NPIC - New Programs and Innovations Committee March 19, 2009

Meeting held electronically

I. Old Business
A. None.

II. New Business
A. Notification of 6 Special Topic courses were presented and logged.

Course Number  Course Title Semester Times taught
ANT 298W The Global Community Fall 2009 0
CMD 498 Literacy for the SLP Fall 2009 2
ECO/WMS 398 The Economics of Work Fall 2009 0
ENG 398 Multimedia Writing Fall 2009 0
HIS 398 Alexander the Great Fall 2009 0
HIS 398 Early China Fall 2009 0

Description of logged courses

ANT 298W - The Global Community
Examination of globalization processes and the impact on community, cultural identity, socio-economic institutions, environment, indigenous populations and human rights.

CMD 498 - Literacy for the SLP
This course addresses reading and writing issues pertinent to the SLP working with children and adolescents, kindergarten through high school.

ECO/WMS 398 - The Economics of Work: The Changing Influences of Gender, Age, Ethnicity, Sexual Identity, Legal Status, and Family in American Labor Markets
This course uses economic theory to examine changes in the organization of American family life and its relation to the workplace.  Issues include changes in attitude toward work in and out of the home, fertility and marriage.  We'll examine wage disparities among men, women, minorities, and ages.  We'll study sources and duration of poverty and the effects of globalization.

ENG 398 - Multimedia Writing
The course Multimedia Writing introduces writing for a variety of digital and other media and includes integrating or embedding media within each other.  Students will work with traditional text/composition techniques as well as learning and applying strategies for including visual and sound/audio components.  The course will use rhetorical principles for language, image, and oral communication, and contextual user-centered design principles, as part of the writing process for digital, multimedia texts such as web texts and mass media.

HIS 398 - Alexander the Great
Exploration of Alexander the Great's conquest of the Persian Empire and the rise of the Hellenistic kingdoms until the advent of Rome (ca. 404 BC - 31 BC).  Topics include the fall of the Greek polis, the formation of the Hellenistic monarchies, and the "Hellenism" (Greek Culture) within the contexts of Macedonia, the Near East, Egypt, and Central Asia.  Lecture format with periodic discussion/ debates on various historiographic issues

HIS 398 - Early China
Chinese history from the Bronze Ago to the first century BCE.  Special emphasis on the social, political, intellectual, and religious trends of the Warring States Period, the Qin Dynasty, and the early Han Dynasty.

Respectfully submitted by:
Greg Cochenet