UMM

Curriculum Committee

Form A

 

Rev: 04/2005
 

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University of Minnesota, Morris

 

Curriculum Committee

Form A: Discipline Summary

 

 


Date: 18 Sept. 06

Discipline/Division: English/ Humanities

Catalog Years (e.g., 2007-2009): 2007-2009

 

Statistical Summary of Proposed Changes:

 

 

(a)

(b)

(b) – (a)

 

Present

(from current  catalog)

Proposed

(for new catalog)

Net Change*

The Major

 

 

 

   Total courses required for a major*:

10

10

0

   Total credits required for a major*:

40

40

0

The Minor

 

 

 

   Total courses required for a minor*:

6

5

-1

   Total credits required for a minor*:

24

20

-4

Entire Discipline

 

 

 

   Total 1xxx and 2xxx courses listed in the catalog**:

16

15

-1

   Total 1xxx and 2xxx courses taught last year**:

15

 

 

   Total 3xxx and 4xxx courses listed in the catalog**:

49

37

-12

   Total 3xxx and 4xxx courses taught last year**:

18

 

 

   Number of courses with no General Education designator**:

0

0

0

 

*Includes required courses from other disciplines.   

**Does not include Directed Studies or Senior Honors Projects. Courses with multiple sections count only once.

 

 

Please summarize the intent of the proposed changes. 

We have tried better to limit the courses listed to the ones we are most likely to teach in the next two years, and we have removed courses that reflect the special topics of faculty no longer teaching at UMM or that have been replaced by other or new courses. We have left a few extra to accommodate as easily as possible the new hires we hope to make in the next two years. The change in total 3000-4000 courses also reflects courses approved since the last catalogue, including two repeatedly offered May Session classes and three courses devised by new faculty. The minor is now more in line with other minors on campus, and more accessible to students in Elementary Education especially.

 

What are the financial or staffing implications of this proposal for the Discipline?

None beyond requiring currently vacant positions to be filled.

 

 

What are the financial or staffing implications of this proposal for other Disciplines?

None beyond requiring currently vacant positions to be filled.