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college should get another look if
UNL fails to deliver with the Lin
coln-based college, he said.
Interim UNL Chancellor Joan
Leitzel said Miller should not have
seen development of the institute as
an attack from UNL.
“Ashecomestounderstand, he’ll
see he has a misunderstanding,”
she said. “This will facilitate and
develop engineering programs at
UNO.”
The institute took little notice
when its wheels started rolling in
September, at which time Leitzel
said it was a “complementary pro
gram to (UNL’s) engineering pro
grams ... not an overlap.”
The proposal was prepared by
Ernest Peck, UNO vice chancellor
for academic affairs, and Harvey
Perlman, UNL interim vice chan
cellor for academic affairs.
O’Brien also helped with the
proposal and called it the “frame
work for an exciting concept, and
the means by which we can provide
for growth and development of new
programs at UNO.”
Smith said the institute combined
disciplines under one roof and
showed “collaborative, team-ori
ented leadership.”
An angered O’Brien tabled dis
cussion until the board’s two-day
Jan. 19 and Jan. 20 meeting, when
it will vote on the proposal.
Saturday gave a first taste of the
public engineering debate to James
Hendrix. Hendrix, dean of the Col
lege of Engineering and Technol
ogy, took over the college thissum
mer after then-Dean Stan Liberty
was removed amid controversy.
Hendrix said he doubted the in
stitute would dredge up last year’s
heated debates over the separate
engineering college in Omaha.
The debate took a lighter tone
earlier in the meeting when depart
ing UNO student regent Justin
Peterson gave Smith a sweat shirt
with “UNO College of Engineer
ing” printed on the front.
“Yeah, he’ll wear it,” someone
shouted, “inside out.”
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Medieval major awaits approval
By Chad Lorenz
Senior Reporter
The age of chivalry and cathedrals,
the time of Renaissance artists
Botticelli and Michelangelo, the era
when cities like Florence, Italy, flour
ished as the intellectual and cultural
centers of the Western world—these
soon may be the focus of some stu
dents’ studies at UNL.
A major in medieval and renais
sance studies may be available next
year, said Paul Olson, the program’s
coordinator.
The program needs its last seal of
approval from the Commission for
Postsecondary Education, he said.
The interdisciplinary program al
ready supports a minor, which com
bines courses from the departments of
English, modem languages, philoso
phy, history, music, art and theater.
Pamela Starr, chairwoman of the
program’scurriculumcommittee, said
medieval and renaissance studies con
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centrated on the time period, not the
topics.
“It allows them to see the whole
picture,” she said. “They can make
cultural and historic conclusions.”
The major will require students to
take 30 hours of medieval and renais
sance courses: six in history, three in
literature, three in art, music or phi
losophy, three in interdisciplinary
seminar and 15'hours of electives,
Starr said. Eighteen hours are required
for a minor.
Medieval and renaissance studies
majors will have new classes offered
to them, Starr said. The curriculum
committee is developing
“Shakespeare’s World,” which com
bines studies of English, history, mu
sic and theater into a single course,
she said.
English Professor Robert Haller is
beginning a course that studies cultur
ally rich cities of the time period, such
as Florence, Paris or Geoffrey
Chaucer’s London, Starr said.
Olson said the major probably
would give students an opportunity to
study for a semester in Italy, France or
Greece. Students could visit the places
where the remnants erf the time were
created.
If students found the trip worth
while the first time, they would give it
a good reputation to keep it going in
the future, he said.
“There’s a good bit of enthusiasm
about it,” Olson said. “I think all these
semesters abroad depend on the suc
cess the first couple times.”
A student with a degree in medieval
and renaissance studies has a strong
humanities background, Olson said.
Last year, more people were hired
in medieval and renaissance studies
than any other area of the humanities,
he said.
The program also helps supple
ment other majors, Olson said. A law
student, for example', could learn the
precedents and theory developed in
medieval England, which influenced
the legal system in the United States,
he said.
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