Or, one of these:

Cut the elective
Cut literature to 9 hours
Cut creative writing to 12 hours

None are very good solutions but if we can see our way clear to it, it
might be good for our enrollment to make the major match Literature's.

What if we required 311 or 312 as one of the Literature courses? could
that be a trick that could help?

On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Schloss, David <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear cris,
>
> If we must make draconian cuts, here's a radical suggestion:
>
> Make 226 prerequisite to any higher level writing courses but don't include
> it in the major. It's full of non -majors and minors as it is--that cuts 3
> hours, officially.
>
> Or: let 298 (which is more relevant to Lit) not be officially part of our
> major. But it's required for Lit courses, which are required for our major,
> so they'll have to elect it anyway.
>
> This is just a trick, I  know, to assuage the revolving door Provost.
> Remember the push for Best in 2009 that wasted maybe two years of
> departmental time? Pleasing Passing Provosts is a fool's errand. They're
> gone to the next rung in their career ladders and we're left holding the bag
> for their whims, time after time. B G doesn't know as much about CW as we
> do, to put it mildly.
>
> Jonathan "Tom" Swift
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 1:41 PM, cheek, cris <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> in advance of this wednesday's gathering (room and agenda forthcoming)
>>
>> I've been revisiting the revised Major and whilst i'd very seriously like
>> to reduce our credit hours to 36 i don't see how we can easily do so.
>>
>> The advantage of getting down to 36 is to fall in line with Lit, to make
>> it easier for students to double major (a favored idea of the current
>> Provost), to enable students to graduate quicker and thereby avoid greater
>> debt . . .
>>
>> Anybody else got a brilliant idea?
>>
>> cris
>
>