Paying for college:
| Title change | 400/500 course | Others |
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| Course Prefix & Number | Descriptive Title | Credits/Hours |
| LING 450/550 | Grammar and Writing | 4 - |
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| Course Prefix & Number | Descriptive Title | Credits/Hours |
| LING 450/550 | Linguistic Analysis of Style and Genre | 4 - |
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Abbreviation for Class Schedule(20 spaces) Style and Genre |
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Current Course Description: Approaches to grammar and grammar instruction. Topics to be covered include history of grammar as a field of study; a historical overview of grammar instruction; relationship between grammar and writing; ongoing debate on the contributions of grammar to writing; current approaches to grammar for rhetorical/stylistic effects especially as they relate to the conventions and sentence-fluency traits of the Oregon Writing Assessment. Prerequisites: LING 210 and LING 315, or consent of instructor. |
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New Course Description: Analysis of style and genre from a linguistic perspective. Topics to be covered include the history of style/genre in the context of language instruction and writing assessment; sentence fluency and syntactic development in the context of genre-specific texts; stylistic punctuation. |
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Justification for changing the course (e.g. alignment with other institutions, program revision, etc.): Reflect current issues and debates in the field. |
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Students/Program affected: English majors; Lg. Arts majors. |
| Step | Approver | Decision | Timestamp |
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| 1 - Department | David Hargreaves | Approved | October 25 2011 |
| 2 - Division | Curtis Yehnert | Approved | October 27 2011 |
| 3 - Division Curriculum | Uma Shrestha | Approved | October 27 2011 |
| 5 - Curriculum Committee | Thaddeus Shannon | Rejected | November 16 2011 |
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Comments: Proposal represents a substantial change but offers a perfunctory justification/explanation. The committee requests a more substantive justification and (ideally) the attachment of a current syllabus for review. |
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| 5 - Graduate Committee | Marie LeJeune | Approved | November 15 2011 |
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Comments: Add the following phrase to the new catalog description, per Cornelia Paraskevas: Prerequisites: LING 210 and LING 315, or consent of instructor.
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| 6 - Faculty Senate | Gavin Keulks | Rejected | February 22 2012 |
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Comments: Rejecting simply to clean up the Portal. A separate proposal has been approved in executive committee. |
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