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Skidmore College
Honors Forum

HFC MINUTES  -- February 1, 1999

Present: 

Michael Arnush, Phil Boshoff, Fran Hoffman, Emily Levy, Chris McGrath, Rory McVeigh, Jon Ramsey, Amelia Rauser, Anita Steigerwald.


The Meeting began at 9:00 am, Faculty/Staff Lounge.

Meeting to review course proposals for Fall 1999 semester.

- The Tom Lewis/Larry Hott presentation on "Divided Highways" was a success.

List of proposals to HFC:

  • 1. AH265 - History of Modern Design - Katie Hauser  - Approved

Designate course as HF and add one credit as the Honors  component as HF 200 Honors Forum Workshop.

  • 2. BI190 - Population Biology - Monica Raveret-Richter - Approved

  • 3. CH107 - Intensive General chemistry - Vasantha Narasimhan - Approved Repeat course

  • 4. EC104 - Intro to Microeconomics - Sandy Baum - Approved  Repeat course

  • 5. ED200 - Child Development & Learning - Ruth Andrea Levinson - Approved  Designate course as HF and add one credit as the Honors component as HF200 Honors Forum Workshop.

  • 6. EN105H - Expos. Writing: Honors- Barbara Black/Linda Simon - Approved  Designate course as HF with same number of credits

  • 7. EN211 - Fiction - Linda Simon - Approved

  • 8. EN303 - Peer Tutoring in Expos. Writing - Phil Boshoff - Approved

  • 9. FF221 - 20th C. Literature - Lynne Gelber - Approved

  • 10. FL263 - Fantastic in Fiction - Jon Anzalone  Repeat course- Approved  John to decide whether this is a 1 hour add-on or full course.

  • 11. FS203 - Intens. Int. Spanish - Paty Rubio - Approved  Designate course as HF and add one credit as the Honors component

  • 12. GE113 - Dangerous Earth - Richard Lindemann & Kathy Cartwright  Repeat course

  • 13. HI221 - American History to Civil War - Jennifer Delton - Approved  Designate course as HF and add one credit as the Honors component as HF 200 Honors Forum Workshop

 The Council needs to get back to Jennifer to clear up 2 issues:

  1. - the level of the students' engagement

  2. - ways to assess the type of work the students will be doing to make

   it Honors.

  • 14. HI222  - American History Since the Civil War - Jennifer Delton  On Hold.

  • 15. ID 202 - LS1 Peer Tutoring - Michael Marx  Repeat course.

  • 16. MA111H - Calcullus 1 - David Vella  Repeat course

  • 17. PH103 - Intro to Philosophy - Frank Gonzalez Et Al - Approved  To be offered every semester.

  • 18. SO101 - Sociological Persp. - Rory McVeigh - Approved  Repeat course.


All courses that were offered Fall '98 will be offered this coming Fall.
Other courses to be discussed via email:

  • AN101N - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology - Michael Ennis-McMillan

  • BI275 - Intro to Biological Research

  • CL220 - Classical Mythology - Leslie Mechem

  • MAXXX - Problem Solving - David Vella

  • PY1XX - Images of Science in society - David Atkatz.

The Meeting adjourned at 10:00 am, next meeting to be announced via email.