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

Program Revision:
B.A. Spanish, BA-AH SPA

New Course:
EXE 623 Assessment and Instruction in Math for Students with High-Incidence Disabilities

Course Revisions:
EDU 682 Teaching Elementary School Mathematics
EXE 520 Teaching of Individuals with Severe/Multiple Disabilities and Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)
EXE 620 Advanced Teaching of Individuals with Severe/Multiple Disabilities and Autism Spectrum Disorders
EXE 634 Applied Behavior Analysis

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Advanced to the Curriculum Committee
The following have been received in the College Senate Office and forwarded to the College Senate Curriculum Committee for spring 2017 review:

Program Revision:
Postbaccalaureate Teacher Certification Mathematics Education (7–12), UG-PBC-NS MTS

New Courses:
EDU 322 Elementary Literacy Instruction. Prerequisite: EDU 211. Corequisites: EXE 321 and EXE/EDU 323. Opportunity for teacher candidates from the dual certification program to develop knowledge, skills, and dispositions to extend the reading and other communication abilities of diverse populations congruent with federal learning standards. Course builds on the current theories and practices of literacy methods and instruction introduced in EDU 211 to prepare teacher candidates to implement appropriate literacy methods and instructional strategies in a field setting. Teacher candidates construct curricula for children within a balanced literacy philosophy and approach to teaching. Course is designed to develop observant and reflective practitioners. Offered every semester, beginning spring 2018.

PAD 685 Performance-Based Management in the Public Sector. Prerequisites: PAD 680 and three additional PAD graduate credit hours or instructor permission. The rationale behind performance-based management (PBM) in the public sector, practical and theoretical research-methodologies, data description and preparation for hypothesis testing, conceptualizing quantitative models, modeling causal linkages, interpreting findings, developing performance recommendations and implementation, analyzing the gap between performance theory and practice, analysis of case studies using PBM in government.

SPF 618 Foundations of Social Justice. Prerequisite: Graduate student standing. Overview of the intellectual traditions informing social justice work to develop frameworks for examining issues of inequality and power within modern societies and to then apply some of this background to Buffalo, New York. Includes literature exploring the philosophical and sociological dynamics of capitalism, human consciousness, history, rationality, institutions, and ideology. Through interdisciplinary engagements with key primary texts and secondary readings in idealist and materialist philosophy, Western Marxism, cultural studies, sociology, feminism, critical race theory, and political theory, the course is imagined as a multilayered analytical framework for critical examination of social justice and inequality within and across modern societies, including our own. Offered every semester, beginning fall 2017.

Course Revision:
EDU 211 Introduction to Literacy. Current literacy theories and practices supportive of diverse populations and congruent with federal and state learning standards. Offered every semester, beginning fall 2017.

Course Revision with Intellectual Foundations Infusion (INF):
SWK 308 Human Behavior in the Social Environment II (W). Prerequisites: Social work majors only, junior or senior standing, BIO 101, and CWP 102. Theoretical frameworks that attempt to explain behavior and enlighten effective work with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities. Maladaptive patterns of adult psychological functioning are examined with a bio-psycho-social perspective. Focus on problematic human functioning while considering the strengths of clients along with their difficulties. Offered fall semester, beginning fall 2017.

W = Writing