A&S Academic Council
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Our next meeting will be Tuesday, September 1, 2009, from 10:30-11:45 in Tyler Haynes Commons Room 305. Please review the agenda below and the cited materials in advance of the meeting.
Approval of Minutes from April 21, 2009 Meeting
Introductions of department chairs and program coordinators
General Informational Items
Please read each item below. We can discuss any item you wish, but my goal is to try to move through this part of the meeting quickly by not having to provide this information orally.
- Fall Semester Academic Council meetings:
(All meetings will be held in Tyler Haynes Commons Room 305)
Tuesday, September 15
Tuesday, October 6
Tuesday, October 20
Tuesday, November 3
Tuesday, November 17
Tuesday, December 1
Please hold other Tuesdays open in case we need to schedule additional meetings.
- Lunchtime Forum Series. Please encourage your faculty to attend the Lunchtime Forum. This year’s schedule:
Wednesday, September 16—Paul Achter (Rhetoric and Communication), “Managing Dissent: Domesticating the body of the veteran of war”
Wednesday, October 21— Myra Daleng (Dance), “Mind and Body: Why Dance in Liberal Arts Education?”
Wednesday, November 18— David Lefkowitz (Philosophy), “An Interdisciplinary Approach to Climate Change Policy: Introducing the new Program in Philosophy, Politics, Economics and Law.”
Tuesday, February 2—Ray Hilliard (Englsih, “Ritual Violence and the Maternal in the British Novel, 1740-1820”
Tuesday, March 2—Aparna Telang (Biology), “Together we're building a nicer mosquito”
Tuesday, April 6—Monika Siebert (English), Tocqueville Seminars
- Jewish Holidays. Please remind your faculty to be sensitive to the Jewish Holidays our students may be observing in September and October (Rosh Hashanah on Sept. 19 and 20 and Yom Kippur on Sept. 28). As you will recall, Jewish holidays are observed from sundown to sundown.
- A&S Undergraduate Student Symposium. Please encourage your faculty and students to participate in the Student Symposium on April 16, 2010.
- Department Chairs and Divisional Alignment
Tripartite Quadripartite
Art & Art History I III Erling Sjovold 2010
Biology III II Malcolm Hill 2011
Chemistry III II Lisa Gentile 2011
Classical Studies I IV Dean Simpson 2010
Education II I Tricia Stohr-Hunt 2012
English I IV Suzanne Jones 2011
Geography & Environment Chris Stevenson 2012
History II III Hugh West 2011
Journalism II IV Mike Spear 2011
LAIS I IV Sharon Feldman 2011
M&CS III II Lewis Barnett 2012
MLC I IV Kathrin Bower 2010
Music I III Gene Anderson 2010
Philosophy II III Nancy Schauber 2011
Physics III II Con Beausang 2010
Political Science II I Vincent Wang (F) 2010
Dan Palazzolo (S)
Psychology III I Jane Berry 2010
Religion II III Scott Davis 2010
R&CS II III Mari Lee Mifsud 2012
Sociology & Anthropology II I Carol Wharton 2012
Theatre & Dance I III Walter Schoen 2010
American Studies Doug Winiarski
BMB J. Dattelbaum 2012
Krista Stenger 2012
Criminal Justice Joan Neff 2012
Environmental Studies Chris Stevenson 2012
Film Studies
Interdisciplinary Studies Scott Davis 2012
International Studies John Gordon 2010
PPEL David Lefkowitz 2012
WGSS Jane Geaney 2011
Tripartite Divisions:
Division I - Arts/Languages and Literatures (Art & Art History, Classical Studies, English, Latin American & Iberian Studies, Modern Literatures & Cultures, Music, Theatre & Dance);Division II - Humanities and Social Sciences (Education, Geography, History, Journalism, Philosophy, Political Science, Religion, Rhetoric & Communication Studies, Sociology & Anthropology);
Division III - Mathematics/Computer Science, Natural and Psychological Sciences (Biology, Chemistry, Math & Computer Science, Physics, and Psychology)
Quadripartite Divisions:
Division I - Social Sciences (Education, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology & Anthropology);
Division II - Math and Natural Sciences (Biology, Chemistry, Math & Computer Science, Physics);
Division III - Humanities, Fine Arts (Art & Art History, History, Music, Philosophy, Religion, Rhetoric & Communication Studies, Theatre & Dance);
Division IV - Languages & Literatures (Classical Studies, English, Journalism, Latin American & Iberian Studies, Modern Literatures & Cultures)
Consent Agenda
Again this year we will use the Consent Agenda to deal with routine business that requires Academic Council action and would not be expected to generate discussion. Any item can be moved from the Consent Agenda to the Discussion Agenda. All course proposals are on the Arts & Sciences website at https://deans.richmond.edu/as/Meetings/Council/index.php.
Biology
New Quantitative-Physical Science requirement for the Bachelor of Science in Biology:
At our departmental retreat in the spring, a proposal was put forward to modify the Physics requirement for a BS in Biology. We currently require a full year of Physics. The proposal we considered was to create some flexibility on this point for our majors. It was decided, that the Biology Department would relax the Physics requirement and expand the courses from which students could choose. Here is the proposal:
Biology majors must meet a 2 unit ‘quantitative-physical science’ requirement through some combination of the courses listed below:
CMSC 155 Introduction to Scientific Computing
CMSC 221 Data Structures with Lab
CMSC 222 Discrete Structures for Computing with Lab
MATH 119 Statistics for Social and Life Sciences
MATH 219 Introduction to the Design of Experiments
PHYS 127 General Physics 1 or PHYS 131 General Physics with Calculus I
PHYS 128 General Physics 2 or PHYS 132 General Physics with Calculus II or PHYS 133 Atomic and Sub-Atomic Physics or PHYS 134 Biological Physics
A student enrolled in the 2 semester Integrated Quantitative Science (IQS) course (i.e., BIOL 190), would fulfill the ‘quantitative-physical science’ requirement through their activities in IQS.
Discussion Agenda
- Update on web redesign
- Chair and program coordinator reviews and elections
- Cross-school upper-division curricular opportunities (Curriculum sub-committee)
- Classroom upgrades
- Meeting with Business and Finance
- Revised SEI
- Administrative change in classification of directors
- Creation of a budget advisory committee
- Other business
Next Meeting
We will meet on Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at 10:30 in THC 305.