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From the Chair of the 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:

Program Revision:
Minor in Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

New Courses:
ACM 653 Markov Chain Models in Credit Risk Management. Prerequisite: Graduate status. Suggested preparation: Previous coursework or experience in calculus, linear algebra, linear regression, and introductory programming. Hands-on introduction to mortgage lending and the practice of measuring and managing consumer credit risk. Introduction to Markov chain theory and transition roll rate modeling through extensive case study of the collapse of the U.S. mortgage industry in 2007–2008 and the origins of the Great Recession. Risk reporting and segmenting; probability of default; loss given default; house price dynamics; loss forecasting with consideration of micro and macro factors. Use of statistical software package SAS to analyze loan-level datasets.

HIS 362 The War of 1812. Prerequisite: Upper-division status. The causes, conduct, and implications of the War of 1812. Thematic and narrative treatment of the war and its implications for the history of North America in the nineteenth century and beyond; the emergence of the United States as a hemispheric power; the future of Canada-U.S. relations. The war as an aspect of nineteenth-century British imperial history; impact on North American indigenous peoples. 

PSC 307 International Conflict and Peaceful Resolution. Prerequisite: Junior or senior status. Key theoretical traditions and research in international and intrastate conflict and conflict resolution through in-depth empirical analysis.

SSE/MST 631 Learning in Museums. Prerequisite: Graduate status. Foundation for those seeking to develop and implement educational services in museum settings. History of museum education; educator’s role in museum programming; learning theories and their relationship to museums; museum community outreach. Practical experience in researching and constructing educational materials for local museums.

Course Revisions:
PHI 103 Introduction to Logic. Introduction to practical reasoning and argumentation relevant to everyday life; recognition, classification, evaluation, and construction of everyday arguments.

PHI 307 Symbolic Logic. Prerequisite: PHI 107 or instructor permission. First-order logic with identity and its uses in evaluating ordinary language arguments. Syntax, semantics, and system of natural deduction.

PHI 309 Knowledge and Justification. Prerequisite: One course in philosophy 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 course in philosophy or instructor permission. Investigation of the mind-body problem; Cartesian dualism, logical behaviorism, the identity theory, functionalism, eliminative materialism, property dualism, qualia, and intentionality.

PHI 317 Ancient Philosophy. Prerequisite: Upper-division status or one course in philosophy. Readings in selected primary texts (in translation) of significant philosophers of ancient Greece and Rome. Particular emphasis on Plato and Aristotle and their contributions to the intellectual development of Western thought.

Course Revisions and Intellectual Foundations Designations:
ORAL COMMUNICATION
GEG/PLN 430 Senior Thesis. Prerequisites: GEG/PLN 390, GEG/PLN 396, and senior geography or planning major. Research in geography or planning and presentation of selected research-related topics.

NON-WESTERN CIVILIZATION
PSC 337 Politics of Globalization. Prerequisite: PSC 102 or PSC 230. Complex process by which governments, corporations, and individuals are integrated and interconnected on a global scale due to the rapid progress of information technology. Interaction between the Western-led liberalization of politics and economy and the advance of non-Western counterforces against and in response to Western-led globalization. Costs and benefits of globalization in a political, economic, cultural, and social sense.

Intellectual Foundations Designation:
WRITING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM
ENS 300W Environmental Case Studies (WAC)

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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:

Program Revisions:
B.S. Speech-Language Pathology (0325) BS-SLP-SOP
M.S.Ed. Speech-Language Pathology (6322) MS-SLP-SOP

New Course:
SPA 602 Spanish Sociolinguistics