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 New Request Completed
Theatre, Film, and Media Arts Revision Minor Screenwriting Program Request Completed