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Nature of course request C01791 :

Title change Description change 400/500 course
From:
Course Prefix & Number Descriptive Title Credits/Hours
HST 443/543 Biography and Empire 4 -
 
To:
Course Prefix & Number Descriptive Title Credits/Hours
HST 443/543 Jewish North Africa 4 -



Abbreviation for Class Schedule(20 spaces)
Jewish N Africa

Current Course Description:
A critical analysis of the period of the "Twelve Caesars" and the differing approaches and concept of history as seen in ancient biography and historical writing.

New Course Description:
This course examines the history and historiography of Jewish North Africa with an emphasis on the modern era.

Justification for changing the course (e.g. alignment with other institutions, program revision, etc.):
New faculty
Students/Program affected:
History


Approval Queue C01791
Step Approver Decision Timestamp
1 - Department Max Geier ApprovedDecember 08 2011
Comments: Department has experienced two departures and one new hire among its tenured/tenure-track faculty over the past year. This change is needed to bring catalog into conformity with current expertise of the faculty.
2 - Division John Rector ApprovedDecember 14 2011
3 - Division Curriculum Mark Henkels ApprovedDecember 15 2011
5 - Graduate Committee Marie LeJeune ApprovedFebruary 21 2012
Comments: Addendum: Faculty members in the history department have the following policy for courses that are offered at the 400-level for undergraduates and at the 500-level for graduate students (¿slash courses.¿) In addition to completing the 400-level requirements, graduate students in the 500-level course will be required to complete the following: Additional readings and group discussion, with particular emphasis on developing a more sophisticated understanding of the historiographic arguments and varieties of methodologies and analysis historians use in this field of inquiry. Additional writing assignments, including critical analysis of sources and either an expanded course research paper or an additional paper above the requirements for the 400-level. History faculty will assess graduate student discussion and writing at a higher level of sophistication, argument, evidence, and conclusions than discussion and writing at the undergraduate level. Where appropriate, graduate students will have the opportunity to mentor undergraduate students in slash courses by leading discussion, teaching a class, or mentoring.
5 - Curriculum Committee Thaddeus Shannon ApprovedFebruary 21 2012
Comments: Faculty members in the history department have the following policy for courses that are offered at the 400-level for undergraduates and at the 500-level for graduate students (¿slash courses.¿) In addition to completing the 400-level requirements, graduate students in the 500-level course will be required to complete the following: Additional readings and group discussion, with particular emphasis on developing a more sophisticated understanding of the historiographic arguments and varieties of methodologies and analysis historians use in this field of inquiry. Additional writing assignments, including critical analysis of sources and either an expanded course research paper or an additional paper above the requirements for the 400-level. History faculty will assess graduate student discussion and writing at a higher level of sophistication, argument, evidence, and conclusions than discussion and writing at the undergraduate level. Where appropriate, graduate students will have the opportunity to mentor undergraduate students in slash courses by leading discussion, teaching a class, or mentoring.
6 - Faculty Senate Gavin Keulks ApprovedFebruary 22 2012
7 - Dean Stephen Scheck ApprovedFebruary 23 2012
8 - Provost Kent Neely ApprovedFebruary 24 2012


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