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April 8, 2003
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Volume XXXI |
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, MEMBERS OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE COUNCIL ON UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION, 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.
April 10, 2001, Senate Curriculum Report, Volume XXIX, Number
7
Item #060 S T S 250, Course Add, Engineering (HOLD)
Item #063A HD FS (AAA S) (PSY) 251 GI, Course Add, Health and Human Development
(HOLD)
Item #092 AAA S (HD FS) (PSY) 251 GI, Course Add, Liberal Arts (HOLD)
Item #107 PSY (AAA S) (HD FS) 251 GI, Course Add, Liberal Arts (HOLD)
Item #133 PSY 213 GS, Course Change, Liberal Arts (HOLD)
Item #169 STAT 240, Course Change, Science (HOLD)
November 20, 2001, Senate Curriculum Report, Volume XXX, Number
3
Item #017 Secondary Education English, Program Drop, Capital College (HOLD)
Approved academically; pending administrative approval (via Policy P-6) by the
Executive Vice President and Provost.
January 15, 2002, Senate Curriculum Report, Volume XXX, Number
4
Item #001A Environmental and Renewable Resource Economics Minor, New, Agricultural
Sciences (HOLD)
April 9, 2002, Senate Curriculum Report, Volume XXX, Number 7
Item #046 A ED 401, Course Add, Arts and Architecture (HOLD)
Item #085 Mechanical Engineering Technology Associate Degree, Add two Options,
Engineering
-- General Option
-- Manufacturing Option
Proposal withdrawn by department.
October 8, 2002, Senate Curriculum Report, Volume XXXI, Number
2
Item #003 Horticulture, Add two Options, Agricultural Sciences (HOLD)
-- Business/Production Option
-- Science Option
Approved by the Executive Vice President and Provost March 28, 2003--effective
Fall Semester 2003.
January 14, 2003, Senate Curriculum Report, Volume XXXI, Number
4
Item #002 AN SC 213, Course Add, Agricultural Sciences (HOLD)
Item #003 AG EC 430, Course Change, Agricultural Sciences (HOLD)
Item #013 Science, New, Behrend College (HOLD)
--General Science Option
--Environmental Studies Option
--Earth and Space Science Pre-Certification Option
--General Science Pre-Certification Option
Academically approved; pending administrative approval by the Executive Vice
President and Provost.
Item #018 Global Studies, New, Berks-Lehigh Valley College (HOLD)
--Latin American Culture Option
--Contemporary History and Politics Option
Approved academically; pending administrative approval by the Executive Vice
President and Provost.
Item #027 Information Sciences and Technology for Accounting Minor, New, Capital
College (HOLD)
Approved academically; pending administrative approval by the Executive Vice
President and Provost.
Item #029 CRIMJ 388, Course Add, Capital College (HOLD)
Item #062 Energy, Environmental, and Mineral Economics Minor, New, Earth and
Mineral Sciences (HOLD)
Approved academically; pending administrative approval by the Executive Vice
President and Provost.
February 11, 2003, Senate Curriculum Report, Volume XXXI, Number
5
Item #001 Agroecology, Name Change, Agricultural Sciences (HOLD)
Approved academically; pending administrative approval by the Executive Vice
President and Provost.
Item #130 Communications, New, Commonwealth College (HOLD)
Approved academically; pending administrative approval by the Executive Vice
President and Provost.
Item #131 Nanofabracation Manufacturing Technology Associate Degree, New, Commonwealth
College (HOLD)
Approved academically; pending administrative approval by the Executive Vice
President and Provost.
March 11, 2003, Senate Curriculum Report, Volume XXXI,
Number 6
The entire Curriculum Report was approved with the following exceptions and
corrections:
Item #001 Environmental Studies, Change, Altoona College (HOLD)
Item #004 Accounting, Change, Business Administration (HOLD)
Item #005 Actuarial Science, Change, Business Administration (HOLD)
Item #006 Economics, Change, Business Administration (HOLD)
Item #007 Finance, Change, Business Administration (HOLD)
Item #008 International Business Minor, New, Business Administration (HOLD)
Item #009 Information Sciences & Technology and Supply Chains Minor, New,
Business Administration (HOLD)
Item #011 Management Information Systems, New, Business Administration (HOLD)
Item #012 Management, Drop Options, Business Administration (HOLD)
--General Management Option
--Human Resources Management Option
Item #013 Marketing, Change, Business Administration (HOLD)
Item #014 Supply Chain and Information Systems, New, Business Administration
(HOLD)
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 Building (863-1202) on or before May 8, 2003. 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 available 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
Lauren M. Applegate, Student, Communications
Laurie P. Breakey, DuBois
William Brockman, Libraries
Barton Browning, Liberal Arts
Garry L. Burkle, Ex Officio
Chao-Hsien Chu, Information Sciences and Technology
Jeremy Cohen, Resource
Robert G. Crane, Earth and Mineral Sciences and ACUE
Roger A. Egolf, Berks-Lehigh Valley
Christopher J. Falzone, Science
Gary J. Fosmire, Health and Human Development
George W. Franz, Delaware County/Commonwealth College
Sally Heffentreyer, Resource
Brandon B. Hunt, Education
Ravinder Koul, Great Valley
Robert A. Novack, Business Administration
Mary Beth Oliver, Communications
Sylvester Osagie, Altoona
Judith Ozment Payne, Vice Chair, Abington
Howard Sachs, Capital and Graduate School
Richard J. Simons, Hershey Medical Center
Summer Spangler, Student, Berks-Lehigh Valley
Shelley M. Stoffels, Chair, Engineering
Bonj Szczygiel, Arts and Architecture
Rodney Troester, Behrend
APPENDIX A (Undergraduate)
Abington College (No proposals submitted)
Agricultural Sciences, College of
Altoona College (No proposals submitted)
Arts and Architecture, College of
Behrend College
Berks-Lehigh Valley College
Business Administration, The Smeal College of
Capital College
Commonwealth College
Communications, College of
Dickinson School of Law
Earth and Mineral Sciences, College of
Education, College of
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 (No proposals submitted)
APPENDIX B
Graduate
APPENDIX C
College of Medicine
APPENDIX D
Dickinson School of Law
SUBCOMMITTEE ON RETENTION AND TRANSFER (No proposals submitted)
CURRICULAR DEADLINES
2003-2004
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 2003 and Fall Semester 2003 |
- February 3, 2003 |
Spring Semester 2004 |
- August 8, 2003 |
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Summer Session 2004 and Fall Semester 2004 |
- February 2, 2004 |
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 2003 and Fall Semester 2003 |
- January 20, 2003 |
Spring Semester 2004 |
- July 25, 2003 |
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Summer Session 2004 and Fall Semester 2004 |
- January 19, 2004 |
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 15, 2003 |
for the September 2, 2003 Issue |
September 16, 2003 |
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September 26, 2003 |
for the October 14, 2003 Issue |
October 28, 2003 |
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November 7, 2003 |
for the November 25, 2003 Issue |
December 9, 2003 |
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January 02, 2004 |
for the January 20, 2004 Issue |
February 3, 2004 |
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February 13, 2004 |
for the March 2, 2004 Issue |
March 16, 2004 |
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March 26, 2004 |
for the April 13, 2004 Issue |
April 27, 2004 |
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