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:

New Courses:
ADE 618 Introduction to Online Teaching and Learning in Adult Education
CNS 625 Technology and Conservation of Paintings III Lab

Course Revisions:
CNS 623 Technology and Conservation of Paintings II Lab
CNS 624 Technology and Conservation of Paintings III

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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 2018 review:

Program Revisions:
B.S. Earth Sciences, BS-NS EAS
B.S. Geology, BS-NS GEO

New Courses:
CAS 301/PSY 301 Perspectives on Child Abuse and Advocacy. Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing; PSY 101 or CRJ 101 or SWK 220 or EXE 100 or instructor permission. Introduction to child advocacy studies from a variety of diverse, professional perspectives. History, responses to child maltreatment, skills necessary to successfully conduct child advocacy, and other issues pertaining to child maltreatment and advocacy. Designed for students majoring in criminal justice, education, social work, sociology, psychology, or other areas where knowledge of child maltreatment and advocacy might be beneficial. Offered fall semester.

CAS 302 Global Child Advocacy Issues. Prerequisite: CAS 301. Issues related to the lives of children in countries around the globe and immigrant and refugee children locally. Multidisciplinary approaches to advocacy with these populations. Designed for students majoring in criminal justice, education, psychology, social work, sociology, or other areas where knowledge of child maltreatment and advocacy might be beneficial. Required for Child Advocacy Studies certificate program. Offered spring semester.

CAS 401 Professional and Systemic Approaches to Child Abuse and Maltreatment. Prerequisites: CAS 301 and junior or senior standing. Child abuse and maltreatment including knowledge and skills identifying, investigating, and prosecuting child abuse. Systems involved in responding to child abuse or maltreatment. Child witnesses, civil and criminal child protection cases. Offered annually.

HEW 430 Dimensions of Human Sexuality. Prerequisites: HEW 204 with a minimum grade of C and junior or senior standing. Principles of public health applied to understanding sexual health issues. Health-based approach to understanding factors that influence human sexual behavior. Physical, emotional, mental, and social well-being in relation to sexuality. Prevention and wellness approaches in promoting sexual health when considering culture, religion, age, gender, race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation. Offered spring semester.

PHY 214 Optics and Heat Lab. Prerequisite: PHY 112; prerequisite or corequisite: PHY 213; or instructor permission. Performing basic physics experiments chosen from the areas of optics, heat, and thermodynamics. Students carry out experiments; acquire, analyze, and interpret experimental data; write lab reports in a standard scientific format. Offered fall semester.

SSE 602 High School Social Studies Instruction. Prerequisites: Graduate standing and minimum cumulative GPA of 2.75. Purposes, goals, curricular materials, methodologies, and instructional techniques of high school social studies education. Students develop competency in designing and practicing instructional strategies drawn from methodologies, and from the curricular materials of high school social studies education and the disciplines of history and the social sciences. Offered every semester.

Course Revision:
CNS 626 Technology and Conservation of Paintings IV. Prerequisites: CNS 624 and CNS 625. Seminar topics including a study of fakes and forgeries, the history of cleaning controversies, structural treatment of panel paintings, and conservation framing. Lab section includes deeper involvement with easel painting treatments to help students broaden their repertoire of skills, to further develop acuity for recognizing condition problems, and to strengthen visual connoisseurship. Involves original research and materials analysis. Offered spring semester.

From the Chair of the College Senate Curriculum Committee
Friday, April 13, is the last day that course or program proposals (major, minor, or certificate) will be accepted for spring 2018 review by the College Senate Curriculum Committee. Proposals received after that date will be reviewed in fall 2018. All proposals must be approved by their respective associate dean before being submitted to the College Senate. Questions regarding this process should be directed to College Senate Curriculum Committee chair Ann Emo. Please direct concerns or questions about a proposal that has already been submitted to the respective associate dean or department chair. For technical issues with KissFlow, please contact Andrew Chambers, information management specialist in RITE. Please contact Vincent Masci, assistant to the College Senate, with general questions.

From the Chair of the College Senate Curriculum Committee
The Curriculum Handbook is currently off-line for revisions. The updated document will be posted to the College Senate Curriculum Committee web page (via the College Senate website) in spring 2018.

From the Chair of the College Senate Curriculum Committee
All curricular proposal challenges must be received within 15 days of submission to the chair of the Curriculum Committee for consideration. After the 15-day deadline, challenges will not be considered, as this affects the committee’s reviewing process. Please consult your associate dean with inquiries.

All non-local programs and credit-bearing certificates must meet SUNY mandates.

From the Chair of the College Senate Curriculum Committee
When submitting curricular proposals in KissFlow, please make sure the proposal accurately reflects the nature of the course or program. A revision should state “Reason for Revision,” as opposed to new, which states “Reason for Addition.” Also make certain that the routing form information matches the proposal description, especially catalog descriptions. If a title change occurs after the first submission, the new title should be reflected on the revised proposal description. The College Senate Office sometimes receives mismatched proposals, leading to inaccurate listings in the Daily Bulletin. Associate deans must ensure that all submissions match their routing forms and proposals before sending them via KissFlow to the Senate Office. The Senate Office checks submissions but is not responsible for mismatched documents.

From the Chair of the College Senate Curriculum Committee
Associate deans and department chairs should regularly check their e-mail from KissFlow; this is the main communication device used in the Curriculum Committee reviewing process. Title changes and prefixes must be correctly updated in KissFlow when changes are made to original submissions. Please remember that any new course proposal prefix must not be reused from previous years or historical use.

Curricular authors, department chairs, or associate deans who experience technical problems with KissFlow, including uploading documents, workflow processes, and additions, should contact Andrew Chambers, information management specialist in RITE, who handles all technical issues within KissFlow. Neither the Senate Office nor the Curriculum Committee has access to proposals in the workflow system.

From the Interim Associate Provost
The following have been submitted to SUNY System Administration for review:

Program Revisions:
B.A. Music
M.A. Great Lakes Ecosystem Science
M.S. Great Lakes Ecosystem Science

From the Chair of the College Senate Curriculum Committee
The following have been received in the College Senate Office and forwarded to the College Senate Curriculum Committee for spring review:

Program Revisions:
B.A. Geography, BA-NS GEG
Minor in Meteorology and Climatology

Course Revisions:
CNS 610 Polymers in Art Conservation. Prerequisite: Formal acceptance to the Art Conservation Department. Corequisite: CNS 611. The chemistry and physics of polymers used to create and treat works of art. Nomenclature, reactivity, structure-property relationships, solubility, surfactants, emulsions, natural and synthetic coatings and adhesives, degradation, mechanical properties, thermal properties, polymer additives, and analytical methods of identification and characterization. Offered fall semester.

CNS 611 Polymers in Art Conservation Lab. Prerequisite: Formal acceptance to the Art Conservation Department. Corequisite: CNS 610. The chemistry and physics of polymers used to create and treat works of art. Expands on lectures in CNS 610 and provides students with hands-on experience with polymer synthesis, characterization, polymer stability, and compatibility and properties in blends. Offered fall semester.

CNS 616 Technical Aspects of Preventive Conservation. Prerequisite: CNS 614. Corequisite: CNS 617. Exploration of the practical and scientific principles behind preventive conservation. Topics include environmental monitoring and control, artificial aging, materials testings, museum pollutants, risk assessment, emergency planning, preservation strategies, pest management, and mitigation of biological degradation. Offered spring semester.

CNS 620 Technology and Conservation of Painting I. Prerequisite: Formal acceptance to the Art Conservation Department. Corequisite: CNS 621. Historical survey of processes and materials employed by artists in the creation of wall and easel paintings from the Paleolithic to the present and the implications for their conservation. Painting types include rock art, Egyptian and Etruscan tomb painting, medieval egg tempera, Italian Renaissance fresco, oil on panel and canvas, and modern media. Offered fall semester.

CNS 621 Technology and Conservation of Paintings I Lab. Corequisite: CNS 620. Recreation of historical paintings using traditional materials and techniques to the greatest extent possible: fourteenth-century Sienese egg tempera on panel and seventeenth-century Flemish or Spanish painting on canvas. Written technical examination of an oil painting of value on loan through the department’s clinic program. Offered fall semester.

CNS 622 Technology and Conservation of Painting II. Prerequisites: Successful completion of CNS 620 and CNS 621. Corequisite: CNS 623. Theory and practice of conserving easel paintings. Topics include treatment proposal design, aqueous- and solvent-based cleaning systems, resins and solvents used for consolidation, mechanics and dynamics of canvas paintings and support systems, humidification and lining treatments, varnishes and varnishing techniques, and color-matching theory and its application to inpainting. Offered spring semester.

FTT 208 Introduction to Fashion Technologies. Introduction to a variety of software programs; preliminary multidisciplinary hands-on experience with how the programs are specifically used in the fashion industry. Topics include designing surface patterns, development of spec pages, fashion layout, and development of a clothing line. The elements and principles of design are also covered. Offered fall and spring semesters.

From the President
I have approved the following curricular items, which have been recommended by the appropriate dean, the College Senate, and the provost:

Program Revision:
Minor in Public Administration and Nonprofit Management

New Courses:
DSA 501 Data-Oriented Computing and Analytics
GES 201 Physical Geology
GES 203 First-Year Undergraduate Research Experience
GES 323 Third-Year Research and Field Methods Experience
GES 418 Structural Geology Field Experience
GES 428 Applied Geological Hazards
GES 433 Geology Independent Research
GES 471 Geology Research Seminar
GES 472 Geology Senior Seminar

Course Revisions:
DES 270 Visual Communication I
DES 271 Lettering and Typography I
DES 277 Computer Graphics I
DES 312 History of Craft: Industrial Revolution to the Present
DES 370 Visual Communication II
DES 377 Computer Graphics II
DES 380 Illustration
ENT 351 Analog Circuit Analysis
ENT 452 Analog Systems Design and Analysis

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From the Interim Associate Provost
The following has been approved by SUNY System Administration and the New York State Education Department:

New Program:
B.S. Environmental Geography

From the Chair of the College Senate Curriculum Committee
The following have been received in the College Senate Office and forwarded to the College Senate Curriculum Committee for spring review:

Program Revisions:
B.A. Geography, BA-NS GEG
Minor in Meteorology and Climatology

Course Revisions:
CNS 610 Polymers in Art Conservation. Prerequisite: Formal acceptance to the Art Conservation Department. Corequisite: CNS 611. The chemistry and physics of polymers used to create and treat works of art. Nomenclature, reactivity, structure-property relationships, solubility, surfactants, emulsions, natural and synthetic coatings and adhesives, degradation, mechanical properties, thermal properties, polymer additives, and analytical methods of identification and characterization. Offered fall semester.

CNS 611 Polymers in Art Conservation Lab. Prerequisite: Formal acceptance to the Art Conservation Department. Corequisite: CNS 610. The chemistry and physics of polymers used to create and treat works of art. Expands on lectures in CNS 610 and provides students with hands-on experience with polymer synthesis, characterization, polymer stability, and compatibility and properties in blends.  Offered fall semester.

CNS 616 Technical Aspects of Preventive Conservation. Prerequisite: CNS 614. Corequisite: CNS 617. Exploration of the practical and scientific principles behind preventive conservation. Topics include environmental monitoring and control, artificial aging, materials testings, museum pollutants, risk assessment, emergency planning, preservation strategies, pest management, and mitigation of biological degradation. Offered spring semester.

CNS 620 Technology and Conservation of Painting I. Prerequisite: Formal acceptance to the Art Conservation Department. Corequisite: CNS 621. Historical survey of processes and materials employed by artists in the creation of wall and easel paintings from the Paleolithic to the present and the implications for their conservation. Painting types include rock art, Egyptian and Etruscan tomb painting, medieval egg tempera, Italian Renaissance fresco, oil on panel and canvas, and modern media. Offered fall semester.

CNS 621 Technology and Conservation of Paintings I Lab. Corequisite: CNS 620. Recreation of historical paintings using traditional materials and techniques to the greatest extent possible: fourteenth-century Sienese egg tempera on panel and seventeenth-century Flemish or Spanish painting on canvas. Written technical examination of an oil painting of value on loan through the department’s clinic program. Offered fall semester.

CNS 622 Technology and Conservation of Painting II. Prerequisites: Successful completion of CNS 620 and CNS 621. Corequisite: CNS 623. Theory and practice of conserving easel paintings. Topics include treatment proposal design, aqueous- and solvent-based cleaning systems, resins and solvents used for consolidation, mechanics and dynamics of canvas paintings and support systems, humidification and lining treatments, varnishes and varnishing techniques, and color-matching theory and its application to inpainting. Offered spring semester.

FTT 208 Introduction to Fashion Technologies. Introduction to a variety of software programs; preliminary multidisciplinary hands-on experience with how the programs are specifically used in the fashion industry. Topics include designing surface patterns, development of spec pages, fashion layout, and development of a clothing line. The elements and principles of design are also covered. Offered fall and spring semester.