From the Chair of the College Senate Curriculum Committee
Advanced to the Interim President
The following have been approved by the College Senate Curriculum Committee (CSCC) and forwarded to the interim president for review and approval:

New Courses:
NFS 311 Applied Management in Dietetics III
PAD 607 Metropolitan Governance

Course Revisions:
NFS 316 Life Cycle and Community Nutrition II
NFS 330 Integrative and Functional Nutrition

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:

Course Revision and Intellectual Foundations Designation:
DIVERSITY
SWK 301 Poverty and Public Policy. Prerequisite: Sophomore, junior, or senior status. Social welfare policies and social welfare programs. Historical treatment of poverty and the poor. Theories of poverty causation. Measurement of poverty and poverty demographics including race, age, gender, immigration status, and socioeconomic status. Social change strategies and advocacy. Requires 20 hours of volunteer work in addition to coursework.

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

Program Revisions:
B.S. Mathematics Education 7–12; 5–6 Extension, BS-NS MTX
Minor in African and African American Studies, AAS

Course Revisions:
IDE 403 Interior Design Professional Practice and Specifications
SPA 302 Introduction to Hispanic Media
SPA 303 Introduction to Reading Hispanic Literatures
SPA 311 Spanish American Authors: 1810s–Present

From the Chair of the College Senate Curriculum Committee
The College Senate Curriculum Committee (CSCC) encourages departments to complete revisions requested by the CSCC from spring and fall 2012 and spring 2013 for proposals “accepted pending revisions” (APR) so that they may be finalized for approval and forwarded to the Academic Affairs Office.

Please note: Program proposal routing sheets (majors and minors) must be printed on yellow paper, and course proposal routing forms must be printed on blue paper. The Senate Office will not accept routing forms unless they are submitted on the correct color paper. Please check with your school’s associate dean for details.

All forms can be downloaded from the College Senate website Curriculum Committee page, under Forms and Templates. Please make sure when submitting a course revision to the Senate Office that the correct “old” version is included in both hard copy and electronic files.

From the Chair of the College Senate Curriculum Committee
Advanced to the Interim President
The following have been approved by the College Senate Curriculum Committee (CSCC) and forwarded to the interim president for review and approval:

Program Revisions:
B.S. Mathematics Education 7–12; 5–6 Extension, BS-NX MTX
Minor in African and African American Studies, AAS

Course Revisions:
IDE 403 Interior Design Professional Practice and Specifications
SPA 302 Introduction to Hispanic Media
SPA 303 Introduction to Reading Hispanic Literatures
SPA 310 Spanish American Authors: 1492–1810
SPA 311 Spanish American Authors: 1810s–Present

From the Chair of the College Senate Curriculum Committee
In order to provide a smooth transition for students and faculty with regard to Intellectual Foundations 2014, the College Senate Curriculum Committee requests that departments review their entire list of current IF offerings in tandem with the IF 2014 Student Learning Outcomes, available on the Intellectual Foundations website. As a part of this review, members of the IF Oversight and Assessment committees will be happy to coordinate a visit with departments, department chairs, or department curriculum committees to answer questions and provide information about the learning outcomes and assessment. To schedule a meeting, please contact Amitra A. Wall, assistant dean of intellectual foundations and first-year programs.

Following the review of their courses and the appropriate SLOs, departments must submit to the College Senate Office, Cleveland Hall 211, a signed IF Course Inclusions Form (distributed to department chairs) for each IF category in which the department has courses. The Senate Office will log and distribute the signed forms to the appropriate offices.

Departments should complete the IF Course Inclusion Forms by Monday, November 25, to ensure accurate and timely implementation of IF 2014. Please direct any questions to the chair of the College Senate Curriculum Committee, Karen Sands-O’Connor.

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

New Courses:
PAD 701 Administrative Ethics
SOC/WGS 212 Feminist Theory

Course Revisions:
HEA 622 Techniques of Counseling
HEA 623 Techniques of Counseling for Diverse Groups and Cultures

From the Chair of the College Senate Curriculum Committee
The College Senate Curriculum Committee (CSCC) encourages departments to complete revisions requested by the CSCC from spring and fall 2012 and spring 2013 for proposals “accepted pending revisions” (APR) so that they may be finalized for approval and forwarded to the Academic Affairs Office.

Please note: Program proposal routing sheets (majors and minors) must be printed on yellow paper, and course proposal routing forms must be printed on blue paper. The Senate Office will not accept routing forms unless they are submitted on the correct color paper. Please check with your school’s associate dean for details.

All forms can be downloaded from the College Senate website Curriculum Committee page, under Forms and Templates. Please make sure when submitting a course revision to the Senate Office that the correct “old” version is included in both hard copy and electronic files.

From the Chair of the College Senate Curriculum Committee
In order to provide a smooth transition for students and faculty with regard to Intellectual Foundations 2014, the College Senate Curriculum Committee requests that departments review their entire list of current IF offerings in tandem with the IF 2014 Student Learning Outcomes, available on the Intellectual Foundations website. As a part of this review, members of the IF Oversight and Assessment committees will be happy to coordinate a visit with departments, department chairs, or department curriculum committees to answer questions and provide information about the learning outcomes and assessment. To schedule a meeting, please contact Amitra A. Wall, assistant dean of intellectual foundations and first-year programs.

Following the review of their courses and the appropriate SLOs, departments must submit to the College Senate Office, Cleveland Hall 211, a signed IF Course Inclusions Form (distributed to department chairs) for each IF category in which the department has courses. The Senate Office will log and distribute the signed forms to the appropriate offices.

Departments should complete the IF Course Inclusion Forms by Monday, November 25, to ensure accurate and timely implementation of IF 2014. Please direct any questions to the chair of the College Senate Curriculum Committee, Karen Sands-O’Connor.

From the Chair of the College Senate Curriculum Committee
Advanced to the Interim President
The following have been approved by the College Senate Curriculum Committee (CSCC) and forwarded to the interim president for review and approval:

New Courses:
PAD 701 Administrative Ethics
SOC/WGS 212 Feminist Theory

Course Revisions:
HEA 622 Techniques of Counseling
HEA 623 Techniques of Counseling for Diverse Groups and Cultures

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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 review:

New Courses:
BIO 600 Foundations of Graduate Studies in Biology. Prerequisite: Graduate status in biology. Introduction to the culture and structure of graduate studies in biology including the methodology, tools, writing, experimental design, and communication of biological research.

ENT 482 Smart Grid from Systems Perspective. Prerequisite: ENT 471 or instructor permission. This course enables stakeholders to develop systems prospective of the smart grid and its technologies, understand basic subsystems of the smart grid to increase economic understanding and decision making around current and future technologies, and understand the role of policy and politics in the advancement of the smart grid over time.

ENT 491 Operations and Management of Modern Grid. Prerequisite: Senior status or instructor permission. This course analyzes operations of electric utilities including generation, transmission, distribution, and consumption of electric power; defines system operations and their drivers; discusses impact of deregulation and impact of smart grid technologies on systems operations; introduces concepts of business of system operations; and discusses various management systems used by modern utilities.

ENT 581 Renewable Distributed Generation and Storage. Prerequisite: Instructor permission. Introduction to renewable and efficient electric power systems. Encourages self-teaching by providing numerous practical examples requiring quantitative analysis. Topics include historical, regulatory, and utility industry perspectives of the electric system as well as most of the electricity, thermodynamics, and engineering economics background needed to understand new power technologies.

ENT 582 Smart Grid from Systems Perspective. Prerequisite: Instructor permission. This course enables stakeholders to develop systems prospective of the smart grid and its technologies, understand basic subsystems of the smart grid to increase economic understanding and decision making around current and future technologies, and understand the role of policy and politics in the advancement of the smart grid over time.

ENT 591 Operations and Management of Modern Grid. Prerequisite: instructor permission. This course analyzes operations of electric utilities including generation, transmission, distribution, and consumption of electric power; defines system operations and their drivers; discusses impact of deregulation and impact of smart grid technologies on systems operations; introduces concepts of business of system operations; and discusses various management systems used by modern utilities.

HEA 694 Current Issues in Higher Education. Prerequisite: Graduate status. The twenty-first century has brought with it profound challenges to the nature, values, and control of American higher education. Since the end of World War II, changes both within and outside the academy are altering its character, students, faculty, governance, curriculum, funding, functions, and place in society. This course focuses on current issues in higher education and student affairs administration. Students develop an understanding of the academy while developing strategic decision-making skills necessary to meet current challenges in the profession of higher education administration.

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

New Courses:
ENG 357 Literary Publishing
ENG 497 Writing Seminar for Writing Majors