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From the Chair of the Senate Curriculum Committee

CORRECTION APPENDED

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

Program Revision:
B.S. Forensic Chemistry, BS-NS-FRC

New Courses:
CHE 406 Analytical Toxicology. Prerequisites: MAT 311 and CHE 301. Introductory analytical toxicology for pharmaceutical, forensic, and clinical analysis. Exploration of the main categories of inorganic and organic toxins, sample collection and treatment, chromatographic separation, spectroscopic and mass spectral determination of various toxic compounds in clinical, forensic, and environmental samples.

FOR 416 Optical Microscopy. Prerequisites: CHE 312 and PHY 112. Introductory optical microscopy for forensic physical analysis; fundamental theory of microscopy; physical properties of materials (refractive index, density, etc.); basic topics in optics (electromagnetic radiation, refraction, reflection, interference, etc.); operation, varieties, and capabilities of optical microscopes; and applications in analysis of physical evidence, such as pattern analysis, hair, fiber, and minerals.

GEG 316 Watershed Pollution. Prerequisite: CHE 101 or equivalent. Important pollutants and toxic chemicals generated by anthropogenic activities and their transport, transformation, and fate within watersheds. Impacts of these pollutants on soil, forest, and aquatic ecosystems using specific case studies.

GEG 523 Biogeography. Prerequisite: Graduate-level standing. Global patterns of species distributions and the historic, environmental, and biological processes underlying these patterns. Spatial patterns of nature’s geographic variation at multiple levels, from individuals to ecosystems to biomes. Impacts of humans and climate change on biogeography.

New Course and Intellectual Foundations Designation:

WORLD CIVILIZATIONS
ANT 306 Peoples of Asia. Prerequisite: ANT 101 or ANT 305. Cross-cultural comparisons of indigenous and modern nations of Asia. Emphasis on regional, linguistic, social, political, religious, economic, and aesthetic characteristics as well as historic and recent population migrations on the Asian continent and surrounding islands.

Course Revisions and Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Designations:

FLE 401 Teaching Foreign Language in Middle and High School. Prerequisites or corequisites: Completion of the ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview, FLE 300, EDF 303, and EDF 403. Exploration of the research and standards that inform professional foreign language teaching. Students in modern and classical languages teacher certification programs should take this course immediately before FLE 407 and FLE 408 (student teaching). Conducted by school and college staff.

FOR 414 Forensic Chemistry Laboratory. Prerequisites: CHE 312, MAT 311, and CHE 403. Prerequisite or corequisite: BIO 303 or BIO 350.Instruction and laboratory experiences in a wide range of forensic chemistry topics, including experiments in DNA for human identification, identification of illicit drugs, determination of blood alcohol and other blood work, hair and fiber analysis, arson, toxicology, crime-scene processing, fingerprint examination, and analysis of firearms and bullets. Careers in forensic science and practice presenting scientific evidence.

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Correction: January 25, 2010
The original version of this announcement, published January 21, incorrectly recorded the title of ANT 306.