FCS course may be designated writing intensive at CAA

The Council for Academic Affairs will meet Thursday at 11a.m. in the 1895 Room, Martin Luther King, Jr. University Union.

Items on the agenda include academic waiver reports for April and from the colleges of Arts & Sciences, Humanities, Business & Applied Sciences, Education & Professional Studies, and Sciences and an academic waiver report for June from the College of Sciences.

A May16, request from Dean Martha Brown will be discussed concerning executive action on FCS courses 2800, 3245, and 3853 to become designated as writing intensive courses.

A proposal to establish a Speaking-Across-the-Curriculum Committee will be discussed. The committee would serve the purpose of designating certain courses to fulfill public speaking requirements.

There is currently a Writing-Across-the-Curriculum Committee in place which controls writing intensive courses.