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 and approval:
Program Revision:
Minor in Women and Gender Studies (1016)
New Courses:
SLP 401 Aural Rehabilitation
SLP 517 Extended Applications in Communication Sciences and Disorders
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)
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:
New Courses:
BIO 111 Introduction to Biology. The chemicals of life. Cell organelles. Metabolism and energy transformations. Cell division, gene expression, Mendelian and population genetics. Biotechnology as an approach to understanding life, human health. Emphasis on developing students’ ability to understand and use biological concepts at the college level.
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.
HIS 447 Modern European Intellectual History II: The Long Nineteenth Century 1789–1914. Prerequisite: Upper-division status. European intellectual history 1789–1914. Topics include political and artistic responses to the French and Industrial revolutions; romanticism, liberal-democratic nationalism, and utopian socialism; the failed revolutions of 1848; modernism and realism in the arts; positivism in philosophy; conservative nationalism and scientific socialism; Darwin and social Darwinism; the new imperialism and its critics, 1880–1914; racism, radical nationalism, political anti-Semitism; the Second International and syndicalism; the revolt against positivism and realism in philosophy and the arts; the birth of modern sociology.
HIS 448 Modern European Intellectual History II: The Short Twentieth Century 1914–2001. Prerequisite: Upper-division status. Main currents of European intellectual and cultural life from 1914 to 2001. Topics include psychoanalysis; intellectual and cultural responses to World War I, the Russian Revolution, and the rise of fascism; critical theory, existentialism, feminism, and postmodernism; decolonization and the protest movements of the 1960s; the Cold War and the collapse of Soviet communism; globalization, immigration, and the new multicultural Europe.
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.