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From the Chair of the College Senate Curriculum Committee
Advanced to the President
The following have been approved by the College Senate Curriculum Committee and forwarded to the president for review:

New Course:
MUS 615 Piano Pedagogy for Children

Course Revisions:
MUS 161 Class Piano I
MUS 162 Class Piano II
MUS 261 Class Piano III
MUS 262 Class Piano IV

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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 spring review:

New Courses:
FLM 520 Screenplay Analysis. Prerequisite: Admission to the M.F.A. in television, film, and streaming media program. Analysis of television and feature film screenplays focusing on theory, story structure, conflict, characters, dialogue, theme, and professional script coverage. Offered fall semester, beginning fall 2023 (pending program approval).

FLM 530 Writing the Feature Screenplay I. Prerequisites: FLM 501, FLM 510, and FLM 520 (prerequisites offered fall semester). Construction of a pitch for an original feature film, character sketches, treatment, and the first act of a screenplay. Part one of a two-part sequence. Offered spring semester, beginning spring 2024 (pending program approval).

FLM 540 Writing the TV Spec Script. Prerequisites: FLM 501, FLM 510, and FLM 520 (prerequisites offered fall semester). Construction of two speculation (spec) scripts for a TV series currently on a broadcast television, cable network, or streaming service. Offered spring semester, beginning spring 2023 (pending program approval).

FLM 550 The Business of Television, Film, and Streaming Media I. Prerequisites: FLM 501, FLM 510, and FLM 520 (prerequisites offered fall semester). Examination of current business models for television, film, and streaming media, including pre-production, production, and post-production; business and legal affairs; finance; and marketing and distribution. Part one of a two-part sequence. Offered spring semester, beginning spring 2023 (pending program approval).

Course Revisions:
BUS 612 Accounting Information for Decision-Making (formerly BUS 512 Introduction to Using Accounting Information for Decision-Making). Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Overview of fundamental financial and managerial accounting statements and reports, including their structure, contents, underlying concepts, analysis, interpretation, and use for economic decision-making. Offered spring semester, beginning spring 2023.

BUS 715 Management Strategy (formerly BUS 715 Management Practice and Techniques). Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Study of management theories and strategies used in organizations, including conflict resolution, negotiation strategies, creative problem-solving, and leadership skills and requirements. Offered summer semester, beginning summer 2023.

MAT 202 Introduction to Linear Algebra. Prerequisite: MAT 161 or MAT 126. Linear systems of equations, vector spaces, and linear transformations, solving linear equations, matrix algebra, determinants, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, matrices as linear transformations, basis of a vector space, orthogonality of vectors, projecting vectors into subspaces. Offered every semester, beginning fall 2022.

MAT 301 Introduction to Group Theory (formerly MAT 301 Fundamentals of Abstract Algebra). Prerequisites: MAT 202 and MAT 300. Definition of a group, examples of groups, commutative and noncommutative groups, subgroups, cyclic groups and cyclic subgroups, permutation groups, dihedral groups, cosets and Lagrange’s theorem, normal subgroups, group homomorphisms and group isomorphisms, quotient groups, and the isomorphism theorems. Offered spring semester, beginning spring 2023.

MAT 309 Combinatorics (formerly MAT 309 Discrete Mathematics II). Prerequisite: MAT 270. Basic counting principles including permutations, combinations, the multiplication and addition rules, and the pigeonhole principle; distribution problems; combinatorial proofs; counting the complement and inclusion-exclusion arguments; breaking counting problems down into smaller subproblems; generating functions; permutation groups and Polya’s enumeration theorem; combinatorial block designs. Offered occasionally, beginning fall 2023.

MAT 315 Differential Equations. Prerequisite: MAT 162 or instructor permission. Preliminary ideas of order, degree, linear/nonlinear, direction fields, and solutions; formation of differential equations; first order differential equations; second order differential equations; higher order differential equations; systems of differential equations; series solutions of differential equations. Offered fall semester, beginning fall 2022.

MAT 417 Introduction to Real Analysis. Prerequisites: MAT 263 and MAT 300. Elementary real analysis, including properties and axioms of the real number system; relations and functions; sequences; continuity; differentiation; infinite series; power series; Riemann integral. Offered fall semester, beginning fall 2022.

PHY 320 Introduction to Theoretical Physics. Prerequisites: PHY 108 and MAT 127 or PHY 112, or instructor permission. Introduction to advanced mathematical applications in physics: complex numbers, linear algebra, eigenvalue problems, multiple integrals, vector analysis, Fourier series and transforms, differential equations, and Legendre polynomials. Required for physics majors. Offered spring semester, beginning spring 2023.

PHY 425 Classical Mechanics. Prerequisites: PHY 310 and PHY 320, or instructor permission. Particle mechanics in one, two, and three dimensions; rigid body motions in three dimensions; motion in central fields; moving frames of reference; forced harmonic oscillators; and introduction to mechanics in Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations. Offered every other fall semester, beginning fall 2023.