THE
FACULTY
SENATE
Senate
Document Number 1407S
Date
of Senate Approval 01/18/07
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Statement
of Faculty Senate Action:
APC Document 11: Add PORT prefix
for Portuguese courses
Add new
courses, PORT 110, 120 and 300
Effective Date: Fall 2007
1. Add:
On
pg 57, between Political Science and Psychology:
Portuguese PORT
2. Add: On pg 220, after the entry
for POLS 179-479:
Portuguese (port)
The following courses in Portuguese are taught by the
Department of Foreign Languages.
110, 120 Elementary
Portuguese I, II (3, 3)
Introduction to the study of Portuguese language and
Portuguese-language cultures through classroom instruction. For beginners and
those referred by placement test or departmental evaluation. PORT 110: Fall.
PORT 120: Spring.
300 Intensive
Portuguese for Speakers of Other Romance Languages (3)
Intensive study of Portuguese language and
Portuguese-language cultures through classroom instruction. Comparative instruction in the basics of
Portuguese for those who have studied one year or more of another Romance
language and those referred by departmental evaluation. May not be used to satisfy the foreign
language requirement. See department chair.
3. Add: On page 46, under Foreign
Language Courses, after ITAL 110, 120
PORT
110, 120 Elementary Portuguese I, II 6 semester hours
Impact:
The principal impact on the resources and staffing of
the Department of Foreign Languages will involve assignment of instructional
labor. PORT 110 (IST 173) is being
taught on an experimental basis Fall 2006, and PORT 120 (IST 173) will be
taught in Spring 2007. Appropriate classroom instructional materials have been
secured for all three courses. Ramsey
Library has purchased video materials to support instruction and has agreed to
purchase ancillary materials as requested and justified. As regards instructional labor, the
Department is able to carry out its full program with this addition.
Rationale:
The addition of PORT 110 and 120 increases the
University’s language-learning options by including the world’s seventh
most-spoken language. The courses also
add instruction in the Portuguese-language cultural area, with one part of
which (the Brazilian state of Paraná) the