| Prerequisite change | 400/500 course |
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| Course Prefix & Number | Descriptive Title | Credits/Hours |
| LING 450/550 | Grammar and Writing | 4 - 0 |
| To: | ||
| Course Prefix & Number | Descriptive Title | Credits/Hours |
| LING 450/550 | Linguistic Analysis of Style and Genre | 4 - 0 |
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Abbreviation for Class Schedule(20 spaces) Style and Genre |
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Current 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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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. Prerequisites: LING 210, and LING 315, or consent of instructor. |
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Justification for changing the course (e.g. alignment with other institutions, program revision, etc.): The prerequisites were accidentally omitted when the change in description was approved; the class has always had prerequisites and it was never the intent of the LING faculty to remove the prerequisites. |
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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 | April 04 2013 |
| 2 - Division | David Hargreaves | Approved | April 04 2013 |
| 3 - Division Curriculum | Uma Shrestha | Approved | April 10 2013 |
| 5 - Graduate Committee | Kimberly Jensen | Approved | April 16 2013 |
| 5 - Curriculum Committee | Thaddeus Shannon | Approved | April 16 2013 |
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Comments: The proposal is just a prerequisite change, not a title change. |
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| 6 - Faculty Senate | Keller Coker | Approved | May 14 2013 |
| 7 - Dean | Diane Tarter | Approved | May 16 2013 |
| 8 - Provost | Stephen Scheck | Approved | May 17 2013 |