From the Chair of the Senate Curriculum Committee
At the October 14 bimonthly Curriculum Committee meeting, the chair and members approved a motion to change the course/program proposal submission deadline from March 31, 2009, to March 1, 2009, for those courses requesting IF designation. The change will give all involved more time for reviewing and decision making regarding these curricular items before the fall 2009 semester.

Curricular items prior to 2005 are now available in the Archives Office in E. H. Butler Library. Contact Peggy Hatfield or Dan DiLandro, archivists for Buffalo State College, to view these documents, 878-6304.

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

New Course: 
CRJ 250 Introduction to Intelligence Analysis.Survey course that introduces students to the discipline of intelligence in the areas of national security, business, and law enforcement. Provides students with an understanding of how intelligence systems function, how they are used by policymakers, and how they are managed and controlled. Covers such intelligence topics as history, ethics, psychology, and analytical techniques.

Course Revision and Intellectual Foundations Designation:

ORAL COMMUNICATION
CRJ 470 Advanced Seminar in Criminal Justice.Prerequisites: CWP 102, CRJ 101, CRJ 303, CRJ 315, upper division status, and at least 24 credit hours of criminal justice coursework. Integration of knowledge acquired throughout the criminal justice curriculum into a holistic conception of criminal justice theory, practice, research, and planning. Emphasis on developing advanced scholarship, conceptualization, and critical thinking through writing within the discipline.

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

Course Revisions:
AED 688 Seminar I: Art Education (Seminar in Art Education)
AED 689 Seminar II: Art Education (Research)

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

Course Revisions:
AED 688 Seminar I: Art Education (Seminar in Art Education) 
AED 689 Seminar II: Art Education (Research)

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:
COM 335 Talk Radio/Talk Television
ENG 320 Autobiography and Memoir

From the Chair of the Senate Curriculum Committee

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

New Courses:
COM 335 Talk Radio/Talk Television
ENG 320 Autobiography and Memoir

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:
GEG 385 Paleoclimatology. Prerequisite: GEG 101 or equivalent. Methods and theories used in reconstructing and dating past climates. Focus on the past 2 million years, including proxies such as ice cores, sediment sequences, packrat middens, tree rings, corals, and historical data. Causes of climate change and human interactions emphasized.

GEG 423 Biogeography. Prerequisite: Upper-division 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.

SCI 505 Inquiry and Urban Science Teaching.Prerequisite: Acceptance to the graduate science education program. Instructional strategies for early adolescents including inquiry as content and a teaching approach; classroom management; interdisciplinary team approaches; cultures of urban, suburban, and rural middle schools. Includes field experience at the middle school level.

SCI 635 Nature of Science. Prerequisite: 9 hours of graduate study including SCI 628. Nature of science involving basic values and beliefs that make up the scientific worldview; how scientists go about their work; general culture of the scientific enterprise. Embedding scientific knowledge into lessons and activities as a necessary part of science teaching at all levels.

Course Revision:
SCI 664 Teaching Science with Technology.Prerequisite: Acceptance to the graduate science education program. Development and integration of a variety of visual and audio technologies for the creative enhancement of visual and auditory communication in the science classroom. Specialized technology needs of science teachers.

From the Chair of the Senate Curriculum Committee

Advanced to the Curriculum Committee

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

Program Revision:
B.S. Applied Sociology (0732)

From the Chair of the Senate Curriculum Committee

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:

Course Revisions and Intellectual Foundations Designations:
SOCIAL SCIENCE
CRJ 201 Criminal Law. Prerequisite: CRJ 101. The study of substantive criminal law through the analysis of judicial opinions and textual material. In-depth coverage of the elements of crime, such as intent, actus, Reus, and concurrence, examined within the statutory definition of several different offenses and studied within the context of defenses such as justifications, among others.

SOCIAL SCIENCE and ORAL COMMUNICATION
CRJ 303 Criminal Justice Theory and Ideology.Prerequisites: CRJ 101 and CWP 102. Examination of the social, political, cultural, and economic forces that shape the historical and contemporary theories and ideologies of crime and their interactive influences with criminal justice policies and practices.

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:
ECO 604 Development Economics
EDU 619 Practicum in Gifted, Talented, and Creative Education
ENT 202 Introduction to Engineering Economics and Project Management
PSC 305 Environmental Policy
PSC 337 The Politics of Globalization
PSC 341 Government, Politics, and Policies of the European Union
SOC 250 Sociology of Buffalo, NY
SPC 315 Media Performance

Course Revisions:
AED 300 Foundations in Art Education
AED 301 Theoretical Constructs in Art Education
AED 302 Functions and Practice in Art Education
ENG 313 Milton
ENG 314 Chaucer
ENG 315 Shakespeare I
ENG 316 Shakespeare 2
SCI 501 History of Science for Science Teachers

From the Chair of the Senate Curriculum Committee

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

New Course:
SCI 502 Secondary Science Education Teaching: Theory, Content, and Pedagogy. Prerequisite: Acceptance to the graduate science education program.Use of inquiry-based teaching techniques to develop concepts central to the National Science Education Standards and New York State MST Standards. Teaching strategies, safety, science in the community, nature of science, assessment, unit and lesson planning, classroom management, standards, and dispositions for teachers. For middle and high school classrooms.

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

New Course:
SOC 250 Sociology of Buffalo, NY

Course Revision:
SCI 501 History of Science for Science Teachers(Resubmitted with corrected title. Incorrectly submitted in 8/21/08 Bulletin as SCI 501 Secondary Science Education Teaching: Theory, Content, and Pedagogy.)