From the Chair of the College Senate Curriculum Committee
The following has been approved by the College Senate Curriculum Committee and forwarded to the president for review:
Course Revision:
IDE 202 Construction Fundamentals
From The President
I have approved the following curricular item, which has been recommended by the appropriate dean, the College Senate, and the provost:
Course Revision:
BIO 355 Survey of Microbiology
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 2022 review:
New Course:
SLP 507 Introduction to Signed Language Systems. Fundamentals of American Sign Language (ASL), Pidgin Signed English (PSE), and Signed Exact English (SEE), including basic grammatical features, language functions, and fingerspelling. Provides students with receptive and expressive skills for ASL, PSE, and SEE communication with deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals. Additional content in deafness, deaf culture, and signed languages. Offered every semester, beginning fall 2023.
From the President
I have approved the following curricular item, which has been recommended by the appropriate dean, the College Senate, and the provost:
Course Revision:
SWK 220 Introduction to Social Work
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From the Associate Provost
The following has been approved by SUNY System Administration and the New York State Education Department:
New Program:
M.S. Applied Behavior Analysis
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The following has been approved by SUNY System Administration for General Education designation:
Course Revision with Intellectual Foundations Designation:
HUMANITIES
ENG 190 Introduction to Literature
From the Chair of the Senate Curriculum Committee
Advanced to the President
The following has been approved by the Senate Curriculum Committee and forwarded to the president for review and approval:
New Course:
FAR 373 Venetian Art and Culture, 1300–1800
From the Chair of the Senate Curriculum Committee
Advanced to the Curricular Committee
The following have been received in the College Senate Office and forwarded to the Senate Curriculum Committee for review and approval:
New Course:
DAN 214 Introduction to Dance Techniques. Introduction to various artistic dance genres. Develop an understanding of the dancer as a performing artist through the physical practice of criterion common and specific to a variety of dance techniques: body as the instrument for dance, kinesthetic awareness, a codified terminology, and the influential aesthetic elements that define various dance techniques. Attend a live dance performance.
New Course and Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Designation:
GEG/PLN 396 Research Methods (WAC). Prerequisites: GEG 199, GEG 390, and six upper division credits in GEG/PLN courses. Research theories, designs, and methods relevant to conducting research in geography and planning. Research designs and methodologies for approaches with human subjects, human/social geography, physical geography, field-based research, and planning projects. Development of a research project proposal.
Advanced to the President
The following has been approved by the Senate Curriculum Committee and forwarded to the president for review and approval:
New Course and Intellectual Foundations Designation:
NON-WESTERN CIVILIZATION
ANT 310 Mesoamerican Archaeology
From the Chair of the Senate Curriculum Committee
Advanced to the Curricular Committee
The following has been received in the College Senate Office and forwarded to the Senate Curriculum Committee for review and approval:
New Course:
FAR 373 Venetian Art and Culture, 1300-1800. Prerequisites: Art History I (FAR 250) and II (FAR 251). The history of Venetian architecture, sculpture, and painting considered within historical, geographical, and cultural contexts from the fourteenth through the eighteenth century. Students will undertake original research and will carry out individual projects.
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:
Minor in Mathematics (1718), MAT
New Courses:
CHI 301 Chinese Conversation and Composition I
CHI 302 Chinese Conversation and Composition II
HIS 645 Gender Sexuality and Imperialism
MAT 318 Mathematical Modeling
MAT 319 Mathematical Biology
MAT 481 Stochastic Processes
MAT 484 Applied Statistics II
From the Chair of the Senate Curriculum Committee
Advanced to the Curricular Committee
The following have been received in the College Senate Office and forwarded to the Senate Curriculum Committee for review and approval:
New Courses:
CHI 301 Chinese Conversation and Composition I. Prerequisite: CHI 202. Practice in spoken and written Mandarin Chinese.
CHI 302 Chinese Conversation and Composition II. Prerequisites: CHI 301. Practice in spoken and written Mandarin Chinese.
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:
GEG 416 Geographies of Development
PHY 511 Computational Physics for Teachers
PHY 521 Experiments in Modern Physics
PHY 522 Physics of Energy Sources for Teachers