THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT ASHEVILLE FACULTY SENATE Senate Document Number 1995S Date of Senate Approval 3/9/95 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Statement of Faculty Senate Action: APC Document #20: Course Changes in Political Science Effective Date: Fall, 1995 a) Delete: Title and course descriptions of the following... POLS 332 Legal Research POLS 380 Politics of National Defense POLS 384 International Law POLS 420 Topics in Contemporary American Democracy b) Add: 344 Black Political Thought (3) A comparative examination of ideas that have shaped the political institutions and processes affecting African- Americans and Africans since 1619. Topics include racism, separatism, assimilation, accommodation, pluralism, nationalism, womanism, pan-Africanism, and Afrocentrism. c) Delete: the title and course description for POLS 350 d) Add: 350 The Political Economy of the United States Analyzes the relationship between economic and political variables. Focuses on how the dynamics of American politics influence the production and distribution of economic goods and how economic goals shape and alter political behavior. e) Change: POLS 252 to 352 (same title and description) f) Change: Replace, on p. 114 (Environmental Studies), under the program labeled "Track in Natural Resource Management", the last line which reads "POLS 252" with "POLS 352". Impact Statement None as changes merely reflect changed interests of faculty. Rationale The course deletions and changes are housecleaning. The deleted courses are no longer taught and the added course reflects the emerging interest of one faculty member who experimented with the course as a special topics class. The change of POLS 252 to 352 more accurately reflects the course's difficulty. The change in POLS 350 is necessary to bring the catalog in line with the material actually covered. The change in Environmental Studies catalog copy is editorial.