The Council on Academic Affairs will be meeting at 3 p.m. Thursday in the Booth Library in order to discuss further course revision for the next academic year. However, the council will not have any immediate items to vote on during the meeting.

Instead, the council will look at items to be added in their next meeting.

The School of Business is to modify its graduation requirements.

The proposed change will enable business major students to take a broader group of classes to develop greater critical thinking and reasoning skills.

Potential courses students could take in order to graduate are CMN 2040: Argumentation and Critical Thinking; ECN 3450: Game Theory; GEG 3810: Geographic Information Systems 1; MAT 2110G: Brief Calculus with Applications; MIS 3505: Advanced Microcomputer Applications and Development; OSC 3800: Spreadsheet Modeling and Analysis for Management Decision Making; OSC 4820: Business Analytics and Data Mining and PHI 1900G: Logical and Critical Reasoning. All of these would be offered along with the already required course list.

A new history course, HIS 3910: The Family in American History, would reflect four decades of “rich historical scholarship” about the subject itself, according to the memo.

The course would also expose students to the process of family history, which according to the memo, is a “different animal than something like military or political history.”

The memo also said the course would be different from SOC 2830: Family and Society, and it will cover a longer time period, starting from the colonial era, and includes an analysis of factors influencing social and culture change.

The agenda also includes revisions to ART 3111: Sculpture 2, and ART 3112: Sculpture 3. These revisions would allow students to enroll every fall and spring semester as opposed to the current every third-semester rotation. The change is intended to help students graduate on time.

Also in the agenda are proposed changes to the bachelor of fine arts, graphic design option and studio art 2D or 3D option, as well as Bachelor of Arts studio art 2D or 3D option. These changes are seeking to allow schedule flexibility by offering extra suitable courses to fulfill graduation requirements. The new class would be ART 2012G: Nonwestern Fine Arts. Nonwestern Fine Arts will also be offered to those seeking a minor in art history.

Dalton Wilkerson can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected].