The Council on Academic Affairs will take up an old agenda item at Tuesday’s meeting because last week’s meeting was canceled.

CAA Chair Nancy Marlow, professor of management and marketing, said the meeting was canceled because the author of a proposal the council was to vote on could not attend.

David Kammerling Smith, professor of history, proposed the creation of France and the Wider World in the age of Absolutism, HIS 3405, to the CAA two weeks ago.

The proposal for HIS 3405 states it is an upper-division course in early modern Europe with no prerequisite. The course is intended to better meet the needs of history or social science majors seeking teacher certification.

Kammerling Smith said there is only one upper-division course on French history in the catalog, and HIS 3405 is unique because it explores a national narrative within the context of global history.

“The course is designed to look at France’s relationship within its colonies and other nations,” he said.

Kammerling Smith will be at this meeting to further discuss his course proposal.

The CAA is waiting to vote on a proposal to lower the course catalog number of a geology and industrial technology course, but Marlow said HIS 3405 is the only item on today’s agenda.

The CAA meets at 2 p.m. every Thursday in the Arcola-Tuscola Room of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.