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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 Program:
M.F.A. Television, Film, and Streaming Media

Program Revision:
B.A. Spanish

New Course:
PSY 468 Professional Skills in Psychology

Course Revisions:
MAT 315 Differential Equations
PSY 458 Advanced Research Methods in Psychology

Change of Status: Program Deactivations:
Minor in French and Francophone Culture*
Minor in Geographic Information Systems (GIS)**
Minor in Italian*
Minor in Professional French*

* Deactivation effective fall 2023; Buffalo State University will not accept new students into these programs after May 2023.

** Deactivation effective summer 2024; Buffalo State University will not accept new students into these programs after May 2024.

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The following have been approved by the special committee of the Buffalo State Senate Intellectual Foundations Oversight Committee (SIFOC) and the Senate Curriculum Committee for inclusion in General Education 2023 and forwarded to the president for review:

General Education 2023 Designations:
DIVERSITY: EQUITY, INCLUSION, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
ANT 300 Indigenous Peoples of Western North America
ANT 301 Indigenous Peoples of Eastern North America
ANT 330 Indigenous Hawaiians
ANT 341 Indigenous Art of North America
BUS 305 Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace
ENG 353 American Indian Literature
GEG/PLN 309 Introduction to Urban Geography
SOC/AAS 321 The African American Family
SOC 310 Sociology of Sex and Gender
SOC 312 Women in Society
SOC/AAS 351 Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

HUMANITIES
ENG 190 Introduction to Literature
ENG 231 Women in Literature
ENG/AAS 240 African American Literature to 1940
ENG/AAS 241 African American Literature since 1940
ENG 243 Introduction to Latinx Literature
PHI 112 Ethics of Business

MATHEMATICS AND QUANTITATIVE REASONING
MAT 103 Introduction to Contemporary Mathematics
MAT 311 Introductory Probability and Statistics

NATURAL SCIENCES AND SCIENTIFIC REASONING
ANT 323 Disease and Global Health
GES 101 Introductory Geology
GES 132 The Solar System

U.S. HISTORY AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
GEG 362 Geography of the United States and Canada

WORLD HISTORY AND GLOBAL AWARENESS
ANT 300 Indigenous Peoples of Western North America
ANT 301 Indigenous Peoples of Eastern North America
ANT 312 Archaeology of North America
ANT 330 Indigenous Hawaiians
ANT 341 Indigenous Art of North America
GEG 359 Arctic Geography from an Inuit Perspective
GEG 360 Geography of Asia
PHI 301 Justice: Liberty v. Equality

Core Competencies:
CRITICAL THINKING AND REASONING
BME 415 Student Teaching in Business Education I
BME 416 Student Teaching in Business Education II
BUS 430 Strategic Management
CIS 370 Systems Analysis and Design
CRJ 303 Criminal Justice Theory
CTE 302 Curriculum and Evaluation in Career and Technical Education
CTE 404 Methods of Teaching Career and Technical Subjects
CTE 413 Student Teaching Career and Technical Education
EDU 311 The Teaching of Reading and the Other Language Arts in the Elementary School
EDU 322 Literacy Instruction in the Elementary School
ENT 465 Electrical Design I
ENT 422 Machine Design II
FCS 415 Student Teaching I
FCS 416 Student Teaching II
FTT 450 Global Issues in the Fashion and Textile Industry
HEW 411 Critical Issues in Health and Wellness
HTR 455 Advanced Human Resource Management in Hospitality
NFS 430 Intro to Nutrition Research
SLP 411 Introduction to Language Disorders in Children
SWK  317 Research Methods in Social Work
TEC 403 Systems Analysis
TED 450 Student Teaching in Technology Education I
TED 451 Student Teaching in Technology Education II

INFORMATION LITERACY
BME 415 Student Teaching in Business Education I
BME 416 Student Teaching in Business Education II
BUS 430 Strategic Management
CIS 370 Systems Analysis and Design
CIS 411 Database Systems
CRJ 315 Research Methods in Criminal Justice
CRJ 425 Race, Ethnicity, and the Administration of Justice
CRJ 430 Gender and the Administration of Justice
CTE 302 Curriculum and Evaluation in Career and Technical Education
CTE 404 Methods of Teaching Career and Technical Subjects
CTE 413 Student Teaching Career and Technical Education
EDU 211 Introduction to Literacy
ENT 422 Machine Design II
ENT 465 Electrical Design I
FCS 415 Student Teaching I
FCS 416 Student Teaching II
FTT 450 Global Issues in the Fashion and Textile Industry
HEW 401 Assessment and Evaluation in Health and Wellness
HTR 480 Practicum in Hospitality Operations
NFS 430 Introduction to Nutrition Research
SLP 411 Introduction to Language Disorders in Children
SWK  317 Research Methods in Social Work
TEC 313 Statistical Quality Control
TED 450 Student Teaching in Technology Education I
TED 451 Student Teaching in Technology Education II

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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 Course:
PSY 360 Evaluating Psychological Science. Prerequisite: PSY 350. Overview of the science and methodology of psychology in preparation for applied careers in psychology. Topics include how to be successful as a consumer of psychology information; language and structure of research as a process of scientific inquiry; analysis and evaluation of research articles; fundamentals of writing in the discipline; fundamentals of psychological research; ethical principles. Required for applied psychology majors. Offered every semester.

Course Revisions:
ANT 307 Urban Anthropology. Prerequisite: Upper-division standing. Ethnography of urban spaces across the globe. Consideration of industrialization, deindustrialization, neoliberal change, migration, and immigration. Analysis of states’ and private capital’s roles in shaping infrastructure, mass transit, and street forms. How city is navigated and inhabited by humans and other species. Ethnographic approaches to natural disasters and climate change in cities. Offered every other year.

ANT 350 Global Marriage Practices. Prerequisite: Upper-division standing. Ethnography of cross-cultural structures of marriage, kinship, household, and family. Analysis from premodern to modern family types, transformation in gender roles, empowerment of women, and dissolution of traditional kinship structures and emergence of new family forms. Consideration of legal and religious frameworks and their transformation from comparative perspectives. Offered every other year.

BUS 640 Strategic Human Resources. Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Survey of human resources in the workplace. Overview of the human resources life cycle, including strategic human resource management; recruitment and selection; compensation and benefits; performance management; diversity, equity, and inclusion; employee rights and labor-management relations; and training and development. Offered fall semester.

FTT 310 Fashion Apparel Production (formerly FTT 310 Sewn Products Industry). Prerequisite: FTT 206. Understanding product quality in fashion; the process of producing high-quality apparel products; evaluation of industry standards and practices; hands-on experience in fabric performance and sewn product testing and evaluation; the process of producing apparel products from conceptualization to final delivery; application of sustainable and ethical practices; costing and pricing strategies. Offered every semester.

Course Revision with General Education 2023 Designation
WORLD HISTORY AND GLOBAL AWARENESS
AED 315 Arts in Living. Prerequisite: CWP 102 or sophomore standing. Study of the relationship between how society and culture influence and impact art and artists and how art and artists influence and impact society and culture. Analysis of historic and contemporary art forms as they relate to their time, place, and cultures. Required for art education majors. Offered fall semester.