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:

New Program:
Undergraduate Certificate in Environmental Science and Society

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

New Program:
Advanced Certificate in Disaster and Emergency Management

Program Revision:
B.S. Health and Wellness

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 Program:
Undergraduate Certificate in Environmental Science and Society

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Advanced to the Curriculum Committee
The following has been received in the College Senate Office and forwarded to the College Senate Curriculum Committee for spring 2021 review:

New Course:
DSA 621 Data Science Tools in Energy Engineering. Prerequisite: Instructor permission. Tools and techniques needed to collect, clean, analyze, and present data specific to the field of energy engineering in large data sets; statistical models to describe data; visualization of data; spreadsheets; databases; Python. Offered occasionally, beginning fall 2021.

Course Revision:
BIO 699 Capstone Experience in Biology. Prerequisites: BIO 600 and permission of the graduate advising committee. Culminating “capstone” experience of the M.A. Biology program for students pursuing the non-thesis option. Offered every semester, beginning fall 2021.

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:
B.A. Communication Studies, BA-AH COM

New Courses:
CRJ 611 Data-Driven Policing
SLP 330 Deaf Culture in America

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:
B.A. Communication Studies, BA-AH COM

New Courses:
CRJ 611 Data-Driven Policing
SLP 330 Deaf Culture in America

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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 Courses:
CAR 511 Conflict Theory. Prerequisite: Graduate standing or instructor permission. Introduction to the theories that are used to explain conflict in its myriad forms. Examination of the social, political, cultural, and economic forces that shape the historical and contemporary theories and ideologies of conflict. Offered every other fall semester, beginning fall 2021.

CAR 512 Conflict Analysis and Resolution Methodology. Prerequisite: Graduate standing or instructor permission. Introduction to the methodology of understanding, solving, and preventing conflicts in a wide range of social environments. Provision of practical tools and skills to allow students to identify, implement, and foreclose conflicts in a wide array of settings. Offered every other spring semester, beginning spring 2022.

From the Chair of the College Senate Curriculum Committee
Attention, proposal authors. Please be sure to check the College Senate Curriculum Committee website for the CSCC Curriculum Handbook, proposal templates, curriculum review checklists, and other helpful resources before submitting curriculum proposals to KissFlow.

The Curriculum Committee will begin its spring 2021 review process in early February. The deadline for spring 2021 proposal submissions is Friday, April 9. Any proposal received after the deadline will be reviewed in fall 2021. The Curriculum Committee does not convene over the summer break.

If you have questions about a proposal you have submitted, please consult with your associate dean. Please e-mail Vincent Masci, assistant to the College Senate, with all other general questions. Proposals that have been approved pending revisions (APR) should be acted on immediately to expedite the process. All proposals must go through Kiss Flow. Please do not send proposals as e-mail attachments at any point in the process.

Proposal authors, please remember that any new or revised course proposal prefix must not be reused from previous years or current or historical use. Any proposal submitted with a previously used prefix will not be processed for review by the Curriculum Committee and will delay the reviewing process. A full list of courses, current and historical, is available; please contact Vincent Masci, assistant to the College Senate Office, to request a copy.

Authors, please use newly formatted curriculum templates and required naming conventions for your proposal documents. Updated templates and naming conventions for all curricular submissions are available on the Curriculum Committee website. Old templates 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. 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. All courses must have unique titles, and all documents must match the information being entered in Kiss Flow.

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.

Curriculum authors, department chairs, or associate deans who experience technical problems with KissFlow, including uploading documents, workflow processes, and additions, should create a ticket in the IT self-service portal or contact Neil Palmer, network support programmer in Information Technology Services, who handles all technical issues within KissFlow. Neither the College Senate Office nor the Curriculum Committee has access to proposals in the workflow system.

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

International Graduate Programs for Educators (IGPE) Microcredential:
Teaching and Learning at English Modern School, Doha

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The following has been approved by the interim dean of the School of the Professions and the associate provost:

Microcredential:
Applied Creative Thinking and Problem Solving

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

New Program:
Undergraduate Certificate in Exercise Science, ESM-CERT

From the Chair of the College Senate Curriculum Committee
Attention, proposal authors. Please be sure to check the College Senate Curriculum Committee website for the CSCC Curriculum Handbook, proposal templates, curriculum review checklists, and other helpful resources before submitting curriculum proposals to KissFlow.

The Curriculum Committee will begin its spring 2021 review process in early February. The deadline for spring 2021 proposal submissions is Friday, April 9. Any proposal received after the deadline will be reviewed in fall 2021. The Curriculum Committee does not convene over the summer break.

If you have questions about a proposal you have submitted, please consult with your associate dean. Please e-mail Vincent Masci, assistant to the College Senate, with all other general questions. Proposals that have been approved pending revisions (APR) should be acted on immediately to expedite the process. All proposals must go through Kiss Flow. Please do not send proposals as e-mail attachments at any point in the process.

Proposal authors, please remember that any new or revised course proposal prefix must not be reused from previous years or current or historical use. Any proposal submitted with a previously used prefix will not be processed for review by the Curriculum Committee and will delay the reviewing process. A full list of courses, current and historical, is available; please contact Vincent Masci, assistant to the College Senate Office, to request a copy.

Authors, please use newly formatted curriculum templates and required naming conventions for your proposal documents. Updated templates and naming conventions for all curricular submissions are available on the Curriculum Committee website. Old templates 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. 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. All courses must have unique titles, and all documents must match the information being entered in Kiss Flow.

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.

Curriculum authors, department chairs, or associate deans who experience technical problems with KissFlow, including uploading documents, workflow processes, and additions, should create a ticket in the IT self-service portal or contact Neil Palmer, network support programmer in Information Technology Services, who handles all technical issues within KissFlow. Neither the College Senate Office nor the Curriculum Committee has access to proposals in the workflow system.