SENATE DOCUMENT #13

                          APC Document #6


The Academic Policies Committee recommends to the Faculty Senate
the adoption of the following catalog changes for the Humanities
Program:


CATALOG REVISION:

Delete:  Statement on page 74.

ADD:  Following statement:

        
                           Humanities


Humanities Sequence.  16 semester hours.

	The Humanities Program is a four course, sixteen semester-hour
sequence required of all students for graduation.  Courses 124, 214, 
224, and 414 should be taken sequentially, ordinarily beginning in the 
Spring Semester of the freshman year.  The Humanities Program is designed
to help the student become aware of those questions of values posed by
the humanist disciplines and to show a variety of answers that have been
presented through the ages.  The Program also strives to help the student
perceive and understand that events, changes, and conditions in one area
of human activity influence and are influenced by many other areas of
human experience.  In addition, the Humanities Program endeavors to assist
the student in developing the important skills of critical analysis of
ideas and of synthesizing various types of information.  The Humanities
courses draw materials from history, literature, philosophy, and the fine
arts as well as from the natural and social sciences.

	The Humanities courses are normally presented on the semester
system.  The student is scheduled for four 50-minute classes each week
with some of these classes being small discussion sections.  The student
is expected to begin the Program in the Spring Semester of his or her
freshman year and to continue through the sophomore year.  The final
course, Humanities 414, is to be taken at some point after the accumulation
of 75 s.h. or with the permission of the Chairman of the Humanities Program.


Humanities Courses

124  The Universe and the Individual                  	4 semester hours
214  The Quest for Knowledge and the Individual		4 semester hours
224  Mass Society and the Individual			4 semester hours
414  The Future and the Individual			4 semester hours



Delete:  Humanities statement on pages 163-164.

Add:  Following statement:


                          Humanities Program

               Chairman:  Associate Professor Trullinger

124	The Universe and the Individual (4)
	This course explores the thought and values of the Classical world
	as well as the origins of the Judaic-Christian heritage of Western
	Civilization.  Emphasis is placed on the interrelationship of ideas
	and values with art, architecture, drama, literature, politics, and
	science.  (Students who have completed Humanities 121 will not
	receive graduation credit for this course.)

214	The Quest for Knowledge and the individual (4)
	This course studies the origins of European Civilization and the
	evolution of Classical thought and values and their relationship
	to the development of Christian society.  The student will explore
	the interrelationship of the intellectual, political, and religious
	events that produced the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Reformation,
	Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment.  Prerequisite:  
	Fulfillment of University English Language requirement.  (Students
	who have completed Humanities 131 will not receive graduation credit
	for this course.)

224	Mass Society and the Individual (4)
	This course will examine the influence of the political revolutions
	and the Industrial Revolution on all aspects of modern Western
	Civilization, including the arts, literature, music, science, 
	economics, politics, and society.  Also, emphasis will be placed 
	on the exchange of ideas and perspectives between East and West.
	Prerequisite:  Bibliography.  (Students who have completed Humanities
	141 will not receive graduation credit for this course.)

414  	The Future and the Individual (4)
	During this course the senior student will explore the questions of
	values and priorities that he or she will confront in the decades
	following graduation.  Also, an effort will be made to relate the
	Humanities and their special perspectives to the student's career
	goals.  Prerequisites:  Humanities 124, 214, 224, and completion of
	75 s.h. or permission of the Chairman of the Humanities Program.  
	(Students who have completed Humanities 111 will not receive 
	graduation credit for this course.)

171-3, 271-3, 371-3  Special Topics in Humanities

Transfer credit for Humanities is given usually for courses such as 
World Civilization, World Literature, Introduction to Philosophy, and
Art and Music Appreciation.  The exact determination is made by the
Registrar.


POLICY:

Policy Guidelines for the Humanities Program

	The Humanities Program will be presented on the semester basis.
Students will be normally expected to take Humanities 124 in the Spring
Semester of their freshman year, Humanities 214 and 224 in the sophomore
year, and Humanities 414 in the Fall Semester of their senior year.
	The Humanities Program will use the 1:00 pm class hour as
efficiently as possible.*  Humanities 124 and 214 will use the Humanities
Lecture Hall for core experiences on Mondays and Wednesdays at 1:00 pm.
Humanities 224 and 414 will use the Humanities Lecture Hall on Tuesdays
and Fridays for core experiences.  Humanities 124 and 214 will use
Fridays at 1:00 pm for instructors to get all their sections together.
Humanities 224 and 414 will use Mondays for instructors to get all their
sections together.  On the days when there are no core experiences and no
common meetings of instructors' sections, discussion sections will be
scheduled at 1:00 pm.  This will enable the Program to offer most discussion
sections at the 1:00 pm hour.  Discussion sections not scheduled at 1:00 pm
will be scheduled at the 2:10 and 3:20 hours, and thereby ease some of the
current scheduling problems during the morning hours.  All discussion 
sections for Humanities 124 and 214 will be scheduled on Tuesdays and
Thursdays.  All discussion sections for Humanities 224 and 414 will be
scheduled on Wednesdays and Fridays.
	A student will have four 50-minute classes of Humanities each
week of which only one will be a discussion section.  An instructor with
one section will have four 50-minute classes.  An instructor with one or 
two sections will probably have all his or her Humanities classes scheduled
at 1:00 pm.  An instructor with three sections will have at least one
section scheduled at some time other than 1:00 pm.


*The faculty should note that theoretically one half of the UNC-Asheville
student body could be enrolled in Humanities in any one semester and be
scheduled for classes at the 1:00 pm hour.
 


Model Schedule for a Student in Humanities 124 or 214:

		Mon	Tues	Wed	Thurs	Friday

8:00
9:10
10:20
11:30
1:00		Hum		Hum	*Hum	Hum
2:10


Model Schedule for an Instructor with three sections in Humanities 124 or 214:

		Mon	Tues	Wed	Thurs	Friday

8:00
9:10
10:20
11:30
1:00		Hum	*Hum	Hum	*Hum	Hum
2:10			*Hum


Model schedule for a Student in Humanities 224 or 414

		Mon	Tues	Wed	Thurs	Friday

8:00
9:10
10:20
11:30
1:00		Hum	Hum	*Hum		Hum
2:10


Model Schedule for an Instruction with three sections of Humanities 224 or 414:

		Mon	Tues	Wed	Thurs	Friday

8:00
9:10
10:20
11:30
1:00		Hum	Hum	*Hum		Hum
2:10				*Hum		*Hum


*Discussion Sections



Core Curriculum

	Core Curriculum in each term will be designed to convey a carefully
developed overview of an historical period or a specific topic.  Lecturers
will be expected to take an aggressively inter-disciplinary approach whenever
possible to use visual materials and music.  The purpose of the core lectures
will be to provide the student with useful background information and to who
the interrelation between the various aspects of human endeavor and experience.
	In each course there will also be several core texts selected by the
Humanities staff for that course.  The core reading will be selected to
enhance the objectives of each specific course.  Each instructor will be able
to choose several additional works with which to develop his or her topic.


Guidelines for the Individual Courses

	Each instructor will be able to develop an individual topic or
emphasis within the guidelines stated below for each course.  Each
instructor will be expected to follow the stated guidelines to the fullest.
The Humanities staff in each course will meet regularly prior to the 
semester in which the course is offered and during the semester in order
to share information and to coordinate activities in the course.  
Participation in these group meetings will be considered an important
part of the instructor's professional responsibilities in the Humanities
Program.
	The Chairman of the Humanities Program will be responsible for
the implementation of the Policy Guidelines and will have the right of
approval of all topics or emphasis offered in any given course.  The
Chairman will also be responsible for recruiting faculty members to teach
in the Program and will staff the Program in accordance with needs.


Humanities 124:  The Universe and the Individual
	Objectives:  1) to introduce the student to Classical thought
	and values and to make him or her aware of the origins of our
	Judaic-Christian heritage; 2) to demonstrate the interrelationship
	of ideas and values with art, architecture, literature, drama,
	politics, and science; 3) to introduce the student to the kinds
	of questions he or she will explore in the next three courses in
	the Humanities Program; 4) to make the student aware of the
	development of Eastern Civilizations at the time of Classical
	Greece and Rome.  Required work:  Several short out-of-class 
	papers; at least two essay examinations; an understanding of
	the material presented in the core curriculum.

Humanities 214:  The Quest for Knowledge and the Individual
	Objectives:  1) to introduce the student to the origins of
	European Civilization; 2) to show the evolution of Classical
	thought and values and their relationship to the development
	of Christian society; 3) to show the interrelationship of
	intellectual, political, and religious events that produced
	the Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment.
	Required work:  Several short out-of-class papers; at least
	two essay examinations; an understanding of the material presented
	in the core curriculum.

Humanities 224:  Mass Society and the Individual
	Objectives: 1) to expose the student to the influence of the
	political revolutions and the Industrial Revolution on all
	aspects of Western Civilization including politics, economics,
	society, the arts, literature, drama and science; 2) to explore
	the exchange of ideas between East and West; 3) to seek the
	modern foundations of the conditions of the contemporary
	individual through art and literature.  Required work:  Two 8
	to 10-page out-of-class papers that require some form of
	research; at least two essay examinations; and an understanding
	of the material presented in the core curriculum.

Humanities 414:  The Future and the Individual
	Objectives:  1) to introduce the student to the major questions
	of values and priorities he or she will face in the future;
	2) to show the student the value of the arts, literature, and
	philosophy in seeking answers to those questions; 3) to relate 
	the Humanities and their perspectives to the careers chosen by 
	the students in the class.  Required work:  One 15-20 page
	formal paper; an understanding of the material presented in
	the core curriculum.  Instructors in this term will be expected
	to team teach in groups of two or three.  Each group will have
	no more than one person from a specific generic discipline.

The Program Chairman will have the right to approve all topics and emphasis
in each term as well as the team configurations in Humanities 414.