Curricular Items
Posted: Thursday, April 30, 2015Curricular Items
From the Chair of the College Senate Curriculum Committee
Advanced to the President
The follow have been approved by the College Senate Curriculum Committee and forwarded to the president for review and approval:
New Course:
PAD 688 Leadership in Public and Nonprofit Organizations
New Course with Intellectual Foundations Designation:
GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT
ARA 101 Beginning Arabic I
Course Revision:
MAT 263 Calculus III
Course Revision with Intellectual Foundations Infusion (INF)
CHE 471 Biochemical Techniques (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 in the College Senate Office and forwarded to the College Senate Curriculum Committee for review:
Program Revision:
B.S. Applied Mathematics, BS-NS AMT
New Courses:
COM 314 Advertising Copywriting. Prerequisites: COM 210, COM 301. Intensive practice in planning, writing, and evaluating advertising messages; informative and persuasive writing for print, broadcast, and online media; advertising creativity, ethics, and persuasion theory. Offered annually.
DMP 222 Music Business. Introduction to the fundamental aspects of the music business: music publishing, copyright, artist management, concert promotion, contracts, and career development. Offered annually.
DMP 352 Sound Synthesis. Prerequisite: Minor in digital music production. Exploring the creation and sculpting of analog and digital sound through the control and manipulation of hardware and software music synthesizers. Offered annually.
DMP 431 Advanced Mixing Techniques. Prerequisites: Minor in digital music production, DMP 341. Advanced mixing techniques used across multiple genres of music, covering signal flow, audio processing, analytical listening skills, and software for music production. Offered annually.
TFA 470 Business of Television. Prerequisites: TFA 450, instructor permission. Offered through the TFA Semester in NYC program only. Overview of the history of television and the ways in which television programs are financed, produced, distributed, and marketed. Offered annually.
TFA 471 Business of Film. Prerequisites: Major in television and film arts or media production, instructor permission. The history of how films are financed, produced, distributed, and marketed. Offered annually.
New Course and Intellectual Foundations Designation:
DIVERSITY
NFS 120 Diversity in American People and Food Culture. Diversity in American people, their foods, and food culture and how that integrates with social and cultural diversity. Brief review of the historic background of ethnic and cultural diversity in America and discussion of the multiculturalism and legal provisions developed as a response to discrimination and social injustice. Designed to help students live and work in a multicultural society as responsible citizens.
Course Revisions:
CHE 301 Analytical Chemistry. Prerequisites: CHE 112, CHE 114. Fundamental principles and laboratory applications of analytical chemistry. Elementary statistics, chemical equilibrium, acids and bases, redox reactions, gravimetry, separations, spectrophotometry, and basic electrochemistry. Laboratory experiences including acquisition of hands-on analytical laboratory skills and guided experiments selected from course topics.
CHE 403 Instrumental Analysis. Prerequisites: CHE 301; CHE 331 or CHE 306 (CHE 306 may be taken concurrently with instructor permission). Principles of analytical instruments and their applications for chemical analysis. Statistics, basic optics, various optical spectroscopic methods, chromatography, electrochemical methods, and mass spectrometry. Laboratory experiments using analytical instruments chosen from class topics.
COM 418 Campaigns in Public Relations and Advertising. Prerequisites: COM 301, COM 308. Capstone professional experience in strategic integrated communication based on public relations and advertising; experience in developing campaigns for an actual client with focus on formative research, strategy, tactics, evaluation, and client presentation. Offered every semester.
Course Revisions and Intellectual Foundations Infusions:
HEW 312 Methods and Materials in Health and Wellness (W – ORAL COMMUNICATION). Prerequisites: CWP 102, HEW 204, HEW 305. Oral and written communication skills appropriately delivered via instructional methodologies and materials necessary to create, select, and deliver health and wellness programs; constructed for health education/promotion and wellness audiences.
HEW 401 Assessment and Evaluation in Health and Wellness (IM). Prerequisite: HEW 305. Concepts surrounding assessment and evaluation of health promotion programs; health promotion process and planning including needs assessment, evaluation measures, research design, and measurement evaluation.
HEW 411 Critical Issues in Health and Wellness (CT, W). Prerequisite: CWP 102. Individuals’ interactions with their many environments and the implications for various health behaviors. Facts, attitudes, and behaviors important for confronting critical and current health issues.
PHI 401 Seminar in Problems in Philosophy (CT, IM, W). Prerequisites: CWP 102, upper-division standing or one course in philosophy. Intensive analysis of selected topics in philosophy. Offered annually.
PHI 402 Seminar in History of Philosophy (CT, IM, W). Prerequisites: CWP 102, PHI 317, PHI 318. Intensive study of particular figures or periods in the history of philosophy. Offered occasionally.
CT = Critical Thinking IM = Information Management W = Writing
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From the Associate Vice President for Assessment and Curriculum
The following has been approved by SUNY System Administration:
Program Revision (Name Change Only):
From: B.S. Urban and Regional Analysis and Planning
To: B.S. Urban and Regional Planning