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From the Chair of the College Senate Curriculum Committee
Advanced to the College Senate Curriculum Committee
The following have been received in the College Senate Office and forwarded to the Senate Curriculum Committee for fall 2012 review and approval:

Program Revision:
From B.A. Chemistry to B.S. Chemistry, BA-NS-CHE

New Courses:
SCI 650 Curricular Research Topics in Science Education. Prerequisite: Acceptance to M.S.Ed. science education program. Nature of science educational research: problem analysis; descriptive and inferential statistics; experimental design; strategy of historical, descriptive, and experimental studies. Analysis of contemporary educational research, including studies of teaching effectiveness (classroom management, learning standards, data-driven instructional decision making), student learning (cognitive learning theory, learning progressions, misconceptions), and school culture (beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors that characterize a school).

SCI 677 Initial Middle School Science Teaching Experience. Prerequisite: SCI 502. Assignment to a supervised middle school science teaching placement for five full days a week for eight consecutive weeks. Students effectively demonstrate content knowledge, pedagogical preparation, instructional delivery, classroom management, knowledge of student development. They collaborate with school professionals and implement reflective practice.

SCI 678 Initial High School Science Teaching Experience. Prerequisite: SCI 502. Assignment to a supervised high school science teaching placement for five full days a week for eight consecutive weeks. Students effectively demonstrate content knowledge, pedagogical preparation, instructional delivery, classroom management, knowledge of student development. They collaborate with school professionals and implement reflective practice.

SCI 679 Seminar in Science Education. Prerequisites: Acceptance to M.S.Ed program. Corequisites: SCI 677 and SCI 678. Taken simultaneously with student teaching. Supplements concurrent courses in areas connecting pedagogical theory with in-class experiences and practice.

Course Revision:
SCI 502 Secondary Science Teaching: Theory, Content, and Pedagogy. Prerequisites: EDF 503, EDU 609, EXE 500, and SCI 664 or equivalent (may be taken concurrently); acceptance to the graduate program. Use of inquiry-based teaching techniques to develop candidates’ science teaching skills following standards. Teaching, curriculum design, and lesson-planning strategies and techniques, classroom management, lab safety, science resources, the nature of science, assessment, unit and lesson planning, classroom management, and professional dispositions for teachers. Middle and high school science classrooms. Should be taken the semester before student teaching.