THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT ASHEVILLE

FACULTY SENATE

Senate Document Number 1507S

Date of Senate Approval 01/18/07

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Statement of Faculty Senate Action:

APC Document 12: Clarification of hours required in culture and language courses in Classics

Effective date: Fall 2007

1. Delete: On pg 88, under Concentration in Greek, item I:

I. Required courses in the major—30 hours, including CLAS 211, 495; 3 hours from the

classical Culture courses; 21 additional hours…with prior approval of department chair.

Add: On pg 88, in place of deleted entry:

I. Required courses in the major—30 hours, including CLAS 211, 495; 3 hours from the

classical Culture courses; 18 hours of language courses chosen from 320, 330, 340, 360, 400, 410, 450, 460; and 3 hours chosen from additional Culture, language or special topics courses covering Greek themes. Using special topics courses to fulfill major requirements needs prior approval of the department chair.

2. Delete: On pg 88, under Concentration in Latin, item I:

I. Required courses in the major—30 hours, including CLAS 212, 495; 3 hours from the

classical Culture courses; 21 additional hours ...with prior approval of department chair.

Add: On pg 88, in place of deleted entry:

I. Required courses in the major—30 hours, including CLAS 212, 495; 3 hours from the

classical Culture courses; 18 hours of language courses chosen from 313, 332, 352, 412, 422, 432, 452, 462, 468; and 3 hours chosen from additional Culture, language or

special topics courses covering Latin themes. Using special topics courses to fulfill major requirements needs prior approval of the department chair.

3. Delete: On pg 89, under Concentration in Greek and Latin, item I:

I. Required courses in the major—36 hours, including CLAS 211, 212, 495; 3 hours from

the classical Culture courses; 24 additional hours ...with prior approval of department chair.

Add: On pg 89, in place of deleted entry:

I. Required courses in the major—36 hours, including CLAS 211, 212, 495; 3 hours from the

classical Culture courses; 21 hours of language courses (with at least 6 hours in each

language) chosen from 313, 320, 330, 332, 340, 352, 360, 400, 410, 412, 422, 432, 450,

452, 460, 462, 468; and 3 hours chosen from additional Culture, language or special

topics courses covering Greek or Latin themes. Using special topics courses to

fulfill major requirements needs prior approval of the department chair.

Impact:

No resource implications are involved. This proposal clarifies our minimum expectations for numbers of language hours that must be taken in our linguistically based concentrations and the relationship between language and culture courses. Students have sometimes assumed that they can only take 3 hours in Classical culture or, as detailed below, have filled up their major with a large number of culture courses.

Rationale:

As we have increased our offerings in culture courses and have stipulated no minimum number of courses to be taken in the original languages, we are beginning to see students graduate with fewer hours in language courses. Although they must, of course, pass the language competency examinations in order to graduate, we still feel that this is an undesirable trend. By making this change, especially if our new classical studies concentration is approved, we will make a clearer distinction between our linguistically based and culturally based concentrations.