The UAF Faculty Senate passed the following at its Meeting #40 on
March 22, 1993:
MOTION PASSED (w/1 nay, 1 abstention)
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The UAF Faculty Senate moves to approve the deletion of program
request: Korean.
Signed: Timothy Tilsworth, President, UAF Faculty Senate
Date: 3/30/93
Approved: J. Wadlow, Chancellor Date: 4/2/93
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The UAF Faculty Senate passed the following at its Meeting #40 on
March 22, 1993:
MOTION PASSED
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The UAF Faculty Senate moves to accept the Curricular Affairs
Committee recommendations concerning the deletion of the
Humanities program.
Signed: Timothy Tilsworth, President, UAF Faculty Senate
Date: 3/30/93
Approved: J. Wadlow, Chancellor Date: 4/12/93
*With modification in April 13, 1993 memo.
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MEMORANDUM
TO: Tim Tilsworth, President
UAF Faculty Senate
FROM: Joan K. Wadlow, Chancellor
University of Alaska Fairbanks
DATE: April 13, 1993
RE: MOTION CONCERNING HUMANITIES
I am approving with modification the attached Senate motion
concerning the deletion of the Humanities program.
I approve Recommendation #1, and agree with the Senate that the
Humanities major should be deleted.
However, I do not approve Recommendation #2. I maintain that the
Humanities minor should also be deleted. The intent to delete the
Humanities program was announced on May 4, 1992, and was a
consequence of UAF's program review process that was conducted
according to guidelines approved by the Faculty Senate.
Subsequently, additional reviews within the College of Liberal Arts
and faculty groups occurred. During this second set of reviews,
several different recommendations were made. Their various
recommendations are in the record. My proposal to the Board of
Regents to eliminate both the major and the minor, endorses the
recommendation of the CLA Curriculum Council.
JKW/lks
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CURRICULAR AFFAIRS COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS ON THE
HUMANITIES PROGRAM DELETION:
1. CONCERNING DELETION OF THE HUMANITIES MAJOR-
RECOMMENDATION:
The Humanities major should be deleted.
RATIONALE:
The Humanities major has drawn little interest from students.
Its elimination would result in a slight savings in resources.
2. CONCERNING DELETION OF THE HUMANITIES MINOR-
RECOMMENDATION:
The Humanities minor should not be deleted at this time. It is
suggested that the Department of Philosophy and Humanities, in
cooperation with other departments offering humanities courses,
revise the minor program in order to accomplish the following
objectives:
a. Make the minor more attractive to students as evidenced by
increased declarations;
b. Allow use of humanities courses from other disciplines (e.g.,
Art, Literature, Music, Theater, etc.) which will, in turn, allow a
reduction in the number of Humanities courses offered each
semester.
c. Humanities courses which appreciably overlap with courses
from other disciplines such as Humanities 220 should be deleted.
RATIONALE:
Although the Humanities minor has evidenced little student
demand in the past, it is thought that restructure of the program
could result in a viable minor while still providing a savings in
resources.
3. CONCERNING RETENTION OF CERTAIN HUMANITIES COURSES-
RECOMMENDATION:
Humanities courses with strong demand as evidenced by
consistent "making" of enrollment minimums and/or use as
requirements for other programs should be retained. In particular,
Humanities 201 and 202 should be retained.
RATIONALE:
Some of the Humanities courses (such as Humanities 202) are
used in other programs and some have strong enrollments from
students wishing to fulfill humanities requirements. Humanities
201 has now been modified to fulfill the Aesthetics Appreciation
area of the core curriculum and has been approved by the Core
Review Committee.
4. CONCERNING SHARED CONTROL FOR HUMANITIES 201 AND 202-
The recommendation of the CLA Curriculum Council concerning
shared control of Humanities 201 and 202 is seen by the Curricular
Affairs Committee as representing unwarranted intrusion into the
academic affairs of a department and as setting undesirable
precedent. This provision is NOT recommended. It should be noted
that as part of the Aesthetics Appreciation area of the core
curriculum, any changes in Humanities 201 do come under the
approval authority of the Core Review Committee as is the case with
any core course.
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The UAF Faculty Senate passed the following at its Meeting #40 on
March 22, 1993:
MOTION PASSED (w/ 1 abstention)
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The UAF Faculty Senate moves to deny the request for deletion of the
German Program.
The UAF Faculty Senate recommends that the new Dean, in
conjunction with the CLA Curriculum Council, review the German
courses to find ways to strengthen the program. The review process
should be completed by October 15, 1993.
The UAF Faculty Senate furthermore encourages external support for
the program to further enhance German at UAF.
Signed: Timothy Tilsworth, President, UAF Faculty Senate
Date: 3/30/93
Approved: J. Wadlow, Chancellor Date: 9/1/93
*See also Sept. 1, 1993 memo to Pres. Spell.
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The UAF Faculty Senate passed the following at its Meeting #40 on
March 22, 1993:
RESOLUTION PASSED
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WHEREAS, Chancellor Wadlow has requested suggestions for the
improvement of graduate education at UAF, and based on a survey
identifying problems in graduate education, and on input from
academic departments, a number of concerns have been raised about
faculty member's workload and role in graduate education; these can
be divided into three areas:
1. The consideration of a faculty member's participation
in graduate education in the evaluation and promotion
of faculty members.
2. Faculty annual workload in relation to participation
in graduate student advisement and on graduate
committees.
3. Faculty annual workload in relation to the assignment
of graduate classes versus undergraduate classes.
The Graduate Council feels that departments and colleges must
address these concerns in some manner. At present a few
departments have adopted policy concerning graduate education;
however, many have no stated policy. The Graduate Council offers
these guidelines to departments to be modified as deemed necessary.
BE IT RESOLVED THAT, In response to these areas of concern, the UAF
Faculty Senate moves to establish the following guidelines:
1. Each peer review unit should specify the role of faculty
members in graduate education in their criteria for
promotion and tenure.
2. Any faculty member who is teaching a graduate course
of three or more credits should not be expected to teach
more than one other course during that semester. It is
assumed that the faculty member will also have other
assignments in research and service.
3. Faculty annual workload assignments should take into
account the faculty member's participation on graduate
student committees with the following formula:
Preliminary Advanced to Candidacy
Chair Member Chair Member
Ph.D. or
Masters w/thesis .75 cr. .3 cr. 1.0 cr. .5 cr.
Masters
non-thesis .2 cr. .1 cr. .3 cr. .2 cr.
Signed: Timothy Tilsworth, President, UAF Faculty Senate
Date: 3/30/93
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The UAF Faculty Senate passed the following at its Meeting #40 on
March 22, 1993:
MOTION PASSED (w/3 abstentions)
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The UAF Faculty Senate moves to amend the Baccalaureate Core
Curriculum guideline for World Literatures: Art and Culture under
the "Perspectives on the Human Condition" as follows:
CURRENT GUIDELINES:
WORLD LITERATURES: ART AND CULTURE
1. Objectives:
a. Introducing students to the careful reading of literary
texts;
b. Developing an appreciation of the artistic elements in
literature;
c. Understanding the range of cultural differences and
universals through exposure to a variety of approaches
to myth, poetry, story telling, and drama.
2. Options: This course is a broad-based literature course
covering a wide range of texts and representing different
cultures and periods from the perspective of literature as art.
Outline of course content:
a. Introduction to the role of literature in the
humanities and in critical thinking; overview of
literature in the world, cross-cultural perspectives.
b. Ancient Sources (including some attention to myth,
song, and religious texts).
c. Poetry (including some non-Western and American
minority works).
d. Story (including oral as well as written examples,
and including non-Western and American minority works,
and at least one novel).
e. Drama (including at least one play by Shakespeare).
Four examples of possible courses which would fulfill
this outline, by using thematic approaches across diverse
cultures, time periods and literary genres, are:
1) Lysistrata (Aristophanes), Othello (Shakespeare),
Phaedre (Racine), Madame Bovary (Flaubert), Les
Contes d'Amadou Koumba (compiled by Bistro Diop,
Senegalese oral narratives)
2) Orestei (Aeschylus), Merchant of Venice
(Shakespeare), The Miser (Moliere), selected short
stories of Maupaussant, Mandabi (Sembene
Ousmane).
3) The Iliad or Odyssey (Homer), King Lear
(Shakespeare), Song of Roland (anon.), Don Quixote
(Cervantes), The Human Condition (Malraux).
4) Ancient Buddhist texts (Kazuaki's Moon in a
Dewdrop); Zen poetry from China, Japan and the
U.S.; the kaikuesque novel Kusamakura by Natsume
Soseki; Christian parables and Buddhist moral
tales; and the film Ran compared with King Lear.
AMENDED GUIDELINES:
WORLD LITERATURES: ART AND CULTURE
1. Objectives:
a. To introduce students to the diversity of oral and
written literature from around the world;
b. To develop historical and cultural awareness, aesthetic
appreciation, and analytical thinking, via close study of
literature;
c. To encourage global awareness by comparing literatures
from different cultures, continents, and eras;
d. To introduce a variety of approaches to myth, poetry,
narrative, stories, novels, nonfiction, and drama.
2. Content: This course is a broad-based literature course
covering a wide range of texts and representing several
cultures and centuries. Outline of course content:
a. Introduction to the role of literature. This introduction
will place literature in context, as a part of the
humanities, as an art form, and as a part of culture and
society.
b. Cross-cultural perspectives. Literature from several
cultures will be studies, and students will make
connections and distinction based on cultural concepts.
Each course will include non-Western and/or American
minority works.
c. Cross-gener perspectives. Works of literature created
by both women and men will be studied.
d. Diversity of genres. Students will learn about several
genres, and about adaptations and evolution within and
among genres. Each course will consider narrative (both
oral and written), poetry, and drama, in a variety of
forms, including longer forms like the novel or full-
length plays, and briefer forms, like short stories, prose
poems, or lyric poems. Traditional sources, such as
myths, songs, or religious texts, and more modern works
will be studied.
EFFECTIVE: Upon Chancellor Approval
RATIONALE: World Literature faculty from both English
and Foreign Language met and discussed the guidelines
for World Literature. The revised guidelines represent
the pedagogical concerns and the practices of the World
Literature faculty. These guidelines reflect changes
agreed to by the Core Review Committee.
Signed: Timothy Tilsworth, President, UAF Faculty Senate
Date: 3/30/93
Approved: J. Wadlow, Chancellor Date: 4/2/93
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