UNIVERSITY FACULTY SENATE FORMS

 

Academic Program Approval

 

This form is a routing document for the approval of new and revised academic programs.  Proposing department should complete this form.  For more information, call the Faculty Senate Office at 831-2921.

 

 

Submitted by: _Laura Glass__________________________ phone number_831-1647________

                               

Department:  _School of Education_____________________ email address_lglass@udel.edu__

                                                                                                                                                                                                             

Date:   October 7, 2010____________________________________________

 

Action:  _Revise the Elementary Teacher Education major______________________________________

(Example:  add major/minor/concentration, delete major/minor/concentration,  revise major/minor/concentration,  academic unit name change, request for permanent status, policy change, etc.)

 

Effective term___11F______________________________________________________________________________

                                                (use format 04F, 05W)

 

Current degree__BSED_________________________________________________________

                                    (Example:  BA, BACH, BACJ, HBA, EDD, MA, MBA, etc.)

 

Proposed change leads to the degree of: __NA_____________________________________

                                                                                             (Example:  BA, BACH, BACJ, HBA, EDD, MA, MBA, etc.)

 

Proposed name:___ NA_________________________________________________________

                                            Proposed new name for revised or new major / minor / concentration / academic unit (if applicable)

 

Revising or Deleting: 

 

Undergraduate major / Concentration:_Elementary Teacher Education major ___

                                                                                    (Example:  Applied Music – Instrumental  degree BMAS)

 

Undergraduate minor:____________________________________________________

                                   (Example:  African Studies,  Business Administration,  English, Leadership, etc.)            

 

Graduate Program Policy statement change:_________________________________

                                                                  (Must attach  your Graduate Program Policy Statement)

 

            Graduate Program of Study:______________________________________________

                                 (Example:  Animal Science: MS  Animal Science:  PHD  Economics: MA Economics: PHD)

 

 

                Graduate minor / concentration:___________________________________________

 

Note: all graduate studies proposals must include an electronic copy of the Graduate Program Policy Document, highlighting the changes made to the original policy document.

 

List new courses required for the new or revised curriculum. How do they support the overall program objectives of the major/minor/concentrations)?

 (Be aware that approval of the curriculum is dependent upon these courses successfully passing through the Course Challenge list. If there are no new courses enter “None”)

 

None.

 

Explain, when appropriate, how this new/revised curriculum supports the 10 goals of undergraduate education: http://www.ugs.udel.edu/gened/

 

The proposed change does not address additional goals for the Elementary Teacher Education major.

 

Identify other units affected by the proposed changes:

(Attach permission from the affected units.  If no other unit is affected, enter “None”)

 

The Department of English is affected by the proposed changes. Dr. Matthew Kinservik, the Department of English Chair, supports the proposal and his permission is attached below.

 

Describe the rationale for the proposed program change(s):

(Explain your reasons for creating, revising, or deleting the curriculum or program.)

 

Elementary Teacher Education (ETE) students must take an English literature course to meet Pennsylvania state certification requirements. Students in the middle school English concentration satisfy this requirement through their concentration coursework. Students who are not in this concentration take one of 12 specified English literature courses, where 11 of them are for English non-majors. The English department created the courses for non-majors within the past five years, and we made a program change to have our students take them beginning in Fall 2007. However, these courses have not been offered on a regular basis and one course (ENGL 290) is no longer offered. We learned from the Department of English that the “non-majors” courses were created to serve students who could not take the “majors” courses due to pre-requisites, but that the pre-requisites have not been activated and students could still take any “majors” courses. Therefore, would like to make a program change to expand the students’ choices to help them satisfy their literature requirement.

 

We propose to have ETE students who are not in the middle school English concentration take an approved ENGL literature course to satisfy their literature requirement. The list of courses are approved by the State of Pennsylvania Department of Education. Opening up the options to this list of 28 courses would provide students with some flexibility in the very structured ETE program and an opportunity to take courses that match their particular interests and needs for the school classroom. This revision would not have an impact on our accreditation because the literature course is not included in our NCATE/ACEI assessment plan. The proposal would allow our students to continually satisfy state certification requirements.

 

Program Requirements: 

(Show the new or revised curriculum as it should appear in the Course Catalog.  If this is a revision, be sure to indicate the changes being made to the current curriculum and include a side-by-side comparison of the credit distribution before and after the proposed change.)

 

Current Elementary Teacher Education Program                     Proposed Elementary Teacher Education Program

University Requirement

University Requirement

ENGL 110 Critical Reading and Writing ………….3

First-Year Experience…………………………….0-4

Breadth Requirements……………………………12

Discovery Learning Experience…………………3

Multi-cultural Course…………………………….3

ENGL 110 Critical Reading and Writing ………….3

First-Year Experience…………………………….0-4

Breadth Requirements……………………………12

Discovery Learning Experience…………………3

Multi-cultural Course…………………………….3

 

The university requirements can be satisfied by the major requirements listed below.

 

General Studies Requirements

General Studies Requirements

GEOL 113 Earth Science……………………….…..4

SCEN 102 Physical Science…………………….…..4

BISC 104 General Biology

  Or BISC 207 Introductory Biology 1………………4

GEOL 113 Earth Science……………………….…..4

SCEN 102 Physical Science…………………….…..4

BISC 104 General Biology

  Or BISC 207 Introductory Biology 1………………4

Math 251: Mathematics for K-8 Teachers: Number & Operations………………………………………………..3

Math 252: Mathematics for K-8 Teachers: Rational Numbers & Probability…………………………………………….…..3

Math 253: Mathematics for K-8 Teachers: Geometry, Algebra & Measurement……………………………………………...3

Math 251: Mathematics for K-8 Teachers: Number & Operations………………………………………………..3

Math 252: Mathematics for K-8 Teachers: Rational Numbers & Probability…………………………………………….…..3

Math 253: Mathematics for K-8 Teachers: Geometry, Algebra & Measurement……………………………………………...3

One of the following History courses………………………..3

HIST 103 World History I

Or HIST 104 World History II

Or HIST 205 United States History

Or HIST 206 United States History

One of the following History courses………………………..3

HIST 103 World History I

Or HIST 104 World History II

Or HIST 205 United States History

Or HIST 206 United States History

One of the following Geography courses……..………3

GEOG 102 Human Geography

GEOG 120 World Regional Geography

GEOG 203 Introduction to Cultural Geography

GEOG 210 Economic Geography

One of the following Geography courses……..………3

GEOG 102 Human Geography

GEOG 120 World Regional Geography

GEOG 203 Introduction to Cultural Geography

GEOG 210 Economic Geography

POSC 150 American Political system

OR POSC 102 Civics and Economics for Teachers (if ECON 102 is not taken below)……….3

POSC 150 American Political system

OR POSC 102 Civics and Economics for Teachers (if ECON 102 is not taken below)……….3

ECON 100 Economic Issues and Policies, ECON 151 Introduction to Microeconomics OR ECON102 Civics and Economics for Teachers (if POSC 102 is not taken above)………....3

ECON 100 Economic Issues and Policies, ECON 151 Introduction to Microeconomics OR ECON102 Civics and Economics for Teachers (if POSC 102 is not taken above)………....3

LING 101 Introduction to Linguistics……………………3

LING 101 Introduction to Linguistics……………………3

Students in the Middle School English concentration:

ENGL 101: Tools of Textual Analysis……………………...3

 

Students not in the Middle School English concentration:

One of the following Literature courses……………………..3

ENGL 202: Biblical and Classical Literature

ENGL 280: Approaches to Literature for Non-Majors

ENGL 281: British Literature to 1700 for Non-Majors

ENGL 282: British Literature 1700-Present for Non-Majors

ENGL 283: American Literature for Non-Majors

ENGL 284: Shakespeare for Non-Majors

ENGL 285: Introduction to Poetry for Non-Majors

ENGL 286: Introduction to Drama for Non-Majors

ENGL 287: Introduction to Short Story for Non-Majors

ENGL 288: Introduction to Novel for Non-Majors

ENGL 289: Studies in Film for Non-Majors

ENGL 290: Studies in Literature for Non-Majors

Students in the Middle School English concentration:

ENGL 101: Tools of Textual Analysis……………………...3

 

Students not in the Middle School English concentration:

Approved ENGL literature course……………………...3

A list of approved literature courses is available online at http://www.udel.edu/education/ete/english-literature-courses.html

 

Art, Art History, Dance, Music, Music Education or Theater……………3

Art, Art History, Dance, Music, Music Education or Theater course……3

This course must satisfy the Creative Arts and Humanities University Breadth Requirement unless this breadth requirement is satisfied by another course.

 

The following list of approved English literature courses will be available online at http://www.udel.edu/education/ete/english-literature-courses.html.

 

ENGL 200: Approaches to Literature

ENGL 204: American Literature

ENGL 205: British Literature to 1660

ENGL 206: British Literature 1660-Present

ENGL 207: Introduction to Poetry*

ENGL 208: Introduction to Drama*

ENGL 209: Introduction to Short Story*

ENGL 210: Introduction to Novel*

ENGL 280: Approaches to Literature for Non-Majors*

ENGL 281: British Literature to 1660 for Non-Majors

ENGL 282: British Literature 1660-Present for Non-Majors

ENGL 283: American Literature for Non-Majors

ENGL 284: Shakespeare for Non-Majors*

ENGL 285: Introduction to Poetry for Non-Majors*

ENGL 286: Introduction to Drama for Non-Majors*

ENGL 287: Introduction to Short Story for Non-Majors*

ENGL 288: Introduction to Novel for Non-Majors*

ENGL 324: Shakespeare*

ENGL 340: American Literature to the Civil War

ENGL 341: American Literature: Civil War to World War II

ENGL 342: American Literature Since World War II

ENGL 344: African American Literature I

ENGL 345: African American Literature II

ENGL 347: Studies in American Literature

ENGL 348: Contemporary Jewish-American Literature*

ENGL 353: Twentieth Century British Literature

ENGL 357: Literature of London

ENGL 403: Literature for Adolescents: Multimedia Texts

 

* This course satisfies the Creative Arts and Humanities University Breadth Requirement.

 

 

ROUTING AND AUTHORIZATION:        (Please do not remove supporting documentation.)

 

Department Chairperson                                                                                                        Date                                       

 

Dean of College                                                                                                                       Date                                       

 

Chairperson, College Curriculum Committee___________________________________Date_____________________

 

Chairperson, Senate Com. on UG or GR Studies                                                                   Date                                       

 

Chairperson, Senate Coordinating Com.                                                                 Date                                       

 

Secretary, Faculty Senate                                                                                                       Date                                       

 

Date of Senate Resolution                                                                                                      Date to be Effective               

 

Registrar                                                                  Program Code                                         Date                                       

 

Vice Provost for Academic Affairs & International Programs                                               Date                                       

 

Provost                                                                                                                                   Date                                       

 

Board of Trustee Notification                                                                                                                Date                                       

 

Revised 02/09/2009   /khs

 

 

From: Kinservik, Matthew [mailto:matthewk@english.udel.edu]
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 9:01 PM
To: Laura Glass
Subject: RE: English literature requirement

 

Dear Laura,

 

Thank you for the note, and please forgive my delay in replying.  This change makes great sense to me, and the English Department is fully supportive of it.

 

All good wishes,

Matt

 

Matthew J. Kinservik

Professor and Chair

Department of English

University of Delaware

Newark, DE  19716

302-831-3351

 

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From: Laura Glass [mailto:lglass@UDel.Edu]
Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 1:23 PM
To: matthewk@UDel.Edu
Subject: English literature requirement

 

Matt,

 

I coordinate the Elementary Teacher Education (ETE) program and am writing about a change we would like to make to the English literature requirement in our program. Currently, our students who are not in the middle school English concentration take one of 12 specified literature courses to satisfy their English literature requirement and the courses are listed below. Eleven of these courses are for English non-majors, and we have noticed that they have not been offered on a regular basis and one course is no longer offered. Peter Feng explained to us that the “non-majors” courses were created to serve students who could not take the “majors” courses due to pre-requisites, but that the pre-requisites have not been activated and students could still take any “majors” courses.

 

Therefore, we would like to make a program change to expand the students’ choices to help them satisfy their literature requirement. Specifically, we would like to allow ETE students to take any ENGL literature course. Opening up the options to any English literature course would provide students with some flexibility in the very structured ETE program and an opportunity to take courses that match their particular interests and needs for the school classroom. Would you be willing to approve this program change that would go through the Faculty Senate process? Thank you for taking the time to think about this! Please let me know if you have any questions.

 

Best,

Laura

 

Current literature requirement for ETE students not in the middle school English concentration:

ENGL 202: Biblical and Classical Literature

ENGL 280: Approaches to Literature for Non-Majors

ENGL 281: British Literature to 1700 for Non-Majors

ENGL 282: British Literature 1700-Present for Non-Majors

ENGL 283: American Literature for Non-Majors

ENGL 284: Shakespeare for Non-Majors

ENGL 285: Introduction to Poetry for Non-Majors

ENGL 286: Introduction to Drama for Non-Majors

ENGL 287: Introduction to Short Story for Non-Majors

ENGL 288: Introduction to Novel for Non-Majors

ENGL 289: Studies in Film for Non-Majors

ENGL 290: Studies in Literature for Non-Majors

 

_________

 

Laura Glass, Ph.D.

Associate Director, School of Education

Assistant Professor, Mathematics Education

University of Delaware

_________

 

From: Vukelich, Carol
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 10:03 AM
To: Laura Glass
Subject: UCTE Approval of Changes to the ETE Major

 

Via this message, I report that UCTE approved the requested changes to the Elementary Teacher Education  Program.  Specifically, UCTE approved greater flexibility in the ENGL literature course ETE students who are not in the middle school English concentration.   Please attach this message with the University Faculty Senate Form.  Thank you! 

 

 

Carol Vukelich

Hammonds Professor in Teacher Education

Director, Delaware Center for Teacher Education

University of Delaware

200 Academy Street

Newark, Delaware

 

302.831.1657

302.831.2708 (fax)