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From the Chair of the Senate Curriculum Committee

Advanced to the President
The following have been approved by the Senate Curriculum Committee and forwarded to the president for review and approval:

New Courses:
COM 335 Talk Radio/Talk Television
ENG 320 Autobiography and Memoir

Advanced to the Curriculum Committee
The following have been received in the College Senate Office and forwarded to the Senate Curriculum Committee for review and approval:

New Courses:
GEG 385 Paleoclimatology. Prerequisite: GEG 101 or equivalent. Methods and theories used in reconstructing and dating past climates. Focus on the past 2 million years, including proxies such as ice cores, sediment sequences, packrat middens, tree rings, corals, and historical data. Causes of climate change and human interactions emphasized.

GEG 423 Biogeography. Prerequisite: Upper-division standing. Global patterns of species distributions and the historic, environmental, and biological processes underlying these patterns. Spatial patterns of nature’s geographic variation at multiple levels, from individuals to ecosystems to biomes. Impacts of humans and climate change on biogeography.

SCI 505 Inquiry and Urban Science Teaching.Prerequisite: Acceptance to the graduate science education program. Instructional strategies for early adolescents including inquiry as content and a teaching approach; classroom management; interdisciplinary team approaches; cultures of urban, suburban, and rural middle schools. Includes field experience at the middle school level.

SCI 635 Nature of Science. Prerequisite: 9 hours of graduate study including SCI 628. Nature of science involving basic values and beliefs that make up the scientific worldview; how scientists go about their work; general culture of the scientific enterprise. Embedding scientific knowledge into lessons and activities as a necessary part of science teaching at all levels.

Course Revision:
SCI 664 Teaching Science with Technology.Prerequisite: Acceptance to the graduate science education program. Development and integration of a variety of visual and audio technologies for the creative enhancement of visual and auditory communication in the science classroom. Specialized technology needs of science teachers.