AS-862-19 Resolution on Creation of New Department for Interdisciplinary Studies in the Liberal Arts

The College of Liberal Arts (CLA) has identified several benefits for formally combining two programs – the Interdisciplinary Studies (BA) program and the Science, Technology and Society (minors) program and elevating the combined programs into one new department called Interdisciplinary Studies in the Liberal Arts Department; and the benefits and the structure of the new department are provided in the attachment to this resolution; and said change in status and name has been approved by the college of Liberal Arts department chairs/program directors and the CLA Interim Dean; and approval for combining these two programs into a new department has been given by all college Deans and the Provost; therefore be it that the Academic Senate of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo approve the creation of a new CLA department, Interdisciplinary Studies in the Liberal Arts Department

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Table of Contents 2| For a Young South Dakota Man— Freya Manfred 4| A Home Away From Words— Freya Manfred 5| Ode to Indigo— Freya Manfred 6| Still Wild — Freya Manfred 7| With the Dead at Blue Mound — Freya Manfred 8| Fulcrum —B.J. Buckley 9| Whisperer — B.J. Buckley 10| Vixen Song —B.J. Buckley 11| Circuit Breaker — Brandon Krieg 12| Tipped Past Equinox — Brandon Krieg 13| Touched by Arctic Air the World Turns White — Brandon Krieg 14| Sudden Open — Brandon Krieg 15| Garden Unguarded — Brandon Krieg 16| Pastoral — Steven R. Vogel 18| Spanish Girls— Steven R. Vogel 20| Paupers in the Rain— Steven R. Vogel 22| The Good-Girl House — Erin Flanagan 31| Nine Years Old — Laurence Snydal 32| The Lesson — Bruce Roseland 34| Judge/Judge Not — Bruce Roseland 36| Turning a Page — Bruce Roseland 37| Wasted — Suzanne Allison-Albers 40| To Wait — Aaron Cloyd 41| Relinquishment — Aaron Cloyd 42| In Which Bobby Allison, Buicks, And A Childhood Sweetheart May Or May Not Appear — Roger Hart 50| A Fan in the Stands Makes His Wishes Known— John S. Nelson 53| Descended from Refugees— Rosemary Dunn Moller 54| Strolling Downhill with Sisyphus— Rosemary Dunn Moller 56| the words of gods — Zac Walsh 57| If I Live, I Work — Zac Walsh 58| Earthly Home— Sharon Chmielarz 59| To Put My Finger on It— Sharon Chmielarz 60| The Robin’s Wife— Sharon Chmielarz 61| The Old Woman in a Time of Aggression— Sharon Chmielarz 62| a nightmare a dream and someone else’s memories — Storm Ainsely 68| Birth, War, Now — Susan D. Bassett 71| Unwanted Inheritance — Adrian S. Potter 72| Meditation During a Mask Mandate — Adrian S. Potter 73| Covetous — Adrian S. Potter 74| Open Graves — Grace Lundeen 76| Ghost Town — Arystan Jurgens 83| Nightmares of the Lakota — Dallas Kelso 88| The Red Shoe— Saige Anderson 90| Holocaust— Saige Anderson 91| The Cup— Hannah LeMair 92| One, Just One — Wynn Sandman 98| Death is a Final Peace — Abigail Muller 100| Modern Vampires — Jordan Heisler 119| Riverside Avenue — Cole W. Williams 120| Cedar-Riverside, Minneapolis, Circa 1990 — Benjamin D. Carson 122| The Hole — Benjamin D. Carson 123| The Trapping Web — Benjamin D. Carson 124| The Final Cut — Benjamin D. Carson 125| Reverberations — D.A. Hickman 126| An Excerpt from Dog on Fire— Terese Svoboda 130| The Photograph Album— Noreen Oesterlein 131| Sin Line— Noreen Oesterlein 132| The Recital — Edward Voeller 137| Need— Cheyenne Marco 138| Reckoning— Cheyenne Marco 139| Spring Thaw— Cheyenne Marco 140| Of the Seven Deadly Sins— David Allan Evans 142| I Am— David Allan Evans 143| When it Comes to Finding Words to Say— David Allan Evans 144| What If?— David Allan Evans 145| The Evolution of Zebra Stripes— David Allan Evans 147| Writing the Midwest: Sarah Fawn Montgomery and Jody Keisner in Conversation 153| A Year’s Turning— Ruth Harper 154| Erasures — Alayna Steckelberg 156| The King’s Birthday — David Larsen 162| Grandma — Kristin Gifford 163| Foxglove in Late September — Kristin Gifford 164| Panhandlers —Peter Colson 166| On Donating My Body to Science—Peter Colson 168| It’s Kind of a Weird Story — Haley Winiarski 173| Things the Internet Has Ruined (Gift-Giving) — Donna Kathryn Kelly 178| Contributor Note

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