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.