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

Course Revision:
BUS 305 Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace (formerly Workforce Diversity in the Twenty-First Century). Survey of the legal, policy, and social psychological perspectives of diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Overview of the laws and public policies that provide the basis for diversity management, specifically focusing on employment discrimination laws and affirmative action policies. Review of how national and international changes have affected workplaces. Management of an inclusive workforce in the global context. Teamwork develops an understanding and awareness of how organizations are addressing diversity and inclusion in the workforce. Offered every semester, beginning fall 2023.

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

New Course:
HEA 615 Survey Design for Professionals

Course Revision:
FAR 220 Photography I

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

Change of Status: Program Deactivation:*
M.S. Professional and Applied Computational Mathematics

*Deactivation effective fall 2023; Buffalo State University will not accept new students into these programs after May 2023.

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

Program Revision:
B.S. Psychological Science (formerly B.S. Psychology)

New Course:
HEA 615 Survey Design for Professionals

Course Revision:
FAR 220 Photography I

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Advanced to the Curriculum Committee
The following have been received in the Buffalo State Senate Office and forwarded to the Senate Curriculum Committee for review:

Program Revisions:
B.S. Social Work
Minor in Theater/Dance (formerly discrete minors)

New Courses:
NFS 601 Leadership and Project Management in Dietetics. Prerequisite: Instructor permission. Leadership and project management applied in clinical nutrition, private practice, community nutrition, and food service management. Competency-based learning using skills, tools, and techniques required in the life cycle of a nutrition project, including project selection, planning, staffing, task scheduling, budgeting, risk management, and quality improvement. Exploration of nutrition informatics in executing nutrition projects. Offered summer session, beginning summer 2024.

SWK 340 Social Work Theory and Assessment. Prerequisites: SWK 330; social work majors only. Overview of the history, ethics, skills, and foundational theories used to practice social work in the twenty-first century. Application of foundational theoretical perspectives in the assessment process at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels. Development of social work skills used in the assessment process. Offered spring semester, beginning spring 2024.

Course Revisions:
HEA 622 Inclusive Advising and Supporting (formerly HEA 622 Techniques of Counseling). Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Focus on theories of counseling, developing basic and intermediate helping skills, intentional interviewing, conflict resolution, and self-assessment for the helping professions. Examination of theories of counseling, developing skills and strategies for effective listening, assertion, individual and group facilitation, supervising, interviewing, self-assessment, and individual problem solving. Offered fall and spring semesters, beginning fall 2023.

MAT 382 Topics in Mathematical Statistics. Prerequisite: MAT 381. Calculus-based introduction to the theory of statistical inference and its applications, functions of random variables, properties of estimators, sampling distributions, point and interval estimation, theory and applications of hypothesis testing. Offered spring semester, beginning spring 2024.

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

New Courses:
CHE 635 Solid Phase Peptide Synthesis
CHE 327 Medicinal Plant Chemistry
CHE 427 Cannabis Analysis

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:
CHE 635 Solid Phase Peptide Synthesis
CHE 327 Medicinal Plant Chemistry
CHE 427 Cannabis Analysis

From the President
I have approved the following curricular item, which has been recommended by the appropriate dean, the College Senate, and the provost. This program must now advance to SUNY System Administration and the New York State Education Department for final review:

Program Revision:
B.A. Applied Psychology (formerly B.A. Psychology)

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

New Courses:
FLM 511 Principles of Image and Sound Production
FLM 610 Producing the Short Film
FLM 620 Television, Film, and Streaming Media Seminar
FLM 621 Directing

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From the Associate Provost
The following has been approved by the dean of the School of Education and the associate provost:

Continuing Professional Studies Microcredential:
Pre-professional Educational Pathways*

*This microcredential is designed for participants of a BOCES program.

From the President
I have approved the following curricular item, which has been recommended by the appropriate dean, the College Senate, and the provost. This program must now advance to SUNY System Administration and the New York State Education Department for final review:

Program Revision:
Undergraduate Certificate in World Languages Advantage, UGCT-WLA

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

Course Revision (Intellectual Foundations Designation Only):
DIVERSITY
EDU 304 Women and Mathematics

New Courses:
PAD 515 NYS Government and Budget
PSC 221 Judicial Process and Politics
PSC 426 Mediation
PSC 430 UN and Global Affairs

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:
Undergraduate Certificate in World Languages Advantage, UGCT-WLA

Course Revision (Intellectual Foundations Designation Only):
DIVERSITY
EDU 304 Women and Mathematics

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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 2021 review:

New Program:
Undergraduate Certificate in Sports Administration

New Courses:
BSC 100 The College Transition Process. Focus on improving students’ likelihood of college completion by assisting them in their transition to higher education and helping them establish strategies that will guide them on their road to success. Offered occasionally, beginning fall 2021.

ENT 446 Digital Systems Design and Analysis. Prerequisite: ENT 346. Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and their hardware description languages (HDLs), advanced microcontrollers for smart devices, serial communication, survey of smart sensors. Required for electrical engineering technology electronics option majors. Offered spring semester, beginning spring 2022.

ENT 573 Planning and Operation of Electric Vehicles in Smart Grid. Prerequisites: B.S. degree in STEM area and instructor permission. Introduction and explanation of the latest advancements in the planning and operation of electric vehicles (EV) from smart grid perspective. Problems such as charging station sizing and placement as well as charging management of EVs are studied considering the technical characteristics of EVs. Offered occasionally, beginning spring 2022.

Course Revisions:
PHY 440 Electricity and Magnetism I. Prerequisites: PHY 310 and PHY 320 or instructor permission. Coulomb forces, electric fields and potentials, Laplace equation, boundary value problems and dielectrics, multipole distributions, magnetic induction, introduction to Maxwell's equations. Offered every other fall semester, beginning fall 2022.

PHY 441 Electricity and Magnetism II. Prerequisite: PHY 440 or instructor permission. Continuation of PHY 440. Electric induction, Maxwell’s equations, momentum and energy of electromagnetic fields, propagating waves, radiation, special relativity, relativistic electrodynamics. Offered every other spring semester, beginning spring 2022.

PHY 510 Regent’s Physics Science Practices. Prerequisites: Graduate standing and introductory physics sequence or instructor permission. Students use and apply the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS Lead States, 2013) science practices of asking questions, developing and using models, planning and carrying out investigations, analyzing and interpreting data, using mathematics, constructing explanations, and engaging in argument from evidence. Students apply these practices to learn physics concepts. Offered summer semester, beginning summer 2022.

PHY 620 Mechanics for High School Teachers. Prerequisites: PHY 510 and PHY 111, or instructor permission. Designed for practicing or future high school physics teachers. Activities and laboratory experiences develop ideas in force, motion, and energy. Exemplary pedagogical techniques are modeled and examined. Offered every other summer semester, beginning summer 2022.

PHY 622 Electricity and Magnetism for High School Teachers. Prerequisites: PHY 510 and PHY 112 or instructor permission. Designed for high school physics teachers. Activities and laboratory experiences develop ideas in electricity and magnetism. Exemplary pedagogical techniques are modeled and examined. Offered every other summer semester, beginning summer 2022.

From the Chair of the College Senate Curriculum Committee
The College Senate Curriculum Committee requires that all Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) contain verbs from Bloom’s Taxonomy. The college will sunset the original Bloom’s Taxonomy verb list on December 31, 2022, in favor of the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy, which emphasizes alignment with current practice in curriculum planning, instructional delivery, and assessment. Currently, verbs from either list are acceptable on proposals. Each SLO should use one verb only.