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 Program:  
B.A. Public Administration and Nonprofit Management, BA-PAD

New Courses:
CRS 689 Introduction to Research Methods in Creativity Studies
ENT 340 Building Information Modeling (BIM) Using Revit MEP
PAD 507 Neighborhood Planning and Community Development

Course Revisions:
BIO 311 Human Anatomy and Physiology I
BIO 312 Human Anatomy and Physiology II
MAT 370 Applied Networks

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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 2020 review:

New Program:
Advanced Certificate in Applied Behavior Analysis, EXE-CERT

New Courses:
BUS 362 Business Project Management. Prerequisite: BUS 360. The foundational knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques of project management integral to the success of a project, using the knowledge areas and process groups related to project management methodologies. Examination and application of current practices in project management as applied to business-related projects. Offered spring semester, beginning spring 2021.

ENG 329 Digital Literacies in the 7–12 English Classroom. Prerequisites: CWP 102, ENG 190, and ENG 200. Current pedagogical approaches to the integration of technology in the English language arts classroom. Emphasis on twenty-first-century literacies, multimodal composing, and writing and reading instruction from a new literacies perspective. Additional focus on investigating ELA as a site of content creation and on digital platforms for composing, publishing, and sharing student work, as well as organizing class materials and work through various learning management systems. Offered fall semester, beginning fall 2020.

EXE 645 Effective Practices for Supporting Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Foundational knowledge in how to select, assess, and implement evidence-based practices relating to individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and related disorders; impact on all developmental domains. Foundational skills for supporting students with ASD and related disorders, and collaborating with stakeholders in the community, home, and school settings. Offered every semester, beginning spring 2021.

EXE 646 Culture, Diversity, Disability, and Education. Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Impact of culture and diversity on individuals with various disabilities including autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and related disorders. Historical, philosophical, and legal foundations for diversity and special education; pedagogical approaches; program design considerations including multicultural, sociocultural, and psycholinguistic factors to promote diversity and equity in special education. Offered every semester, beginning spring 2021.

EXE 681 Clinical Records and Ethical Practices for Behavioral Analysis. Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Storing, archiving, and general maintenance of client records; federal and state standards for best practice in the office; implications for remote work/telepractice; ethical practices including ethics for social media, advertising, and research. Offered every semester, beginning spring 2021.

EXE 683 Personnel Supervision and Management. Prerequisite: EXE 644. Field participation, application of knowledge and skills, supervision of staff, and identification of skills for personnel supervision and management. Required for NYS licensure as a behavior analyst and BCBA certification. Follows guidelines of BCBA supervisor training curriculum. Offered every semester, beginning fall 2021.

EXE 685 Supervised Practicum in ABA I: Measurement and Interpretation. Prerequisite: EXE 645. Application of theories and principles of applied behavior analysis in special education and related settings. First in a series of five courses. Focus on measurement and interpretation. Designed to help candidates meet the required field hours in New York State as a behavior analyst and BCBA certification. Offered every semester, beginning spring 2021.

EXE 686 Supervised Practicum in ABA II: Analysis of Behavior Change. Prerequisite: EXE 685. Application of theories and principles of applied behavior analysis in special education and related settings. Second in a series of five courses. Focus on evaluating behavior change. Designed to help candidates meet the required field hours for licensure in New York State as a behavior analyst and BCBA certification. Offered every semester, beginning fall 2021.

EXE 687 Supervised Practicum in ABA III: Changing Behavior. Prerequisite: EXE 686. Application of theories and principles of applied behavior analysis in special education and related settings. Third in a series of five courses. Focus on increasing and decreasing behavior in individuals. Designed to help candidates meet the required field hours for licensure in New York State as a behavior analyst and BCBA certification. Offered every semester, beginning fall 2021.

EXE 688 Supervised Practicum in ABA IV: Developing New Behaviors. Prerequisite: EXE 687. Application of theories and principles of applied behavior analysis in special education and related settings. Fourth in a series of five courses. Focus on developing new behaviors. Designed to help candidates meet the required field hours for licensure in New York State as a behavior analyst and BCBA certification. Offered every semester, beginning fall 2021.

EXE 689 Supervised Practicum in ABA V: Synthesis. Prerequisite: EXE 688. Application of theories and principles of applied behavior analysis in special education and related settings. Final course in a series of five. Focus on synthesizing key skills from coursework and fieldwork. Designed to help candidates meet the required field hours for licensure in New York State as a behavior analyst and BCBA certification. Offered every semester, beginning fall 2021.

UNC 107 Personal Leadership: Creating Habits for College Success. Built on the foundation of Sean R. Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective College Students. Students learn personal leadership concepts, take an active role in creating their own personal success, and develop strategies and utilize resources that enable them to become leaders in college and beyond. Offered every semester, beginning fall 2020.

UNC 301 Transfer Success Seminar. In-depth introduction to Buffalo State College to assist transfer students in their adjustment to the college and to learn strategies for academic and personal success while discovering how to navigate their undergraduate experience around their unique academic, career, and personal goals. Offered every semester, beginning fall 2020.

New Course with Intellectual Foundations Designation:
DIVERSITY
ENG 254 Culturally Diverse American Literature in Middle and High Schools. Prerequisite: CWP 102. Focus on diverse voices often excluded in the literature curriculum in U.S. schools. Readings draw from traditional and nontraditional literary texts and popular media representing a wide range of American voices and experiences. Also addresses the role culturally diverse literature plays in American schools and how such literature can be incorporated across content areas. Offered every semester, beginning spring 2021.

Course Revisions:
ENT 300 Mathematics Applications in Engineering Technology. Prerequisite: MAT 127 or MAT 162. Application of algebra, analytic geometry, calculus, and ordinary differential equations to problem solving in engineering technology. Introduction to first- and second-order differential equations including methods of Laplace transforms, numerical solutions of ordinary differential equations, eigenvalues, eigenvectors, probability, and partial derivatives. Offered every semester, beginning fall 2020.

EXE 544 Behavioral Interventions for Students with Challenging Behaviors. Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Historical treatment approaches for those exhibiting challenging behavior. Variations within applied behavioral analysis in the assessment and treatment of challenging behaviors often encountered by behavior analysts. Particular focus on behaviors often exhibited by people with autism spectrum disorder. Offered every semester, beginning spring 2021.

EXE 644 Advanced Applied Behavior Analysis. Prerequisite: EXE 634. Exploration of advanced concepts and principles of applied behavior analysis through the design on interventions for students with autism spectrum disorder, moderate or severe disabilities, and others. Advanced procedures for increasing desired behaviors, teaching replacement behaviors, evaluating progress through use of performance data. Offered every semester, beginning spring 2021.

From the Chair of the College Senate Curriculum Committee
The deadline to submit curricular proposals to the College Senate Curriculum Committee for spring 2020 review has passed; however, the College Senate Office continues to accept and process curricular proposal submissions throughout the semester and summer.

The Curriculum Committee will continue to review submitted proposals during its remaining three meetings of the spring semester. Any proposals that cannot be reviewed because of COVID-19 disruptions and limited committee resources, as well as proposals received after the spring deadline of April 10, will be reviewed in fall 2020.

If your proposal was approved or approved pending revisions (APR) from fall 2019 or spring 2020, please act on that proposal as soon as possible, as all curricular processes except reviewing continue for the remainder of the semester and throughout summer break.

Please be sure to check submissions for accuracy, ensuring that all course description documents match Kiss Flow submission pages. Please check with your associate dean before submitting any proposal. The College Senate Office checks all incoming proposals but is not responsible for submission errors.

From the Chair of the College Senate Curriculum Committee
Please remember that any new or revised course proposal prefix must not be reused from previous years or historical use. Any proposal submitted with a previously used prefix will not be processed for review by the College Senate Curriculum Committee. Curricular authors and departments must verify this detail before submitting a proposal to the associate dean. The College Senate Office will contact the respective associate dean to make corrections. Errors will delay the reviewing process. A full listing of all courses, current and historical, is available; please contact the College Senate Office to request a copy.

From the Chair of the College Senate Curriculum Committee
Curricular authors must use the newly revised proposal submission templates, which can be found on the Curriculum Committee website. Any proposal submitted using the old template format will not be accepted.

Please ensure that course proposals with the same three-letter course prefix and different course numbers have unique titles regardless of the graduate or undergraduate level. All courses must have different names, and all documents must match the information being entered in Kiss Flow. For example, CSC 100 Introduction to the Curriculum Process and CSC 600 Introduction to the Curriculum Process would not be permissible; one of the titles must be changed to distinguish it from the other.

Please use the CSCC website for all your curricular needs and information. Updated proposal templates and all the latest CSCC information are posted there.

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

New Courses:
ADE 641 Organizational Development
CHE 404 Instrumental Analysis Lab
EDU 304 Women and Mathematics

Course Revision:
CHE 403 Instrumental Analysis

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

New Course:
ADE 641 Organizational Development

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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 final spring 2020 review:

New Program:
Undergraduate Certificate in Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Leadership (CEIL)

Program Revision:
B.F.A. Art Education (Pre-K–12)

New Courses:
CRJ 511 Crime Analysis. Prerequisite: Completion of undergraduate or graduate statistics. Introduction to tools and techniques needed to analyze and present data within the context of policing. Examination of the role and responsibilities of a crime analyst. Examination of data-based solutions for crime problems. Offered every other semester, beginning fall 2020.

CRJ 611 Data-Driven Policing. Prerequisite: CRJ 511. Historical and current trends in data-driven policing to an increased reliance on evidenced-based, intelligence-led, problem-oriented, community and risk-based policing. Examination of different data-driven styles and strategies of policing. Implementation of data-driven policing in local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies. Offered every other spring semester, beginning spring 2021.

CRS 730 Foundational Qualitative Research Methods in Creativity Studies. Prerequisite: CRS 689. Exploration of foundational qualitative research methodologies used in creativity research. Examination of approaches to evaluate and design qualitative research. Practice in coding a narrative dataset related to an area of creativity studies. Application of qualitative data analysis methods to creativity datasets. Offered annually, beginning fall 2020.

CRS 731 Advanced Qualitative Research Methods in Creativity Studies. Prerequisites: CRS 689 and CRS 730. Advanced qualitative research studies in the field of creativity. In-depth application of qualitative research methods to creativity datasets. Utilization of a variety of methods such as grounded theory, case study, and phenomenology. Development and execution of a qualitative research design with opportunities to disseminate the work in the field of creativity. Offered annually, beginning spring 2021.

CRS 740 Foundational Quantitative Data Analysis and Statistics in Creativity Studies. Prerequisite: CRS 689. Foundational statistics and quantitative methods applicable to creativity research, e.g., descriptive and inferential parametric and non-parametric statistical methods. Software programs used for quantitative data analysis. Linking research design with statistical procedures. Preparation for advanced statistical procedures for students who intend to use quantitative methods in their dissertation. Offered spring semester, beginning spring 2021.

CRS 741 Advanced Quantitative Data Analysis and Statistics in Creativity Studies. Prerequisite: CRS 740. Advanced statistics and quantitative methods in creativity studies, such as multivariate and multiple regression analyses. Assumption and diagnosis testing. Scale development and use of exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. Quality assessment of data collection instruments. Critique of published work and preparation of research reports based on data analysis. Offered every fall, beginning fall 2020.

ENG 612 British Literature. Prerequisite: Graduate standing or instructor permission. Selected periods, writers, forms, movements, and theoretical movements in British literature. Offered every semester, beginning spring 2021.

MUS 691 Graduate Project in Music Education. Prerequisite: Admission to the master of music in music education program. Guidance in designing and implementing a culminating degree project. Students choose and apply various theories, philosophies, pedagogical practices, and research methodologies to deepen their understanding and improve their pedagogy in a chosen area of music education. Offered occasionally, beginning fall 2020.

New Courses with Intellectual Foundations Designations:
HUMANITIES
PHI 113 Environmental Ethics. Introduction to environmental ethics. Ethical theories and ethical implications of human interactions with the environment. Issues such as sustainability, environmental justice, preservation, and the value of species. Offered occasionally, beginning fall 2020.

DIVERSITY
PHI 361 Race and Progress. African American philosophical thought with a specific focus on the concept of progress. Both historical and contemporary responses to issues specific to the African American experience, such as understanding the concepts of race and racism, social and political forces required to generate progress, and the limits of progress within the black community. Offered fall semester, beginning fall 2020.

From the Chair of the College Senate Curriculum Committee
Tomorrow, April 10, is the last day to submit curricular proposals to the College Senate Curriculum Committee for spring 2020 review. The committee will continue to review proposals during its remaining three meetings of the semester. Any proposals that are unable to be reviewed because of COVID-19 disruptions and limited committee resources, as well as proposals received after April 10, will be reviewed in fall 2020.

Please be sure to check submissions for accuracy, ensuring that all course description documents match Kiss Flow submission pages. Please check with your associate dean before submitting any proposal. The College Senate Office checks all incoming proposals but is not responsible for submission errors.

If your proposal was approved or approved pending revisions (APR) from fall 2019 or spring 2020, please act on that proposal, as all curricular processes continue throughout the summer break.

From the Chair of the College Senate Curriculum Committee
Please remember that any new or revised course proposal prefix must not be reused from previous years or historical use. Any proposal submitted with a previously used prefix will not be processed for review by the College Senate Curriculum Committee. Curricular authors and departments must verify this detail before submitting a proposal to the associate dean. The College Senate Office will contact the respective associate dean to make corrections. Errors will delay the reviewing process. A full listing of all courses, current and historical, is available; please contact the College Senate Office to request a copy.

From the Chair of the College Senate Curriculum Committee
Curricular authors must use the newly revised proposal submission templates, which can be found on the Curriculum Committee website. Any proposal submitted using the old template format will not be accepted.

Please ensure that course proposals with the same three-letter course prefix and different course numbers have unique titles regardless of the graduate or undergraduate level. All courses must have different names, and all documents must match the information being entered in Kiss Flow. For example, CSC 100 Introduction to the Curriculum Process and CSC 600 Introduction to the Curriculum Process would not be permissible; one of the titles must be changed to distinguish it from the other.

Please use the CSCC website for all your curricular needs and information. Updated proposal templates and all the latest CSCC information are posted there.

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

New Program:
M.S. Business Management