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From the Chair of the Senate Curriculum Committee

CORRECTION APPENDED

Correction
FLE 340, listed in the April 2, May 21, and June 18, 2009, issues of the Bulletin as a course revision, is in fact a new course.

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

New Program:
B.F.A. Interior Design (BFA-AH-INT)

New Courses:
EDC 603 Instructional Design and Problem Solving with Technology
EDC 607 Networking for Educators
EDC 610 Integrating Digital Video Technology into the Classroom
EDC 612 Educational Models, Simulations, and Games
EDC 614 Educational Graphics and Animation

Course Revisions and Intellectual Foundations Designations:
ARTS
FAR 251 Art History II

MATHEMATICS AND QUANTITATIVE REASONING
MAT 124 Functions and Modeling II

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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:

New Courses:

CHE 626 Symmetry, Group Theory, and Vibrational Spectroscopy. Prerequisites: CHE 202/204 or equivalent. Symmetry, point groups, and simple applications of group theory, with special emphasis on the vibrational spectroscopy of small molecules.

CHE 627 X-ray Crystallography. Prerequisites: CHE 202/204 or equivalent. The seven crystal systems, 14 Bravais lattices, 32 crystallographic point groups, 230 space groups, the theory of x-ray diffraction, and the methods of crystal structure determination. Data mining using structural databases (Brookhaven Protein Data Bank and Cambridge Structural Database) for various applications in organic, coordination, pharmaceutical, and forensic chemistry. Collecting powder and/or single crystal diffraction data on the department’s x-ray diffractometers; solving and refining a crystal structure using the appropriate software packages.

CHE 628 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy. Prerequisites: CHE 202/204 or equivalent. Theory and practice of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, including pulse and two-dimensional methods. Use of the department’s NMR spectrometer.

CHE 629 Mass Spectrometry. Prerequisites: CHE 202/204 or equivalent. Theory and practice of mass spectrometry. Basic physics of mass spectrometry and ionization methods. Gas phase chemistry, rearrangements, and ion molecule reactions. Use of the department’s electron impact ionization and electrospray mass spectrometers.

ECO 407 Political Economy Classics. Prerequisite: ECO 201 or ECO 202. In-depth study of classic political economic thought, including Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations; David Ricardo’s Principles of Political Economy and Taxation; Karl Marx’s Das Kapital, Volume I; and John Maynard Keynes’s General Theory. Relationships between these classics and modern economic thought and socioeconomic phenomena.

New Courses and Intellectual Foundations Designations:

TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY
ANT 385 Visual Anthropology. Prerequisites: ANT 101 or SOC 100 and upper-division status. How technology of the still camera transformed relationship to imagery, perception of time and movement through splitting and flattening of representations into “realistic” images. Basics of still cameras as a research tool; how to collect informants’ images as data. Meaning, use of images, representations, and power of visual data.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE
ARA 101 Beginning Arabic I. Rudimentary fundamentals of Arabic with emphasis on the spoken and written language.

ARA 102 Beginning Arabic II. Basic fundamentals of Arabic with emphasis on the spoken and written language.

Course Revision and Intellectual Foundations Designation:

ORAL COMMUNICATION
CHE 471 Biochemical Techniques. Prerequisites: CHE 204 and CHE 301. Prerequisite or corequisite: CHE 470.Techniques used in the collection and analysis of experimental data on biochemical systems. Participation in laboratory experiments illustrating biochemical techniques and general biochemical principles. Practice in recording and disseminating data collected in a modern biochemistry laboratory, including record keeping via a laboratory notebook, organizing and writing a scientific report, and giving an oral presentation on scientific results.

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Correction: August 20, 2009
The original version of this announcement, published July 16, incorrectly recorded EDC 603 as EDC 604.