Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee (ASCC)

Details

Date
2025-05-02
Time
9:00-11:00am
Location
156 University Hall
Agenda
  1. New AI Ethics and Society Certificate (Guest: Tristram McPherson)
  2. Revision to the Master of Arts and PhD in Anthropology (Guest: Mark Moritz)
  3. SB1 Update (Guest: Dean David Horn)
  4. Approval of 04-18-2025 minutes
  5. Informational item: Update to the Teaching of East Asian Languages and Literatures graduate certificate (Ila Nagar)
  6. Subcommittee Reports
  7. ASCC Chair 2025-2026 (Andrew Martin) 
Notes

Course Updates:

1.      Art Education 5677 “Contemporary Issues in International Cultural Policy” (new course)

2.      Biology 3050 “Current Events in Biology” (new course)

3.      Classics 2207 “Classical Origins of American Civics” (new course)

4.      Classics 3701 “Domestic Space and Public Life in the Roman World” (new course requesting GEN Theme Lived Environments)

5.      EDUTL 3300 “Walt Disney, the Fairy Tale Tradition, and American Childhood” (new course requesting GEN Foundation LVPA)

6.      English 3261 “Fiction, Then and Now” (new course requesting GEN Theme Traditions, Cultures, and Transformations)

7.      English 3306 “Reviewing, Editing, and Testing Technical Documents” (new course with 100%DL)

8.      Ethnic Studies 2625 “Asian American Feminisms” (new course requesting GEN Foundation Race, Ethnicity, and Gender Diversity)

9.      French 1198 “French on the Ground” (new course requesting 100% DL)

10. History 2642 “Global History 1500 to Present” (existing course with GEL Historical Study; GEL Diversity—Global Studies; and GEN Foundation Historical and Cultural Studies; request to remove GEN Foundation Historical and Cultural Studies and replace with GEN Theme Citizenship for a Diverse and Just World)

11. History 3025 “American Revolution(s)” (new course requesting GEN Theme Citizenship for a Diverse and Just World)

12. History 3560 “Citizenship and American Military History: 1607 – 1902” (existing course with GEL Historical Study & previously approved for 100% DL; requesting GEN Theme Citizenship for a Diverse and Just World)

13. History 3678 “Applied Public History: Museum Pasts, Practices, and Challenges” (new course requesting Distance Enhanced delivery)

14. Italian 3051 “Italian Romances” (existing course with GEL Literature and GEL Diversity—Global Studies; requesting to drop GEN LVPA & instead add GEN Theme: Traditions, Cultures, and Transformations)

15. Linguistics 3501 “Introduction to American Indigenous Languages” (existing course with GEL Social Science—Individual and Groups & Diversity—Global Studies; requesting Theme Lived Environments)

16. Math 5638 “Topics in Risk Modeling II” (new course)

17. Physics 1125 “Practicing Physics – Matter, Heat, and Motion” (new course requesting GEN Foundation Natural and Mathematical Sciences)

18. Sociology 3200.02 “Sociology of Immigration” (new HIP, 4-credit version of 3200.01, which has GEN Citizenship for a Diverse and Just World; requesting Global and Intercultural Learning: Abroad, Away, or Virtual High Impact Practice)

19. Ukrainian 1101 “Elementary Ukrainian I” (new course requesting GEN Foundation World Languages)

20. Ukrainian 1102 “Elementary Ukrainian II” (new course requesting GEN Foundation World Languages)

21. Ukrainian 1103 “Intermediate Ukrainian I”(new course requesting GEN Foundation World Languages)

22. Ukrainian 2104 “Intermediate Ukrainian II” (new course)

23. WGSS 2326 “Feminist Perspectives on Addiction” (existing course previously approved for 100% DL; requesting GEN Theme Health and Wellbeing)

Department Course Title Type Latest Committee Latest Status
Philosophy New Certificate Artificial Intelligence Ethics and Society Program Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee (ASCC) Approved
Anthropology Revision PhD and Master of Arts Anthropology Program Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee (ASCC) Approved