THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT ASHEVILLE
                              		FACULTY SENATE 
     
   
     Senate Document Number        1098S 
     Date of Senate Approval           1/22/98
     
  
   Statement of Faculty Senate Action:
     
     APC Document 9: Addition of Classics Minor
     
     Effective Date:     Fall, 1998
     
     ADD: on page 88 after the paragraph beginning
               "Declaration of Major..." the following
     
          Minor in Classics
     
          A student may minor in Classics with either a Greek
               or a Latin emphasis.
     
          Greek emphasis: 18 hours beyond the introductory
               level including CLAS 211, 221, and 12 hours from
               Courses in Greek or Courses in Culture.
     
          Latin emphasis: 18 hours beyond the introductory
               level including CLAS 212 and 15 hours from Courses
               in Latin or Courses in Culture.
     
     Impact Statement: It is not envisioned that this addition to
     options offered by the Classics Department will have any
     impact on any other department in the university.  The only
     impact we hope it will have on us is that enrollment in our
     upper-level courses will increase.  No new courses are
     being proposed, and those students who opt for the minor
     will take the same courses as those doing the major.  Thus
     this proposal should not affect any future staffing needs.
     
     Rationale: When the Classics department completed its
     self-study last year, one recommendation that we made for
     ourselves was that we should allow students to take a minor
     in Classics as they currently can in other subjects at UNCA. 
     The University Planning Council agreed with us, and this
     became one of its recommendations to the department that
     emerged from the exercise.  The submission is therefore in
     accord with the UPC's recommendations for us.
          Secondly, over the past three years, a number of
     students have come to us and expressed interest in taking
     Classics as a minor.  Currently, they can obviously take
     Classics courses as electives outside their majors, as some
     of them do, but naturally, most would prefer to receive
     official recognition of their efforts on their transcripts.  A
     minor in Classics goes extremely well with many of the
     majors offered at UNCA, especially Foreign Languages,
     Literature, History or Philosophy, and enables many
     interdisciplinary connections to be made between ancient
     and modern worlds.  We hope that this addition will
     encourage people to build on their experiences in Latin and
     Greek at the 100 level and take higher level courses in the
     knowledge that they can eventually acquire a minor.