THE
FACULTY
SENATE
Senate Document Number 5108S
Date of Senate Approval 04/10/08
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Statement
of Faculty Senate Action:
APC Document
42: Changing
Selected POLS courses from 3 to 4-credit hours
Effective Date: Fall 2008
1. Delete: The course
titles and credit hours for the following POLS courses:
321 The American Presidency (3)
323 American Electoral Behavior (3)
325 Urban Politics (3)
326 The
Legislative Process (3)
344 Black
Political Thought (3)
346 American Political Thought (3)
347 Contemporary Political Ideologies
(3)
348 Women and Politics (3)
353 Politics of Social Welfare (3)
354 Environmental Politics (3)
358 State and Local Government (3)
363 Political Economy of Development
(3)
365 European
Politics (3)
368 Latin
American Politics (3)
383 International
Political Economy (3)
387 International Organizations (3)
Add: In place of deleted
entries:
321 The
American Presidency (4)
323 American Electoral Behavior (4)
325 Urban Politics (4)
326 The Legislative Process (4)
344 Black Political Thought (4)
346 American Political Thought (4)
347 Contemporary Political Ideologies
(4)
348 Women and Politics (4)
353 Politics of Social Welfare (4)
354 Environmental Politics (4)
358 State and Local Government (4)
363 Political Economy of Development
(4)
365 European Politics (4)
368 Latin American Politics (4)
383 International Political Economy (4)
387 International Organizations (4)
Impact:
A four-year schedule plan
for department faculty reveals that every three-hundred level course can be
offered at least once every two years, multiple sections of the two-hundred
level classes can be offered every semester, and the required four-hundred
level classes can be offered once a year.
Rationale:
The Department has been
experimenting with four-hour classes for three years. Some of the individuals participating in
these experiments have completed merging material and decided the pedagogical
advantages of four-hour courses outweigh the scheduling difficulties. Four-credit courses allow us, for example, to
participate more fully in the ILS intensives because expanding to four-hours allows
us to incorporate direct instruction in the intensive focus without sacrificing
substantive course content.
The recent practice of
allowing the department two classrooms for our instruction purposes helps
alleviate scheduling problems.