Social Sciences Subcommittee
AMENDED REPORT
March 2008
I.  ANNENBERG SCHOOL FOR COMMUNICATION
A.  Communication

1.  New Course	Eff. 	Fall 2008
CMGT-504	Writing for Strategic Communication	(4)
Writing skills necessary for an organizational communicator; review of strategic writing fundamentals; development of portfolio of diverse media applications based on strategic corporate communication requirements.
>	Approved

2.  New Course	Eff. 	Fall 2008
CMGT-509	Influential Communication in the Marketplace	(4)
Promotional messages as both creative expressions and agents for behavioral change; application of social science theories of persuasion and compliance in interpersonal and mass-media venues
>	Approved

3.  New Course	Eff. 	Fall 2008
COMM-426	Religion, Media and Hollywood: Faith in TV (4)
How religion, ethics and spirituality are embedded, embodied and emplotted in television drama; how secular texts represent "lived religion" to increasingly diverse audiences
>	Approved

4.  New Course	Eff. 	Fall 2009
COMM-443	Health Communication Strategies and Evaluation (4)
Examination of how communication affects health behavior; role of doctor-patient contacts, social groups, community health campaigns, images in media, and advanced communication technologies.  Duplicates credit in the former HP-443. Cross-list as HP-443.
>	Approved
Revise Minor in Health Communication to list COMM-443 rather than HP-443, effective Fall 2009.  Note that this course cannot become effective until Fall 2009, when HP-443 will be dropped, and the revision to the minor can be effective.  HP-443 is dropped (eff. Fall 2009) on the SES report for March 2008.

5.  New Course	Eff. 	Fall 2008
COMM-561	Leading and Communicating Change in Global Organizations	(4)
Communication perspectives on the process and outcomes of globalization; role of large media organizations in the global flow of information; and leadership and multiculturalism
>	Approved
Will increase the offerings for students in the Global Communication Master's Degree.

B.  Journalism 

1.  New	Program	Eff.	Summer  2008
M.A.	Specialized Journalism (The Arts)	(34)
Add new area of emphasis to the MA in Specialized Journalism.  Replace two of the core courses in 
research in the M.A. in Specialized Journalism with two courses in writing about the arts (JOUR 591 and 593), and provide an additional new course (JOUR 592) in the area of the arts.
>	Approved
The council of Fine Arts deans supports the development of this area of emphasis.  The MA in 
Specialized Journalism already has specializations in certain topics (science, education, etc), but the 
arts emphasis involves more courses and a modification of the core.  However, the area of emphasis 
has the same total units (34) and basic structure as the regular MA in Specialized Journalism.

Includes three new courses:

a)    JOUR-591	Arts Writing Practicum	(3)			Eff.  Fall 2008
Intensive writing workshop on the craft of arts criticism and persuasive writing of different arts genres.
>	Approved

b)    JOUR-592	Specialized Journalism: Reporting the Arts 3)	Eff.  Fall 2008
Reporting and writing on the arts; strategies for arts journalism in the digital era; survey of essays and reviews by great critics.
>	Approved

c)   JOUR-593	Arts Criticism and Commentary	(3)		Eff.  Fall 2008
Writing workshops and independent fieldwork; development of critical skills to write socially valuable criticism and commentary about art, entertainment and culture. Prerequisite	JOUR-591
>	Approved

II.  COLLEGE OF LETTERS ARTS & SCIENCES	

A.  American Studies and Ethnicity
New Course	Eff. 	Fall 2008
AMST-342	Law and Identities	(4)
Examines the complex and contested interaction between the law and racial, gender, religious, ethnic, and sexual identities using historical and contemporary cases
>	Approved
Also approved for diversity credit.

B.  Anthropology
1.  New Program	Eff.  Fall 2008
Minor	Folklore and Popular Culture	(20)
Minor consists of one core course (new course ANTH 333), one lower division course from a list of options, and three upper division courses from a list of options.  Courses are provided by American 
Studies, Anthropology, Classics, Communication, Comparative Literature, Geography, German, History, and Political Science.
	>	Approved

2. Includes new course:
ANTH-333  Forms of Folklore (4)   	Eff. 	Fall 2008
Introduction to folklore as a discipline, including folklore research methods and theory. Core course for the minor in Folklore and Popular Culture.
>	Approved
C.  History
New Course	Eff. 	Fall 2008
HIST-303   Barbarians, Romans, and Christians (4)
Exploration of the dynamic transformation of the social, political, religious, and intellectual landscape of the Mediterranean during Late Antiquity, c. 200 -c. 700 AD.
>	Approved

D.  Multidisciplinary Activities
New Course	Eff. 	Fall 2008
MDA-330  The Armenian Heritage: History, Arts, and Culture (4)
A multidisciplinary exploration of the Armenian cultural heritage through the ages -- folklore, traditions, religious practices, literature, architecture, painting, sculpture, music, theater, film and dance.
> Approved

E.  Sociology
New Course	Eff. 	Fall 2008
SOCI-250  Grassroots Participation in Global Perspective	(4)
Theory and history behind the ideal of “the local, grassroots volunteer”:  a direct link between theory and research using Los Angeles as a case study.
>	Approved
Proposed for diversity (deferred to committee at March meeting).  Approved for GE Category VI.