ACADEMIC STANDARDS COMMITTEE
Request For Foundations Credit Form
(10-22-09)
Please type your answers directly on this form. All of the information
noted below must be included in the request form. Failure to show how the
request for foundations credit directly addresses each of the three ECU
Foundations Goals for the course area may result in the request being
denied. ECU Goals of the Liberal Arts Foundations Curriculum are available online at:
http://author.ecu.edu/cs-cad/fsonline/customcf/committee/as/liberalartsfoundation.htm.
A. Basics (for items 1-16,
for cross-listed courses provide two or more sets of information, as
appropriate, under each category)
1. Foundations Course
Area (Arts, Humanities, Basic Sciences, Basic Social Sciences, Health Promotion
and Physical Activity, Writing
Competence, Mathematics Competence).
Humanities
2. Unit in which the course will
be taught.
Multidisciplinary
Program in Classical Studies
3. Unit
Administrator’s title, name and email.
Director of Program in Classical Studies: John Given,
Associate Professor
of Classics, givenj@ecu.edu
4. Course
Prefix, Number and Name.
CLAS 1500, Classical Mythology
5. Number of
credit hours.
Three (3)
6. Prerequisites
(if applicable).
None.
7. Course description as
it will appear in the catalog and a detailed course syllabus with a weekly
schedule of topics to be discussed which should reflect explicit coverage of
each of the foundation goals.
See course syllabus
8. College
in which the course will be taught.
Harriot College of Arts and Sciences
9. College
dean’s name and email.
Alan White, whiteal@ecu.edu
10. Date
approved by unit’s curriculum committee and chair’s initials.
September 3, 2009.
The
multidisciplinary faculty for the Classical Studies Program, chaired by
John
Given, serves as the program’s curriculum committee.
11. Date
approved by unit’s voting faculty.
September 3, 2009.
As
CLAS courses are not housed in a specific unit, the tenure-stream
members of the multidisciplinary faculty serve as the unit’s
voting faculty.
12. Date
reviewed by the unit’s chair and chair’s initials.
September 3, 2009.
The
Director of the Program serves in lieu of a unit chair.
13. Date approved by the
college curriculum committee and chair’s initials.
14. Date
forwarded to Academic Standards.
The purpose of the information provided below is to enable Academic
Standards Committee members to determine whether or not it is reasonable to
believe that the course named above will satisfy the three or four specific
goals for all courses in its area that are stated in ECU Goals of the Liberal Arts Foundations
Curriculum are available online at:
http://author.ecu.edu/cs-cad/fsonline/customcf/committee/as/liberalartsfoundation.htm.
B. Using the Foundations
Goals listed under the course’s area:
1. Describe in enough
detail that it is clear to the members of the AS committee how the course’s
content will meet Foundations Goal One for its area. List examples of required
course textbooks or other
required materials that address the content described above.
The required textbook, Classical
Myth, is a compendium of Greek and Roman mythology. It quotes extensively from ancient literature
and has very many photographs of ancient artistic and architectural artifacts
that represent mythological stories. The
course also uses primary sources, such as Homer’s Odyssey and Greek and Roman tragedies, which are our main sources
for many mythological stories. Finally,
the course uses primary sources from ancient Near Eastern societies. In the classroom, lectures will narrate many
of the mythological stories in addition to offering critical interpretations of
the myths.
2. Describe in enough
detail that it is clear to the members of the AS committee how the course’s
content will meet Foundations Goal Two for its area. List examples of required
course textbooks or other required materials that address the content described
above.
Through readings and lectures, students will be introduced
to major interpretive trends in mythological studies during the past
century. Readings include such important
theorists as James George Frazer, Sigmund Freud and Joseph Campbell. Lectures will locate these twentieth-century
figures in the intellectual development of the century. In the final third of the semester, as the
syllabus turns wholly to primary sources concerning a single mythological tale,
lectures and class discussions will focus on the literary and culture-specific
approaches to mythological studies.
3. Describe in enough
detail that it is clear to the members of the AS committee how the course’s
content will meet Foundations Goal Three for its area. List examples of
required course textbooks or other required materials that address the content
described above.
Goal Three requires that students learn how the discipline
relates to other disciplines and to the non-academic world. The first goal is accomplished through study
of why mythological tales become the objects of study for other disciplines
such as literary studies, anthropology and psychology. The second goal is accomplished through
comparison of Greco-Roman myths with Near Eastern myths and through study of
the reception of myths in several American films.
4. If the course area is
Health Promotion and Physical Activity or Writing Competency, describe the
course’s content in enough detail that it is clear to the members of the AS
committee that the course will meet Foundations Goal Four for its area. List
examples of required course textbooks or other required materials that address
the content described above.
C. The sample course
syllabus should contain a schedule outlining what will be taught when during
the semester. Be sure that the syllabus reflects coverage of areas included in
Foundations Goals 1-3/4. Readings and assignments that meet the goals should be
included in the syllabus. If there is something not covered that provides
evidence that the course satisfies the foundations goals in its area (course
pedagogy, etc.), describe it here.
This should be clear from the syllabus.
D. If it may not be clear
to committee members how your course materials address the foundations goals
then bring samples of course materials that will be used in the course that explicitly
address all of the foundation goals for the course’s area.
E. If the course is an
upper-division course (3xxx or 4xxx), briefly explain why students should get
foundations credit for taking the course.