The Council on Academic Affairs is scheduled to vote on three course revisions at its meeting Thursday at 2 p.m. in Room 4440 of Booth Library.

This will be the first meeting of CAA since March 10. The CAA has canceled meetings for the last two weeks because they had light agendas.

The committee added MAT 4370, SOS 2400, SOS 3400 and EIU 4125G to the agenda last week. These items are scheduled to be acted upon at upcoming meetings.

This week, CAA is scheduled to revise MAT 2250, Elementary Statistics, MAT 4370, Topics in Computer Science and EIU 4125G, Cultural Diversity in the United States.

On Eastern’s website, the course description for MAT 2250’s said it is a course on “descriptive and inferential statistics, including measures of central tendency and dispersion, confidence intervals, and hypothesis testing.”It is recommended, as a beginning course in statistics and it is not open to mathematics majors.

It is recommended, as a beginning course in statistics and it is not open to mathematics majors.

MAT 2250 is a four credit hour course.

The department of mathematics and computer science is also proposing to change MAT 4370 to CSM 4370. This class focuses on topics in computer science, which vary depending on the interests of faculty and students.

This class can currently be repeated four credit as long as faculty and students focus on different topics. The course can only be repeated to receive a maximum of six credit hours.

The committee is also scheduled to vote on revising EIU 4125G. This senior seminar course is sponsored by the department of foreign languages.

In EIU 4125G’s course description, it said this course will examine the development of the multicultural nature of the United States.

According to the course description, special attention will be given to the assimilation process and the struggle to achieve social, political and economic equality while maintaining cultural traditions and identities.

Foreign language majors are not able to take the class.

The CAA’s current pending items on the its agenda are CTE 3000G, Consumers in the Marketplace, SOS 2400, Introduction to Teaching Social Studies and SOS 3400, Social Studies Teaching Methods.

Introduction to Teaching Social Studies is a new course proposed to be included in the social science teaching curriculum.

The SOS 3400 course description said that the class explains the goals of social studies teaching, the nature and scope of social studies materials and methods used in teaching the social studies, including those employing instructional technology.

Thirty hours in clinical experiences are required to take the course.

This course is designed to meet the needs of students who will receive social science teaching certification and has been proposed for revision.

There is also an executive action pending on the agenda requesting to separate FCS 3300, Personal and Family Finance and CTE 3000, Consumers in the Marketplace. This pending executive action is requesting CTE 3000 to be deleted from the catalog as well.

In the FCS 3300 course description, it says the class will study the factors affecting the buy-manship of food, clothing, housing, transportation, credit and insurance.

Course credit is not granted for taking both FCS 3300 and CTE 3000.

Jeff Coy can be reached at 581-2812 or jrcoy@eiu.edu