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From the Chair of the College Senate Curriculum Committee

Correction
SOC 490 was incorrectly listed as a WRITING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM (WAC) designation in the March 15 and April 5 issues of the Daily Bulletin. The corrected designation, ORAL COMMUNICATION, appears below, and has been approved by the College Senate Curriculum Committee and by the president.

Course Revision and Intellectual Foundations Designation
ORAL COMMUNICATION
SOC 490 Senior Seminar in Sociology

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

Program Revision:
B.S. Hospitality Administration, HTR-BR (0437)

New Courses:
CHE 572 Advanced Biochemistry. Prerequisite: CHE 571 or CHE 470; not open to students who have had CHE 472 or equivalent. Examination of metabolic processes in living systems. Relationship of metabolic enzyme activity to cellular control. The chemistry of genetic information, storage, and expression.

FTT 359 Visual Merchandising. Prerequisite: FTT 250 or instructor permission. Importance of visual merchandising in the retail landscape, with an emphasis on the principles and techniques needed to create strong, effective visual presentations. Topics include a history of window display and its transition to visual merchandising, design and composition, tools and materials used in the field, mannequins and use of props, lighting and signing, installation of presentations, visual merchandising’s place in store and corporate hierarchy, store design and planning, computers and visual planning, and safety.

PSM 602 Communication Strategies for Math and Science Professionals. Prerequisite: Graduate-level status. Examination of communications intended to develop strategic thinking about communication of quantitative information and aid in improving writing, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills for mathematicians and scientists within a variety of settings (e.g., industrial, managerial, academic, research), including a set of “best practices” or guidelines that have been derived from both research and experience. Students put those guidelines into practice using a workshop format that relies heavily on discussion and in-class exercises.

Course Revisions:
ENT 471 Power Systems I. Prerequisites: ENT 331 and senior status. Basic elements of power systems. Energy sources. Balanced three-phase circuits. Power factor correction. Voltage regulation. Transmission line modeling. Per-unit system. Balanced fault analysis. Load flow analysis using numerical methods. Electric power distribution economics.

ENT 472 Power Systems II. Prerequisite: ENT 471. Calculation of electric demand of a power system. Solving line faults using symmetrical components. Use of equal area criteria to solve simple stability problems. System protection. Electromechanical and numeric relays and their applications. Voltage quality and reliability. Design of a power distribution system for industrial facility.

EXE 684 Seminar in Special Education. Prerequisites: Completion of all core courses except the research requirement and a minimum of 9 hours of coursework from the specialized program. Special education issues and problems: review, analysis, and critique of articles and other materials, findings and opinions, research efforts, and approaches. Each student organizes and leads at least one discussion. Students write a formal review of the literature on a problem or issue of their choice and outline a feasible study of a related research problem.

EXE 690 Master’s Project. Prerequisites: Completion of all core courses including EXE 684 and a minimum of 9 hours of coursework from the specialized program. Study undertaken by one or more individuals on a problem of special interest submitted in acceptable form according to directions given by the Exceptional Education Department.

FTT 304 Surface Pattern Development for Industry. Prerequisite: FTT 208 or instructor permission. Creation of original motifs for prints that are targeted for the fashion product markets; professional methods for transforming original motifs into commercial digital surface patterns and/or graphic prints (using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator); color reduction and cleaning; basic repeat development; colorway development based on manufacturer requirements; awareness of current color and graphic trends, marketability, and industry standards.

FTT 308 Fashion CAD (Computer-Aided Design). Prerequisite: FTT 208 or instructor permission. Intermediate multifaceted skill expansion for fashion product design and technical development using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Fashion product design line/collection development; electronic and web-based portfolio presentation.

FTT 309 Technical Fashion Specs. Prerequisite: FTT 308. Expansion of Adobe Illustrator skills to gain advanced technical spec pack expertise for fashion product development. Encompasses detailed technical drawing and digital skills required for fashion technical designer positions.

FTT 326 Traditional/Computer Flat Pattern. Prerequisite: FTT 224 or instructor permission. Introduction to traditional and computer flat pattern method of pattern making; emphasis on design and completion of selected items of apparel developed from a basic sloper.

FTT 327 2-D/3-D Computer Pattern Making. Prerequisite: FTT 326 or instructor permission. Apparel patterns modified and graded in 2-D and simulated in 3-D through the use of industrial multidimensional software; hand pattern drafting techniques adapted to the computer by creating a virtual custom dress from a body scan and applying pattern modifications in order to create a variety of intermediate to advanced garment style patterns that are simulated in 3-D on a virtual avatar.

FTT 451 Senior Project. Prerequisites: FTT 308 and instructor permission. Fashion students must have completed (1) up to and including all FTT 300-level core courses and (2) all 300-level required courses for their respective areas of concentration, apparel design or product development.