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From the Chair of the College Senate Curriculum Committee
CORRECTION APPENDED
Advanced to the President
The following have been approved by the College Senate Curriculum Committee and forwarded to the president for review and approval:

Program Revision:
B.S. Physics, BS-NS PHY

New Course:
IDE 404 Interior Design Thesis Research

New Course with Intellectual Foundations Infusion (INF):
HIS 477 Tales of the City: A Televisual Introduction to Urban History (W)
W=Writing

Course Revision:
ENG 300 Writing for the Professions

Course Revision with Intellectual Foundations Infusion (INF):
THA 316 Script Analysis II (CT, IM, W)

CT=Critical Thinking, IM=Information Management, W=Writing

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Advanced to the Curriculum Committee
The following have been received by the College Senate Office and forwarded to the College Senate Curriculum Committee for the final review of the semester on May 10:

New Courses:
EXE 617 Meeting the Needs of Students with Disabilities through Team-Based Approaches. Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Models and methods for working within team contexts to meet the needs of students with and at risk for disabilities. Strategies and skills for co-teaching, consultation, communication, collaboration, and working with families and caregivers.

HEW 426 Applied Data Analytics for Health Promotion Sciences. Prerequisite: HEW 326 with a minimum grade of C or MAT 311 with a minimum grade of C. Expansion of core concepts introduced in prerequisite courses. Focus on developing competencies in applied methods for analyzing and visualizing health-related data. Complete multiple labs and research projects using health data to enhance the development, implementation, and evaluation of health promotion programs.

PHI 221 Philosophy and Yoga. Introduction to Indian philosophy through the study of the theory in and the practice of yoga. Examination of the eight limbs of yoga, as well as the practice of yoga as a whole, including the more familiar part popular in the United States. Description and examination of the other seven limbs. Philosophical issues such as the nature of the self, the nature of reality, the correct forms of knowledge, and what it means to be good, among others, from the perspective of this tradition. Offered annually.

REL 107 Introduction to Islam. Introduction to the fundamental concepts and approaches within Islam including the history of Islam, essentials of Islamic faith, the impact of Islamic civilization on the world’s social and cultural development, Islamic art, and contemporary interpretations of the Islamic tradition. Offered at least every other year.

SPF 612 Foundations of Social Justice. Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Overview of the intellectual traditions informing social justice scholarship and activism. Includes the philosophical and sociological dynamics of capitalism, human consciousness, racism, history, rationality, institutions, and ideology. Course provides a multilayered analytical framework for critical examination of social justice and inequality within and across modern societies with an emphasis on issues in Buffalo.

SPF 615 Foundations of Social Change. Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Overview of social justice perspectives on social change. In-depth examination of current conceptualizations of social change and practical alternatives to contemporary economic, institutional, and nature-society relations from a social justice perspective. Transformations within the global economy have contributed to new structural and cultural expressions of injustice and have inspired interest in alternative policies and frameworks that can address these developments.

Course Revision:
PLN 380 Neighborhood Planning and Community Development. Prerequisite: PLN 215. Exploration of the forms, methods, and tools of neighborhood planning, community development, and engagement efforts aimed at revitalization in the context of historical and contemporary public and private sector policies and practices that have contributed to current challenges. Offered every other year.

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Correction: April 28, 2016
The original version of this announcement, published April 21, incorrectly recorded the title of HIS 477 as Tales of the City: Urban History and The Wire.