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Memorandum
Date: September 20,
2007
To: Academic Policy and Advisory Committee
From:
Vice President for Academic Affairs
Re: September
25, 2007 APAC Agenda
The Academic Policy Advisory
Committee is scheduled to meet on Tuesday, September 25 at 3:00 p.m. in
the Comstock Room, CMU 101.
AGENDA
1. Approval of
the 9-11-07 APAC Minutes*
2. Minor
Changes – University Writing Committee approval or Dragon Core Committee
approval designated by (W) or (DC).
American Multicultural Studies Department*
Change
course description and reduce course credits:
AMCS
312: Origins of Multicultural America
(4 crs) to 3 credits in the Middle Cluster, DC 5: History and the Social Sciences effective Fall 2007 (course will
retain LS Div F1 status) (DC)
Change course description
and un cross-list course:
AMCS
320/ANTH 320: American Indian Belief
Systems (3 crs) to AMCS 320 in the Middle Cluster, DC 7: Human Diversity effective Fall
2007 (course will retain LS Div F1
status) (DC)
Anthropology
and Earth Science Department*
GEOS 320: Economic Geography (3 crs) in the Outer
Cluster DC 8: Global Perspective and DC
11: Information Literacy effective Fall 2007 (course will retain LS Div
C status) (W/DC)
Honors Program*
HON 200: Colloquium in the Humanities (3 crs) in
the Middle Cluster, DC 6: The
Humanities, and DC 11: Information
Literacy effective Fall 2007 (DC)
Sociology
and Criminal Justice Department*
Course number and course description change:
SOC/PSY
230: Social Psychology (3 crs) to SOC/PSY
120 effective Fall 2007
Change course credits:
CJ
400: Seminar in Criminal Justice (2
crs) to 2-4 credits effective Spring 2008
3. New Course
Proposals
American Multicultural Studies Department*
New course proposals:
AMCS
207: Ojibwe
Language I (3 crs) effective Fall 2007
AMCS
208: Ojibwe
Language II (3 crs) in the Middle Cluster, DC 7: Human Diversity and LS Div F1 effective Fall 2007 (DC)
AMCS
307: Ojibwe
Language III (3 crs) in the Middle Cluster, DC 7: Human Diversity and LS Div F1 effective Fall 2007 (DC)
AMCS
308: Ojibwe
Language IV (3 crs) in the Middle Cluster, DC 7: Human Diversity and LS Div F1 effective Fall 2007 (DC)
History Department*
New course proposal:
HIST
373: Monsoon Asia: People and the Environment (3 crs) in the
Outer Cluster DC 10: People and the
Environment (DC)
Honors Program*
New course proposals:
HON 302: Tellings and Retellings
(3 crs) in the Middle Cluster, DC 6: The
Humanities and LS Div D effective Fall 2007 (DC)
HON 320: History of Science (3 crs) in the Middle
Cluster, DC 4: Natural Sciences and LS
Div B1 effective Fall 2007 (DC)
Philosophy Department*
New course proposal:
PHIL
100: Critical and Multicultural Thinking
in Moral Issues (3 crs) in the Inner Cluster, DC 2: Critical Thinking effective Spring 2008 (DC)
4. Program
Change Proposals
Music
Department*
Eliminate
the foreign language requirement (4 crs) from the B.S. in Music Education
(Vocal) effective Spring 2008
5. Additional
Minor Changes – University Writing Committee approval or Dragon Core Committee
approval designated by (W) or (DC).
Change course number:
CCGE
176: Voyage of the Hero (3 crs) to
CCGE 276 in the Middle Cluster, DC 6:
The Humanities effective Fall 2007 (course will retain LS Div D status) (W/DC)
Change course number:
CCGE
178: World Cultures through Literature
(3 crs) to CCGE 278 in the Middle Cluster, DC 7: Human Diversity effective Fall
2007 (course will retain LS Div F status)
(W/DC)
*indicates item can be viewed electronically
at:
http://www.mnstate.edu/acadaff/APAC/2006-2007APAC/APACAgendasMinutes.htm
cc: Continews, Department
Chairpersons, MSUMFA Phillips, Registrar Washburn, Associate Dean Walseth, Director Mahlum,
Assistant VP Sando