Arts and Humanities Subcommittee
AMENDED REPORT
March 2007

I.  SCHOOL OF CINEMATIC ARTS	Interactive Media
A.  Revise	Course	Eff. Term:	Fall 2008
CTIN-548	Preparing the Interactive Project
	(2)
New: An advanced production workshop in which students design and prepare for the production of their advanced project. Open to Interactive Media MFA students only.

Current: An advanced production workshop in which students design and prepare for the production of their advanced project. Open to Interactive Media MFA students only.
>	Withdrawn
Request was to add 'or departmental approval' to prerequisites.  Department, when informed that a form was not necessary to achieve this, withdrew request.

SCHOOL OF CINEMATIC ARTS	Interactive Media
B.  Revise	Course	Eff. Term:	Fall 2008
CTIN-558	Business of Interactive Media
	(2)
In-depth investigation of publication, distribution, business and legal aspects of the interactive entertainment business.
>	Withdrawn
Request is to change term offered.  Department, when informed that a form was not necessary to achieve this, withdrew the request.

SCHOOL OF CINEMATIC ARTS	Production						
C.  Terminate	Course	Eff. Term:	Fall 2007
CTPR-575  	Directing for Scriptwriters
	2
Practical experience in directing for screen; with special attention to framing, staging and use of camera. Group projects in video or film. Open to M.F.A. screenwriting majors only.

SCHOOL OF CINEMATIC ARTS	Production						
D.  Add	Course					   Eff. Term Fall 2007
CTPR 575a 	Directing for Writers: Fundamentals
			2
Fundamentals of directing for film through emphasis on enhancing the writer's understanding of the director's process. Students shoot each other's scenes on a soundstage, edit and re-edit scenes for in-class presentation.  Open to M.F.A. screenwriting majors only.

SCHOOL OF CINEMATIC ARTS	Production						
E.  Add	Course					   Eff. Term Fall 2007
CTPR-575b	Directing for Writers: Intermediate
			4
Concerns, domains and responsibilities of the film director. Students will complete a five to twelve minute film which they will write and direct incorporating class presentations of work in progress. Open to M.F.A. screenwriting majors only.
>	Approved

SCHOOL OF CINEMATIC ARTS	Writing
F.  Revise	Course	Eff. Term:	Fall 2008
CTWR-415ab	Advanced Writing
	4-4 to 2-4
Changing 415a from 4 to 2.  Impacts Screenwriting minor; decrease in unit value of the ‘a’ section is compensated by increase in the number of elective units. 

CTWR-415a
New: Principles of the two-hour story for film and television, creating theme, character and structure that combine into a feature length story treatment.  Prerequisite: CTWR 414.
Current: Principles of the two-hour story for film and television, creating theme, character and structure that combine into a feature length story. Prerequisite: CTWR 414.

CTWR-415b
New: Creation of script with extensive workshopping of scenes in class leading to a first draft and revision as a final assignment.
Current: Completion of script with extensive workshopping of scenes in class leading to a rewrite of the first draft of the first draft and revision as a final assignment.
>	Approved
The syllabus for CTWR 415a gives no specifics on how non attendance will lower the grade.

II. COLLEGE OF LETTERS ARTS & SCIENCES	Art History
A.  New	Course	Eff. Term:	Fall 2007
AHIS-127	Arts and Civilizations of Ancient Middle and South America
	(4)
A survey of the art, architecture, and archaeology of the diverse array of peoples and cultures in ancient Mesoamerica and the South American Andean Mountains.
>	Approved

COLLEGE OF LETTERS ARTS & SCIENCES	Art History
B.  New	Course	Eff. Term:	Fall 2007
AHIS-128	Arts of Latin America
	(4)
Survey of the art, architecture, and visual culture of Latin America from the colonial period to the present, focusing on connections to culture and society.
>   Approved

COLLEGE OF LETTERS ARTS & SCIENCES	Comparative Literature
C.  New	Course	Eff. Term:	Fall 2007
COLT-311	Epic
	(4)
Formation and development of epic poetry from Near Eastern and Greco-Roman antiquity through the Renaissance to the present. Emphasis on relation to political and cultural change.
>	Approved
This course belongs in the Literature Concentration.  Grade breakdown reflects 10% for attendance and class participation, but credit cannot be given simply for attending class.

COLLEGE OF LETTERS ARTS & SCIENCES	Comparative Literature
D.  New	Course	Eff. Term:	Fall 2007
COLT-375	Latin American Cultural and Literary Theory
	(4)
Survey of cultural critique focused on Latin America as a cultural region and on Latin Americanism as a transnational academic practice.  Crosslist as SPAN 375.
>	Approved
This course belongs in the Critical Thought Concentration.  
COLLEGE OF LETTERS ARTS & SCIENCES	Comparative Literature
E.  New	Course	Eff. Term:	Fall 2007
COLT-379	Nationalism and Postcolonialism in Southeast Asian Cinema
	(4)
Cinema from Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam in local and global cultural contexts.  Cross-listed as CTCS 379.
>	Approved
Belongs in the Media Concentration in the catalogue.  Syllabus shows that 15% of the grade is described as participation and attendance; the 'attendance' part should be removed. 

COLLEGE OF LETTERS ARTS & SCIENCES	Comparative Literature
F.  New	Course	Eff. Term:	Fall 2007
COLT-470	Literature and Media in Latin America
Study of the relations between Latin American literature and different mass-media genres. Cross-listed as SPAN 470.
>	Approved
This course belongs in the Media Concentration

COLLEGE OF LETTERS ARTS & SCIENCES	Comparative Literature
G.  New	Course	Eff. Term:	Fall 2007
COLT-471	Literature, Theory, History
	(4)
Examines the relation between historical and theoretical approaches to literary works.
>   Approved
This course belongs in the Critical Thought Concentration.

COLLEGE OF LETTERS ARTS & SCIENCES	Comparative Literature
H.  New	Course	Eff. Term:	Fall 2007
COLT-474	Desire, Literature, Technology
	(4)
Relations between technology, desire, power and literature through contemporary philosophers, theorists and literary critics. Examines literature and philosophy in relation to global technological planning.
>	Approved
This course belongs in the Critical Thought Concentration.

COLLEGE OF LETTERS ARTS & SCIENCES	Comparative Literature
I.  Revise	Course	Eff. Term:	Fall 2008
COLT-324  Women in Medieval and Renaissance Europe	
	(4)
New: Women in Medieval and Renaissance Europe  Study of literary, social and cultural lives of women during the European Middle Ages and Renaissance.  Reading and analysis of texts written by and about women.  Crosslisted as SWMS 324.

Current: Women in the European Middle Ages  Study of the literary, social and cultural lives of women during the European Middle Ages by reading and analyzing texts written by and about women.
>	Approved
Belongs in Literature Concentration in the catalogue.  Syllabus contains reference to women poets of the time, including 'Vittoria Franca.' Subcommittee chair is familiar with Veronica Franco and Vittoria Colonna, but was not aware of a poet named Vittoria Franca. Will the syllabus need clarification?
COLLEGE OF LETTERS ARTS & SCIENCES	Comparative Literature
J.  Revise	Course	Eff. Term:	Fall 2008
COLT-365	Literature and Popular Culture
	(4)
New:  Study of mass-reproduced verbal and visual art forms, such as graphic novels, comics, animation, popular music, video, graffiti, advertising.

Current: Study of popular culture (e.g., movies, science fiction, detective novel, mass media, the occult, and other popular modes) in European and American literatures. Comparisons with non- Western literatures.
>	Approved
Belongs in the Media Concentration in the catalogue copy.

COLLEGE OF LETTERS ARTS & SCIENCES	Comparative Literature
K.  Revise	Course	Eff. Term:	Fall 2008
COLT-391  Literary Criticism from Plato to Postmodernism   	
	(4)
New: Literary Criticism from Plato to Postmodernism   Survey of major texts in the literary criticism of the West from the Greeks to postmodern theories. 

Current: Seminar in Literary Criticism   Introduction to major critical texts in the Western tradition from the beginnings to the present; particular attention to twentieth century criticism and selected literary texts.
>	Approved
Revise course title and catalogue description.  Belongs in the Critical Thought Concentration in the catalogue.  The sample syllabus has a paragraph that says attendance and participation are part of the grade. It also says that after four absences there is some effect on the grade, but it is left unsaid what the consequence is. For the benefit of the student the consequence needs to be made more specific, and 'attendance' cannot be part of the grade breakdown.
COLLEGE OF LETTERS ARTS & SCIENCES	Comparative Literature
L.  Revise	Course	Eff. Term:	Fall 2008
COLT-448  Multilingual Encounters   	
	(4)
New: Multilingual Encounters   Exploration of multilingual encounters in literary works, films, and theoretical texts.  Topics may include immigrant languages, dialects, jargons, imaginary or hybrid languages, theories of translation.

Current: Transcultural Representations   Study of fictional texts, chronicles and travel narratives in which authors depict cultures other than their own; reading and discussion of literary and cultural theory.
>	Approved
Revise course title and catalogue description.  Belongs in the Literature Concentration in the catalogue copy.

COLLEGE OF LETTERS ARTS & SCIENCES	Comparative Literature
M.  Terminate	Course	Eff. Term:	Fall 2007
COLT-201	Introduction to Comparative Literature
	(4)
Gateway to the major and minor in comparative literature. Introduction to the study of comparative literature through analysis of works in such genres as the novel, short story, one-act play or lyric poem.
>	Approved

COLLEGE OF LETTERS ARTS & SCIENCES	Comparative Literature
N.  Terminate	Course	Eff. Term:	Fall 2007
COLT-310	Spirituality and Literature
	(4)
Cross-cultural study of the literary forms, from ethno-poetic chants to contemporary novels and plays, through which writers have expressed their religious and spiritual beliefs.
>	Approved
COLLEGE OF LETTERS ARTS & SCIENCES	Comparative Literature
O.  Terminate	Course	Eff. Term:	Fall 2007
COLT-320	Epic and Society in Medieval Europe
	(4)
Reading and analysis of epics from across the European Middle Ages; 
focus on the cultural functions of heroism.
>   Approved

COLLEGE OF LETTERS ARTS & SCIENCES	Comparative Literature
P.  Terminate	Course	Eff. Term:	Fall 2007
COLT-343	The Rise of the Novel
	(4)
A survey of influential pre-modern narratives, from picaresque and epistolary designs to psychological, sociomoral, and historicist strategies by Cervantes, Defoe, Fielding, Richardson, Voltaire, Laclos, Goethe.
>	Approved
COLLEGE OF LETTERS ARTS & SCIENCES	Comparative Literature
Q.  Terminate	Course	Eff. Term:	Fall 2007
COLT-372	Women Writers in Asian Literature
	(4)
Examination of feminism's coming of age in Asia by examining canonical texts by women writers of the 20th century, with special reference to Korea.
>	Approved

COLLEGE OF LETTERS ARTS & SCIENCES	Comparative Literature
R.  Terminate	Course	Eff. Term:	Fall 2007
COLT-386	20th-Century Yiddish Literature and Film
	(4)
Study of the major Yiddish texts and films and their social function in Jewish cultural life during the 20th century.
>	Approved
COLLEGE OF LETTERS ARTS & SCIENCES
S.  New	Course	Eff. Term:	Fall 2007
LBST-514	Ideas of Nature in American Culture
	(3)
Examination of how Americans have used nature to think about themselves, environmentalism, American identity, gender/class relations, the American West, and the mythology of Los Angeles.  Prerequisite LBST 500.
>	Approved
This course counts toward the Master of Liberal Studies program.
COLLEGE OF LETTERS ARTS & SCIENCES
T.  New	Course	Eff. Term:	Fall 2007
LBST-590	Directed Research
	1-12
Research leading to the Master's degree. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department.  Prerequisite LBST 500.
>	Approved

COLLEGE OF LETTERS ARTS & SCIENCES
U.  New	Course	Eff. Term:	Fall 2007
LBST-599	Special Topics
	2, 3, 4, max 8
Current issues, trends, and developments in liberal studies.  Prerequisite LBST 500.
>    Approved
III.  SCHOOL OF MUSIC
Revise	Program	Eff. Term:	Fall 2007
Minor	Jazz Studies
	(20)
Change restriction from "The minor is not available to B.M. majors." to "The minor is not available to B.M. JAZZ STUDIES majors."
>	Approved
IV.  SCHOOL OF THEATRE
New	Course	Eff. Term:	Fall 2007
THTR-185	Hip-Hop Dance
	2, max 4
Elements of Hip-Hop dance, including technique, movement, musical rhythm, tempo and phrasing required to develop the skills needed to perform this unique dance form.
>	Approved