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Proposal sent back by CCI Interdisciplinary 11/03/09; J. Mercerhill e-mailed feedback to Abril Trigo 11/05/09:
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Can you provide a brief explanation of how you envision enforcing the pre-requisites for the minor? As you are aware, students do not generally declare a minor coursework.
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History 368.02 can’t be a required course and a core course.
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Geography 693 (Independent Studies) is in electives list. This course can only be used if an adviser for the minor signs off on it since the content may have nothing to do with the minor. Possibly consider taking out of list of electives and only allow it when student petition for use. If you’d like, we can add it to the section regarding special topics courses and also include group studies courses as petitionable.
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Since study abroad is not required on the minor, the committee recommends replacing the current text with a much shorter statement about encouraging students to participate in one of the many study abroad options. Students can then petition to have courses from the program count on the minor as appropriate.
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The committee is concerned about the hidden prerequisites for the minor. For example, Spanish 450 is a prerequisite for many of the courses listed on the minor, which means that students have an additional course to take before they can take any of those. They would like to see 2 potential minor plans – one for a Spanish or Portuguese major, and one for a student from an unrelated major – and the prerequisites to take those paths through the minor.
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November 05, 2009 |