UNIVERSITY FACULTY SENATE FORMS

Revised 2-21-07

Academic Program Approval

 

This form is a routing document for the approval of new and revised academic programs.  Proposing department should complete this form.  For more information, call the Faculty Senate Office at 831-2921.

 

 

Submitted by: ____Thomas Pauly_____________________phone number__831-1970______

                               

Department:  __English _____________________________email address_tpauly@udel.edu_

                                                                                                                                                                                                             

 

Action:  ____Revise Concentration_________________________________________________________________

(Example:  add major/minor/concentration, delete major/minor/concentration,  revise major/minor/concentration,  academic unit name change, request for permanent status, policy change, etc.)

 

Effective term____________07F________________________________________________________________________

                                                (use format 04F, 05W)

 

Current degree____BA__________________________________________________________

                                    (Example:  BA, BACH, BACJ, HBA, EDD, MA, MBA, etc.)

 

Proposed change leads to the degree of: ____BA_____________________________________

                                                                                             (Example:  BA, BACH, BACJ, HBA, EDD, MA, MBA, etc.)

 

 

Proposed name:___Major: English, Concentration: Professional Writing___________________

                                            Proposed new name for revised or new major / minor / concentration / academic unit

                                                                                (if applicable)

 

Revising or Deleting: 

 

Undergraduate major / Concentration:__English/Business and Technical Writing____

                                                                                    (Example:  Applied Music – Instrumental  degree BMAS)

 

Undergraduate minor:____________________________________________________

                                   (Example:  African Studies,  Business Administration,  English, Leadership, etc.)            

 

Graduate Program Policy statement change:_________________________________

                                                                  (Must attach  your Graduate Program Policy Statement)

 

            Graduate Program of Study:______________________________________________

                                 (Example:  Animal Science: MS  Animal Science:  PHD  Economics: MA Economics: PHD)

 

 

                Graduate minor / concentration:___________________________________________

 

 

Note: all graduate studies proposals must include an electronic copy of the Graduate Program Policy Document, highlighting the changes made to the original policy document.

 

 

 

 

 

List new courses required for the new or revised curriculum. How do they support the overall program objectives of the major/minor/concentrations)?

 (Be aware that approval of the curriculum is dependent upon these courses successfully passing through the Course Challenge list. If there are no new courses enter “None”)

 

ENGL 101—Tools of Textual Analysis

ENGL 102—Texts in Time

 

A gateway course (101: Tools of Textual Analysis) will introduce students to basic concepts of literary analysis and teach them how to write in the discipline.  This course is a prerequisite for nearly all English courses.  It is part of our new First Year Experience, linked to E110, with the professor teaching both 101 and 110. A second course (102: Texts in Time) will give students the opportunity to explore how texts reflect the cultures that create them by examining a specific historical context.  This course will be taught in small sections, with intensive writing and the chance to develop analytical skills necessary in advanced courses. These two introductory courses are required of all majors; after that, students will all declare a concentration.  While the requirements for each concentration vary, on the whole our majors will then enter into a sequence of historical survey courses covering British and American literature.  Thus, most of our students will be taking the same courses their first two years, and these courses will systematically lay the foundation for skills and historical knowledge upon which subsequent courses will be based.  Having taken a sequence of courses together, students can then (in their junior and senior years) develop and pursue their own specialized intellectual interests, since most courses after that will be electives.  In order to be able to offer English courses to non-majors, there will be a separate track of courses which do not require 101 as a prerequisite. 

 

 

Explain, when appropriate, how this new/revised curriculum supports the 10 goals of undergraduate education: http://www.ugs.udel.edu/gened/

 

All English courses involve extensive reading, research, critical thinking, discussion, and writing. We work to maintain class sizes that facilitate review and feedback of written assignments, and we make assignments that demand advanced thinking skills: problem solving, interpretation, and theoretically-informed reading. English classes in general attend to diverse literatures, examining how the production, dissemination, reception, and disposition of texts are influenced by literary, historical, cultural, and ethnic contexts. Many classes involve active learning through service learning, independent research, internships, study abroad, and other experiences that enlarge students' perspectives of the world beyond the classroom. Our current curricular revisions are intended to make our courses more representative of diverse cultures and to insure that students have outcomes we expect: exceptionally strong reading and research skills, the ability to articulate compelling arguments, and the ability to produce expert writing.

 

 

Identify other units affected by the proposed changes:

(Attach permission from the affected units.  If no other unit is affected, enter “None”)

 

None.

 

 

Describe the rationale for the proposed program change(s):

(Explain your reasons for creating, revising, or deleting the curriculum or program.)

 

We are changing our curriculum and its concentrations in major ways in response to our APR. In the new gateway courses to the major, part of a strong FYE, students will develop reading, writing, and interpretive skills important to all successive courses. Our new curriculum will allow more freedom of electives across concentrations, rationalizing course numbering and prerequisites, making fewer requirements within specific historical periods, and generally updating the program. We are creating new internship courses and undergraduate research courses and providing more opportunities to work in global and multicultural literature.  We are redesigning our courses in grammar, style, and rhetoric and modifying our capstone experience to best use our resources for a meaningful senior year experience, including mentored research, internships, student teaching, and seminars.

 

 

Program Requirements: 

(Show the new or revised curriculum as it should appear in the Course Catalog.  If this is a revision, be sure to indicate the changes being made to the current curriculum and include a side-by-side comparison of the credit distribution before and after the proposed change.)

 

PROPOSED PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS

 

ENGL 101  Tools of Textual Analysis   .           .           .           .           .           .           30

ENGL 102  Texts in Times

ENGL 204  American Literature

ENGL 205  British Literature to 1660

ENGL 206  British Literature 1660-Present

ENGL 415  Writing in the Professions (or 312 or 410, if 415 is not available)

ENGL 411  Rhetoric for Business and Technical Writers

ENGL 414  Technical Editing

ENGL 412  Business and Technical Publication OR ENGL 416: Designing

            Online Information

ENGL 464  Internship in Business and Technical Writing

 

Six additional English credits (two courses)        .           .           .           .           .           .           6

 

CURRENT PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS

 

CORE SEQUENCE

All majors must complete five of the following six courses:

     ENGL 202-- Biblical and Classical Literature

     ENGL 205--British Literature I

     ENGL 206--British Literature II

     ENGL 300--Texts and Contexts

     ENGL 324-- Shakespeare

     ENGL 340-- American Literature to the Civil War

     OR

     ENGL 341--American Literature: Civil War to World War II

 

LITERATURE COURSES

In addition to the core sequence, English majors concentrating in Business and Technical Writing will take one course at the 300- level or above from each of the following groups (2 courses total):

     Medieval and Renaissance literature (excluding ENGL 324)

       OR

     Literature between 1700 and 1900

     Modern literature

       OR

     Cultural and theoretical studies

 

One other literature course is required. This course may be at the 200-, 300-, or 400-level if one of the courses taken in the above two groups is a 480 seminar. Otherwise, this additional course must be a 480 seminar.

 

BUSINESS AND TECHNICAL WRITING COURSES

Students concentrating in business and technical writing must also take the following technical writing courses:

 

One of the following three courses:

     ENGL 312--Written Communications in Business

     ENGL 410--Technical Writing

     ENGL 415- -Writing in the Professions

 

Each of the following courses:

     ENGL 411-- Rhetorical for Business and Technical Writers

     ENGL 412-- Technical Publication

     ENGL 414-- Technical Editing

     ENGL 464-- Technical Writing Internship

 

Optional:

     ENGL 413--Topics in Technical Writing

 

 

 ROUTING AND AUTHORIZATION:        (Please do not remove supporting documentation.)

 

Department Chairperson                                                                                                        Date                                       

 

Dean of College                                                                                                                       Date                                       

 

Chairperson, College Curriculum Committee___________________________________Date_____________________

 

Chairperson, Senate Com. on UG or GR Studies                                                                   Date                                       

 

Chairperson, Senate Coordinating Com.                                                                 Date                                       

 

Secretary, Faculty Senate                                                                                                       Date                                       

 

Date of Senate Resolution                                                                                                      Date to be Effective               

 

Registrar                                                                  Program Code                                         Date                                       

 

Vice Provost for Academic Programs & Planning                                                                  Date                                       

 

Provost                                                                                                                                   Date                                       

 

Board of Trustee Notification                                                                                                                Date                                       

 

Revised 5/02/06   /khs