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"One additional advanced mathematics course"
This line entry was inadvertently left in after submitting the Curriculum Changes a couple of years ago.  This error has been a recent discovery.
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Expanding the major by three hours will increase our students' breath of knowledge in French and Francophone literature, culture, and history. Reflecting the national trend away from a strictly century-based curriculum, the section will take advantage of the extra credits to build a curriculum invested in exposing students to a wider range of literary and cultural texts. Students will be more conversant in topics, texts, and questions that are important to French and Francophone society, which will increase the applicability and the relevance of the major within a global context.

Because the extra three credits will take place at the 400 level, students will strengthen their writing and speaking skills at an advanced level. They will apply their skills by means of discussion, critical thinking, and analytical writing, all of which will ensure better outcomes for majors and will provide useful tools for any future career.

The French section will also continue to allow students to complete 3 credit hours in a culture class taught in English, to be taken either from the French section's own offerings, or from interdisciplinary courses offered in MLL.
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The teaching of Spanish is in a process of transformation in the majority of our peer institutions within the Big Ten. As of now, we consider that we are out of step in two specific aspects:

1. The tendency to substitute a broad emphasis on culture for the more traditional emphasis on literature

2. The opening of the program to new courses usually labeled Spanish for the Professions, which
includes courses related to language translation and interpretation.

The changes that we are proposing confront directly these two aspects and, always, with the goal in mind of increasing the job prospects of our students in a global market. In fact, we are altering our program after rethinking our mission in terms of those competencies our students will need to have obtained after completing their coursework. We now see the acquisition of linguistic and rhetorical competencies as the foundation of our program, and the attainment of cultural competency, its leading purpose. Finally, we want to reach this goal, first, by increasing our students chances of gaining digital literacy and, second, by giving more value to the
idea of an interdisciplinary major after including the possibility of three additional hours taken in other fields.

In addition, we want to create a structure for our major that will continue to provide undergraduate students the opportunity to engage in research (via the UCARE program, through work in 400/800 level courses, or through work in senior seminars).

Having these objectives in mind, we propose a structure that combines flexibility and depth: i) the flexibility that will allow us to adapt to changing students needs/interests, and ii) the depth that would possibilitate that students engage in undergraduate research.

The proposal presents two specific changes with respect to the previous requirements for the major:

i) We have eliminated the previous two-track system (Literature and Hispanic Culture/Language and Hispanic Culture). Instead, we have opted for a one-track approach that will allow students to design with more flexibility their trajectory throughout the Spanish program (with a set of core courses in rhetorical analysis, linguistic analysis and hispanic culture). In addition, the structure proposed will allow us to introduce new courses into the curriculum. This, together with changes that will be proposed in the description of existing courses, will allow us to advice our students about the possibility of taking courses along three different axesculture, language and translationwithout putting in jeopardy our students ability to finish the major in four years, thanks to the axes communicability and, thus, the possibility of combining their corresponding courses.

ii) In addition, we have increased the number of required hours by 3 (from 24 to 27). The new requirements allow for a high degree of flexibility on how a student may complete these 3 elective hours:

	a. A student may take a course in a related area (possibly in a different Department). We feel that this will encourage interdisciplinarity and the pursuit of a double major (also maintaining the objective that a student is able to graduate in four years).

	b. A student may choose to take an additional 3 hours in a 400 level SPAN course, which would provide them with an opportunity to explore in more depth a particular area of language or Hispanic Studies.

The new structure will still allow a student to complete the major in four years. The following is a four-year plan. This plan assumes that a student starts a Spanish major with no previous knowledge of Spanish, and, thus, that s/he has to complete all the pre-requisites for the major. Please note that this assumption is valid only for a very small percentage of majors, since most students declaring a Spanish major have taken at least two years of high school Spanish (and they typically start the sequence at the 200 or 300 level). Still, we feel it is important that the structure will allow a student with no prior background in Spanish to complete the major in four years:

			FALL				SPRING

YEAR 1		SPAN 101				SPAN 102

YEAR 2		SPAN 210				SPAN 203
                                                        SPAN 204

YEAR 3		SPAN 303				SPAN 305
                SPAN 304				SPAN 317
                                                        SPAN 321/331

YEAR 4		SPAN 3xx				SPAN 4xx
                SPAN 3xx				SPAN 4xx
                SPAN 4xx				SPAN 3xx/4xx/or related
                                                        area
 Expanding the minor by 6 hours brings more breadth to the minor, as the new plan encompasses courses on literature, culture, film, and other courses related to Japanese Studies.

 Invigorates students' proficiency in Japanese as a less-commonly-taught language and cultural literacy.

 Develops cross-listed courses and establish ties with other departments.
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The Executive Committee of the Harris Center for Judaic Studies concluded that the list of core courses was too restrictive, and should be increased from 2 to 4, from which students may choose. It also felt that 18 hours for the Minor were too many, given the limited number of faculty available to teach in this area in any given year; this made it too difficult to complete the Minor in a reasonable time frame.
We are removing this line entry from Option E under the Bachelor of Science area
"One additional advanced mathematics course"
This line entry was inadvertently left in after submitting the Curriculum Changes a couple of years ago.  This error has been a recent discovery.
Expanding the major by three hours will increase our students' breath of knowledge in French and Francophone literature, culture, and history. Reflecting the national trend away from a strictly century-based curriculum, the section will take advantage of the extra credits to build a curriculum invested in exposing students to a wider range of literary and cultural texts. Students will be more conversant in topics, texts, and questions that are important to French and Francophone society, which will increase the applicability and the relevance of the major within a global context.

Because the extra three credits will take place at the 400 level, students will strengthen their writing and speaking skills at an advanced level. They will apply their skills by means of discussion, critical thinking, and analytical writing, all of which will ensure better outcomes for majors and will provide useful tools for any future career.

The French section will also continue to allow students to complete 3 credit hours in a culture class taught in English, to be taken either from the French section's own offerings, or from interdisciplinary courses offered in MLL.

Despite the proposed changes, it will be possible to complete the French major as part of a four-year plan (beginning with FREN 101 and following the accelerated sequence by taking FREN 210). Here is a basic outline (with a slash separating fall and spring semesters. Year 1: 101 / 102 Year 2: 210/ 203, 204, extra 300-class (can be in English, could also be another semester). Year 3: 301, 303, / 302, 304; Year4: 4xx, 4xx,/ 4xx, 4xx
 Expanding the minor by 6 hours brings more breadth to the minor, as the new plan encompasses courses on literature, culture, film, and other courses related to Japanese Studies.

 Invigorates students' proficiency in Japanese as a less-commonly-taught language and cultural literacy.

 Develops cross-listed courses and establish ties with other departments.
 Plan B minor is eliminated.
Updating bulletin section.

The Executive Committee of the Harris Center for Judaic Studies concluded that the list of core courses was too restrictive, and should be increased from 2 to 4, from which students may choose. It also felt that 18 hours for the Minor were too many, given the limited number of faculty available to teach in this area in any given year; this made it too difficult to complete the Minor in a reasonable time frame.
Updating bulletin section.
 Expanding the minor by 6 hours brings more breadth to the minor, as the new plan encompasses courses on literature, culture, film, and other courses related to Japanese Studies.

 Invigorates students' proficiency in Japanese as a less-commonly-taught language and cultural literacy.

 Develops cross-listed courses and establish ties with other departments.
 Plan B minor is eliminated.
The teaching of Spanish is in a process of transformation in the majority of our peer institutions within the Big Ten. As of now, we consider that we are out of step in two specific aspects:

1. The tendency to substitute a broad emphasis on culture for the more traditional emphasis on literature

2. The opening of the program to new courses usually labeled Spanish for the Professions, which
includes courses related to language translation and interpretation.

The changes that we are proposing confront directly these two aspects and, always, with the goal in mind of increasing the job prospects of our students in a global market. In fact, we are altering our program after rethinking our mission in terms of those competencies our students will need to have obtained after completing their coursework. We now see the acquisition of linguistic and rhetorical competencies as the foundation of our program, and the attainment of cultural competency, its leading purpose. Finally, we want to reach this goal, first, by increasing our students chances of gaining digital literacy and, second, by giving more value to the
idea of an interdisciplinary major after including the possibility of three additional hours taken in other fields.

In addition, we want to create a structure for our major that will continue to provide undergraduate students the opportunity to engage in research (via the UCARE program, through work in 400/800 level courses, or through work in senior seminars).

Having these objectives in mind, we propose a structure that combines flexibility and depth: i) the flexibility that will allow us to adapt to changing students needs/interests, and ii) the depth that would possibilitate that students engage in undergraduate research.

The proposal presents two specific changes with respect to the previous requirements for the major:

i) We have eliminated the previous two-track system (Literature and Hispanic Culture/Language and Hispanic Culture). Instead, we have opted for a one-track approach that will allow students to design with more flexibility their trajectory throughout the Spanish program (with a set of core courses in rhetorical analysis, linguistic analysis and hispanic culture). In addition, the structure proposed will allow us to introduce new courses into the curriculum. This, together with changes that will be proposed in the description of existing courses, will allow us to advice our students about the possibility of taking courses along three different axesculture, language and translationwithout putting in jeopardy our students ability to finish the major in four years, thanks to the axes communicability and, thus, the possibility of combining their corresponding courses.

ii) In addition, we have increased the number of required hours by 3 (from 24 to 27). The new requirements allow for a high degree of flexibility on how a student may complete these 3 elective hours:

	a. A student may take a course in a related area (possibly in a different Department). We feel that this will encourage interdisciplinarity and the pursuit of a double major (also maintaining the objective that a student is able to graduate in four years).

	b. A student may choose to take an additional 3 hours in a 400 level SPAN course, which would provide them with an opportunity to explore in more depth a particular area of language or Hispanic Studies.

The new structure will still allow a student to complete the major in four years. The following is a four-year plan. This plan assumes that a student starts a Spanish major with no previous knowledge of Spanish, and, thus, that s/he has to complete all the pre-requisites for the major. Please note that this assumption is valid only for a very small percentage of majors, since most students declaring a Spanish major have taken at least two years of high school Spanish (and they typically start the sequence at the 200 or 300 level). Still, we feel it is important that the structure will allow a student with no prior background in Spanish to complete the major in four years:

			FALL				SPRING

YEAR 1		SPAN 101				SPAN 102

YEAR 2		SPAN 210				SPAN 203
                                                        SPAN 204

YEAR 3		SPAN 303				SPAN 305
                SPAN 304				SPAN 317
                                                        SPAN 321/331

YEAR 4		SPAN 3xx				SPAN 4xx
                SPAN 3xx				SPAN 4xx
                SPAN 4xx				SPAN 3xx/4xx/or related
                                                        area
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