DEPARTMENT NEEDS

Faculty and students have begun to confer informally about the priority of needs in CLA programs. These categories have emerged; click on a department.

1. ART AND DESIGN

2. COMMUNICATION STUDIES

3. ENGLISH

4. ETHNIC STUDIES

5. GRAPHIC COMMUNICATION

6. HISTORY

7. JOURNALISM

8. LIBERAL STUDIES

9. MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES

10. MUSIC

11. PHILOSOPHY

12. POLITICAL SCIENCE

13. PSYCHOLOGY/CHILD DEVELOPMENT

14. SOCIAL SCIENCES

15. THEATRE

16. DANCE

17. WOMEN'S STUDIES

 

ART AND DESIGN: Write the chair about your recommendations.

1. more class sections of required major classes

2. instructional materials/live models/classroom furniture, etc.

3. more/better equipment/technology/software/technical support

4. more student assistants

5. art gallery program

6. guest speakers

 

COMMUNICATION STUDIES: Write the chair about your recommendations.

1. increase some of the course offerings in major courses to assist
   students in completing their degrees in a timely fashion. Courses in
   the major core at the 200 and 300 levels would be targeted

2. enhance the budget of the Debate Program, which is
   subject to having its funding cut by the Instructionally Related
   Actvities Board

3. set aside certain GE course sections, hopefully with the cooperation
   of other CLA departments, for Speech Communication majors only, or CLA
   majors only

4. develop and possibly add new courses and new course areas to the
   major. Allows majors a wider selection of courses to choose from to
   help tailor make their major experience.

5. purchase new equipment and maintain the equipment we now have in a
   better fashion. Laptop computers, video cameras and related equipment,
   and other needs of the department would be met.

 

ENGLISH: Write the chair about your recommendations.

1. more classes, more faculty, increased access

2. improved instructional equipment (desks, tables, podiums, blinds, but also computer hardware and software)

3. money for Byzantium

 

ETHNIC STUDIES: Write the chair about your recommendations.

1. additional sections of GE courses

2. replacing equipment

 

GRAPHIC COMMUNICATION: Write the chair about your recommendations.

1. additional class sections

2. equipment and supplies

3. renovations of existing laboratories

4. renovation of GrC first floor space

5. visiting lecturers

6. supplements to expenses for research professors from industry

7. faculty and staff development

8. class field trips

 

HISTORY: Write the chair about your recommendations.

1. access: for extra sections of courses in which it is hard to enroll

 

JOURNALISM: Write the chair about your recommendations.

1. an additional broadcast instructor for radio

2. more PR courses

3. new CPTV studio

4. more broadcast classes required in the core

5. more guest speakers

6. more field trips

7. CPTV camera replacements every two years

8. Mac lab

9. photojournalism class

 

LIBERAL STUDIES: Write the chair about your recommendations.

1. insure the LS Advisor position (SSP1A) continues

2. fund LS 211/212 to satisfy GE

3. course access throughout the program, especially Dance/Movement
   

 

MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES: Write the chair about your recommendations.

1. Additional sections of 1st and 2nd year language courses

2. Additional sections of Major courses

3. Replacement of PIRC equipment

 

MUSIC: Write the chair about your recommendations.

1. lecturers to provide the class piano, class voice, and small ensembles to meet the demand
   

2. replacement and repair of instruments and electronics

3. promotion of events

 

PHILOSOPHY: Write the chair about your recommendations.

1. increase 300-level philosophy offerings to help students complete major electives

2. increase percentage of ethics courses to facilitate concentration

 

POLITCAL SCIENCE: Write the chair about your recommendations.

1. policy/methods: more courses in quantitative methods and policy. This is a departmental long-term plan, resulting
   from surveys of students and faculty and extensive discussions.

2. law/hilosophy: more courses in law and political philosophy

3. comparative politics: more courses in comparative politics and international
   relations. This is a departmental long-term plan.

4. expand courses in GE to meet demand

 

PSYCHOLOGY/CHILD DEVELOPMENT: Write the chair about your recommendations.

1. offering additional sections of courses (including classes for
   majors only that are capped at 20-30 students and courses that we
   currently offer infrequently)

2. buying additional hours of professional CLA staff advising for
   PSY/CD students

3. buying lab equipment including updating of computers and software

4. buying materials for class demonstrations including videos,
   equipment, published tests, etc.

 

SOCIAL SCIENCES: Write the chair about your recommendations.

1. access: lecture classes for the major

 

THEATRE: Write the chair about your recommendations.

1. Offering the Voice and Diction class

2. Different lighting system for Room 212

3. Another classroom for theatre students

4. Combat, make-up, fencing classes

5. Different focus on acting class

6. DAT Player (Digital Audio) for 212 sound system

7. Permanent locked display cases on campus to advertise department performances

8. Dialect class

9. PT lecturer to teach lighting design to free up Tim to teach more scenic design classes

10. Entertainment business class Raising funds for production Developing a portfolio Internship program.

11. Weekend course for stage managing

12. Film & TV classes Acting, directing, technical

13. Method acting class

14. Mainstage musicals more often

15. Audition class for students Instruction on all types of auditions

16. Technical theatre class stage management house management box office

17. Non-western theatre class

18. Upper division theory and criticism class

19. Private tutoring for Seniors

20. Film-Acting class

21. More collaboration with Music department

22. Sound effects-sound lab class

23. Costume trailer-put a 2nd trailer there for the costume shop

 

DANCE: Write the coordinator about your recommendations.

1. enhance IRA funds, to pay theatre costs and hire guest choreographers

2. keep the costs down for students who attend concerts, and who participate as
   performers

3. lower class size for dance appreciation.

4. offer dance composition more than every other
   year

5. more advanced level technique courses

6. help to fund the Spring Student Show

 

WOMEN'S STUDIES: Write the chair about your recommendations.

1. upper-division classes in the Minor, esp USCP and GE areas

2. additional sections of USCP/GE

3. activities for Minors and interested student