UNIVERSITY FACULTY SENATE FORMS

 

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: Owen White, Undergraduate Chair, History – tel. 831-0805 – owhite@udel.edu

                               

Department:  History

                                                                                                                                                                                                             

 

Action:  Revise major in History with a Foreign Language____________________________________

(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_____08F__________________________________________________________________________

                                                (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:___Not applicable________________________________________

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

                                                                                (if applicable)

 

Revising or Deleting: 

 

Undergraduate major / Concentration:History/Classics, French, German, Russian,    Spanish BA

                                                                                    (Example:  Applied Music – Instrumental  degree BMAS)

 

Undergraduate minor:____N/A____________________________________________

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

 

Graduate Program Policy statement change:_____N/A_________________________

                                                                  (Must attach  your Graduate Program Policy Statement)

 

            Graduate Program of Study:____N/A______________________________________

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

 

 

                Graduate minor / concentration:_____N/A__________________________________

 

 

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”)

 

Students in the History/Foreign Language major will be required to take HIST 268. This is a seminar required of ALL other history majors, and is regarded as one of the most important courses majors take in the department. The course is a seminar limited to majors only, and is designed to introduce students to the practices of historians: the methods and sources they use, how they interpret evidence and build an argument, how they document their sources, and how they write. Though each instructor who teaches HIST 268 (there are usually six or seven sections in any given semester) chooses a different theme for the course, all instructors use their chosen theme to emphasize the practices outlined above, and invariably require students to produce a research paper based on these practices.

 

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

 

The change relates to goals 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, and maybe 9 or 10, depending on the topic of HIST 268.

 

Identify other units affected by the proposed changes:

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

 

The degree is jointly offered by the departments of History and Foreign Languages. The Dept of Foreign Languages unanimously approved the change in both its Undergraduate and Executive Committees, as stated in the attached e-mail from Annette Giesecke, USC chair in FLL.

 

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

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

 

History/Foreign Language majors are currently the ONLY history majors who do not have to take HIST 268. They miss out on one of the most important courses taught in the Department of History, and evidence suggests that this places them at a distinct disadvantage when they take their senior (400-level) seminar in their senior year, since for all other majors HIST 268 is a prerequisite for the capstone HIST 4xx seminar. We propose the simple addition of HIST 268 to the History/Foreign Language curriculum to address this problem. The addition of HIST 268 will not increase the total number of credits required for graduation (currently 124). It is simply being added within the major requirements for the degree, increasing this number from 24 to 27 credits.

 

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.)

 

HISTORY/FOREIGN LANGUAGE MAJOR (French, German, Spanish, Russian, or Classics): Revised curriculum (changes in bold)

Major Requirements within the History Department (27 [not 24] credits)

1.      HIST 101 Western Civilization to 1648

2.      HIST 102 Western Civilization: 1648 to the Present

3.      HIST 268 seminar [not previously a requirement]

4.      Five 300-level courses, at least two of which must deal with countries that use the chosen foreign language

5.      History seminar at the 400-level or above (excluding HIST491 and 493 and Independent Study)

 

 

 

 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