The Council on Academic Affairs Thursday will discuss proposed changes to family and consumer sciences major and psychology majors.

The CAA also plans to announce that application are now available for 2003 Technology Enhanced and Delivered Education grants.

One of the proposals includes introducing four new family and consumer science courses. Included in these courses is Foundations in FCS, or FCS 1000, which would be an introductory course to the discipline. Family Perspectives, or FCS 2000, would become the second core class, and Family Resource Management, or FCS 3000, would become the third of the core classes.

Professional Focus of FCS, FCS 4000, would become the fourth of the new core classes, and would be designed to prepare students for professional practice in the field.

These new courses would replace five courses which would be eliminated under the proposed changes to the major. FCS 4400, Directions in FCS; FCS 3920, Communications in FCS; FCS 3307, Resource Management; and FCS 4274, Orientation to Internships and FCS 3926, Consumer Presentation Techniques, would no longer be offered.

There are also four courses that would be revised. FCS 2244, Consumer Textile, would cover product design and become a three-credit-hour course as opposed to a two-credit-hour course. FCS 2800, Family Relationships, would become a further review course for the new FCS 2000 course. FCS 3820, Family in Social Change, would include greater depth on the subject and become a three-credit-hour class instead of a two-credit-hour class. FCS 4926, Public Presentation Techniques, would become a computer-aided-drafting/drawing applications and evaluation class.

The council will also discuss a math requirement change for psychology majors.

The proposal would change the requirement from MAT 1271, Algebra II, or MAT 1400, Precalculus, to any math class that is numbered higher than 1271.

Admissions requirements for psychology majors may also be changed to a satisfactory ACT score in math for students who wish not to take MAT 1271, in which you must receive a letter grade of C or better to be admitted into the department.

The CAA will also discuss the proposal to remove psychology enrollment limitations for undeclared majors.

The council meets at 2 p.m. in the Arcola/Tuscola Room of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.