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 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

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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:

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

New Course:
FAR 366 African American Art. Prerequisites: FAR 250 and FAR 251. Survey of African American art. Examines African American art as well as the relationship of art to politics and the formation of racial and cultural identity.

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 all their 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 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 Curriculum Committee
The following have been received in the College Senate Office and forwarded to the College Senate Curriculum Committee (CSCC) for fall 2013 review:

New Course:
PAD 603 NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations) and International Development. Prerequisite: Graduate status. International development (ID) and non-governmental organizations (NGO); IDNGO operation, structure, and procedures; IDNGO management; IDNGO relations with government; IDNGO relations with donor agencies; opportunities and challenges of IDNGO; and IDNGO effectiveness, influence, and new challenges.

Course Revisions:
SPF 503 Educational Psychology. Psychological theories and principles of teaching and learning and their application to the classroom; effects of student and classroom characteristics on effective instruction; utilization and interpretation of assessments of learning.

SPF 689 Methods of Educational Research. Background of educational research; selection and development of research problems; sources of information and data; methods, tools, and techniques; collection, treatment, application, and interpretation of research data; organizing and writing a research report.

From the Chair of the College Senate Curriculum Committee

The following have been received in the College Senate Office and forwarded to the College Senate Curriculum Committee (CSCC) for fall 2013 review:

New Course:
PAD 602 Comparative Public Policy. Prerequisite: PAD 500. Public policy in advanced industrialized democracies from a comparative perspective. Topics include theories of policy making and comparative inquiry, policy processes, policy networks, policy content, policy convergence and disparities, transatlantic-policy-making architecture, and global governance. Students work in teams with public administration students in Romania and the UK in a simulation of a public policy challenge—outsourcing of publicly supplied services—that governmental decision makers commonly confront in advanced industrialized democracies.

Course Revision:
SLP 424 Speech-Language Pathology in the Schools. Prerequisites: SLP 305, SLP 314, and SLP 411. In-depth examination of speech-language pathology in the schools, including legislative foundations, current models of service delivery, assessment and intervention procedures, organization and administration of programs, and emerging trends shaping the future of school speech-language pathology programs.

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
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 Curriculum Committee
The following have been received in the College Senate Office and forwarded to the College Senate Curriculum Committee (CSCC) for fall 2013 review:

Program Revision:
B.S. Mathematics Education with Adolescent Certification - MAT

New Courses:
ESL 600 Methods of Study in English as a Second Language. Provides in-service and preservice teachers with the knowledge and skills to teach limited-English proficiency (LEP) students’ learning needs, including an understanding of national standards, contemporary English as a second language (ESL) teaching methods, and assessment techniques.

MAT 223 Elementary and Middle School Mathematics from an Advanced Standpoint. Prerequisites: MAT 121 and MAT 122. Deepens and extends content introduced in MAT 121 and MAT 122 through study of analytic and synthetic geometry, transformational geometry, statistics, and fundamental concepts of probability. Emphasis on mathematical reasoning and problem solving, mathematical modeling, use of appropriate tools, and effective communication of mathematical ideas prominent in upper elementary and middle school.

From the Chair of the College Senate Curriculum Committee
Advanced to the Curriculum Committee
The following have been received in the College Senate Office and forwarded to the College Senate Curriculum Committee (CSCC) for fall 2013 review:

New Courses:

NFS 311 Applied Management in Dietetics III. Prerequisites: NFS 100 and NFS 102. Majors only. Third of a four-course sequence. Food service systems and related subsystems; in-depth analysis of menu development and modifications for disease states; procurement, food production, distribution and service, and marketing applicable to dietetics and health-care food service management.

NFS 411 Applied Management in Dietetics IV. Prerequisite: NFS 311. Majors only. Fourth of a four-course sequence. Principles of health-care quantity recipe development; therapeutic modification of recipes and food production, with hands-on food preparation opportunities; importance of facility equipment and design; principles of food safety. Students become ServSafe certified.

Course Revisions:

HEA 622 Techniques of Counseling. Theories of counseling, development of basic and intermediate helping skills, intentional interviewing, conflict resolution, and self-assessment for the helping professions. Theories of counseling, development of skills and strategies for effective listening, assertion, individual and group facilitation, supervising, interviewing, self-assessment, and individual problem solving.

HEA 623 Techniques of Counseling for Diverse Groups and Cultures. Application and integration of basic counseling skills appropriate for diverse groups and cultures. Factors such as ethnicity, race, gender, sexual orientation, family structures, religion and spirituality, disability, class, competency development, self-assessment, intervention strategies, future trends, and their counseling applications.

NFS 316 Life Cycle and Community Nutrition II. Prerequisite: NFS 315. Nutritional issues and chronic disease prevention in adult life; community nutrition services available to adults; identifying and developing community nutrition programs.

NFS 330 Integrative and Functional Nutrition (1 credit). Prerequisites: NFS 102 or NFS 334 or equivalent and junior or senior standing or instructor permission. 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, nutraceuticals for disease prevention and treatment. Emphasis on the regulatory (legal, ethical, and moral) issues of dietary supplements. Provides 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 (for students in the coordinated dietetics program): NFS 445. 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, 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 405 Principles of Nutrition Education. Prerequisites: NFS 316 and NFS 401. Corequisites (for students in the coordinated dietetics program): NFS 402 and NFS 446. Theories and methods of learning communication and counseling as applied to nutrition education and counseling settings; development, implementation, and assessment of instructional unit using various forms of multimedia.

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

New Course:
ECO 493 Applied Actuarial Theory