THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT ASHEVILLE

 

FACULTY SENATE

 

 Senate Document Number     7509S

 

 Date of Senate Approval      04/09/09

 

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Statement of Faculty Senate Action:

 

 

APC Document 60:                                           Change in Credit Hours for POLS 460

 

 

Effective Date: Fall 2009

 

 

1.  Delete:         On page 240, credit hour total for “POLS 460 Senior Colloquium.”

 

460       Senior Colloquium (1)

 

 

Add:           On page 240, in place of deleted entry:

 

460       Senior Colloquium (1-3)

 

 

Impact:

The only potential impact is a slight increase in one person’s teaching load when the number of seniors is large.

 

Rationale:

In the Senior Colloquium, a component of the department’s capstone experience, students present their research or internship analyses and then critique each other’s papers and presentations.  The number of students enrolled has a direct impact on how much work students are required to do.  When enrollment is lower because of a smaller graduating class, students have less work to do. If however, a larger number of students are graduating the amount of work and time spent in class can increase dramatically. Experience indicates the course functions most effectively with 9 to 11 students per credit hour. We need the flexibility of adjusting the hours to make the class productive and efficient and the workload for students manageable. Because our object is to bring all the seniors together, multiple sections of a one-hour course are not feasible.