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Wednesday, October 29, 1986 / University Daily Kansan
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Panel approves new major
By ATLE BJORGE Staff writer
A committee yesterday approved a new undergraduate degree in comparative literature, but officials in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences say funds are too scarce to support any new programs.
"It's a battle," said Felix Moos, chairman of the Committee on Undergraduate Studies and Advising, "and the battle from now on is always going to be about money."
After an animated discussion, the committee approved the bachelor of arts degree in comparative literature on its "academic merits." The College Assembly will vote on the degree proposal when it meets on Dec. 2.
The Ad Hoc Committee on Comparative Literature, headed by Elizabeth Schultz, professor of English at Harvard creating the degree, since 1982.
In a statement submitted last May to Robert Linebear, dean of the college, Schultz said the new degree was designed to combine the study of many types of literature and the literature of one
foreign language, as well as critical theory.
Schultz said, "I'm committed to seeing this program go through I have a deep interest and profound commitment to American literature. To understand that fully, I need to understand the literature of other cultures."
Schultz said she now couldn't teach some of her favorite writers the way she preferred.
"Henry James was influenced by French, German and Italian writers," she said. "To teach Henry James here, I have to teach him in a course called 'The Novel,' and I have to teach him as an American writer."
Schultz said the program wouldn't cost the University much.
"The majority of requirements are already in place in the college," she said.
Allan Cigler, associate professor of political science and a member of the advising committee, said the program would only cost a few thousand dollars.
The comparative literature degree would require the college to generate one new course in critical
theory, Humanities 390, that would be taught by a faculty member from a different department on a rotating basis, Schultz said.
Robert Anderson, committee chairperson of the humanities program, would administer the comparative literature program, she said.
The faculty for the program is already present, Schultz said. Nine faculty members in different departments have graduate degrees in comparative literature.
James Carothers, associate dean of the college, said he thought the ultimate concern should be whether the program would have a chance of getting approved by the Board of Regents. All new programs have to be approved by the Regents.
"As the Regents have put it to us several times," Carothers said, "'Everytime you present us with proposals of new programs, why don't you tell us what you are going to cut out.'"
The Regents require an estimated first enrollment of 50 students. Carothers said.
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