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 Programs:
Minor in Digital Music Production
M.A. Museum Studies

New Courses:
ADE 645 Program Design for Organizational Employees
GEG 316 Watershed Pollution
MST 622 Researching and Presenting Museum Collections
MST 630 Visitor Experience in Museums
SSE/MST 632 Teaching with Historic Places
MST 641 Revenue Generating for Museums

Course Revisions:
MST 601 Theory and Method in Museum Studies

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:
EDC 689 Research Methods, Tools, and Writing
IDE 354 Global Design Study Tour
PSY 330 The Psychological Power of Language

Course Revisions:
ENG 200 Field Experience in Secondary English Education
ENS 300 Environmental Case Studies
PSY 430 Psycholinguistics

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 Program:
Family and Consumer Sciences and Education

New Course:
ANT 323 Anthropology of Disease. Prerequisites:  ANT 100 or instructor permission. Ill health from an anthropological perspective.  Biological anthropology; how cultural activities contribute to the spread of disease; how disease manifests itself in the archaeological record; how the language used for disease impacts thinking about disease; how anthropologists contribute to the fight against disease. Understanding epidemiological concepts via current events.

New Courses and Intellectual Foundations Designations:
NON-WESTERN CIVILIZATION
ANT 310 Mesoamerican Archaeology. Prerequisites: ANT 100 or instructor permission. Overview of ancient civilizations of Mesoamerica, including Olmecs, Maya, Monte Alban, Teotihuacan, Toltecs, and Aztecs using archaeological evidence, hieroglyphic texts, iconography, and ethnohistorical sources. Comparative analysis of art, architecture, religion, political structure, economic and social organization of societies in Mesoamerica from archaic foraging groups through Spanish contact.

NON-WESTERN CIVILIZATION
ANT 332 Women and Men in Prehistory. Prerequisites: ANT 100 or instructor permission. Gender, the cultural construction of gender roles, the impact of gender roles on social structure, the reflection of gender and gender roles on the material culture of past human societies. Overview of concepts including gender, sex, gender role, alternative genders, and historical development of gender archaeology. Variation in gender roles in a range of prehistoric societies, with emphasis on ancient civilizations. Archaeological resources relating to gender including art and iconography, burial patterns and human remains, settlement patterns and architecture, and craft production and division of labor. 

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

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

New Programs:
Minor in Digital Music Production
M.A. Museum Studies, MA-MS

New Courses:
ADE 645 Program Design for Organizational Employees
GEG 316 Watershed Pollution
MST 622 Researching and Presenting Museum Collections
MST 630 Visitor Experience in Museums
SSE/MST 632 Teaching with Historic Places
MST 641 Revenue Generating for Museums

Course Revisions:
MST 601 Theory and Method in Museum Studies

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:

Program Revision:
Minor in Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

New Courses:
BIO 111 Introduction to Biology
PSC 307 International Conflict and Peaceful Resolution

Course Revision:
PHI 307 Symbolic Logic

Course Revisions and Intellectual Foundations Designations:
ORAL COMMUNICATION
GEG/PLN 430  Senior Thesis

NON-WESTERN CIVILIZATION
PSC 337 Politics of Globalization

From the Chair of the Senate Curriculum Committee
New courses approved by the College Senate Curriculum Committee (CSCC) for Intellectual Foundations designation must also be approved by SUNY before those courses are formally added to the list of acceptable electives. This requires submission of the SUNY Course Reporting Form that is available on the CSCC website. This additional step is completely separate from the CSCC approval process and is the responsibility of the department that drafted the original course proposal and IF submission narrative. This requirement pertains only to those IF categories that are included in the SUNY General Education Requirement. The form should list Dr. Rosalyn Lindner as the campus contact and must be submitted to SUNY through the Buffalo State College Assessment and Curriculum and Office.

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 Curriculum Committee for review and approval:

New Courses:
NFS 111 Applied Management in Dietetics I. Majors only. First of a four-course sequence. Advanced management principles and concepts as they apply to health care, dietetics, and food services. Students engage in assignments that prepare them to become skilled in specific areas of dietetics practice and food service management.

NFS 211 Applied Management in Dietetics II. Prerequisite: NFS 111. Majors only. Second of a four-course sequence. Concepts and practices consistent with the practices of human resource management, financial management, safety, and infection control as they apply to health-care food service management. Student engage in assignments that prepare them to become skilled in specific areas of dietetics practice and food service management.

Course Revisions:
NFS 330 Integrative and Functional Nutrition. Prerequisites: NFS 102 or NFS 334 or equivalent and junior or senior standing or instructor permission. (1-credit course.) Introduction to integrative and functional nutrition (IFN) and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). Integration of healthful eating and dietary supplements that include vitamins, minerals, functional foods, phytochemicals, and nutraceuticals for disease prevention and treatment. Emphasis on the regulatory (legal, ethical, and moral) issues of dietary supplements. The goal of the course is to prepare students to have competency in IFN as a part of medical nutrition therapy.

NFS 401 Medical Nutritional Therapy I. Prerequisites: NFS 302, CHE 322, BIO 308, and BIO 309. Corequisite: NFS 445 Nutritional Care A. For students in the coordinated program in dietetics. First of a three-course sequence examining interrelationships of pathophysiology, biochemistry, genetics, and nutrition as related to medical nutritional therapy. Emphasis on the nutrition care process, general nutritional assessment, and role of nutrition in preventing and treating diseases and disorders: obesity and weight management, cardiovascular disease, drug-nutrient interactions, and disordered eating.

NFS 402 Medical Nutritional Therapy II. Prerequisite: NFS 401. Corequisite: NFS 446 Nutritional Care B. For students in the coordinated program in dietetics. Second of a three-course sequence examining the interrelationships of pathophysiology, biochemistry, genetics, and nutrition as related to medical nutritional therapy. Emphasis on the role of nutrition in preventing and treating diseases and disorders: diabetes mellitus, hypoglycemia, renal, dysphagia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and cystic fibrosis.

NFS 403 Medical Nutritional Therapy III. Prerequisite: NFS 402. Corequisite: NFS 447 Nutrition Care C. For students in the coordinated program in dietetics. Third of a three-course sequence examining the interrelationships of pathophysiology, biochemistry, genetics, and nutrition as related to medical nutritional therapy (MNT). Addresses MNT for cancer, upper and lower gastrointestinal (GI) disorders, exocrine pancreas, hepatobiliary, critical care pulmonary disease, metabolic stress (including sepsis, SIRS, head trauma, and burns), acid-base disorders, acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), and  parenteral and enteral nutrition.

Course Revision and Intellectual Foundations Designation:
WRITING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM
NFS 420W Dietetics Experience. Prerequisite: NFS 403. Formalized observation and experience in a variety of health-care settings such as clinical, community, food service, and regulatory agencies; research paper and consumer education.

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 Course:
SPA 602 Spanish Sociolinguistics and Pragmatics

Program Revisions:
B.S. Speech-Language Pathology (0325) BS-SLP SOP
M.S.Ed. Speech-Language Pathology (6322) MSED-SLP SOP

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:

Program Revision:
Minor in Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

New Courses:
ACM 653 Markov Chain Models in Credit Risk Management. Prerequisite: Graduate status. Suggested preparation: Previous coursework or experience in calculus, linear algebra, linear regression, and introductory programming. Hands-on introduction to mortgage lending and the practice of measuring and managing consumer credit risk. Introduction to Markov chain theory and transition roll rate modeling through extensive case study of the collapse of the U.S. mortgage industry in 2007–2008 and the origins of the Great Recession. Risk reporting and segmenting; probability of default; loss given default; house price dynamics; loss forecasting with consideration of micro and macro factors. Use of statistical software package SAS to analyze loan-level datasets.

HIS 362 The War of 1812. Prerequisite: Upper-division status. The causes, conduct, and implications of the War of 1812. Thematic and narrative treatment of the war and its implications for the history of North America in the nineteenth century and beyond; the emergence of the United States as a hemispheric power; the future of Canada-U.S. relations. The war as an aspect of nineteenth-century British imperial history; impact on North American indigenous peoples. 

PSC 307 International Conflict and Peaceful Resolution. Prerequisite: Junior or senior status. Key theoretical traditions and research in international and intrastate conflict and conflict resolution through in-depth empirical analysis.

SSE/MST 631 Learning in Museums. Prerequisite: Graduate status. Foundation for those seeking to develop and implement educational services in museum settings. History of museum education; educator’s role in museum programming; learning theories and their relationship to museums; museum community outreach. Practical experience in researching and constructing educational materials for local museums.

Course Revisions:
PHI 103 Introduction to Logic. Introduction to practical reasoning and argumentation relevant to everyday life; recognition, classification, evaluation, and construction of everyday arguments.

PHI 307 Symbolic Logic. Prerequisite: PHI 107 or instructor permission. First-order logic with identity and its uses in evaluating ordinary language arguments. Syntax, semantics, and system of natural deduction.

PHI 309 Knowledge and Justification. Prerequisite: One course in philosophy or instructor permission. Investigation of knowledge and justification; topics may include perception, memory, consciousness, reason, and testimony as sources of knowledge and justification; the nature, structure, and scope of knowledge and justification; and skepticism.

PHI 312 Philosophy of Mind. Prerequisite: One course in philosophy or instructor permission. Investigation of the mind-body problem; Cartesian dualism, logical behaviorism, the identity theory, functionalism, eliminative materialism, property dualism, qualia, and intentionality.

PHI 317 Ancient Philosophy. Prerequisite: Upper-division status or one course in philosophy. Readings in selected primary texts (in translation) of significant philosophers of ancient Greece and Rome. Particular emphasis on Plato and Aristotle and their contributions to the intellectual development of Western thought.

Course Revisions and Intellectual Foundations Designations:
ORAL COMMUNICATION
GEG/PLN 430 Senior Thesis. Prerequisites: GEG/PLN 390, GEG/PLN 396, and senior geography or planning major. Research in geography or planning and presentation of selected research-related topics.

NON-WESTERN CIVILIZATION
PSC 337 Politics of Globalization. Prerequisite: PSC 102 or PSC 230. Complex process by which governments, corporations, and individuals are integrated and interconnected on a global scale due to the rapid progress of information technology. Interaction between the Western-led liberalization of politics and economy and the advance of non-Western counterforces against and in response to Western-led globalization. Costs and benefits of globalization in a political, economic, cultural, and social sense.

Intellectual Foundations Designation:
WRITING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM
ENS 300W Environmental Case Studies (WAC)

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

Program Revisions:
B.S. Speech-Language Pathology (0325) BS-SLP-SOP
M.S.Ed. Speech-Language Pathology (6322) MS-SLP-SOP

New Course:
SPA 602 Spanish Sociolinguistics

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 Women and Gender Studies (1016)

New Courses:
SLP 401 Aural Rehabilitation
SLP 517 Extended Applications in Communication Sciences and Disorders

New Course and Intellectual Foundations Designation:
DIVERSITY
WGS 101 Introduction to Women and Gender Studies

Course Revisions:
SLP 511 Neural Processes of Communication
SLP 610 Evaluation and Treatment of Phonological Disorders

Intellectual Foundations Designation:
WRITING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM
PSC 390 The Italian American Experience: Politics, Society, and Identity (WAC)