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From the Chair of the Senate Curriculum Committee

CORRECTION APPENDED

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 Program:
Advanced Certificate in Public Management

Program Revision:
M.S.Ed. Special Education: Adolescence (6342)

New Courses:
ADE 631 Issues in Adult Literacy Education.Prerequisites: Graduate status; admission to the adult education master’s degree program. Examining the adult literacy education system in the United States from historical and current perspectives. Exploring the research, theory, and professional wisdom of the field. Understanding the differentiation among the various adult literacy education content areas and the diverse contexts in which instruction is delivered. Reflecting upon, discussing, and critiquing the current policy, instructional, philosophical, and social issues that affect the adult literacy education field. Conceptualizing and contrasting the various definitions of literacy.

GEG 409 Industrial Geography. Prerequisites: Upper-division status. The manufacturing sector, firms, and industrial location process and activities that have taken place in the United States; production methods and processes; industrial districts and the principal factors that affect the locations of firms; local and regional development; globalization.

GEG 529 Advanced Topics in GIS. Prerequisites: GEG 425 or GEG 525 and GEG 390 or equivalent statistics course. Builds on topics covered in GEG 525, focusing more on digital representation of the human and physical environment, including location referencing from a human perspective, database design, data quality issues (how to identify and document errors), spatial statistical analysis using GIS, the fourth dimension (time) in GIS, and understanding spatial analysis algorithms and models. Introduces programming in a GIS environment.

Course Revisions:
ANT 321 Primatology. Prerequisite: ANT 100 or instructor permission. Study of living prosimians, monkeys, and apes, including taxonomy, social organization, feeding and ranging, community ecology, and conservation; field studies of natural populations.

ANT 324 The Human Skeleton. Hands-on experience with natural human skeletons to learn all bones, landmarks, and features of the bones; how to determine the side of the body the bone came from, determine if a bone is from a male or female, estimate age at death, and estimate stature of the individual.

BIO 498 Honors Research. Prerequisites: BIO 211, BIO 212, and BIO 213; completion of 70 or more credit hours; minimum GPA of 3.4 in biology major and minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0. Independent investigation of an original scientific problem, completed over two semesters with transition to the second semester dependent upon satisfactory completion of research proposal during the first semester. Submission of a final written report of investigation and an oral presentation of work at a scientific meeting.

CNS 612 Conservation Science: Polarized Light Microscopy, Light and Matter. Prerequisite: CNS 610/611. Corequisite: CNS 613. Introduction to aspects of the elements of light, color, and optics as they pertain to polarized light microscopy in the field of art conservation; principles of optical microscopy; how light interacts with matter, especially as it applies to the appearance of art and cultural objects.

CNS 613 Conservation Science: Polarized Light Microscopy, Light and Matter Laboratory.Prerequisite: CNS 610/611. Corequisite: CNS 612.Expands on lectures in CNS 612 by providing practice of laboratory applications related to treatment and analysis of works of art; focus on the use of polarized light microscopy and microchemical testing of materials found in works of art and cultural artifacts.

CNS 614 Conservation Science: Inorganic Materials in Art and Conservation. Prerequisite: CNS 612/613. Corequisite: CNS 615. Specialized understanding of inorganic materials with an emphasis on alternative scientific techniques used for their investigation (i.e., scanning electron microscopy, x-ray fluorescence analysis, x-ray diffraction). Material is presented at a level that prepares students to use the equipment at a basic level, or to communicate effectively with professional scientists who run the equipment.

CNS 615 Conservation Science: Inorganic Materials in Art and Conservation Laboratory.Prerequisite: CNS 612/613. Corequisite: CNS 614.Expands on lectures in CNS 614 and provides students with practice laboratory applications related to treatment and analysis of works of art. Focus on the use of polarized light microscopy and microchemical testing of materials found in works of art and cultural artifacts.

CNS 630 Technology and Conservation of Works of Art on Paper I. Corequisite: CNS 631. The structure and fabrication of paper and the media commonly found in works of art on paper, photographs, and books; examination and identification of paper and media; causes and effects of deterioration in paper and media; student writes and defends the examination report for a work of art on paper.

CNS 631 Technology and Conservation of Works of Art on Paper I Laboratory. Corequisite: CNS 630.Studio recreations of paper and the media found in art on paper using historical recipes and techniques; identifications of media and sheets found in works of art on paper; rudimentary repairs on a variety of papers.

CNS 632 Technology and Conservation of Works of Art on Paper II. Prerequisites: CNS 630 and CNS 631. Corequisite: CNS 633. History and theory of basic techniques in paper conservation (washing, deacidification/neutralization, tape removal, lining, adhesives, compensation of losses, formats for storage, etc.); hands-on practice of these and other techniques on mock-ups.

CNS 633 Technology and Conservation of Works of Art on Paper II Laboratory. Prerequisites: CNS 630 and CNS 631. Corequisite: CNS 632. Treatment of the first project in paper conservation under the close supervision of the faculty; a second project is assigned for examination and documentation.

CNS 634 Technology and Conservation of Works of Art on Paper III Laboratory. Prerequisites: CNS 630/631 and CNS 632/633. First advanced course in paper conservation allows the student to examine and treat a wider variety of media, paper, and conservation problems. Independent decision making and problem solving is encouraged. Short research projects are also possible.

CNS 636 Technology and Conservation of Works of Art on Paper IV. Prerequisite: CNS 634. Final course in the series of treatment courses for the paper conservation specialist; intended to allow the student to examine and treat a wider variety of media, paper, and conservation problems. Independent decision making and problem solving are required. Short research projects are needed for each treatment.

ENG 444 The American Novel after 1900.Prerequisites: ENG 190 and 3 credit hours of literature, or instructor permission. Representative American novels after 1900. Includes major modes of American fiction and the relationships among them. Historical, social, and artistic developments of the twentieth century.

MAT 127 Applied Calculus II. Prerequisite: MAT 126 with a minimum grade of C, or equivalent. Continuation of MAT 126. Techniques of integration; applications of integration; introduction to differential equations including separation of variables, first order linear equations, and their applications; Taylor polynomials; Newton’s method; partial derivatives; and optimization of functions of two and three variables. Graphical, symbolic, numerical, and verbal representations are used for all topics. Designed for students majoring in disciplines that use calculus as a tool. Credit issued for either MAT 127 or MAT 162 (or equivalents), but not for both.

Course Revisions and Intellectual Foundations Designations:

MATHEMATICS AND QUANTITATIVE REASONING
MAT 124 Functions and Modeling II. Prerequisite: MAT 114 with a minimum grade of C, or equivalent. A precalculus course designed for students who have completed a minimum of three years of New York State Regents high school mathematics or the equivalent. Topics include analysis of polynomial, rational, exponential, logarithmic, and trigonometric functions from graphical, symbolic, numerical, and verbal perspectives with an emphasis on modeling and applications of those functions in real-world contexts. No credit given to students who have previously completed MAT 126 or MAT 161 or equivalent.

ORAL COMMUNICATION
MAT 491 Capstone Research in Mathematics.Prerequisites: MAT 301, MAT 417, and senior status, or instructor permission. Independent research under the direction of the instructor. Composition of a research paper and presentation of results at a seminar for faculty and students.

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

New Program:
Minor in International Relations

Program Revision:
B.A. Mathematics (0718)

New Courses:
CRJ 250 Introduction to Intelligence Analysis 
SCI 505 Science Teaching in High Needs Schools(formerly Inquiry and Urban Science Teaching)
SCI 635 Nature of Science

Course Revisions:
MAT 162 Calculus II
PSC 250 Introduction to Law
SCI 664 Teaching Science with Technology

Course Revision and Intellectual Foundation Designation:
NATURAL SCIENCE
PHY 103 Understanding Sound

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Correction: February 26, 2009
The original version of this article, published February 19, incorrectly recorded SCI 505 and SCI 635 as Course Revisions.