THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT ASHEVILLE

                          FACULTY SENATE 


                                  Senate Document Number    0795F 

                                  Date of Senate Approval  12/7/95


Statement of Faculty Senate Action:

    APC DOCUMENT 5:  Catalog Changes in Literature and Language


EFFECTIVE DATE:  August, 1996


ADD:      p. 147, after the description of Lang 497 Senior Paper in
          Creative Writing (3), add the following parenthetical
          notation:

          (An IP grade may be awarded at the discretion
          of the instructor.)

          
IMPACT STATEMENT:  None


RATIONALE:  The creative writing process does not necessarily fit
neatly into a 15 week semester.  Students working on a collection
of short stories or poems, a novel, or a full length play, are
sometimes unable to complete their projects in the time allotted. 
Novel manuscripts, for example, often run to 400 typed pages.  And
although a collection of twenty or thirty poems may require only
twenty or thirty corresponding pages, the detailed revision of a
single poem, word by word, line by line, may take weeks to
accomplish.  Sometimes the work can be completed only by setting a
poem aside for long periods of time and gestation, then returning
to it with fresh perspective.  In the past, to accommodate this
unpredictable and often lengthy process, we've found it necessary
to create fake illnesses in order to request "incompletes."   An
"In Progress" grade would allow us to provide an honest grade to
those students who are sincerely working hard, but who have not yet
completed the necessary work in a single semester.