Curricular Items
Curricular Items
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:
Program Revisions:
B.S. Fashion, Textile, and Technology (formerly Fashion and Textile Technology)
Advanced Certificate - Assessment in Higher Education (formerly Assessment in Student Affairs)
Course Revision:
BUS 305 Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace
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The following have been approved by the special committee of the Buffalo State Senate Intellectual Foundations Oversight Committee (SIFOC) and the Senate Curriculum Committee for inclusion in General Education 2023 and forwarded to the president for review:
THE ARTS
ENG 151 Introduction to Poetry
ENG 255 The Short Story
DIVERSITY: EQUITY, INCLUSION, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
ENG 354 Ethic American Minority Literatures
ENG 356 Speculative Fiction
ENG 385 Gender and Sexuality in Literature
PSY 387 Psychology of Gender
MATHEMATICS AND QUANTITATIVE REASONING
ECO 305 Statistics for Economics
SOCIAL SCIENCES
ECO 101 The Economic System
ECO 201 Principles of Macroeconomics
ECO 202 Principles of Microeconomics
U.S. HISTORY AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
ECO 103 Economic History of the United States
WORLD HISTORY AND GLOBAL AWARENESS
ENG 353 American Indian Literature
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Advanced to the Curriculum Committee
The following have been received in the Buffalo State Senate Office and forwarded to the Curriculum Committee for review:
Program Revision:
Undergraduate Certificate in World Languages Advantage, UGCT-AS-WLA
Course Revisions:
ANT 300 Indigenous Peoples of Western North America. Prerequisite: ANT 100 or ANT 101 or instructor permission. Way of life of the original inhabitants of Western North America. Reconstructing life during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries using archaeology, historical documents, and oral tradition. Tribal nations of the Plains, Northwest Coast, Southwest, Great Basin, Plateau, and California. Effects of European exploration and colonization and the persistence of Indigenous Western North American peoples in the modern world. Offered every other fall semester (even years).
ANT 301 Indigenous Peoples of Eastern North America. Prerequisite: ANT 100 or ANT 101 or instructor permission. Way of life of the original inhabitants of Eastern North America. Reconstructing life during the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries using archaeology, historical documents, and oral tradition (ethnohistory). Early seventeenth-century Wendat, Haudenosaunee, and Powhatan confederacies; Cherokee in the middle nineteenth century; effects of European exploration and colonization; persistence of Indigenous Eastern North American peoples in the modern world. Offered every other fall semester (odd years).
ANT 312 Archaeology of North America. Prerequisite: ANT 100 or instructor permission. The archaeological record of Indigenous Peoples in ancient North America beginning with the earliest human presence in North America. Includes the Paleo-Indian, Archaic, Woodland, and Mississippian archaeological periods in the East, and periods comparable in time in the West. American archaeological theoretical frameworks, methods, and ethical issues. Pseudoscientific and political uses of archaeology. Offered every other spring semester (even years).
ANT 323 Disease and Global Health (previously ANT 323 Anthropology of Disease). Prerequisite: ANT 100 or instructor permission. The global burden of disease on morbidity, mortality, and development. How the diseases that afflict humans have changed over our cultural evolution and have affected our biological evolution. The relationship between cultural and personal activities and disease. Understanding epidemiological concepts through recent events. Racism as a public health crisis. Offered every other spring semester (even years).
ANT 329 World Archaeology. Prerequisite: ANT 100 or instructor permission. Broad outline of global hominin/human material culture through space and time from the origins of stone tools (2.5 million years ago) to the rise of complex societies with monumental architecture approximately 1550 CE/AD as inferred from the archaeological record. Past cultures of hunter-gatherers-fishers, the first farmers, and early civilizations. Methods and theories that archaeologists use to interpret recovered archaeological data in a wide variety of forms. Offered every other spring semester (odd years).
ANT 330 Indigenous Hawaiians. Prerequisite: ANT 100 or ANT 101 or instructor permission. Lifeways of the original inhabitants of the islands of Oceania/Polynesia, especially the Hawaiian archipelago. Origins, geography/ecology, cultural identity and agency, political struggles of Indigenous Hawaiian peoples from the tenth century to today using archaeological/anthropological, historical documents, and oral tradition evidence (ethnohistory). Representations of Indigenous Hawaiians originating inside and outside the region. Offered every other spring semester (odd years).
ANT 341 Indigenous Art of North America. Prerequisite: ANT 100 or instructor permission. Examination of art and material culture within Indigenous communities. How material culture and art can be used as evidence for human behavior, especially ritual behavior. Investigation of historical factors affecting the production and use of material culture and art. Continuity and change within material culture/artistic repertoires. Offered every other spring semester (even years).
DSA 301 Data Science and Analytics with Spreadsheets, DBS, and Python. Prerequisite: MAT 241 or instructor permission. Introduction to tools and techniques needed to collect, clean, analyze, and present data that can be used in any academic discipline and its applications. Use of API and data scraping from the Internet. Visualization of data using appropriate software. Spreadsheets. Databases. Python. Offered spring semester.