From the Chair of the College Senate Curriculum Committee
The following has been received in the College Senate Office and forwarded to the College Senate Curriculum Committee for review and approval:

Course Revision:
EDU 613 Assessment of the ELA for the Classroom Teacher. Prerequisites: Graduate status, EDU 546 or equivalent, and one other graduate literacy course. Methods of literacy (reading, writing, listening, speaking) assessment for classroom teachers. Topics include strategies for assessing the literacy abilities of students within the classroom and subsequently using the assessment results to differentiate literacy instruction within the classroom.

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

Please note: Program submission routing sheets (majors and minors) must be printed on yellow paper, and course submission routing forms must be printed on blue paper. The Senate Office will not accept routing sheets unless the proper forms 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. Any courses or programs that were recently sent to the College Senate Office will be reviewed by the CSCC this semester.

From the Chair of the College Senate Curriculum Committee
Because of the revision of the Intellectual Foundations program, the College Senate Curriculum Committee will no longer accept new or revised course proposals for IF designation until further notice. Course proposals already submitted will still be considered for IF designation. All current IF courses will remain as designated for now, while new procedures and guidelines for submission of IF courses to the College Senate Curriculum Committee are developed. Course proposal designation procedures for the new IF program will be published as soon as they are available.

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:
ADE 500 Introduction to Adult Education
DMP 360 Digital Music Ensemble
DMP 450 Interactive Computer Music
FRE 203 Workplace French I
FRE 204 Workplace French II

Revised Courses:
FRE 302 Introduction to Francophone Media
FRE 308 French Culture: Revolution to Belle Époque
FRE 310 Issues in Professional Communication
SPA 500 Spanish Applied Linguistics and Pedagogy

Correction:
FRE 308 French Culture: Revolution to Belle Époque was incorrectly listed as a new course in the February 28, 2013, issue of the Daily Bulletin. It is a course revision.

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 and approval:

Course Revision:
FAR 364 Art Since 1940. Prerequisites: FAR 250 and FAR 251. Introduction to art since 1940 within historical, social, political, and cultural contexts.

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

Please note: Program submission routing sheets (majors and minors) must be printed on yellow paper, and course submission routing forms must be printed on blue paper. The Senate Office will not accept routing sheets unless the proper forms 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. Any courses or programs that were recently sent to the College Senate Office will be reviewed by the CSCC this semester.

From the Chair of the College Senate Curriculum Committee
Because of the revision of the Intellectual Foundations program, the College Senate Curriculum Committee will no longer accept new or revised course proposals for IF designation until further notice. Course proposals already submitted will still be considered for IF designation. All current IF courses will remain as designated for now, while new procedures and guidelines for submission of IF courses to the College Senate Curriculum Committee are developed. Course proposal designation procedures for the new IF program will be published as soon as they are available.

From the Chair of the College Senate Curriculum Committee
CORRECTION APPENDED
Advanced to the President
The following have been approved by the College Senate Curriculum Committee and forwarded to the president for review and approval:

New Courses:
ADE 500 Introduction to Adult Education
DMP 360 Digital Music Ensemble
DMP 450 Interactive Computer Music
FRE 203 Workplace French I
FRE 204 Workplace French II
FRE 310 Issues in Professional Communication
SPA 500 Spanish Applied Linguistics and Pedagogy

Course Revision:
FRE 302 Introduction to Francophone Media
FRE 308 French Culture: Revolution to Belle Époque

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Advanced to the College Senate Curriculum Committee
The following have been received in the College Senate Office and forwarded to the College Senate Curriculum Committee for review and approval:

New Courses:
BIO 433 Ornithology. Prerequisites: BIO 212 and BIO 213. Introduction to the study of birds including a survey of the diversity of avian behaviors, life history strategies, mating systems, ecology, and physiological-morphological specializations of flight.

FIN 419 Mergers and Acquisitions. Prerequisite: FIN 314. Identifying how to increase firm value through mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and corporate restructurings. Drivers of successful and unsuccessful M&A transactions; design and evaluation of transactions. Valuation of companies, strategic and other motivations underlying mergers, structuring of transactions, deal tactics and strategy, leveraged buyouts, and other transactions. Law, accounting, and taxation and how they affect the structuring and outcome of merger transactions. Capital market reactions to control transactions, defensive measures by management against takeover bids, and the valuation effects of these activities. Strategic planning, valuation, financial strategies, and investment decisions in the life cycle of the firm.

Course Revisions:
BIO 408 Plant Physiology. Prerequisites: BIO 212, BIO 214, and CHE 112. Plant physiological processes including photosynthesis, respiration, transpiration, translocation, photomorphogenesis, and tropisms; plant water potential, effects of hormones, soil nutrients, environmental stress; plant anatomy in relation to physiological function; use of instrumentation to measure physiological performance.

MED 300 Field Experience: Methods in the Teaching of Secondary School Mathematics. Corequisite: MED 308. Supervised field experience at the middle and/or high school level. Emphasis on classroom implementation of knowledge, understanding, and practice consistent with state and national mathematics teaching standards discussed in MED 308.

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Correction: March 7, 2013
The original version of this announcement, published February 28, incorrectly listed FRE 308 as a new course.

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

Please note: Program submission routing sheets (majors and minors) must be printed on yellow paper, and course submission routing forms must be printed on blue paper. The Senate Office will not accept routing sheets unless the proper forms 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. Any courses or programs that were recently sent to the College Senate Office will be reviewed by the CSCC this semester.

From the Chair of the College Senate Curriculum Committee
Because of the revision of the Intellectual Foundations program, the College Senate Curriculum Committee will no longer accept new or revised course proposals for IF designation until further notice. Course proposals already submitted will still be considered for IF designation. All current IF courses will remain as designated for now, while new procedures and guidelines for submission of IF courses to the College Senate Curriculum Committee are developed. Course proposal designation procedures for the new IF program will be published as soon as they are available.