Curricular Items
Posted: Thursday, January 19, 2023Curricular Items
From the Chair of the College Senate Curriculum Committee
Advanced to the President
The following have been approved by the Buffalo State Senate Curriculum Committee and forwarded to the president for review:
Program Revision:
B.S. Psychological Science (formerly B.S. Psychology)
New Course:
HEA 615 Survey Design for Professionals
Course Revision:
FAR 220 Photography I
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Advanced to the Curriculum Committee
The following have been received in the Buffalo State Senate Office and forwarded to the Senate Curriculum Committee for review:
Program Revisions:
B.S. Social Work
Minor in Theater/Dance (formerly discrete minors)
New Courses:
NFS 601 Leadership and Project Management in Dietetics. Prerequisite: Instructor permission. Leadership and project management applied in clinical nutrition, private practice, community nutrition, and food service management. Competency-based learning using skills, tools, and techniques required in the life cycle of a nutrition project, including project selection, planning, staffing, task scheduling, budgeting, risk management, and quality improvement. Exploration of nutrition informatics in executing nutrition projects. Offered summer session, beginning summer 2024.
SWK 340 Social Work Theory and Assessment. Prerequisites: SWK 330; social work majors only. Overview of the history, ethics, skills, and foundational theories used to practice social work in the twenty-first century. Application of foundational theoretical perspectives in the assessment process at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels. Development of social work skills used in the assessment process. Offered spring semester, beginning spring 2024.
Course Revisions:
HEA 622 Inclusive Advising and Supporting (formerly HEA 622 Techniques of Counseling). Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Focus on theories of counseling, developing basic and intermediate helping skills, intentional interviewing, conflict resolution, and self-assessment for the helping professions. Examination of theories of counseling, developing skills and strategies for effective listening, assertion, individual and group facilitation, supervising, interviewing, self-assessment, and individual problem solving. Offered fall and spring semesters, beginning fall 2023.
MAT 382 Topics in Mathematical Statistics. Prerequisite: MAT 381. Calculus-based introduction to the theory of statistical inference and its applications, functions of random variables, properties of estimators, sampling distributions, point and interval estimation, theory and applications of hypothesis testing. Offered spring semester, beginning spring 2024.
