesting GEN Theme: Migration, Mobility, and Immobility) https://ascnet.osu.edu/request/5937 
• Ethnic Studies 3572 “Central American Migrants in the United States” (new course requesting GEN Theme: Migration, Mobility, and Immobility) https://ascnet.osu.edu/request/5936 
• French 3802 “Quebec” (new course requesting 100% DL and GEN Theme: Traditions, Cultures, and Transformations) https://ascnet.osu.edu/request/6030 
• French 3803 “Cultures of Resistance” (new course requesting GEN Theme: Citizenship for a Diverse and Just World) https://ascnet.osu.edu/request/6038 
• Geography 3703 “Living with Artificial Intelligence” (new course requesting GEN Theme: Lived Environments) https://ascnet.osu.edu/request/6020 
• German 3354.01 “From Viking Saga to Climate Fiction: Sustainability in German and Scandinavian Literatures and Cultures” (existing cross-listed course with GEN Theme: Sustainability requesting 100% DL) https://ascnet.osu.edu/request/6072 
• German 3354.02 “From Viking Saga to Climate fiction: Nature in Nordic and Germanic Literatures” (new High-Impact Practice: Research and Creative Inquiry, 4-credit version of 3354.01 with GEN Theme: Sustainability and requesting 100% DL) https://ascnet.osu.edu/request/6066 
• German 3434 “Bad Science – Toxic Intersections Between Cultural Politics & Intellectual History in German Tradition” (new course requesting GEN Theme: Traditions, Cultures, and Transformations) https://ascnet.osu.edu/request/6058 
• History 3224 “Citizens and Subjects of Rome: Empire, Slavery, and Law” (new course requesting GEN Theme: Citizenship for a Diverse and Just World) https://ascnet.osu.edu/request/5830 
• History 3500 “U.S. Diplomacy from Independence to 1920” (existing course with GEL Historical Study requesting GEN Theme: Migration, Mobility, and Immobility) https://ascnet.osu.edu/request/6054 
• History 3700 “American Environmental History” (existing course with GEL Historical Study requesting GEN Theme: Sustainability) https://ascnet.osu.edu/request/6015 
• History 7902 “Critical Archive Theories and Methods” (existing course requesting change of title, course description, and credit hours) https://ascnet.osu.edu/request/6053 
• History of Art 2007 “From Buddha to Bollywood: Art and Architecture of Southern Asia” (new course requesting GEN Foundation: Literary, Visual, and Performing Arts) https://ascnet.osu.edu/request/5839 
• History of Art 3060 “Introduction to Campus Art Collections” (new course) https://ascnet.osu.edu/request/6052 
• History of Art 3408 “Disaster, Displacement and Recovery in 21st Century Latinx Graphic Narratives” (new cross-listed course requesting GEN Theme: Migration, Mobility, and Immobility) https://ascnet.osu.edu/request/6034 
• History of Art 3610 “History of Photography” (new course) https://ascnet.osu.edu/request/6035 
• History of Art 4240 “Arts of the Blank Atlantic” (new course requesting GEN Theme: Migration, Mobility, and Immobility) https://ascnet.osu.edu/request/5953 
• International Studies 2800 “Peace Studies in a Diverse World” (existing course with GEL Social Science – Organizations and Polities, GEL Diversity – Global Studies, and GEN Foundation: Social and Behavioral Sciences; previously approved for 100% DL; request to remove all three existing GEL/GEN categories and replace with GEN Theme: Citizenship for a Diverse and Just World) https://ascnet.osu.edu/request/6013 
• Music 2200.13 “Applied Music (Secondary) – Organ” (new course) https://ascnet.osu.edu/request/6041 
• Music 8920 “Esoteric Musical Modernism” (new course) https://ascnet.osu.edu/request/6039 
• NELC 3168 “The History of God” (new cross-listed course requesting GEN Theme: Traditions, Cultures, and Transformations) https://ascnet.osu.edu/request/6043
• Political Science 4139 “Gun Politics” (existing course requesting GEN Theme: Traditions, Cultures, and Transformations) https://ascnet.osu.edu/request/5693 
• Political Science 4139E “Gun Politics” (existing course requesting GEN Theme: Traditions, Cultures, and Transformations) https://ascnet.osu.edu/request/5694 
• Psychology 7865 “Principles of Clinical Neuropsychology” (new course) https://ascnet.osu.edu/request/6062 
• Religious Studies 3168 “The History of God” (new cross-listed course requesting GEN Theme: Traditions, Cultures, and Transformations) https://ascnet.osu.edu/request/6044 
• Religious Studies 3777 “Religion, Health, and Healing” (new course requesting GEN Theme: Health and Wellbeing) https://ascnet.osu.edu/request/6037 
• Religious Studies 3888 “Death, Dying, and the Afterlife” (new course requesting GEN Theme: Traditions, Cultures, and Transformations) https://ascnet.osu.edu/request/6036 
• SASIA 3635 “Desi Diaspora: South Asians in the United States” (new course requesting GEN Theme: Citizenship for a Diverse and Just World) https://ascnet.osu.edu/request/5676 
• SASIA 5241 “Interdisciplinary Approaches to South Asian Studies” (existing course requesting GEN Theme: Traditions, Cultures, and Transformations) https://ascnet.osu.edu/request/5649 
• Scandinavian 3354.01 “From Viking Saga to Climate Fiction: Sustainability in German and Scandinavian Literatures and Cultures” (existing cross-listed course with GEN Theme: Sustainability requesting 100% DL) https://ascnet.osu.edu/request/6072 
• Scandinavian 3354.02 “From Viking Saga to Climate fiction: Nature in Nordic and Germanic Literatures” (new High-Impact Practice: Research and Creative Inquiry, 4-credit version of 3354.01 with GEN Theme: Sustainability and requesting 100% DL) https://ascnet.osu.edu/request/6065 
• Slavic 4595 “The Politics of Difference in Southeast Europe” https://ascnet.osu.edu/request/5772 
• Speech and Hearing Science 6566 “Instrumental Voice and Swallowing” (new course) https://ascnet.osu.edu/request/6048 
• Theatre 3712 “American Justice on Stage: Self-images from 1830-Present” (new course requesting GEN Theme: Citizenship for a Diverse and Just World) https://ascnet.osu.edu/request/6059 
• WGSS 4403 “Gender, Race, & Leadership” (existing course requesting GEN Theme: Citizenship for a Diverse and Just World) https://ascnet.osu.edu/request/5980 
• WGSS 4574 “Senior Capstone in Feminist Research” (new course) https://ascnet.osu.edu/request/6060 

Department Course Title Type Latest Committee Latest Status
Arts and Sciences Civil Discourse for Citizenship Certificate Program Request Completed
Theatre, Film, and Media Arts Revision Minor Screenwriting Program Request Completed