California State University Dominguez Hills
Academic SenateResolution
(Defeated on 4/10/02)
EPC 02-05 POLICY ON BROAD GENERIC COURSES WITH SUB-TITLES (Second Reading Item)
Resolution:
Be it resolved that all sections of a course which have variable content and are offered frequently with substantially different subtitles shall not be offered more often than once every three years. Such sections may be redesigned to be courses.
Rationale:
All courses should be reviewed through the University Curriculum Process.
There are instances in which course descriptions and titles are very broadly defined permitting a wide variety of sub-titles, course objectives and learning outcomes.
Such courses appear to avoid the curriculum review process.
Faculty are encouraged to offer courses of quality that challenge the students and keep department offerings fresh.
The University Curriculum review process is designed to help maintain that goal.
Consequently, all courses must conform to the review process in the case of frequently offered sub-titled sections of courses, be offered infrequently or be redesigned as a separate course.
In Teacher Education:
TED 494 Independent Studies (Offered every semester)
(01) Art Education
(02) Music Education
(03) Business Education
(04) Korean Language and Literacy
In PACE
IDS 326 Perspectives in Human Studies
Modern American Social Problems
USA: Rising or Declining Society?
Labor and Ethnicity
Human/Computer Interaction
Topic TBA
IDS 336 Perspectives in Civilization
Topic TBA
Topic TBA
Topic TBA
Topic TBA
In General Education (Not a complete list of titles offered on repeating basis often with multiple sections):
HUM 310: Key Concepts
Film and Propaganda
Lives of Faust
Modern Culture
Japanese Culture
Success and Value in the U.S.
HUM 312: Key Movements
African Literature and Culture
Chinese Protest Literature
Harlem Renaissance
Literature and Social Protest in Modern China
Medieval Japan and Europe
Modernism
The Sixties: The Second Black Renaissance
Post-Modernism
HUM 314: Key Issues
French Perspectives on the Enlightenment
Romantic Love
American Dream
Literature and Rights/Women
Art as Social Protest
Encounters with the Other
SBS 318: Cultural Pluralism
Culture in Multi-National Business
Global Perspectives on Sociocultural Diversity
American Jewish Experience
Psychohistory of the Holocaust
Latinos in USA
Latin American Diaspora in USA
Ethnicity & Immigration
Cultural Pluralism in U.S. Society
Japanese & Japanese-Americans
Cultural Pluralism in a Global Context
Cultural Conflict in SW U.S.