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Posted: Thursday, March 2, 2023

Curricular Items

CORRECTION APPENDED

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

New Courses:
BIO 441 Bioinformatics
BIO 611 Biotechnology
SWK 340 Social Work Theory and Assessment

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Advanced to the Curriculum Committee
The following have been received in the Buffalo State Senate Office and forwarded to the Curriculum Committee for review:

New Program:
B.A./M.A. English Combined Pathway

New Course with General Education 2023 Designation:
WORLD HISTORY AND GLOBAL AWARENESS
ANT 361 Anthropology of Food. Prerequisite ANT 101. Anthropology of food; the production, distribution, and consumption of food in a range of cultures and contexts; food as cultural heritage; history and use of domesticated and wild foods (plants and animals); cultivation of food; organization of labor; scales of production from local gardens through industrialization; memory and politics of food and its distribution from a global standpoint. Offered every other year, beginning fall 2023.

Course Revision:
ENG 362 Children’s Literature (formerly ENG 260 Children’s Literature). Prerequisite CWP 102. Introduction to children’s literature with an emphasis on fiction and nonfiction, both classic and contemporary. Offered every semester, beginning fall 2023.

Course Revision with General Education 2023 Designation:
HUMANITIES
HUM 100 Introduction to the Humanities. Introduction to the disciplines of the humanities, with emphasis on how human beings have sought to give meaning to their lives through philosophical and creative expression. The relevance of humanistic thinking to ongoing contemporary issues. Offered every semester, beginning summer 2023.

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Correction: March 24, 2023
The original version of this announcement, published March 2, 2023, inadvertently omitted BIO 441. The correction has been made.

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