Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee (ASCC)

Details

Date
2025-11-21
Time
9:00-11:00am
Location
156 University Hall
Agenda
  1. Approval of 10/24/2025 minutes
  2. Stackable Certificates (Guest: Maria Miriti)
  3. Revision to the Spanish Minor (Guests: E. Romero and R. Sanabria)
  4. Update: Small Majors (A. Martin)
  5. Update: Civics Requirement (A. Martin)
  6. Informational Item: ASC Honors Quality Courses (I. Nagar)
  7. Informational Item: Update to the Film Studies BA and Minor (I. Nagar)
  8. Informational Item: Update to the Computer Science Minor (I. Nagar)
  9. Informational Item: Update to the Social and Environmental Geography BA (I. Nagar)
  10. Informational Item: Update to the Animation Minor (I. Nagar)
  11. Subcommittee Updates
Notes

 

1.      AAAS 3770 “Black Lives Matter & Post-Ferguson America” – new course requesting GEN Foundations: Historical and Cultural Studies and Race, Ethnicity, and Gender Diversity

2.      AAAS 4343 “African American Religions” – new course requesting GEN Theme: Traditions, Cultures, and Transformations

3.      AAAS 4344 “Religion, Revolution, and Art in the Caribbean” – new cross-listed course requesting GEN Theme: Traditions, Cultures, and Transformations

4.      ASC 3600 “Sports Leadership”– new course

5.      Biology 3001 “Jurassic Biology: Could Life Find a Way in the 21st Century?” – new course requesting GEN Theme: Origins and Evolution

6.      Biology 3870 “Evolution of Sex” – new course requesting GEN Theme: Origins and Evolution

7.      Chinese 3797 “Beliefs and Transformations in Taiwan” – new course requesting GEN Theme: Traditions, Cultures, and Transformations with 4-CH High-Impact Practice Global and Intercultural Learning: Abroad, Away, or Virtual

8.      Civics, Law, and Leadership 2000 “Can We Rule Ourselves” – new course requesting GEN Theme Citizenship for a Diverse and Just World

9.      Civics, Law, and Leadership 2110 – existing course (formerly CIVICTL 2100.01) requesting GEN Foundation: Social and Behavioral Sciences

10. Civics, Law, and Leadership 2200 “The Pursuit of Happiness: An American Tradition” – new course requesting GEN Theme Health and Wellbeing

11. Comparative Studies 4456 “Lived Infrastructures: A Field School in Lisbon” – new course requesting GEN Theme: Lived Environments

12. Dance 7406 “Theories of the Body” - existing course requesting 100% DL

13. English 3265 “Fictions of Creation: Robots, Androids, AIs, and Clones” – new course requesting GEN Theme Citizenship for a Diverse and Just World; already approved for 100% DL

14. Ethnic Studies 3242S “Global Columbus: Service Learning and Migration” – new cross-listed courses requesting GEN Theme Migration, Mobility and Immobility with Service-Learning High-Impact Practice

15. French 2803.02 “Global May Paris” – existing course with GEL Cultures and Ideas and numbered 1803.03; request to renumber at the 2000-level, drop GEL Cultures and Ideas & add GEN Theme Lived Environments

16. Music 2250 “Music Cultures of the World” – existing course with GEN Foundation: Literary, Visual, and Performing Arts, requesting GEN Foundation: REGD

17. Music 5802 “Analysis of Popular Music”– existing course requesting a change in credit hours from 3 to 2

18. Music 6648 “Readings in Music Theory”– new course

19. Music 7731 “Practitioner-Centered Music Theory” – new course

20. Music 7733 “Analysis of Timbre”– new course

21. Music 8828 “Advanced Topics in Popular Music Analysis”– new course

22. Religious Studies 4343 “African American Religions” – new course requesting GEN Theme: Traditions, Cultures, and Transformations

23. Religious Studies 4344 “Religion, Revolution, and Art in the Caribbean” – new cross-listed course requesting GEN Theme: Traditions, Cultures, and Transformations

24. Sociology 3555 “Exploring the U.S. Legal System” – new course

25. Spanish 3242S “Global Columbus: Service Learning and Migration” – new cross-listed courses requesting GEN Theme Migration, Mobility and Immobility with Service-Learning High-Impact Practice

26. Spanish 4798.10 “The Urban Experience in the Spanish-Speaking World [in Spanish]” – new course

Department Course Title Type Latest Committee Latest Status
Spanish Revision Minor Spanish New Program Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee (ASCC) Assigned to Committee