Pursuant to the S.C. Freedom of Information Act, the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of South Carolina is conducting an electronic vote on the following curriculum matters from 1/29 to 1/31/2013. As votes are received, they will be posted below.
The curriculum committee met Friday, 1/25/2013 and agreed to present the faculty with the following changes to the General Education requirements for all majors in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications. Most of these changes are being put forward at the direction of the University's Curriculum Committee in order to make our General Education requirements agree with the new Carolina Core requirements. The list of all Carolina Core courses can be found at http://www.sc.edu/provost/forms/CCoreCoursesForAdvisement_2012-13.pdf.
Please convey to me your vote—for, against, abstain—for the following changes:
1. Add STAT 205 - Elementary Statistics for the Biological and Life Sciences as a second option for the SJMC STAT requirement.
We currently require STAT 201 - Elementary Statistics. The addition of STAT 205 as an option will allow students who transfer into the SJMC to use STAT 205 as their STAT requirement instead of having to take STAT 201. The committee also voted to put language in the bulletin advising students that there could be a STAT prereq to STAT 201, depending on what they score on the MATH placement test.
2. Make our listing of other required Analytical Reasoning and Problem Solving (ARP) courses, such as MATH, PHIL CSCE, STAT agree with the new Carolina Core requirements.
Several courses we currently list, such as PHIL 511 and many higher level STAT and CSCE courses will not count as Carolina Core courses.
3. Eliminate SPCH 230 - Business and Professional Speaking and SPCH 240 - Argumentation and Debate from the Effective, Engaged and Persuasive Communication (CMS) section of our requirements.
SPCH 230 and 260 are no longer part of the Carolina Core. This will make SPCH 140 the only (CMS) requirement in the SJMC.
4. Change the Fine Arts or Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding (AIU) requirement to include all Carolina Core AIU courses.
Carolina Core AIU courses include some language courses as well as the ENGL Lit classes we require, such as ENGL 282 - 288. This would mean a student could take up to two ENGL courses from 282 - 288 to satisfy their AIU requirement. Right now we only allow them to take a fine art AIU and then require a course from ENGL 282 - 283.
5. Change the text of the SJMC Global Citizenship and Multicultural Understanding (Foreign Languages) requirement
From:
"Students shall demonstrate in one Foreign Language the ability to comprehend the topic and the main ideas in written and, with the exception of Latin and Ancient Greek, spoken texts on familiar subjects. This ability can be demonstrated by achieving a score of four or better on a USC foreign language test. Those failing to do so must satisfactorily complete equivalent study of foreign language at USC through the 122 level."
To:
"Demonstration of proficiency in one foreign language (except Latin or Ancient Greek) equivalent to the minimal passing grade on the exit examination in 122. Students can demonstrate this proficiency by successfully completing Phase II of the Proficiency Test or by successfully completing the 122 course, including the exit exam administered as part of that course."
The new language is the same as that used in the College of Arts and Sciences. Our current language says that a student who scores a 4 on the Proficiency Test can exempt language at the 122 level. In fact, a score of 4 only qualifies a student to place into 122. The majority of SJMC students score a 3 or 4 on the placement test, which ensures that most will have to take at least one language course.
Please vote by sending an email to Van Kornegay.
1/29/13
Van Kornegay - Approved 1-5, 5:00pm
Shannon Bowen - Approved 1-5, 5:21pm
Ernie Wiggins - Approved 1-5, 6:18pm
Tom Weir - Approved 1-5, 8:21pm
Shirley Carter - Approved 1-5, 6:48pm
1/30/13
Tom Klipstine, Approved 1 - 5, 1:03am - that's 10:03pm Tbilisi time
Harvie Nachlinger, Approved 1 - 5, 8:03am
Tara Buehner, Approved 1 - 5, 8:17am
Doug Fisher, Approved 1 - 5, 8:19am
Cecile Holmes, Approved 1 - 5, 11:27am
Seihill Kim, Approved 1 - 5, 12:39pm
Bruce Konkle, Approved 1-5, 3:13pm
Jay Bender, Approved 1-5, 3:14pm
Bonnie Drewniany, Approved 1- 5, 8:09pm
1/31/13
Glenda Alvarado, Approved 1-5, 7:27am
Keith Kenney, Approved 1-5, 11:04am
Karen Mallia, Approved 1-5, 11:20am
David Weintraub, Approved 1-5, 11:58am
Denise McGill, Approved 1-5, 12:14pm
Jim Haney, Approved 1-5, 3:36pm
Ran Wei, Approved 1-5, 3:40pm
Erik Collins, Approved 1-5, 3:42pm
Kenneth Campbell, Approved 1-5, 3:44pm
Scott Farrand, Approved 1-5, 4:46pm
