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April 10, 2001
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Volume XXIX |
Number 7 |
SENATE CURRICULUM REPORT
(Blue Sheets)
TO ALL SENATORS, THE EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY, HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS - PROGRAMS - DIVISIONS - INTERCOLLEGE PROGRAMS, CAMPUS EXECUTIVE OFFICERS, DEANS OF RESIDENT INSTRUCTION, AND MEMBERS OF THE GRADUATE COUNCIL COMMITTEE ON PROGRAMS AND COURSES.
I. OLD BUSINESS
Questions concerning items that have been held must be resolved within a 90-day period following the approval date of the Senate Curriculum Report. The proposals will be returned to the presenting departments if the hold is not resolved by the end of the 90-day period unless an extension of the hold is granted by the Senate Committee on Curricular Affairs.
November 23, 1999, Senate Curriculum Report, Volume XXVIII, Number 3
Item #070 MEDVL 108 GH, Course Change, Liberal Arts (HOLD)
August 29, 2000, Senate Curriculum Report, Volume XXIX, Number 1
Item #068 CMLIT 153 GH;GI, Course Add, Liberal Arts (HOLD)
Pending review by the Intercultural and International Competence Subcommittee
Item #084 Information Sciences and Technology for Mathematics Minor, New, Science (HOLD)
Approved academically; pending administrative approval by the Executive Vice President and Provost.
October 10, 2000, Senate Curriculum Report, Volume XXIX, Number
2
Editorial Prerequisite Changes:
Item #331 ANTH 460, Course Change, Liberal Arts
Proposal withdrawn by department.
November 21, 2000, Senate Curriculum Report, Volume XXIX, Number
3
Item #001 Business Administration, Change, Altoona College (HOLD)
Approved academically; pending administrative approval by the Executive Vice
President and Provost.
Item #013 English, Name Change, Capital College (HOLD)
Approved academically; pending administrative approval by the Executive Vice
President and Provost.
Item #014 Psychology, Add Options, Capital College (HOLD)
Approved academically; pending administrative approval by the Executive Vice
President and Provost.
Item #063 Mathematics, Change, Science (HOLD)
January 16, 2001, Senate Curriculum Report, Volume XXIX, Number 4
Item #009 Interdisciplinary Humanities, Name Change, Capital College (HOLD)
Item #010 ENGL 200W, Course Add, Capital College (HOLD)
Item #035 Civil Engineering, Change, Engineering
Approved -- effective Summer Session 2001.
Item #083 MATH 140D, Course Add, Science (HOLD)
Item #084 MATH 140E, Course Add, Science (HOLD)
Item #085 MATH 141D, Course Add, Science (HOLD)
Item #086 MATH 141E, Course Add, Science (HOLD)
February 13, 2001, Senate Curriculum Report, Volume XXIX, Number
5
Item #001 Computer Science, New, Behrend College(HOLD)
Approved academically; pending administrative approval by the Executive Vice
President and Provost.
Item #002 Software Engineering, New, Behrend College (HOLD)
Approved academically; pending administrative approval by the Executive Vice
President and Provost.
Item #011 Interdisciplinary Liberal Arts, Name Change, Berks-Lehigh Valley (HOLD)
Approved academically; pending administrative approval by the Executive Vice
President and Provost.
Item #036 Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology Option, New, Classics and Ancient
Mediterranean Studies Major, Liberal Arts
Approved by the Executive Vice President and Provost March 26, 2001--effective Summer Session 2001.
March 13, 2001, Senate Curriculum Report, Volume XXIX, Number
5
The entire Curriculum Report was approved with the following exceptions and
corrections:
Item #002 Digital Arts and Information Sciences and Technology, New, Arts and
Architecture (HOLD)
Item #005 LARCH 410, Course Add, Arts and Architecture (HOLD)
Item #029 French, Add Option/Drop Option, Liberal Arts(HOLD)
Approved academically; pending administrative approval by the Executive Vice
President and Provost.
II. NEW BUSINESS
The Senate Committee on Curricular Affairs is considering the attached proposals. New majors, options, and minors become effective following the approval of the Executive Vice President and Provost; new courses and courses being dropped become effective the first semester following the approval of this Report unless otherwise specified, the date upon which changes in existing offerings will become effective is the date of the first published Schedule of Courses listing the changed course, unless written objection is received by the University Curriculum Coordinator Sherry F. Walk (sfw2@psu.edu) at the Senate Office, 101G Kern Graduate Building (863-1202) on or before May 10, 2001. A copy of any written objection sent to the Committee must also be sent to the college representative of the sponsoring college. The University Curriculum Coordinator will communicate the objection to the Chairperson of the Committee. Any item to which written objection is made will be reconsidered by the appropriate committee and may be delayed in becoming available for scheduling; however, reconsideration of any specific item will not affect the scheduling date of other items here listed.
Visit the Senate's home page at http://www.psu.edu/ufs and click on Publications for a listing of proposed and approved General Education Courses. After the courses are approved, the long (up-to-400 word) course descriptions are avilable in the electronic version of the Undergraduate Degree Programs Bulletin at http://www.psu.edu/academic/bluebook/.
SENATE COMMITTEE ON CURRICULAR AFFAIRS
Phyllis F. Adams, Agricultural Sciences
Alison C. Altman, Student
Kevin Berland, Commonwealth College -- represenative for Fall 2000
R. Thomas Berner, Communications -- representative for Spring 2001
Ronald Bettig, Communications -- representative for Fall 2000
Douglas K. Brown, Altoona
Barton Browning, Liberal Arts
Garry L. Burkle, ExOfficio
Jeremy Cohen, ACUE -- represenative for Fall 2000
Robert G. Crane, Earth and Mineral Sciences/ACUE -- representative for Spring 2001
Brian Curran, Arts and Architecture
Jennifer L. Flinchbaugh, Student
Gary J. Fosmire, Health and Human Development
William Frank, Earth and Mineral Sciences -- representative for Fall 2000
George W. Franz, Delaware County/Commonwealth College
Louis F. Geschwindner, Chair
Sally Heffentreyer, Resources
J. Daniel Marshall, Vice Chair/Education
Kathleen Mastrian, Shenango -- Spring 2001
Robert D. Minard, Science
Robert A. Novack, Business
Administration
Judith Ozment Payne, Abington
Sheila E. Ridley,
Berks-Lehigh Valley
Howard Sachs, Capital and Graduate School
Richard J.
Simons, Hershey Medical Center
Shelley M. Stoffels, Engineering
James B.
Thomas, Information Sciences and Technology
Rodney
Troester, Behrend
Diane Zabel, Libraries
APPENDIX A (Undergraduate)
Abington College (No proposals submitted)
Agricultural Sciences, College of
Altoona College
Arts and Architecture, College of
Behrend College
Berks-Lehigh Valley College (No proposals submitted)
Business Administration, The Smeal College of (No proposals submitted)
Capital College (No proposals submitted)
Commonwealth College
Communications, College
Earth and Mineral Sciences, College of
Education, College of (No proposals submitted)
Engineering, College of
Great Valley, School of Graduate Professional Studies (No proposals submitted)
Health and Human Development, College of
Information Sciences and Technology, School of (No proposals submitted)
Intercollege Programs (No proposals submitted)
Liberal Arts, College of the
Life Sciences Consortium (No proposals submitted)
Science, Eberly College of
APPENDIX B
Graduate
APPENDIX C
College of Medicine
APPENDIX D
Dickinson School of Law
SUBCOMMITTEE ON RETENTION AND TRANSFER (No proposals submitted)
CURRICULAR DEADLINES
2001-2002
Common Course Numbers (for which special titles may be given--as a one-semester offering--using one of the following letter suffixes: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, I, K)*
All requests for special titles should be submitted to the Curriculum Coordinator, e-mail ID univfs@psu.edu, at the Senate Office four (4) weeks prior to registration:
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Summer Session 2001 and Fall Semester 2001 |
- May 2, 2001 |
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Spring Semester 2002 |
- December 7, 2001 |
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Summer Session 2002 and Fall Semester 2002 |
- April 15, 2002 |
Intercultural and International Competence and Writing-Intensive
Course Proposals
All requests for one-semester Intercultural and
International Competence and Writing course offerings should be submitted to the
Curriculum Coordinator at the Senate Office six (6) weeks prior to
registration:
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Summer Session 2001 and Fall Semester 2001 |
- April 13, 2001 |
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Spring Semester 2002 |
- November 16, 2001 |
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Summer Session 2002 and Fall Semester 2002 |
- April 1, 2002 |
Senate Curriculum Report (Blue Sheet) Schedule
All course
and major/option/minor proposals are due in the Senate Office on the following
dates:
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Proposal Due Date |
Record Publication Date |
SCCA Meeting Date |
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August 13, 2001 |
for the August 28, 2001 Issue |
September 11, 2001 |
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September 24, 2001 |
for the October 9, 2001 Issue |
October 23, 2001 |
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November 5, 2001 |
for the November 20, 2001 Issue |
December 4, 2001 |
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December 20, 2001 |
for the January 15, 2002 Issue |
January 29, 2002 |
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January 28, 2002 |
for the February 12, 2002 Issue |
February 26, 2002 |
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February 25, 2002 |
for the March 12, 2002 Issue |
March 26, 2002 |
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March 25, 2002 |
for the April 9, 2002 Issue |
April 23, 2002 |
A-G,I,K - special topics courses
H - honors courses or sections
J - individualized instruction courses
L,P,R - lecture, practicum (or laboratory), recitation sections
M - both an honors and a writing intensive course
S - First-Year Seminar course
T - both an honors and a first-year seminar course
U - both diversity focused by section and honors
V - intercultural and international competence courses by section offering
W - writing intensive courses
X - First-Year Seminar courses and writing-intensive courses
Y - both diversity focused by section and writing intensive