THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT ASHEVILLE

 

                                                                   FACULTY SENATE

 

Senate Document Number     1007F

 

Date of Senate Approval      11/29/07

 

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Statement of Faculty Senate Action:

 

 

APC Document  7:                                Adding New Literature and Language Courses:

                                                            LIT/LANG 368 and LANG 466

 

Effective Date: Fall 2008

 

 

1.  Add:    On pg 172, new course LANG 368, Poetics of Identity and Perception

                                   

                368         Poetics of Identity and Perception (LIT 368) (3)

 

A poetry workshop focused on representation of self and identity.  A wide variety of poems exploring these themes will be studied.  Students will write original poems as well as craft and thematic analyses of exemplary texts.

 

 

Add:     On pg. 174, new course LIT 368, Poetics of Identify and Perception

 

368       Poetics of Identity and Perception (LANG 368) (3)

 

A poetry workshop focused on representation of self and identity.  A wide variety of poems exploring these themes will be studied.  Students will write original poems as well as craft and thematic analyses of exemplary texts.

 

 

Impact: Adding this course will have no resource implications for the department.

 

Rationale: This class has been taught three times already.  It is an ILSA course and is part of ILS Cluster 4: Perception: Senses, Self, and Society. It is an approved Diversity Intensive and Writing Intensive course. There has been consistently high demand for the course, resulting in its being overenrolled every semester it’s taught.  The department plans to continue offering the course to serve the ILS program as well as students in the literature and language department.  Because they are currently being taught as special topics courses, the courses are already incorporated into faculty teaching loads.

 

 

2.  Add:     On pg 172, new course, LANG 466, Advanced Creative Non-Fiction

 

                 466         Advanced Creative Non-Fiction  (3)

Intensive writing experience for students with an advanced or professional interest in the writing of creative non-fiction, including the memoir. May include study of contemporary essays, memoir, and literary journalism. May be repeated once for credit. Prerequisite: admission to concentration in creative writing and LANG 363 or LANG 366; or permission of the instructor. See department chair.

                

Impact: Adding this course will have no resource implications. It increases the offerings in the Language Curriculum and further diversifies our curriculum.

 

Rationale: This course has been taught five times as a special topics and helps meet a demand from both majors and the general student population for such a course.