Curricular Items
Posted: Thursday, April 27, 2023Curricular Items
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 Course:
HEA 655 Intercollegiate Athletics and the Student Athlete
Course Revisions:
ANT 300 Indigenous Peoples of Western North America
ANT 301 Indigenous Peoples of Eastern North America
ANT 323 Disease and Global Health (formerly ANT 323 Anthropology of Disease)
ANT 341 Indigenous Art of North America
BUS 640 Strategic Human Resources
Course Revision with General Education 2023 Designation:
SOCIAL SCIENCES
ANT 101 Understanding Culture
Change of Status: Program Deactivation:*
Minor in Gerontology
*Deactivation effective fall 2024; Buffalo State University will not accept new students into this program after summer 2023.
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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:
M.S.Ed. Adolescence Education English 7–12
New Course:
ENG 171 Portrait Magazine Editing and Production. Creating, assembling, and editing the materials required for the production of Portrait Magazine, the student-led literary arts journal of Buffalo State. May be taken up to four times for credit. Offered every semester.
Course Revisions:
FTT 359 Fashion Retail Environment Design (formerly Fashion Visual Communication). Prerequisite: FTT 150. Designing fashion retail spaces in physical and digital environments to strengthen a brand’s image and engage customers; visual merchandising design principles, elements, and composition; off-the-shelf technology for physical store design; merchandise presentation in online and mobile retail platforms; virtual retail space design; and virtual reality and augmented reality technology. Offered every semester.
FTT 365 Fashion Digital Retailing. Prerequisite: FTT 150. Evolving landscape of fashion retailing in the digital era; technological and cultural shifts in fashion retailing and relationship with consumers; various models of fashion digital retailing; digital marketing concepts and practices; challenges and opportunities of fashion digital retailing; and environmental, social, and governance implications of fashion digital retailing strategies. Offered spring semester.
NFS 448 Nutrition Care D. Prerequisites: NFS 403 and NFS 447. The fourth in a series of supervised experiential learning clinical nutrition care courses. Emphasis on independence in applying evidence-based medical nutrition therapy including nutrition education to patients in an acute care setting. Clinical experiences include parenteral and enteral nutrition. Clinical dress required. Offered spring semester.