THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT ASHEVILLE

                         FACULTY SENATE 


                                                                  
                        Senate Document Number    1497S 

                        Date of Senate Approval  1/23/97


Statement of Faculty Senate Action:

APC Document 12:  Deletion of Minor in Education without  
                  Licensure

EFFECTIVE DATE:  Fall, 1997

DELETE: 

Page 113 - All of section entitled Minor in Education without
Licensure

          A minor in Education without licensure requires 23
          total hours distributed as follows:  EDUC 310, 332; 9
          additional hours in Education; PSYC 101 and 317.

RATIONALE:  
     Currently, the reasoning behind this minor is unknown. 
Whatever the original basis, circumstances now dictate that it
should not exist, and therefore, should not be listed as a
catalogue entry; to wit: 
1.   EDUC 332, one of the indicated required courses, has not
     only EDUC 310 but EDUC 317/318 as well as PSYC 101/317 as
     prerequisites.  In consequence, the "9 additional hours in
     Education" is reduced to five.

2.   With respect to the five additional hours in Education,
     there is the departmental question as to what they should
     encompass, especially given Items 3, 4.

3.   Students may take no more than 50% of the required
     professional courses before formal admission to the UNCA
     Teacher Licensure Program. [NC Dept of Public Instruction
     (DPI) regulation.]  In this case, that equates to a maximum
     of 11.5 semester hours.

4.   Formal admission to the Program mandates (a)  successful
     completion of EDUC 310, (b) a passing score on the PRAXIS I
     qualifying examination**, and (c)  signing of a contract
     accompanied by submission of a "licensure commitment" form
     which is filed with the Office of the Registrar.  ***DPI
     regulation.
     
5.   Most courses in the Department carry three-four hours of
     credit.  Thus, it could be assumed that a student could take
     a three-hour plus a two-hour or a four-hour  plus a one-hour
     combination.  But, the only one-semester-hour departmental
     course is EDUC 396:  Research Methods in Education, the
     corequisite for which is "final methods courses in area of
     licensure-seeking."  The only two-semester-hour course is
     EDUC 496:  Directed Research in Education, which has EDUC
     396 as a prerequisite.

6.   Would the five hours be in courses designed for elementary,
     middle school or high school concentratees?  

7.   In light of the forestated, student benefit is non-existent.

IMPACT:

1.   With reference to other institutional departments:  None.

2.   With reference to students:  None.
     For the more than thirteen years during which this has been
     a catalogue entry, there have been but three inquiries and
     only one "taker"; and there is great doubt as to how the
     latter will be able to use her more than 26 accumulated
     hours.