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

New Course with Intellectual Foundations Designation:
ARTS
ENG 170 Introduction to Creative Writing

New Courses:
DES 108 Introduction to Digital Design and Fabrication
ENG 302 Technical Writing
ENG 409 Writing Grants and Proposals

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Advanced to the Curriculum Committee
The following have been received in the College Senate Office and forwarded to the College Senate Curriculum Committee for spring 2016 review:

New Courses:
ACM 604 Topics in Statistical Inference. Prerequisite: Instructor permission. Continuous distribution, sampling distributions, point and interval estimation, test of hypotheses. Offered annually, fall semester.

ENT 330 Electric Circuits Analysis I. Prerequisites: PHY 108 or PHY 112 and ENT 104. Direct current (DC) electric circuit concepts; basic circuits elements and their characteristics; analysis of series and parallel circuits; modeling and analysis of DC circuits with multiple sources; electrical instrumentation and computer analysis tools used in performing laboratory experiments. Required for electrical engineering technology majors. Offered annually, spring semester.

MAT 616 Elements of Mathematics, Programming, and Computer Science for Data. Prerequisite: Instructor permission. Introductory topics in calculus, optimization, linear algebra, and discrete mathematics useful for data scientists. Networking concepts relevant to data analytics approached from a mathematical point of view. Mathematical programming to implement a variety of numerical methods. Offered annually, fall semester.

MAT 646 Introduction to Statistics for Data Science. Prerequisite: Instructor permission. Descriptive statistics, probability concepts, discrete and continuous probability distributions, sampling distributions, interval estimation and hypothesis testing of one- and two-population means, proportions and variances, non-parametric tests, simple linear regression and correlation, one-way analysis of variance. Offered annually, fall semester.

New Course with Intellectual Foundations Infusion (INF):
ENT 466 Electrical Design II (CT, IM, W). Prerequisite: ENT 465. Corequisite: ENT 462. Advanced topics in electrical and system design, the design process, and application of project management; a design project sequence that culminates with final analysis, working drawings, schematics, and installation or prototype; final design stages of construction, testing, and installation of a significant engineering project. Offered annually, spring semester.

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

Course Revisions:
ENT 331 Electrical Circuits and Devices. Prerequisite: PHY 107 or PHY 111 or equivalent. Introduction to electrical circuit concepts, both DC and AC; analysis of series and parallel circuits; use of superposition theorem to analyze electric circuits with multiple sources; electrical instrumentation and computer analysis tools used in performing laboratory experiments. Required for non-electrical engineering technology majors. Credit is issued for either ENT 331 or ENT 330, but not for both. Offered every semester.

ENT 332 Electric Circuits Analysis II. Prerequisite: ENT 330 or equivalent. Alternating current (AC) electric circuit concepts, waveform analysis, analysis of series and parallel AC circuits, electrical instrumentation and computer analysis tools used in performing laboratory experiments. Required for electrical engineering technology majors. Offered annually, fall semester.

SPF 612 Data Analytics in Education. Prerequisite: Instructor permission. Developing and conducting school and district data analytics processes. Building a data-driven culture for improving instruction; establishing learning goals; and meeting school, district, and government objectives. Using education data mining and learning analytics strategies for informing goal setting, improving practice, and reporting at all levels of education. Offered every semester.

SPF 632 Methods and Techniques of Data Analytics Research. Prerequisite: 9 credit hours of graduate-level coursework or instructor permission. Research concepts and terms; identifying and addressing issues in industry; sources of information and data; choosing methods, tools, and techniques for professional sciences data analytics; interpretation of findings; organizing, writing, and presenting a professional report. Field experience. Offered every semester.

Course Revision with Intellectual Foundations Infusion (INF):
ENT 465 Electrical Design I (CT, IM, W). Prerequisite: instructor permission; Prerequisite or corequisite: ENT 461. Advanced topics in electrical and system design, the design process, and project management; a major design project sequence that includes preliminary analysis, working drawings, and schematics; preliminary design and its presentation. Offered annually, fall semester.

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