Senate Document Number  1699S

Date of Senate Approval   1/28/99

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Statement of Faculty Senate Action:

Effective Date: Fall 1999

Delete: on, p. 137: the course description for HUM 214

Replace: with the following

A study of European culture from the fall of Rome to the seventeenth century. Attention is paid to parallel developments in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

Rationale: The director requested that the HUM 214 course coordinator consult with the HUM 214 faculty and come up with an expanded course description, since the current one is noticeably shorter than the other three. (Students have asked me if it's "a shorter course.")

"Middle Ages" and "Reformation" are European designations; thus the switch to "European culture" would be wrongly pointed to as a move toward "greater Eurocentrism." "[S]elected world cultures" is altered in the new description to reflect the specific non-European cultures now dealt with in the course-an expansion, not a shrinkage, of this aspect of the course.