Several outstanding curricular items that were approved pending revisions (APR)* by the College Senate Curriculum Committee remain from the 2014–2015 academic year. The College Senate Office requests that all schools and departments please follow up with these outstanding APRs. If you received a request to revise your submission (a.k.a. green revisions or APRs) from the previous College Senate Curriculum Committee chair, Karen Sands-O’Connor, please complete these revisions so that your curricular proposal can move forward to the final local** approval process if the expectation is for the course to be offered in spring 2016. The respective associate dean must sign all routing forms and provide paper and electronic copies of updated course descriptions reflective of the revisions requested by the Curriculum Committee. The College Senate thanks those schools that have followed up with APRs from last year.

Several curricular items are awaiting revisions before they can be finalized and advanced to the president. Please check with your associate dean or department chair to ensure that these are completed. Please contact Vincent Masci, assistant to the College Senate, 878-5139, with questions.

*Curricular items that were approved by the College Senate Curriculum Committee pending minor revisions.

**All programs must meet SUNY guidelines; SUNY reviews are conducted in Albany, following local reviews. Approval or denial of all programs is at the discretion of SUNY.

When submitting a course proposal, please make sure that the assigned prefix number has not been used in the past. The Registrar’s Office requires that all prefixes be new and previously unused. If a prefix must be changed after a course proposal has been submitted to the College Senate Office, the routing form does not need to be resubmitted. The prefix number can be changed on the original submitted routing form; however, this must be done before the review and approval process is complete to ensure that the correct number will be entered in Banner.

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

Program Revision:
B.A. Biology, BA-NS BIO

New Course:
MUS 644 Secondary General Music Perspectives

Course Revision:
PAD 607 City and County Management

From the Chair of the College Senate Curriculum Committee
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 Course with Intellectual Foundations Designation:
ARTS
ENG 170 Introduction to Creative Writing

New Courses:
DES 108 Introduction to Digital Design and Fabrication
ENG 302 Technical Writing
ENG 409 Writing Grants and Proposals

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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 spring 2016 review:

New Courses:
ACM 604 Topics in Statistical Inference. Prerequisite: Instructor permission. Continuous distribution, sampling distributions, point and interval estimation, test of hypotheses. Offered annually, fall semester.

ENT 330 Electric Circuits Analysis I. Prerequisites: PHY 108 or PHY 112 and ENT 104. Direct current (DC) electric circuit concepts; basic circuits elements and their characteristics; analysis of series and parallel circuits; modeling and analysis of DC circuits with multiple sources; electrical instrumentation and computer analysis tools used in performing laboratory experiments. Required for electrical engineering technology majors. Offered annually, spring semester.

MAT 616 Elements of Mathematics, Programming, and Computer Science for Data. Prerequisite: Instructor permission. Introductory topics in calculus, optimization, linear algebra, and discrete mathematics useful for data scientists. Networking concepts relevant to data analytics approached from a mathematical point of view. Mathematical programming to implement a variety of numerical methods. Offered annually, fall semester.

MAT 646 Introduction to Statistics for Data Science. Prerequisite: Instructor permission. Descriptive statistics, probability concepts, discrete and continuous probability distributions, sampling distributions, interval estimation and hypothesis testing of one- and two-population means, proportions and variances, non-parametric tests, simple linear regression and correlation, one-way analysis of variance. Offered annually, fall semester.

New Course with Intellectual Foundations Infusion (INF):
ENT 466 Electrical Design II (CT, IM, W). Prerequisite: ENT 465. Corequisite: ENT 462. Advanced topics in electrical and system design, the design process, and application of project management; a design project sequence that culminates with final analysis, working drawings, schematics, and installation or prototype; final design stages of construction, testing, and installation of a significant engineering project. Offered annually, spring semester.

CT=Critical Thinking, IM=Information Management, W=Writing

Course Revisions:
ENT 331 Electrical Circuits and Devices. Prerequisite: PHY 107 or PHY 111 or equivalent. Introduction to electrical circuit concepts, both DC and AC; analysis of series and parallel circuits; use of superposition theorem to analyze electric circuits with multiple sources; electrical instrumentation and computer analysis tools used in performing laboratory experiments. Required for non-electrical engineering technology majors. Credit is issued for either ENT 331 or ENT 330, but not for both. Offered every semester.

ENT 332 Electric Circuits Analysis II. Prerequisite: ENT 330 or equivalent. Alternating current (AC) electric circuit concepts, waveform analysis, analysis of series and parallel AC circuits, electrical instrumentation and computer analysis tools used in performing laboratory experiments. Required for electrical engineering technology majors. Offered annually, fall semester.

SPF 612 Data Analytics in Education. Prerequisite: Instructor permission. Developing and conducting school and district data analytics processes. Building a data-driven culture for improving instruction; establishing learning goals; and meeting school, district, and government objectives. Using education data mining and learning analytics strategies for informing goal setting, improving practice, and reporting at all levels of education. Offered every semester.

SPF 632 Methods and Techniques of Data Analytics Research. Prerequisite: 9 credit hours of graduate-level coursework or instructor permission. Research concepts and terms; identifying and addressing issues in industry; sources of information and data; choosing methods, tools, and techniques for professional sciences data analytics; interpretation of findings; organizing, writing, and presenting a professional report. Field experience. Offered every semester.

Course Revision with Intellectual Foundations Infusion (INF):
ENT 465 Electrical Design I (CT, IM, W). Prerequisite: instructor permission; Prerequisite or corequisite: ENT 461. Advanced topics in electrical and system design, the design process, and project management; a major design project sequence that includes preliminary analysis, working drawings, and schematics; preliminary design and its presentation. Offered annually, fall semester.

CT=Critical Thinking, IM=Information Management, W=Writing

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

Program Revision:
B.A. Biology, BA-NS BIO

New Course:
MUS 644 Secondary General Music Perspectives

Course Revision:
PAD 607 City and County Management

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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:

Program Revisions:
B.A. Music, BA-AH MUS
Minor in Dance, DAN

New Courses:
DMP 340 History and Aesthetic Trends of Electronic Music. Introduction to the history, development, performance practice, and aesthetics of music involving electronics and computers. The origins and evolution of the most relevant techniques and technologies used by producers of electronic music, and the ways in which these tools have influenced musical aesthetics.

SOC 325 Sociology of Media. Prerequisite: SOC 100 or 6 credit hours in sociology. The role of film and photography on social interactions and memories; the contradictions and challenges of social media; the social and potential of various media; the saturation or oversaturation of media in our lives. Key texts from leading authors and thinkers in the field of sociology of media.

SPA 203 Professional Spanish I. Prerequisite: SPA 102 or equivalent. ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) intermediate-low level targeted study of common oral and written interactions in the Spanish workplace, with a focus on basic proficiency in common professional contexts. Taught in Spanish. Offered annually.

SPA 204 Professional Spanish II. Prerequisite: SPA 201 or SPA 203. ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) intermediate-mid-level targeted study of Spanish with a focus on proficiency in a diversity of professional and regional contexts. Taught in Spanish. Offered annually.

Course Revisions with Intellectual Foundations Designations:
ARTS
FAR 100 Introduction to Fine Art. The critical basis of procedures and concepts in the fine arts. Introductory problems in studio performance. Topics include artistic purposes, process, and content; various media used by artists; the fundamental formal elements and principles of visual art. Lecture and studio experience. Offered annually.

DIVERSITY
THA 421 Drama from the African American Perspective. Prerequisite: CWP 102. Exploratory and critical analysis of African American playwrights (and playwrights of African descent) and their works. Includes participation in play readings and discussions related to the plays’ social and historical contexts. Offered biennially.

The chair of the College Senate Curriculum Committee has initiated new forms for submitting curricular proposals through the College Senate. Please do not use old forms or templates or anything other than those featured on the College Senate Curriculum web pages. Forms for new and revised program and course proposals streamline, clarify, and correct information in all categorical areas. Associate deans have been informed of these updates and will be able to guide departments with questions or concerns.

When submitting curricular proposals, please be sure to check all appropriate boxes and fill in all relevant areas on course, program, or minor approval routing forms. If a course is IF infused (INF), please indicate which infusions are being requested. Please make certain the titles of submitted curricular items match the proposal form titles on all routing forms.

Submitters are responsible for ensuring that this information is correct and that the respective associate dean has checked its accuracy before sending it on to the College Senate Office. The Senate Office reviews all items before publishing them in the Daily Bulletin, but the office is not responsible for information that is listed incorrectly on original forms.

All curricular templates and routing forms for courses, major programs, and minor programs are available on the College Senate website.

Several outstanding curricular items remain from the 2014–2015 academic year that were approved pending revisions (APR)* by the College Senate Curriculum Committee. The College Senate Office requests that all schools and departments please follow up with these outstanding APRs. If you received a request to revise your submission (a.k.a. green revisions or APRs) from the previous College Senate Curriculum Committee chair, Karen Sands-O’Connor, please respond in a timely manner so that your curricular proposal can move forward to the final local** approval process if the expectation is for the course to be offered in spring 2016. The respective associate dean must sign all routing forms and provide paper and electronic copies of updated course descriptions reflective of the revisions requested by the Curriculum Committee. The College Senate thanks those schools that have followed up with APRs from last year.

Several curricular items are awaiting revisions before they can be finalized and advanced to the president. Please check with your associate dean or department chair to ensure that these are completed. Please contact Vincent Masci, assistant to the College Senate, 878-5139, with questions.

*Curricular items that were approved by the College Senate Curriculum Committee pending minor revisions.

**All programs must meet SUNY guidelines; SUNY reviews are conducted in Albany, following local reviews. Approval or denial of all programs is at the discretion of SUNY.

When submitting a course proposal, please make sure that the assigned prefix number has not been used in the past. The Registrar’s Office requires that all prefixes be new and previously unused. If a prefix must be changed after a course proposal has been submitted to the College Senate Office, the routing form does not need to be resubmitted. The prefix number can be changed on the original submitted routing form; however, this must be done before the review and approval process is complete to ensure that the correct number will be entered in Banner.

The chair of the College Senate Curriculum Committee has initiated new forms for submitting curricular proposals through the College Senate. Please do not use old forms or templates or anything other than those featured on the College Senate Curriculum web pages. Forms for new and revised program and course proposals streamline, clarify, and correct information in all categorical areas. Associate deans have been informed of these updates and will be able to guide departments with questions or concerns.