Curricular Items
Posted: Wednesday, February 22, 2012Curricular Items
From the Chair of the College Senate Curriculum Committee
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:
Course Revisions:
PHI 309 Knowledge and Justification. Prerequisite: One PHI course or instructor permission. Investigation of knowledge and justification; topics may include perception, memory, consciousness, reason, and testimony as sources of knowledge and justification; the nature, structure, and scope of knowledge and justification; and skepticism.
PHI 312 Philosophy of Mind. Prerequisite: One PHI course or instructor permission. Investigation of the mind-body problem; Cartesian dualism, logical behaviorism, identity theory, functionalism, eliminative materialism, property dualism, qualia, and intentionality.
PHI 318 Modern Philosophy. Prerequisite: PHI 317. Readings in selected primary texts from modern philosophers such as Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant; focus on the original visionary contribution of each thinker to the intellectual development of Western thought; learning to read a philosophical work.
Advanced to the President
The following have been approved by the Senate Curriculum Committee and forwarded to the president for review and approval:
Program Revisions:
B.A. Biology, BA-NS-BIO
B.S. Biology Education (7–12), BS-NS-BGS
B.S. Biology Education (7–12, 5–6 Extension), BS-NS-BGX
Postbaccalaureate Teacher Certification Biology (7–12), UG-PBC-NS-BGS
Postbaccalaureate Teacher Certification Biology (7–12, 5–6 Extension), UG-PBC-NS-BGX
Minor in Legal Studies, LGL
New Courses:
ENT 671 Power Systems Analysis I
ENT 672 Power Systems Analysis II
PAD 601 Public Budgeting
Course Revisions:
HTR 305 Applied Culinary Arts
PHI 103 Introduction to logic
TEC 101 Technical Drawing
