PRELIMINARY SPRING 2007 CURRICULUM REPORT
PLEASE BRING THIS REPORT OF THE UO
COMMITTEE ON COURSES TO THE UNIVERSITY SENATE MEETING ON MAY 9, 2007.
OVERVIEW
The body of this report consists of two major sections: Course
Proposals reviewed
spring 2007 and Other Curricular Matters. Policies and definitions governing group and
multicultural general-education requirements are under Other Curricular
Matters.
Course
proposals approved by both the University of Oregon Committee on Courses (UOCC)
and the University Senate are effective fall term 2007, unless a specific term
is requested by an academic department and stated otherwise in this report.
The UOCC will consider new proposals during fall term and
will submit a fall quarterly report to the University Senate in November 2007.
Routing
of Minor Changes:
The UOCC has confirmed that the following minor course changes may be made
without review by the full committee: minor edits of course description, pre-
or corequisites, grading option, and conditions of repeatability. Changes may
be submitted in writing directly to the Office of the Registrar and Creative
Publishing, in care of Mike Jefferis (jefferis@uoregon.edu)
and Scott Skelton (sskelton@uoregon.edu).
The memorandum should indicate the effective term for the change(s). Note:
extensive changes may be referred to the UOCC for review.
Courses
Not Taught Report:
The UOCC has changed the policy of dropping courses not taught within the past
three years from the fall curriculum report to the spring curriculum report.
This allows the correct listing of courses in the catalog for the following
curricular year. The intention for this change is to allow departments a chance
to reply earlier and provide a more thoughtful response while still involved in
curricular planning and staffing for the next academic year and can best
determine which courses they are able to offer.
Multicultural
Courses Policy:
As part of general-education, offerings of multicultural courses at the 100,
200, and 300 levels need to be available to a wide spectrum of students from
all across the University. Departments wishing to offer courses to satisfy the
multicultural requirement should make such these courses available at the more
general 100, 200, or 300 levels whenever possible, rather than at the more
specialized 400 level.
Extended Course
Descriptions for Group Satisfying Courses: All proposals for courses that
would satisfy a group requirement for general-education must include a suitable
extended course description, for use with the course, as specified in senate
legislation:
“For
all group-satisfying courses to be offered during a particular term, faculty or
departments are asked to post electronically, in the Schedule of Classes,
course descriptions that are substantially expanded over those provided in the
catalog. The posted course information should be understandable to someone
unfamiliar with the field and should emphasize the questions or issues that
reveal, by their breadth and significance, why the course has earned Group
status.”
(US03/04-8, May 12, 2004)
LOOKING AHEAD
July 2007: Publication of 2007–8 University
of Oregon Catalog.
The changes in the fall report will first appear in this catalog.
September
12, 2007: Curricular
proposals for consideration in the fall round must be submitted to the
provost’s office.
November
28, 2007: University Senate considers fall
2007 preliminary report of the University of Oregon Committee on Courses.
December
19, 2007: Curricular
proposals for consideration in the winter round must be submitted to the
provost’s office.
March
12, 2008: University Senate considers winter
2007 preliminary report of the University of Oregon Committee on Courses.
March
19, 2008: Curricular
proposals for consideration in the spring round must be submitted to the
provost’s office.
May
14, 2008: University Senate considers spring
2007 preliminary report of the University of Oregon Committee on Courses.
Members, University
of Oregon Committee on Courses
Voting: Paul Engelking, Chair Ex
officio: Jack
Bennett
Jack
Boss Herb
Chereck
Emma
Martin John
Crosiar
Paul
Peppis Marian
Friestad
Arkady
Vaintrob Scott
Skelton
Frances
White
Student: None Staff: Linda Adkins
Miriam
Bolton
Mike
Jefferis
Motion
The University
of Oregon Committee on Courses moves that the following course proposals and
Other Curricular Matters be approved.
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 the UO Catalog. 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.
College of Arts and Sciences
Computer and Information
Science
NEW
COURSES
(Course
previously taught as 399)
CIS
330 C/C++ and Unix (4) Practical software design and programming activities in a C/C++ and
Unix environment, with emphasis on the details of C/C++ and good programming
style and practices. Prereq: CIS 313, 323.
(Course
previously taught as 410/510)
CIS
453/553 Data Mining (4) Databases, machine learning, artificial intelligence, statistics, and
data visualization. Examines data warehouses, data preprocessing, association
and classification rule mining, and cluster analysis. Prereq: CIS 451/551.
(Course
previously taught as 610)
CIS
640 Writing in Computer Research (2) Students learn to provide and accept constructive criticism
of writing samples in a workshop format.
Dean’s Office
NEW
COURSES
ARB
201 Second-Year Arabic (5) Development of Arabic speaking, reading, writing, and comprehension;
study of short literary and cultural materials. Sequence with ARB 202, 203.
Prereq: ARB 103 or equivalent. Approved to satisfy Group I: Arts and Letters
general-education group requirement.
ARB
202 Second-Year Arabic (5) Development of Arabic speaking, reading, writing, and comprehension;
study of short literary and cultural materials. Sequence with ARB 201, 203.
Prereq: ARB 201 or equivalent. Approved to satisfy Group I: Arts and Letters
general-education group requirement.
ARB
203 Second-Year Arabic (5) Development of Arabic speaking, reading, writing, and comprehension;
study of short literary and cultural materials. Sequence with ARB 201, 202.
Prereq: ARB 202 or equivalent. Approved to satisfy Group I: Arts and Letters
general-education group requirement.
East Asian Languages and
Literatures
NEW
COURSES
CHN
381 City in Chinese Literature and Film (4) [Graded only for majors] Examines urbanization and
urban culture in Chinese literature and film. Instruction in Chinese. Sequence
with CHN 380. Prereq: fluency in spoken and written Chinese. Offered alternate
years. Approved to satisfy Group I: Arts and Letters general-education group
requirement and Category C: International Cultures
multicultural requirement.
(Course
previously taught as EALL 399)
KRN
301 Third-Year Korean (5) Develops advanced language skills in Korean with focus on literary and
cultural texts, writing, and oral skills. Sequence with KRN 302, 303. Prereq:
KRN 203. Approved to satisfy Group I: Arts and Letters general-education
group requirement.
(Course
previously taught as EALL 399)
KRN
302 Third-Year Korean (5) Develops advanced language skills in Korean with focus on literary and
cultural texts, writing, and oral skills. Sequence with KRN 301, 303. Prereq:
KRN 301. Approved to satisfy Group I: Arts and Letters general-education
group requirement.
(Course
previously taught as EALL 399)
KRN
303 Third-Year Korean (5) Develops advanced language skills in Korean with focus on literary and
cultural texts, writing, and oral skills. Sequence with KRN 301, 302. Prereq:
KRN 302. Approved to satisfy Group I: Arts and Letters general-education
group requirement.
English
NEW
COURSES
(Course
previously taught as ENG 199)
ENG
110 Introduction to Film and Media (4) [Graded only for majors] Basic critical approaches to film
and media studies. Analysis and interpretation of film and media. Approved
to satisfy Group I: Arts and Letters general-education group requirement.
ENG
380 Film, Media, and History (4) [Graded only for majors] Study of the history of
institutions and industries that shape production and reception of film and
media. Approved to satisfy Group I: Arts and Letters general-education group
requirement.
ENG
381 Film, Media, and Culture (4) [Graded only for majors] Study of film and media as
aesthetic objects that engage with communities identified by class, gender,
race, ethnicity, and sexuality. Approved to satisfy Group I: Arts and
Letters general-education group requirement. Approved
to satisfy Category B: Identity, Pluralism and Tolerance multicultural
requirement.
(Course
previously taught as ENG 410/510)
ENG
412/512 Literary Editing (4) [Graded only for majors] Study of principles and practices
of editing contemporary literature. Includes observation of editorial
activities at Northwest Review.
(Course
previously taught as ENG 399)
ENG
485/585 Television Studies (4) [Graded only for majors] Study of television’s
institutional contents and representational practices, including such
television genres as serials, news, and reality TV. Offered alternate years.
(Course
previously taught as ENG 481/581)
ENG
486/586 New Media and Digital Culture (4) [Graded only for majors] Study of media emerging
from computer-based and digital techniques, including digital cinema, cyborgs,
interactive games, multiplayer online simulations, and viral videos. Offered
alternate years.
Geological Sciences
(Correction
from winter term 2007)
(Course
number change)
GEOL
474/574 General and Environmental Geochemistry (4) [Graded only for majors] Lecture-
and project-based introduction to geochemical classification of elements,
element cycling, trace element geochemistry, geochemistry of surface
environments, basics of radiogenic, and stable isotope geochemistry. Prereq:
CHEM 221, 222, 223; GEOL 311 or 332.
(UOCC
Administrative Action)
(Changed
Course Description)
GEOL
619 Electron Beam Analysis (4) Electron probe microanalysis and scanning electron
microscopy for analyzing minerals and advances materials. Instrumental
functions and beam-specimen interaction. Correction procedures for quantitative
x-ray analysis. X-ray and back-scattered image analysis.
History
NEW
COURSES
(Course
previously taught as 399)
HIST
393 Samurai in Film (4) Examination of the image of Japan’s warrior class, the most
prominent social group in Japan for over seven centuries. Combines films,
readings, and lectures. Approved to satisfy Group II: Social Science
general-education group requirement. Approved to satisfy Category
C: International Cultures multicultural requirement.
(Course previously taught as 410)
HIST 437/537 Medieval Spain (4) [Graded only for
majors] A study of two related aspects of medieval Iberian history: Spain as a
frontier society and Spain as a multicultural, multireligious society.
(Course
previously taught as 410/510)
HIST
493/593 Japanese History through Film: [Topic] (4R) Examination of issues of personal
identity and choice in selected periods of Japanese history, with emphasis on
individual and group responses to transition and social change. R when topic changes. Offered
alternate years. DENIED the request for this
course satisfy Category B: Identity, Pluralism and Tolerance multicultural
requirement.
Philosophy
NEW
COURSES
PHIL
430 Chinese Philosophy: [Topic] (4R) Survey of significant traditions, thinkers, or topics in
Chinese philosophy. Prereq: PHIL 213 or REL 302. R when topic changes. Offered
alternate years.
PHIL
630 Chinese Philosophy: [Topic] (4R) Pursues advanced questions in Chinese philosophy by
concentrating on a particular tradition, thinker, or topic. R when topic changes Offered
alternate years.
Romance Languages
NEW
COURSES
PORT
201 Second-Year Portuguese (5) Development of Brazilian Portuguese speaking, reading,
writing, and comprehension; study of short literary and cultural materials.
Sequence with PORT 202, 203. Prereq: PORT 103 or equivalent. Approved to
satisfy Group I: Arts and Letters general-education group requirement.
PORT
202 Second-Year Portuguese (5) Development of Brazilian Portuguese speaking, reading,
writing, and comprehension; study of short literary and cultural materials.
Sequence with PORT 201, 203. Prereq: PORT 201 or equivalent. Approved to
satisfy Group I: Arts and Letters general-education group requirement.
PORT
203 Second-Year Portuguese (5) Development of Brazilian Portuguese speaking, reading,
writing, and comprehension; study of short literary and cultural materials.
Sequence with PORT 201, 202. Prereq: PORT 202 or equivalent. Approved to
satisfy Group I: Arts and Letters general-education group requirement.
PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES
School of Architecture and Allied Arts
Art
OLD
COURSES DROPPED
ART
380 Calligraphy (4)
ART
414/514 Art and Creativity (3)
ARTC
459/559 Advanced Studio Forum (4)
ARTD
477/577 Multimedia Design I (5)
ARTO
694 Graduate Studies in Photography (3)
ARTS
287 Sculpture I: Metal Fabrication (3)
EXISTING
COURSE CHANGES
ARTD 250
Digital Arts I (4)
(Changed
Course Description, Course Title)
ARTD
250 Print Media Digital Arts
Examines
application of print media in contemporary visual culture; explores its use in
a fine art context. Introduces digital drawing, digital photo editing, and
typographic layout to visually communicate expressive concepts. Laboratories,
lectures.