Curricular Items
Posted: Thursday, March 25, 2021Curricular Items
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 Courses:
PAD 515 NYS Government and Budget
PSC 221 Judicial Process and Politics
PSC 426 Mediation
PSC 430 UN and Global Affairs
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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 2021 review:
Program Revision:
B.F.A. Art and Design, Concentrations in Ceramics, Design History, Digital Media Arts, Fibers, Graphic Design, Metals/Jewelry, Painting, Photography and Documentary Studies, Printmaking, Product Design, Sculpture, Wood/Furniture, BFA-AAD
New Courses:
AAS/ANT 373 “Saving” Africa. Prerequisite: AAS 100 or upper-division standing or instructor permission. Examination of Western efforts at foreign development, including contemporary globalization, from an African vantage. Incorporates ethnographic case studies, theoretical lenses, and practical implications for doing development work. Offered fall semester, beginning fall 2021.
ENG 447 Selected Topics in Diverse Literatures. Prerequisite: ENG 147. Capstone course featuring advanced study of a selected period, writer(s), or movement in diverse literature. Offered spring semester, beginning spring 2022.
New Courses with Intellectual Foundations Designations:
DIVERSITY
ENG 147 Introduction to Diverse Literatures. Introductory survey of diverse literatures of the United States with an emphasis on literatures by ethnic and racial minority writers, LGBTQ+ writers, women writers, and members of underrepresented groups. Offered fall semester, beginning fall 2021.
HUMANITIES
PHI 115 Minds and Machines. Introduction to questions in the study of the philosophy of the mind. Explores the difficulties of studying the mind and limitations of scientific investigation into the mind; the problem of other minds; questions regarding free will; what it means to be conscious; and the possibility of consciousness or intelligence in animals, in the natural world, and in machines. Offered occasionally, beginning spring 2022.
Course Revision:
PSY 340 Cognitive Psychology
Prerequisites: PSY 101 with minimum grade of C. Introduction to the mind and thinking from a cognitive psychology viewpoint. Classic and contemporary research examining perception, attention, memory processes and structures, imagery, language processing, problem-solving and creativity, and decision-making. Theories of cognition based on information-processing, embodied cognition, and neural circuits and processing in the brain. Offered every semester, beginning fall 2021.
