Attachment A
Faculty Senate Agenda
March 25, 2004

PROGRAM CHANGE PROPOSALS

Asian Studies

The Asian Studies Major is an inter-disciplinary major that was created by a number of faculty from different departments in the late 1980s. Since that time a number of faculty teaching Asia related courses have retired and a new group of faculty with expertise on Asia have been hired. Though there is some overlap between what the founding faculty offered and what the new faculty teach, there are a number of courses from the original major no longer offered as regularly as they once were and there are many new courses that have been developed by the new faculty which need to be incorporated into the major. The major revisions being proposed also take into account the recommendations of the last program review, most notably the addition of a senior capstone course. The new major contains a greater breadth of offerings. It removes a concentration that never really worked, while adding two new concentrations that will allow the major to appeal to an even broader range of students and that reflect the demographic interests and changes of the Sacramento region.

Child Development Minor

Changes in the Child Development Major B program last spring, pursuant to new State Commission on Teacher Credentialing standards, resulted in changes in unit totals for some courses as well as the addition of some new courses in Child Development. Some of these courses are also included in the Child Development Minor. This proposal revises the minor to reflect these changes.

Art

The ART subject matter program for the single subject teaching credential should be revised to include the following new studio and art history courses:

Computer technology is a NASAD and CCTC requirement for all future art teachers; therefore, Art 97 Beginning Electronic Art should be inserted into the core area and Art 197 Intermediate Electronic Art into the breath and depth area of the pre-credential program.

Last year, the art department hired an art historian who specializes in Asian Art and she has developed two new courses, Art 117 A Art of India and Southeast A and Art 117B Art of China and Japan. Also, our contemporary art historian has developed two new courses, Art 111 Latin American and Latino Art and Art 112 Contemporary Art. These are important art history courses because they include historical and contemporary issues on North/South American, Asian, Indian and Japanese art and cultures. We request that these new art history courses be added to the Depth and Breadth area of our pre-credential program.

The Art 132 Early Childhood Art has been deleted because it is no longer active.

Studio Art 53 Beginning Hand-Built Ceramics has been inserted in the core area because it is a prerequisite for the upper division Art 153 Hand-Built Ceramics course.

The art department requests that these changes be included in the 2004-2006 Catalogue.