Senate Doc #3289S

                                                 Approved   3/9/89



                                      APC #23

                     Catalog changes in Literature and Language





        Effective Date:  Fall, 1989



        Catalog Revisions:



           1.  Catalog p. 138



                     DELETE:  LANG 105



           2.  Catalog, p. 41



                     REPLACE section on ENGLISH LANGUAGE with:



            ENGLISH LANGUAGE (3-9 semester hours) 



            Students must fulfill the English language requirement by

            demonstrating proficiency at the level of Language 102.

            Depending on performance in the writing placement test, a

            student may begin the English Language sequence with Language

            100, 101, or 102.  



            English Language Courses  (LANG)



            100 Writing Essentials             3 semester hours

            101 Writing as Inquiry             3 semester hours

            102 Writing and Critical Thinking  3 semester hours



            Proficiency in Writing -- A grade of "C" or better in any

            freshman language course will be considered proficiency for

            that course.  Students who fail to demonstrate proficiency must

            repeat the course.  



        Rationale:  



            With the development of Honors sections of LANG 102, there is

            no longer any clear function for LANG 105.  



            This program revision will reduce the composition requirement

            for entering Freshmen with good writing skills or with

            previously earned credit (AP, CLASP, or transfer credit).  We

            have been exempting only a few outstanding students from the

            first three hours of the six-hour requirement.  Such students

            took only LANG 105.  Other students, judged above average,

            began with LANG 102 and continued with LANG 105, while average

            writers fulfilled the requirement with LANG 101-102 or 101-105. 



            Under the current proposal, the above-average group would

            exempt 101 and take only 102.  The attached diagram indicates

            possible options.  This arrangement gives us an even-handed,

            proficiency-based requirement.  


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