| Number/Prefix change | Prerequisite change | Undergraduate |
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| Course Prefix & Number | Descriptive Title | Credits/Hours |
| ASL 420D | Sociolinguistics of the Deaf Community | 3 - 3 |
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| Course Prefix & Number | Descriptive Title | Credits/Hours |
| ASL 420C | Sociolinguistics of the Deaf Community | 3 - 3 |
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Abbreviation for Class Schedule(20 spaces) Socioling Deaf Comm |
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Current Course Description: This course focuses on the sociolinguistic factors that affect language variation and language change. Sociolinguistic factors that influence communication and strategies for analyzing discourse will be identified and described. Language contact, language change, and language policy and planning in Deaf communities will be examined. |
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New Course Description: Same as above |
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Justification for changing the course (e.g. alignment with other institutions, program revision, etc.): ASL 420 already fulfills the Diversity (D) requirement, thus, a C designation would be the final designation. This change would make the ASL Studies major and minor align and be consistent with the other majors and minors on this campus by offering students a course that fulfills the WI requirement at the Upper Division Level. The following quote from WOUs Writing Intensive web page supports the justification for changing this course to a WI designation. This would be the only course in the ASL Studies program to have such a designation. WOU students are required to complete a minimum of two WI courses for graduation. Ideally, they should have WIC in the major and the minor - courses where class size is kept to 25 at most. Additionally, at least one of these WI courses should be concentrated in the upper-division (300-400 level) offerings where the subject matter of each discipline is explored in more depth than in the LACC courses and where we can show students how to write in that discipline's style. WR 135 is designated as a pre-requisite for UD WI courses. (Retrieved on 1/19/10 from http://www.wou.edu/las/humanities/writingctr/wicourse.php) |
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Students/Program affected: ASL Studies majors and minors |
| Step | Approver | Decision | Timestamp |
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| 1 - Department | ----------------- | Approved | November 09 2010 |
| 2 - Division | Elisa Maroney | Approved | November 10 2010 |
| 3 - Division Curriculum | Mickey Pardew | Approved | November 12 2010 |
| 5 - Curriculum Committee | Robert Monge | Rejected | January 20 2011 |
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Comments: will approve upon resubmission |
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| 6 - Faculty Senate | Gavin Keulks | Rejected | January 21 2011 |
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Comments: simply cleaning up the portal -- executive committee may also approve upon resubmission |
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| ASL420C_syllabus_W11.doc | Download | |
| ASL420D_WI_form_W11.doc | Download | |
| MemoASL420_WI_DesPermanent.doc | Download |