UpDate - Vol. 12, No. 22, Page 1
March 4, 1993
Senate approves 6 bachelor's degrees, adds master's option

     Six new bachelor's degrees and a family nurse practitioner option
within an existing master's degree program were approved Monday by the
University Faculty Senate.
     The new degrees include a B.A. in women's studies, a B.A. in classical
studies, a B.R.N. or baccalaureate for registered nurses and three B.A
programs combining German, Spanish or French with political science and
requiring a study-abroad semester.
     The B.R.N. is intended to allow registered nurses with an associate's
degree or diploma to concentrate on upper-level courses leading to a
baccalaureate.
     Students can enroll in September for the new nurse practitioner
program, an option within the existing master of science degree in nursing.
The option requires 147 credits and can be completed in four semesters.
     Nurse practitioners trained elsewhere have been employed as primary
care givers in the state for more than a decade, according to Janice
Selekman, chairperson of the Department of Advanced Nursing Science. She
added that planning for the program was supported by a grant from the
Delaware Institute for Medical Education and Research.
     The senate also established honors degees for programs in the
Department of Nutrition and Dietetics within the College of Human
Resources, for geography and geography education and for foreign languages
and literatures and foreign language education majors within the College of
Arts and Science. International honors certificates for those students
completing the new foreign language/political science degree combination
also were approved.
     Several questions were raised about the study-abroad requirement of
the new bachelor's programs combining foreign language and political
science. John J. Hurt, acting chairperson of the Department of Foreign
Languages and Literatures, assured the senators that "no qualified student
would be barred from the program because of financial need," indicating
that scholarships from the Office of International Programs and Special
Sessions would be made available.
     Hurt told the senate that the new bachelor's programs were not the
equivalent of a double major, but were "better than a minor" in that they
required 21 hours of language instead of the normal 18 hours for a minor.
     The senate revised the academic renewal policy, which allows students
who return to the University after five calendar years to set aside those
courses with grades lower than a C, a policy that also applies to transfer
students. The senate removed the phrase "(students) who have been dropped
from matriculated status for academic reasons" and changed the C to
C-minus.
     During the announcements for challenge, the senate revised and
reworded a number of degree programs. It also created a new minor in
agricultural business management/ agricultural economics and created a new
concentration in food marketing within the existing agricultural business
management major.
     Under new business, Michelle Shapiro of the Delaware Undergraduate
Student Congress (DUSC) presented a proposal urging that senate resolutions
affecting the student body be reviewed and voted upon by DUSC before
presentation to the full senate. If DUSC votes against the resolution, the
proposal suggests that the senate must gain a two-thirds vote in favor for
the resolution to pass. The proposal was sent to the executive committee.
                                        -Cornelia Weil