Arts and Humanities Subcommittee
AMENDED MINUTES and REPORT
	April 2007

MINUTES

April 23, 2007

9:00-10:00 a.m.

VKC 103

I.	LAS: COMPARATIVE LITERATURE				Req. by Karen Pinkus       

	Add a new multidisciplinary minor:					Eff. Fall 2007

	Global Cultures (20 unit program)
One gateway course, COLT 303, and 4 courses chosen from social sciences, literature, and humanities.

•	DENIED.  Despite the current trend to remove obstacles to course and program approval, the undergraduate chair and two subcommittee members found this minor to be so diffuse and broad that it is difficult to see how it fulfills the requirements for minors spelled out by the coupling committee.  It doesn’t seem to be an intellectual subset of a discipline or rigorously organized.  It is possible that a student could earn this minor with one gateway course and a series of loosely or even unrelated courses.  Finally, given the number of choices, and the fact that Requirements 3 and 4 are already primarily literature courses, it is problematic that a student can fulfill Requirement 5 with more literature courses.  The subcommittee’s concerns were shared with Karen Pinkus from COLT, the proposing department, who responded that the program, which has the support of the College deans, is seen as a way of increasing enrollments in the foreign literature and culture departments that are cooperating under the new ‘LLCC’ banner.  They also wish to address globalization from a cultural perspective.  She also reports that they hope to develop this into a major.  The rigor for the minor is to come from advisement, which Karen Pinkus has personally committed to provide.  And as the program develops, and becomes a major, more proprietary courses would be added.   The reason for the emphasis on literature is that the majority of faculty who have been engaged with the initiative are from these departments, and they do not see this as a negative component.  The subcommittee noted that there are not very many courses about European countries and cultures.  The term “Global Cultures” is a charged term, therefore more clarity is needed.  It is unclear how some of the courses address issues that the #401 form says the minor addresses.  The proposing unit is asked to reconsider the vast array of courses and pare the lists down to make the minor more coherent.  The subcommittee hopes to see more coherence across the subdisciplines; for example, why is internationalism important in one category and not in others?  How would they address how to bring cohorts of students through?  More explanation of how the courses fit the expressed goals and substance of the minor is needed.   

II.	INSTITUTE FOR MULTIMEDIA LITERACY	Req. by Michael Renov      

	Revise an Honors Program:					Eff. Fall 2007
		
	Honors in Multimedia Scholarship (20 unit program)
Add MDA 140 (2) to list of required courses; drop 4-unit upper division course in major, minor or cognate field of study that incorporates or supports multimedia expression of the subject matter, revise IML 346 (2) and change it from an elective to a required course;  revise IML 104 to remove prerequisite of IML 101;  and make all courses required except for a choice between IML 101 and IML 104.  Program revision includes 2 revised courses, no new courses.

•	APPROVED.  Steve Anderson from the IML program attended the meeting.  He explained that sophomores take 104 and freshmen take 101, and it has to be possible to complete the requirements for the program with either one.  The subcommittee is not troubled about removing the 4-unit upper division course in the student’s major, minor or cognate field of study from the requirements for the program.  

NOTE:  Revisions to IML courses are included in the report below.

REPORT OF ACTIONS OF SUBCOMMITTEE CHAIRS WITH INPUT BY MEMBERS:

III.	SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
A.	Revise Program	Eff. Term:	Fall 2008
Certificate: 	Historic Preservation
			(16)
Drop ARCH 450 and substitute ARCH 549 in its place.
>	Approved

B.       Revise Program	Eff. Term:	Fall 2008
Master	Historic Preservation
	(48)
Drop ARCH 450 and add ARCH 549 in its place
>	Approved

1.   Revise Course	Eff. Term:	Fall 2008

NEW:   ARCH-549	Fundamentals of Historic Preservation
	(4)
Concepts and strategies for preservation of significant elements of the built environment: buildings, sites and communities as revealed by readings, site visits, and case studies.  Duplicates credit in former ARCH 450.

OLD:  ARCH-450	Fundamentals of Historic Preservation
	(4)
Concepts and strategies for preservation of significant elements of the built environment: buildings, sites and communities as revealed by readings, site visits, and case studies.
>	Approved
Dropped, replaced by new ARCH 549.  ARCH 450 was on a list of electives in the RED minor in the School of Policy, Planning and Development; PPD says to remove this course from that list and not to substitute another  NOTE:  The paperwork originally called for terminating ARCH 450 and adding ARCH 549 as a new course, but the registrar clarified the process at the May UCOC meeting to indicate that it is a revision, in order to accurately maintain the record for the course.

>	Approved
Proposed to replace ARCH 450, to be simultaneously dropped.

IV.  SCHOOL OF CINEMATIC ARTS	
Writing
A.	Revise Program	Eff. Term:	Fall 2008
Minor	Screenwriting
	(24)
Reduce number of units in 'Fundamentals and Feature Development' area from 12 to 10; increase number of elective units from 8 to 10, all to accommodate change in unit value for CTWR 415a from 4 to 2 (approved on March 2007 AHS report).
> Approved
	
Interactive Media
B. New	Course	Eff. Term: Fall 2007
CTIN-495	Internship in Interactive Media
	(2, max 4)
Interactive Media industry experience in the specific area of interest to the individual student. Open only to upper division undergraduate and graduate students.
>	Approved

Interactive Media
C.  Revise	Program	Eff. Term:	Fall 2008
MFA	Interactive Media
	old 56, new 50
Change required units from 56 to 50; Remove CTPR 495; replace it with new CTIN 495; Remove CTPR 507, Remove CTIN 555ab and replace it with existing CTIN 594ab;  Remove CTIN 584 and replace it with CTIN 584abcz. Revise CTIN 501 and add it to the elective list.  Revise CTIN 511 and CTIN  532.and CTIN 534 and CTIN 542 and CTIN 544.
>	Approved

Interactive Media
1.  Revise	Course			Eff. Term: Fall 2008
CTIN-501	New Interactive Cinema
	(2)
New: Interactive Cinema   Provide students with a vocabulary of conceptual and artistic means to create computer based interactive works.

Old: Database Cinema   Provide students with a 'vocabulary' of conceptual and artistic means to create computer based interactive works.
>	Approved

Interactive Media
2.  Revise	Course			Eff. Term: Fall 2008
CTIN-511	Interactive Media Seminar
	(1, max 2; change to 1, max 4)
Seminars on latest trends in interactive media content, technology, tools, business and culture. Graded CR/NC.
> Approved
Change in max units from (1, max 2) to (1, max 4) required due to revision of requirements in CTIN MFA program.

Interactive Media
3.  Revise	Course	Eff. Term:	Fall 2008
CTIN-532	Interactive Experience and World Design
	(4)
New:  Interactive Experience and World Design   The development of interactive experiences with an emphasis on writing and development. Open to Interactive Media MFA students only. (No corequisite)

Old:  Interactive Experience Design.   The development of interactive experiences with an emphasis on writing and development. Open to Interactive Media MFA students only.   Corequisite: CTIN-534.
>	Approved

4.  Interactive Media
Revise	Course	Eff. Term:	Fall 2008
CTIN-534	Experiments in Interactivity I
	(2)
New: Experimental studio course to explore concepts of structure, aesthetics and content of interactive experience design. Open to Interactive Media and Animation and Digital Arts MFA students only.

Current: Experimental studio course to explore concepts of structure, aesthetics and content of interactive experience design. Open to Interactive Media MFA students only.  Corequisite: CTIN-532
>	Approved

Interactive Media
5.  Revise	Course	Eff. Term:	Fall 2008
CTIN-542	Interactive Design and Production
	(4)
Interactive design, production, prototyping and testing of projects developed in CTIN 532. Open to Interactive Media MFA students only.
>	Approved

Interactive Media
6.  Revise	Course	Eff. Term:	Fall 2008
CTIN-544	Experiments in Interactivity II
	(2)
Experimental studio course in application of technology to interactive experience. Open to Interactive Media MFA students only.
>	Approved

Interactive Media
7.  Terminate Course	Eff. Term:	Fall 2007
CTIN-584	Graduate Interactive Group Project
	(4, max 8)
Students work in small, interdisciplinary teams on focused interactive projects which approach professional levels of creative, intellectual and aesthetic performance.
>  Approved

Interactive Media
8.  New	Course	Eff. Term:	Fall 2007
CTIN-584abcz	Individual Interactive Workshop
	(4-2-2-0)
Individual experimental projects involving the creative use of interactive media and film production skills.
>	Approved

Interactive Media
9.  New	Course	Eff. Term:	Fall 2007
CTIN-585	Graduate Interactive Group Project
	(4, max 8) 
Students work in small, interdisciplinary teams on focused interactive projects which approach professional levels of creative, intellectual, interpretive, and aesthetic performance.
>	Approved

Production
C.  Revise	Course	Eff. Term:	Fall 2008
CTPR-409	Practicum in Television Production
	(2-4)
Television production: laboratory course covers operating cameras, creating graphics, technical operations, controlling audio and floor-managing live productions. Students plan and produce actual Trojan Vision programs.

Current: Television production laboratory course for students with a major production commitment with Trojan Vision. Requires station management and Chair of Production approval.
>	Approved
Changing from 2, 4 units to 2,4 max 8.  Syllabus contains 'attendance' in grade breakdown, but credit can not be given for attendance.  Evaluation for class grade seems to be done partly by students who are part of the team project, but it is expected that the final grade evaluation is conducted by the instructor, and may be based in part on feedback from Trojan Vision Managers, Broadcast Producers, and Executive Producers.  Course appears on list of electives for Cinema-Television minor with 4-unit value;  no change 
to the minor is made as a consequence of this course revision.

Production
D.  New	Course	Eff. Term:	Summer 2007
CTPR-586abz	Production IV
	(6-0-0)
Advanced group production workshop for students who have successfully completed Production III. Prerequisite: CTPR 546L or CTPR 547L; qualifying courses: (for producers) CTPR 573, (for directors) CTPR 532 and CTPR 513, (for cinematographers) CTPR 537, (for editors) CTPR 535, (for sound) CTPR 546L or CTPR 547L as production sound person.
>	Approved
Add a 'z' section to an 'ab' course. Change grading for ‘b’ section of course from ‘L’ to ‘In-progress & L.’  (Clarification about grading provided at May UCOC meeting by the registrar.

Institute for Multimedia Literacy
E.  Revise	Course	Eff. Term:	Fall 2008
IML-104	Honors in Multimedia Scholarship: The Languages of New Media II
	(4)
An introduction to the expressive range of screen languages in their cultural, historical, and technological contexts. Open to students in the Honors in Multimedia Scholarship program only.
>	Approved
Remove Prerequisite: IML 101. 

F.  Revise	Course	Eff. Term:	Fall 2008
IML-346	Honors in Multimedia Scholarship: Methods in Scholarly Multimedia
	(2, max 4)
NEW:
Emphasizing rigorous student multimedia research and strategies for authorship within a disciplinary context, this course prepares students to undertake their thesis projects. Open to students in the Honors in Multimedia Scholarship program only. Prerequisite: IML-101 or IML 104.

OLD: Honors in Multimedia Scholarship: Methods in Scholarly Multimedia (FaSp) Emphasizing rigorous student multimedia research and strategies for authorship within a disciplinary context, this course prepares students to undertake their thesis projects. Open to students in the Honors in Multimedia Scholarship program only.  Prerequisite: IML-101.  Recommended preparation: IML 104
>	Approved
Revising catalogue description.  Department is reminded that because there is no POST for the program, the statement that the course is only open to students in the IML Honors program cannot be enforced by SIS and therefore must be monitored in-house.

G.  Revise	Course	Eff. Term:	Fall 2008
IML-440	Honors in Multimedia Scholarship: Multimedia Honors Thesis Project I
	(4)
Exploration of theoretical and practical concerns of advanced level interdisciplinary multimedia research and authorship. Open to students in the Honors in Multimedia Scholarship program only. Senior standing. 
Prerequisite: IML 101.

New prerequisites: IML 101 or IML 104; IML 346.
>	Approved

V.     COLLEGE OF LETTERS ARTS & SCIENCES	
A.      Comparative Literature
1.  New	Course	Eff. Term:	Fall 2007
COLT-373	Literature and Film
	(4)
Literary representations and theories of gender difference. Examines questions of gendered voice in writing and the cultural construction of gender in various periods and cultures.
>	Approved
This course belongs in the Media Concentration category for COLT majors and minors.  Cross-listed with CTCS as CTCS 373.  The academic rationale for this course and all the other new and revised COLT courses on this report is insubstantial.  It would have been preferable to be told how each particular course makes its own contribution to the newly-developed focus of the major and minor.

Comparative Literature
2.  New	Course	Eff. Term:	Fall 2007
COLT-377	Literature, Theory, Gender
	(4)
Literary representations and theories of gender difference. Examines questions of gendered voice in writing and the cultural construction of gender in various periods and cultures.
>	Approved
Belongs in the Critical Thought Concentration in the catalogue copy for the program requirements.

Comparative Literature
3.  New	Course	Eff. Term:	Fall 2007
COLT-381	Psychoanalysis and the Arts
	(4)
Introduction to psychoanalytic literature on the arts, including classic texts by Freud, Jones, Lacan, Derrida, and others. Readings of theoretical and fictional works.
>	Approved
Belongs in the Critical Thought Category in COLT.

Comparative Literature
4.  New	Course	Eff. Term:	Fall 2007
COLT-451	Opera and Cultural Theory
	(4)
Study of the words and plots of operas from the viewpoint of gender, postcolonial, and psychoanalytical theory. Special attention to contemporary stagings and film versions.
>	Approved
The course request was sent back to COLT asking for signoff from Music History, because there was no acknowledgement from Music that they were aware of this course, and since musicologists do much of the study of textual questions, and  the course syllabus suggests they do not, some revisions to the syllabus seem to be in order.. Roberto Diaz provided a satisfactory response with some modifications to the language of the 

Comparative Literature
5.  New	Course	Eff. Term:	Fall 2007
COLT-462	Soundtracks of Our Lives
	(4)
The reciprocal, ideological relations between modes of listening, sounds, music; and literature, film, culture. Examines a range of issues in auditory culture across a broad historical span.
>	Approved
This course belongs in the Media Concentration.  Signoffs from deans of Music, Cinematic Arts and Communication Schools were obtained.

Comparative Literature
6.  New	Course	Eff. Term:	Fall 2007
COLT-478	Family in Theory and Literature
	(4)
Representations of the family in literary works and films across different cultures and historical periods. Readings in anthropology, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and feminist and gender theory.
>	Approved
This course belongs in the Critical Thought category for COLT majors and minors.

Comparative Literature
6.  New	Course	Eff. Term:	Fall 2007
COLT-486	Deconstructive Thought
	(4)
Deconstructive analysis of theories of language, representation, selfhood, the human, art and technology, politics and ethics. Study of works by Derrida and others.
>	Approved
This course belongs in the Critical Thought category for COLT majors and minors

Comparative Literature
7.  Revise	Course	Eff. Term:	Fall 2008
COLT-445m	Europe and the Writing of Others
	(4)
New: Europe and the Writing of Others 
Analysis of European texts- literary, musical, philosophical, visual-that focus on other cultures, as well as of non-European texts dealing with Europe or European cultural forms.

Current: Eurocentrism
Analysis of European texts, music and art from ancient Greece to the present, demonstrating prevalent cultural biases in European dealings with other cultures.
>	Approved
Belongs in the Literature category in COLT.

Comparative Literature
8.  Terminate Course	Eff. Term:	Fall 2007
COLT-330	Lyric Interactions: Poetry, Self and Society
	(4)
Lyric poetry as communicative interaction between individuals and groups in premodern to modern societies, with interdisciplinary approaches from communication theory, cultural history and social psychology.
>	Approved

Comparative Literature
9.  Terminate Course	Eff. Term:	Fall 2007
COLT-388	U.S. Latino Fiction and the Literature of the Americas
	(4)
Reading and comparative study of narrative fiction by U.S. Latino, Spanish American and American writers. Spanish majors prepare assignments in Spanish. Conducted in English. Recommended preparation: reading knowledge of Spanish.
> Approved
In the BA, AMST (Chicano/Latino Studies) major.  Crosslisted as SPAN 

B.  English
New	Course	Eff. Term:	Fall 2007
ENGL-404	The Writer in the Community
	(4, max 8)
Apprenticeship with experienced writer-teachers, providing students with a pedagogical framework and practical experience for teaching creative writing in schools and community settings
•	Approved

C.  Philosophy
New	Course	Eff. Term:	Fall 2007
PHIL 137g	Social Ethics for Earthlings and Others
	(4)
A systematic study of contemporary issues in social and political philosophy engaging multimedia works of science fiction to illuminate classic Western moral and political theories.
•	Approved

D.  Religion
1.  New	Course	Eff. Term:	Fall 2007
REL-134gx	Introduction to Buddhist Literature
	(4)
Focus primarily on works of Buddhist literature written in a variety of genres. Introduction of basic teachings that link Buddhist traditions across time and space.
>	Approved
Not for major credit for Religion majors.  Grade breakdown cannot include attendance.	

Religion
2.  New	Course	Eff. Term:	Fall 2007
REL-135gx	Religions of China
	(4)
Historical and thematic survey of Chinese religious history from earliest times to the present.
>	Approved
Not for major credit for Religion majors

Religion
3.  New	Course	Eff. Term:	Fall 2007
REL-493	The Art and Archeology of Religion: Beginnings
	(4)
Examination of history of religion through its material expression: art, architecture and artifact. Exploration of different themes and time periods.
>	Approved
Designed to be an elective for the Archaeology major.

VI.  SCHOOL OF MUSIC	
A.  New	Course	Eff. Term:	Fall 2007
MUSC-110	Freshman Forum
	(1, not repeatable)
Introduction to issues and skills relevant to the professional musical world of today.  Open only to Music majors.  CR/NC.  
•	Approved.

Music Industry
B.  New	Course	Eff. Term:	Fall 2007
1.  MUIN-486	Computer-Assisted Music Editing for Picture
	(2)
Techniques and applications of recording, editing and synchronizing music and sounds to film, video or games, using time code and personal computers.  Prerequisite - MUIN 446b
>	Approved
Approval by School of Cinematic Arts associate dean was provided.

Music Industry
2.  New	Course	Eff. Term:	Fall 2007
MUIN-475	Advanced Concert Management
	(4)
Application of theories, technologies, and practices of the live music industry. Focus on the business, management, marketing, promotion, and production of professional concert events.  Prerequisite: MUIN-425
>	Approved

VI  SCHOOL OF THEATRE
A.  New	Program	Eff. Term:	Fall 2007
Minor	Applied Theatre Arts
	(20)
>	Approved