THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT ASHEVILLE FACULTY SENATE Senate Document Number 1293S Date of Senate Approval 3/11/93 Signature of Senate Chair ________________________________ Date ________________ Action of Vice Chancellor: Approval _________________________________________ Date ___________________ Denied _________________________________________ Date ____________________ Reasons for denial and suggested modifications: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Statement of Faculty Senate Action: APC Document #8 "Catalog Changes in Humanities" On page 45 of the 1992-93 Catalog Delete ... Courses HUM 124, 214 and 224 should be taken sequentially... Insert ... Courses HUM 124, 214 and 224 must be taken sequentially... On page 119 of the 1992-93 Catalog make the following additions: 1. For Humanities 214 add the prerequisites of LANG 102 and HUM 124. 2. For Humanities 224 add the prerequisites of LANG 102 and HUM 124, 214. 3. For Humanities 414 add the prerequisites of LANG 102 and HUM 124, 214, and 224. Summary of Proposed Changes 1. Add Language 102 as a prerequisite to 214, 224, and 414. Language 101 is a prerequisite to 124 already. 2. Require students to take Humanities courses in order. Rationale Students are required to do increasing intensive writing as they move through the Humanities sequence. Students without Language 102 are at a disadvantage. The writing requirement is being added to encourage students to take Language 102 as early in their career as possible. Students have always been advised to take the Humanities courses in sequence. The outside consultant recommended that we formalize this advice and the Humanities faculty agreed. Requiring in the Catalog that students take the courses in sequence will encourage students to take the courses in sequence. Implementation Students now take Humanities courses out of sequence for a variety of reasons including some that are beyond the control of the students. The Humanities faculty feels that as many students as possible should continue to take the Humanities courses as they are presently offered. However, to require students to take the courses in sequence would delay graduation for an unknown number of students if we adhered strictly to the traditional scheduling of courses. Beginning Spring 1994 we plan to begin offering "trailer" sections of all the Humanities courses with the "off-semester" section being open to students by permission of the Program Director only. This arrangement has worked well in the past for Humanities 414 and should be able to meet all student needs. Net resource impact from this change should be nothing beyond some shifting of some demand for Humanities courses from one semester to the other. These changes will be reviewed in 5 years (1997-98).