UNIVERSITY CURRICULUM COMMITTEE

The committee met Thursday, 26 Sept 2002 in Brewster B-104.

Members present: Smith, Batie, Hudson, Bassman

Also present: Sharon Bland

Members excused: Gares, Michaelson, Knickerbocker, Skalko, Kean

1. Hudson called the meeting to order at 2:03.
2. The minutes of the 12 Sept 2002 meeting were approved.
3. Honors Program Director Michael Bassman and Associate Director Cathy Hall presented new honors seminar courses HNRS 3011 (humanities), 3012 (fine arts), 3013 (social sciences), 3014 (science), and 3015 (science laboratory). Some discussion ensued regarding how instructors and topics are selected. In particular, Bassman pointed out how the university is moving towards establishing an honors college, thus creating the need for upper-level honors seminar courses. Batie moved to approve the new course proposals from the Honors Program as a package, and Smith seconded. The motion passed without dissent.
4. No one from Theatre & Dance attended the meeting, so consideration of their items was postponed.
5. The meeting adjourned at 2:19.

Minutes submitted by Timothy D. Hudson, vice chair

CATALOG COPY

FOR MINUTES OF 9/26/2002 UCC MEETING

THE HONORS PROGRAM

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Insert the following new HNRS courses in numerical order:

HNRS 3011. Honors Seminar in the Humanities (3) (WI) (GE:HU) May be repeated for maximum of 6 s.h. with change of topic. Topic varies by semester. Examples include “The Literature of Fyodor Dostoevsky,” “Literature and Medicine,” “A Bi-Gender Reading of Jewish-American Literature,” and “The World as seen by Nobel Prize Winners in Literature.”

HNRS 3012. Honors Seminar in the Fine Arts (3) (WI) (GE:FA) May be repeated for maximum of 6 s.h. with change of topic. Topic varies by semester. Examples include “African-American Women Artists,” “The Great Museums of Europe and their Treasures,” “The Ethnic Music of Eastern Europe,” and “The Theatre of the Absurd.”

HNRS 3013. Honors Seminar in the Social Sciences (3) (WI) (GE:SO) May be repeated for maximum of 6 s.h. with change of topic. Topic varies by semester. Examples include “Intimate Violence: Out of the Shadows,” “The Islamic World,” “South Africa: Transition from Apartheid to Democracy,” and “Terrorism and September 11.”

HNRS 3014. Honors Seminar in the Science (3) (WI) (GE:SC) May be repeated for maximum of 6 s.h. with change of topic. Topic varies by semester. Examples include “Integrating Science and the Arts,” “Science and Religion,” “Disease and Animal Populations,” and “How Things Work-Physics and Chemistry in Our Daily Lives.”

HNRS 3015. Honors Science Laboratory (1) (GE:SC) Accompanies HNRS 3014 when considered appropriate by science department offering the seminar.

Writing intensive credit for these courses is pending approval of Writing Across the Curriculum.