SPRING 1998 PRELIMINARY REPORT
REPORT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON COMMITTEE ON COURSES TO THE UNIVERSITY SENATE, MAY 13, 1998 CONTENTS Projected Dates Overview Motion Proposed Course Changes for Fall 1998 (unless requested otherwise by department and stated in report) College of Arts and Sciences: Psychology, Romance Languages Professional Schools and Colleges: School of Architecture and Allied Arts College of Education Other Curricular Matters (effective fall 1998) Undergraduate General-Education Requirements Changes in Group-Satisfying Status Changes in Multicultural Status Policies on Multilisted Courses Authorization of Graduate Degree Programs Appendix of Other Proposals Received Pending Withdrawn or Denied PROJECTED DATES May 13, 1998: University Senate considers Spring 1998 Preliminary Report (effective fall 1998 unless requested otherwise by department and stated in report) January 13, 1999: University Senate considers Fall 1998 Preliminary Report (effective fall 1998 requested otherwise by department and stated in report) January 29, 1999: Fall 1998 Final Report issued (effective fall 1998 unless requested otherwise by department and stated in report). Compiles Winter 1998, Spring 1998, and Fall 1998 Preliminary Reports&emdash;including corrections. OVERVIEW The body of this report consists of two major sections: Proposed Course Changes for Fall 1998 (unless stated otherwise) and Other Curricular Matters (effective fall 1998). An Appendix of proposals that the committee has received, but not approve, is provided as a courtesy. It is not part of the motion submitted to the University Senate. Grading, repeatability, sequence. Unless indicated otherwise, courses may be taken either pass/no pass or for letter grades. P/N only or Graded only indicates that all students must take the course as specified in the bold print. Separate grading options for majors are bracketed in this report and appear in UO class-schedule notes; they are not printed in UO bulletins. R after course credits means that the course number may be repeated for credit. "Sequence" after the description means the courses must be taken in numerical order. Changes in course descriptions, instruction type, pre- and corequisites are not necessarily included here. Group requirements, multicultural requirements, majors and minors. The University Senate voted November 12, 1997, to give responsibility for undergraduate general-education requirements, majors, and minors to the reorganized Undergraduate Council. The Committee on Courses continues to review these "Other Curricular Matters" for proposals already in the pipeline until new procedures are in place. MOTION The University of Oregon Committee on Courses moves that Proposed Course Changes for Fall 1998 (unless stated otherwise) and Other Curricular Matters be approved. If approved, they take effect fall 1998 unless stated otherwise. COMMITTEE ON COURSES Voting: Maurice Holland, chair Ex officio: Herb Chereck Kenneth George Nan Coppock-Bland John Postlethwait Toby Deemer Robert Ribe Marliss Strange Christopher Wilson Staff support: Juli Squires
PROPOSED COURSE CHANGES FOR FALL 1998 (unless requested otherwise by department and stated in report) COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES PSYCHOLOGY
NEW COURSE (Subject previously taught as PSY 410.) PSY 412/512 Applied Data Analysis (4) Intermediate-level practical data analysis and interpretation. Topics include experimental design, analysis of variance, multiple regression, exploratory data analysis. Extensive computer use. Prereq: PSY 303 or instructor's consent.
ROMANCE LANGUAGES (Romance Languages, French, Spanish)
EXISTING-COURSE CHANGES SPAN 301 Reading Spanish (Change title, grading option, description, pre- or corequisite.) SPAN 301 Cultura y lengua: identidades hispañas (4) [Graded only for majors.] Development of advanced language skills through analysis of major historical influences in the cultures of Spanish-speaking regions: Spain, Latin America, and the United States. Taught in Spanish. Pre- or coreq: SPAN 203 or 212 or equivalent. SPAN 303 Writing Spanish (Change title, grading option, description, pre- or corequisite.) SPAN 303 Cultura y lengua: expresiones artisticas (4) [Graded only for majors.] Development of advanced language skills through the study of cultural products (e.g., art, literature, film, music) in Spanish-speaking societies. Taught in Spanish. Pre- or coreq: SPAN 203 or 212 or equivalent; SPAN 301 recommended. NEW COURSES RL 315 Phonetics for Romance Languages (4)[Graded only for majors] Introduction to contrastive articulatory phonetics of Romance languages (French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish). Knowledge of two Romance languages recommended. Taught in English. Students may not receive credit for RL 315 as well as FR 315 and SPAN 315. FR 111, 112 Intensive Beginning French (6,6) Intensive study for experienced language learners; introduction to French culture. Prereq: evidence of placement or departmental approval. Sequence. Cannot be combined with FR 101, 102, 103 for more than 15 credits of first-year French. FR 211, 212 Intensive Intermediate French (5,5) Intensive intermediate-level study for proven capable language learners. Prereq: FR 103 or 112, placement or departmental approval. Sequence. Cannot be combined with FR 201, 202, 203 for more than 12 credits of second-year French. SPAN 111, 112 Intensive Beginning Spanish (6,6) Intensive study for experienced language learners; introduction to Hispanic culture. Prereq: evidence of placement or departmental approval. Sequence. Cannot be combined with SPAN 101, 102, 103 for more than 15 credits of first-year Spanish. SPAN 211, 212 Intensive Intermediate Spanish (5,5) Intensive intermediate-level study for proven capable language learners. Prereq: SPAN 103 or 112, placement or departmental approval. Sequence. Cannot be combined with SPAN 201, 202, 203 for more than 12 credits of second-year Spanish. SPAN 305 Cultura y lengua: cambios sociales&emdash;4 credits. Graded only for majors. Development of advanced language skills through the investigation of major currents of change in modern Spanish-speaking societies; gender issues, technology, revolution and counterrevolution. Taught in Spanish. Pre- or coreq: WR 122 or equivalent SPAN 203 or 212 or equivalent; SPAN 301 recommended.
PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND ALLIED ARTS ARCHITECTURE
NEW COURSES ARCH 661 Teaching Technical Subjects in Architecture (3R) P/N only. Covers techniques for effective teaching. Focuses on one or more standard building-technology courses in architecture and interior architecture. R thrice for maximum of 12 credits. ARCH 690 Teaching Technology in Architectural Design (3R) P/N only. Covers teaching techniques that integrate technical content in design project development. Applies techniques to traditional design studios or design-build apprenticeship. R thrice for maximum of 12 credits.
ART HISTORY
OLD COURSE DROPPED ARH 479/579 History of Landscape Architecture III (4)
ARTS AND ADMINISTRATION
OLD COURSES DROPPED AAD 685 Design and Computing (3) AAD 687 The Thinking Machine (3) EXISTING-COURSE CHANGE AAD 689, 3 credits (Decrease credits.) AAD 689 Design and Management of Effective Training Programs (2) NEW COURSE (Subject previously taught as AAD 410/510.) AAD 485/585 Multimedia for Arts and Administrators (3) Examines multimedia tools, platforms, and trends that influence information retrieval, display, and presentation. Uses concepts from graphic design, information processing, and project management. Prereq: AAD 483/583 or equivalent knowledge. (Subject previously taught as AAD 610.) AAD 632 Information Management (4) [Graded only for majors.] Shows how effective information management improves organizational quality. Translates current information from business and technology to the arts, nonprofit, and cultural organization management. (Subject previously taught as AAD 610.) AAD 664 Arts Program Evaluation (4) [Graded only for majors.] Provides theoretical and practical foundations needed to plan for assessment in various arts-program contexts&emdash; museums, events, staff and audience development.
FINE AND APPLIED ARTS (Visual Design)
EXISTING-COURSE CHANGE ARTV 240 Graphic Tools (Change title.) ARTV 240 Design Tools (3)
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
OLD COURSE DROPPED LA 230 Introduction to Landscape Field Studies (2)
PLANNING, PUBLIC POLICY AND MANAGEMENT
OLD COURSE DROPPED PPPM 640 Land Use Planning (4) PPPM 641 Land Use Law (4) PPPM 652 Public Land Law PPPM 658 Tourism and Recreation Resources Planning (4) PPPM 670 Ethics and Public Affairs (4) EXISTING-COURSE CHANGES PPPM 611 Introduction to Urban Planning (Change title.) PPPM 611 Introduction to Planning Practice (4) PPPM 615 Planning Theory (Change title and description.) PPPM 615 Planning Foundations I: History (4) History of the idea of community and regional planning in the United States from the 1890s through the 1960s. NEW COURSES (Replaces PPPM 640.) PPPM 440/540 Land Use Planning (4) Land use planning in urban, rural, and connecting environments. Functions, distribution, and relationships of land uses; social, economic, fiscal, and physical consequences of alternative land use development patterns. Prereq: LA 361 or PPPM 201 or ENVS 201 or PS 203 or instructor's consent. PPPM 616 Planning Foundations II: Theory and Ethics (4) Logic of the planning process; the relationship of planning to the political process and to rational decision making in governance. Prereq: PPPM 615. (Subject previously taught as PPPM 610). PPPM 618 Introduction to Public Policy and Management (4) Overview of the core concepts, theories, and practices that provide the foundation for the field of public policy and management. (Subject previously taught as PPPM 610.) PPPM 621 Plan Making: Environmental Analysis (4) Examines the technical and political factors that influence the practice of environmental planning. Includes how plans are made, implemented, and evaluated. (Subject previously taught as PPPM 610.) PPPM 623 Plan Making: Social Planning (4) Examines the technical and political factors that influence the practice of social planning. Includes how plans are made, implemented, and evaluated. (Subject previously taught as PPPM 610.) PPPM 624 Plan Making: Community and Regional Development (4) Examines the technical and political factors that influence the practice of community and regional development. Includes how plans are made, implemented, and evaluated.
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION EDUCATIONAL STUDIES
OLD COURSES DROPPED EDST 332 Supervised Field Experience (4R) P/N only EDST 432 Senior Field Experience (9) P/N only EDST 447/547 Early Childhood&endash;Elementary Teaching Strategies (2) EDST 451/551 Foundations in Early Childhood (3) EDST 452/552 Management and Professional Interaction (3) EDST 543 Content-Area Methods (6) EXISTING-COURSE CHANGES EDST 311 (Change grading option for majors.) EDST 311 Organizational Structures and Policymaking (4) [Graded only for majors.] EDST 312 (Change grading option for majors.) EDST 312 Introduction to Educational Research (4) [Graded only for majors.] EDST 313 (Change grading option for majors.) EDST 313 Evaluation for Decision-Making (4) [Graded only for majors.] EDST 443 Content-Area Methods (Change title and description.) EDST 443 Content, Reading, and Writing Methods (6) Key concepts, curriculum materials, and strategies for teaching social studies, science, and health in heterogenous classes. Integration of reading and writing strategies into content areas.
OTHER CURRICULAR MATTERS (effective fall 1998)
UNDERGRADUATE GENERAL-EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS CHANGES IN GROUP-SATISFYING STATUS
The University Assembly approved the following criteria for group-satisfying courses in June 1981:
A. All group-satisfying courses must be liberal in nature and not professionally oriented or primarily devoted to performance or skills. B. No more than three courses in a single department will be counted as satisfying group requirements. C. Excluded are courses: (1) on the 400 level; (2) of fewer than 3 credits; (3) in first-year languages; (4) satisfying the composition requirement; (5) bearing open-ended, experimental, and Search designations.
GROUP I: ARTS AND LETTERS Romance Languages: French Add courses: FR 211, 212 Intensive Intermediate French Romance Languages: Spanish Change courses: SPAN 301 Cultura y lengua: identidades hispañas (formerly Reading Spanish) SPAN 303 Cultura y lengua: expresiones artisticas (formerly Writing Spanish) Add courses: SPAN 211, 212 Intensive Intermediate Spanish
CHANGES IN MULTICULTURAL STATUS
Category A: American Cultures. The goal is to focus on race and ethnicity in the United States by considering racial and ethnic groups from historical and comparative perspectives. Five racial or ethnic groups are identified: African American, Chicano or Latino, Native American, Asian American, European American. Approved courses deal with at least two of these groups in a comparative manner. They do not necessarily deal specifically with discrimination or prejudice, although many do. Romance Languages: French Add courses: FR 211, 212 Intensive Intermediate French Romance Languages: Spanish Add courses: SPAN 211, 212 Intensive Intermediate Spanish
POLICIES ON MULTILISTED COURSES
The UO Committee on Courses proposes the following new policies to allow the same course to be offered under more than one subject code. This differs from cross-listing, which describes the cross-referencing of a course with just one subject code; cross-listing will continue unchanged.
COURSES OFFERED UNDER MORE THAN ONE SUBJECT CODE
Multilisting of the same course under more than one subject code facilitates multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary instruction. It can be approved only when the participating departments share in the development and teaching of the course. Policies
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A set of multilisted courses must have identical course numbers, titles, credits, grading options, descriptions, and pre- or corequisites. Only the subject codes differ.
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Courses that are repeatable for credit (identified in University of Oregon bulletins by an R after the credits) are ineligible for multilisting. This includes generic courses (numbered 196, 198, 199, 399, 400&endash;410, 600&endash;610, 700&endash;710).
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Student credits remain with the employing department.
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All subject codes in a multilisted set are printed in the UO Schedule of Classes whenever one course in the set is listed.
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Under the home department in the UO Undergraduate and Graduate Bulletin, a descriptive statement at the end of the course description specifies all other subject codes for the same course and indicates that it may be taken only once for credit.
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In the UO bulletin, each multilisted course in another department provides a cross-reference to the complete entry in the home department.
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AUTHORIZATION OF GRADUATE DEGREE PROGRAMS ACCOUNTING
The Oregon State Board of Higher Education has approved reinstitution of a master of science (M.S.) degree in accounting, effective fall 1998. The Department of Accounting is in the Charles H. Lundquist College of Business.
ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Authorization to award a master of arts (M.A.) or master of science (M.S.) degree in interdisciplinary studies: environmental studies has been changed from the Graduate School to the Environmental Studies Program, effective January 20, 1998. The program is in the College of Arts and Sciences.
APPENDIX OF OTHER PROPOSALS RECEIVED
The following information is not provided for approval by the University Senate. It is to inform academic and administrative departments about the status of proposals received but not approved by the UO Committee on Courses during spring term 1998. They fall into two categories: (1) Pending, (2) Withdrawn or Denied.
PENDING
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
Proposals received too late to be considered this spring. They will be reviewed fall term 1998.
CREATIVE WRITING
CRWR 650, 651, 652: Proposals not yet considered. Questions about resubmitted undergraduate major not yet answered.
FINE AND APPLIED ARTS (Visual Arts)
ARTV and ARTO courses: Department asked to consider proposing new subject code (ARTO, for Art: Photography) simultaneously with request for B.F.A. and M.F.A. degree programs in photography. Explanation needed of differences in undergraduate and graduate work loads in new 400-/500-level courses.
SCHOOL OF MUSIC (Music, Music Education, Music Performance)
MUS 355: Department asked to consider offering 4 credits&emdash;with adequate adjustments in work load&emdash;to benefit students taking it as a Group I (arts and letters) course. MUS, MUE, MUP courses: Proposals incomplete; explanation needed of difference in undergraduate and graduate work loads in new 400-/500-level courses.
ROMANCE LANGUAGES (Spanish)
SPAN 305: Request for Group I (arts and letters) status pending receipt of new syllabus.
WITHDRAWN OR DENIED EDUCATIONAL STUDIES
EDST 114: Request withdrawn to require majors to take graded only.
ROMANCE LANGUAGES
SPAN 301, 303, 305: Request for Category C (international cultures) multicultural status withdrawn.