THE
FACULTY SENATE
Senate
Document Number 7209S
Date
of Senate Approval 04/09/09
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Statement
of Faculty Senate Action:
APC Document 57: Change
credit hours for POLS 400;
Add POLS 401
Effective Date: Fall 2009
1. Delete: On page 240, the entry for POLS 400:
400 Internship (3)
A semester-long internship
program with participating organizations, firms, public agencies or community
service organizations. Background readings and field research as well as
practical experience. Prerequisite: 15 hours of Political Science. May be
repeated once for credit. Students are required to present the results of their
work in the Senior Colloquium. Fall and Spring.
Add: On page 240, in place of deleted entry:
400 Internship (2-6)
A semester-long internship with participating organizations,
firms, government agencies, and community service or non-profit organizations.
Prerequisite: 15 hours of Political Science courses or approval of instructor.
May be repeated once for a total of six hours credit. Internship credits will
not be counted for the major until POLS 401 has been completed. See department
chair.
2. Add: On
page 240, the following new course:
401 Internship Seminar (1)
Students present and discuss their background
readings and field experiences from POLS 400, and prepare the paper they will
present to the Senior Colloquium. Pre-
or corequisite: POLS 400. Fall.
Impact:
None
anticipated unless enrollment continues to grow. The individual teaching the
POLS 401 seminar and supervising the 400 classes will have the same
responsibilities. It should, however, markedly reduce the number of special
topics courses that have to be constructed to accommodate students involved in
internships that are not centered in
Rationale:
Political
Science students are increasingly taking advantage of internship opportunities
offered by a variety of programs and organizations. Because these opportunities do not fit neatly
into our old three-hour course, we have been forced to construct a range of
individual special topics classes for these students. Offering POLS 400 with variable credit will
ease the burden this has placed on the registrar.
Adding
POLS 401 as a one-hour requirement for all Political Science major allows for
the continuation of the tradition of
internship students meeting regularly to discuss their work.