New Programs and Innovations Committee Minutes October 21, 2010
Called to order at 9:35am
Present: G. Adams (Chair), M. Bay, G. Cochenet, G. Kowalczyk, K. McGill
I. New Business
A. Notification of 5 special topic sections were presented and logged.
Course # Transcript Title Semester Times taught
ENG 398 Multimedia Writing Spring 2011 0
HON 298 Math and the Environment Spring 2011 1
JST 398 Sex, Slavery, and Sexuality Spring 2011 0
WMS 298 Non-Western World Spring 2011 0
Description of logged courses
ENG 398 - Multimedia Writing
The course, Multimedia Writing introduces writing for a variety of media and includes integrating or embedding media with each other. Students will work with traditional text/ composition strategies and techniques, as well as learning and applying visual and sound components, though the use of visual and audio/sound strategies. The course will touch on rhetorical principles for language, image, and oral communication, contextual user-centered design principles, and the writing process for digital, multimedia texts such as web texts and mass media.
HON 298 - Mathematics and the Environment
Fundamentals of quantitative reasoning and their application to environmental issues: major topics include descriptive statistics, numeracy, modeling and regression with linear, exponential and power functions.
JST 398 - Sex, Slavery, and Sexuality
Investigation into discourses of gender, sexuality and slavery in the Bible, nineteenth century literature, and contemporary society.
WMS 298 - Non-Western World
This section of WMS 298, dual-listed with HON 240, examines gender, culture, and displacement in the geopolitics called the non-Western world.
II. Old Business
A. NPIC continued it's work on the New Minor Program Proposal and Instructions.
Meeting adjourned at 10:40am.
Respectfully submitted by: Gregory Adams
