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 and forwarded to the interim president for review and approval:

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

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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 fall 2013 review:

New Program:
C.A.S. in TESOL, Pre-K–12 All Grades

Program Revisions:
B.S. Childhood Education, CED-BS SOE (23393)
B.S. Childhood Education (joint program with NCCC), CED SOE (27765)
B.S. Childhood Education and French, CFR-BS SOE (23442)
B.S. Childhood Education and English, CEN-BS SOE (23439)
B.S. Childhood Education and Italian, CIT-BS SOE (23444)
B.S. Childhood Education and Mathematics, CMT-BS SOE (23440)
B.S. Childhood Education and Social Studies, CSS-BS SOE (23441)
B.S. Childhood Education and Spanish, CSH-BS SOE (23443)
B.S. Early Childhood and Childhood Education, ECC-BS SOE (23445)

New Courses:
AED 675 Youth Culture. Interdisciplinary analysis of adolescent-driven contemporary cultures through the investigation of their intertwined worlds of family, peers, and school. Focus on youth-centered educational research, secondary pedagogical practices, and curriculum design.

CRJ 609 Statistics in Criminal Justice. Prerequisite: Graduate status or instructor permission. Introduction and overview of statistical principles and methods in criminological research. Examination of descriptive, inferential, and multivariate statistics through parametric and nonparametric measures. Emphasis on the interpretation and application of statistical results from software analysis, such as SPSS, and journal articles.

EDU 313 Teaching Science in Early Childhood and Childhood Settings. Prerequisite: EDU 211 with a minimum grade of C. Exploration of the teaching of science to elementary students guided by learning theory and current practices. Development and practice of effective science instruction strategies guided by current standards.

EDU 316 Teaching Elementary School Mathematics. Prerequisites: Elementary education and reading major; minimum overall GPA of 2.5; minimum professional sequence GPA of 2.5; EDU 311 with a minimum grade of C; MTH 122 or higher. Basic curriculum course for elementary teachers. Students participate in classroom practice while exploring in-depth curricular, theoretical, and practical educational frameworks. Students plan, implement, and evaluate lessons incorporating the NYS standards for mathematics, science, and technology; practice and evaluate assessment tools and processes; become reflective practitioners; and demonstrate effective techniques for instructional organization in a professional development school.

FAR 385 Northern Renaissance Art. Prerequisites: FAR 250 and FAR 251. Survey of artistic developments in Flanders, Holland, and Germanic provinces between 1380 and 1580 within historical, political, religious, and cultural contexts.

UED 617 Contemporary Social Contexts of Urban Education. Contemporary social contexts of urban education; theory, schooling, and strategies for improved ways of teaching in relation to the community.

UED 625 Pedagogies for the Urban Classroom. Culturally responsive pedagogies and research that highlights effective instruction in urban educational environments. Emphasis on an emancipatory view of education; deconstructs dominant educational discourses and investigates multiple literacies for culturally diverse populations.

UED 632 Critical Education Theory in Urban Education. Overview and analysis of the relevant theoretical orientations used to examine the sociohistorical condition of education, both its institutions and agents, within an urban context. Topics include critical race theory and critical urban theory.

UED 655 Social Action: Teacher as Agent of Change. The politics of urban education—the forces that affect the urban classroom and the ways a teacher can navigate those forces to bring about change and sound educational outcomes.

Course Revision:
CRJ 504 Research Methods in Criminal Justice. Prerequisites: Graduate status or instructor permission, graduate-level statistics, and undergraduate research methods. Introduction to the practice, theory, and philosophy of social science research, with a special focus on criminal justice. Course broadens students' knowledge of the ethical issues associated with research and introduces a variety of research techniques such as surveys, field research, and experimental designs. Lays the foundation for students to become informed “consumers” of research as well as “producers” of it.

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

Course Revision:
FAR 358 Italian Renaissance Art, 1200–1480

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, each department 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
The following has been approved by the College Senate Curriculum Committee and forwarded to the interim president for review and approval:

Course Revision:
FAR 358 Italian Renaissance Art, 1200–1480

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 Program:
Minor in Apparel Construction and Patternmaking, 0401

Program Revision:
B.A. Mathematics, BA-NS MAT 

Course Revision:
FTT 358 Fashion Forecasting and Consumer Issues

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, each department 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.