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From: Patricia Sloane-White <pswhite@udel.edu>
Date:
Subject: Re: Question About Islamic Studies in UGS
0120 Proposal
To: Fred Hofstetter <fth@udel.edu>
Cc: pswhite@udel.edu
Dear Fred,
Thank you for writing to me to enquire about how I
intend to make it absolutely clear to students which courses "count"
for the Islamic Studies minor each semester and how, especially upon Senior
Checkout, those courses will be recognized as counting towards their minor.
These are important subjects which I believe I have addressed by my current
practices as director of Islamic Studies.
1. Each semester, I meet with faculty who are affliated with Islamic Studies and those
faculty who I understand are seeking to address Islamic topics in
their teaching. In concert with the Islamic Studies Advisory Board, we
establish which courses contain sufficient material (our rule of thumb is 50%
of the content of the syllabus) to "count" for Islamic Studies
credit.
2. Each semester, well in advance of registration, I
communicate in various ways with all students who have declared a minor in
Islamic Studies (by e-mail, by notations on UDSIS records) which courses in the
following semester will count for Islamic Studies credit.
3. Each semester, I put the list of accepted courses on the
UDSIS "notes" section of every Islamic Studies minor, so that when
the Undergraduate Services Coordinators in the
4. I send the list of approved courses to the Undergraduate
Services Coordinators every semester so that they can maintain a separate file
of these courses.
5. When I learn that a student has elected the Islamic
Studies minor, I send him or her a list of courses
that have "counted" in the past, so that if he or she has taken those
courses in the past, he or she can request to have them added as approved
courses retroactively.
Does this procedure satisfy you? I believe it is working
well thus far (this is my first year as Director and I am initiating these policies
for the first time).
Please let me know if you have additional questions.
Best wishes,
Patricia
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Patricia Sloane-White, DPhil
Faculty Fellow for Student Enrichment, College of Arts and Sciences;
Director of Islamic Studies; and
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
John Munroe Hall
46 West Delaware Avenue
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
USA
Phone: 302
831-1856
Fax: 302
831-4002
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Date:
From: Fred Hofstetter <fth@UDel.Edu>
Subject: Question About Islamic Studies in
To: Patricia Sloane-White <pswhite@UDel.Edu>, Karren Helsel-Spry
<karren@UDel.Edu>
Dear Patricia,
This year it is my honor to chair the UD Faculty Senate's Undergraduate Studies
(UGS) committee. This morning,
We note that several courses in your program state that the student must take
them when the courses contain Islamic content.
The committee wants to know, when and how do the students know whether a given
offering of the course contains Islamic content and therefore counts in your
program?
Further, when checking out students for graduation, how do you know whether the
course numbers appearing on the students' transcripts had the required Islamic
content in them?
Thanks in advance for explaining how this works.
Dutifully,
Fred