What is the DCC?
The Departmental Curriculum Committee (DCC) is made up of History major and minor representatives who serve two-year terms. It involves one meeting during the start of winter term with the course scheduling director to review next year’s expected curriculum and then share a draft with your classmates. The scheduling director for this year is Prof. David Tompkins. After gathering your classmates’ ideas, needs, and requests, send them to Prof. Tompkins’s attention for consideration by the History department (for example, if a U.S. History 300-level is not scheduled to be offered, and one of your classmates needs one to graduate). The current DCC reps are History majors Amalia Pappa, Victoria Semmelhack, and Sydney Tirschwell, and History minor Siddharth Srinivasan.
Being a part of the DCC is one way to make a significant difference for others and to have your History curriculum concerns and needs heard and discussed by the department faculty. We would also like to point out that serving as a member of the DCC, like any dedicated participation on a college or community committee, journal, newsletter, organization, or program, is also a very good item to include in your resumé.
We invite you to consider three major nominees and two minor nominees from our junior History majors and minors who you think will best represent your future History course interests over the next two years.
Would you be interested in future curricular planning for the History Department over the next two years? In that case, we heartily encourage you to invite fellow majors to vote for you (campaign, if you will) and for you to vote for yourself! More DCC election information to come next week!