THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT ASHEVILLE

                                       FACULTY SENATE 


                                  Senate Document Number    1793S 

                                 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: 










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Statement of Faculty Senate Action:

                      APC Document #14 "Catalog Changes in Philosophy"


Effective Date: Fall 1993

Delete:       p. 154  Course Description of Phil 250, Ancient Philosophy

Add:          p. 154 New Course Descrition:

An historical survey of philosophies, from ancient Pre-Socratics through the
medieval Scholastics, with special emphasis on Plato, Aristotle and St.
Augustine.

Impact Statement:  No impact on resources or requirements

Rationale:0 The department has consolidated its history of philosophy into two
courses.   To do this, the material presented in the first course is extended
to include consideration of some philosophical concerns in the Middle Ages.

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Effective Date:  Spring 1994

Delete:       p. 155:  Philosophy 306, Ethics for the Professions 
                                    (and entire course description)

              p. 136:  Mass Comm.  Major Requirements,
                     II.  Required courses outside the major: Phil 306.

Add:   p. 155:  Philosophy 301, Media Ethics

A study of ethical decision-making for Mass Communication, emphasizing the
development of skills in applying ethical theory and principles to contemporary
problems in the media.  Prequisites: junior standing in any major.

Impact Statement: This course calls for no shift in resources.  It simply meets
more precisely the Mass Communication Department's requirement that its
students take a semester of ethics.

Rationale: The new course represents primarily a shift of emphasis from a broad
look at ethical problems across the spectrum of many professions to a more
focused view and deeper study of ethical problems in the Media.  Historically
more than ninety percent of the enrollees in the previous course were Mass
Communication students meeting the major requirement.  Yet the amount of time
given to ethical issues in the Media was relatively limited.

Effective Date:  Fall 1993

Delete:      

1.     p. 154:  Phil. 102 in major requirement description and also 102 and its
description in list of courses.

2.     p. 155:  Phil 252, Title, and its course   description.

3.     p. 154:  Title of 101 as "Deductive Logic."

4.     p. 154:  252 from list of required courses in paragraph 3.

5.     p. 154:  Paragraph 3:  "four additional courses at 300 level."




Add:          1.     p. 154:        251 in list of required courses in
paragraph 3.

2.     p. 154:        303, 304, and 307 in list of required courses in
paragraph 3.

3.     p. 154:        Paragraph 3:  two additional courses at the 300 level or
above.

4.     p. 155:        251 Modern Philosophy (3) Introduction to the major
movements of Western philosophy since the Renaissance:  British empiricism,
continental rationalism, German Idealism, logical positivism, linguistic
analysis, and phenomenology.

5.     p. 154:        Title of 101 as "Introduction to Logic."


Impact Statement:    These changes call for no shift in resources or staffing.


Rationale:    These changes are an attempt to streamline our offerings in
response to Dr. Wilson's request and to create a more coherent and uniform
program for majors.