UNIVERSITY FACULTY SENATE FORMS

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 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 any ENGL literature course to satisfy their literature requirement. 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. 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 General Studies Literature Requirement Proposed General Studies Literature Requirement

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:

An ENGL literature course……………………...3

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: