April 13, 2010

SENATE CURRICULUM REPORT

TO: All Senators, Executive Vice President and Provost, Vice President for Commonwealth Campuses, Deans, Chancellors, Heads of Departments (Programs, Divisions, Intercollege Programs), Administrative Council on Undergraduate Education, and 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.

February 23, 2010, Senate Curriculum Report, Volume XXXVIII, Number V
Item #023 Music, B.A., Arts and Architecture - Returned to department for resubmission
Item #026 INART 258 - Returned to department for resubmission
Item #029 Energy and Sustainability Policy, B.A., New, Earth and Mineral Sciences via the World Campus (HOLD)
Pending approval of ENGR 312
Item #035 Biological Engineering, B.S., Add new option; Change name of option, Engineering (HOLD)
--Add new option in Natural Resources Engineering
--Change name of option from Biological and Food Engineering to Food and Biological Processing
Approved academically; pending administrative approval by the Executive Vice President and Provost
Item #036 Chemical Engineering Minor, Drop, Engineering (HOLD)
Approved academically; pending administrative approval by the Executive Vice President and Provost
Item #037A General Engineering, B.S., New, Engineering (HOLD)
Approved academically; pending administrative approval by the Executive Vice President and Provost
Item #058 Global Health Minor, New, Health and Human Development (HOLD)
Approved academically; pending administrative approval by the Executive Vice President and Provost
Item #100 International Studies, Interdisciplinary Degree, Name Change; Liberal Arts (HOLD)
-- to Global and International Studies
Pending additional consultation
Item #101 Science, Technology and Society, Interdisciplinary Degree, New, Liberal Arts (DENIED)
Item#110 CHNS 001, Course Change, Liberal Arts (DENIED)
Item#111 CHNS 002, Course Change, Liberal Arts (DENIED)
Item#112 CHNS 003, Course Change, Liberal Arts (DENIED)
Item#113 CHNS 110, Course Change, Liberal Arts (DENIED)
Item#114 CHNS 401, Course Change, Liberal Arts (DENIED)
Item#115 CHNS 402, Course Change, Liberal Arts (DENIED)
Item#118 JAPNS 001, Course Change, Liberal Arts (DENIED)
Item#119 JAPNS 002, Course Change, Liberal Arts (DENIED)
Item#120 JAPNS 003, Course Change, Liberal Arts (DENIED)
Item#121 JAPNS 110, Course Change, Liberal Arts (DENIED)
Item#122 JAPNS 401, Course Change, Liberal Arts (DENIED)
Item#123 JAPNS 402, Course Change, Liberal Arts (DENIED)
Item#124 KOR 001, Course Change, Liberal Arts (DENIED)
Item#125 KOR 002, Course Change, Liberal Arts (DENIED)
Item#126 KOR 003, Course Change, Liberal Arts (DENIED)
Item#146 MATH 041, Course Change, Science (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. Changes in existing course offerings will become effective the date of the first published Schedule of Courses listing the changed course, unless written objection is received at the Senate Office, 101 Kern Graduate Building (863-1202) on or before May 13, 2010. A copy of any written objection sent to the Committee must also be sent to the college representative of the sponsoring college. Senate Office staff will communicate the objection to the Senate Committee on Curricular Affairs. Any item to which written objection is made will be reconsidered by the appropriate committee and may be delayed for scheduling.

New Programs: Majors, Options, and Minors
Music Minor, Name Change, Arts and Architecture
--to Music Performance Minor
Music Studies Minor, New, Arts and Architecture
Health Policy and Administration, Ph.D, M.S., New M.B.A./M.H.A. degree, Health and Human Development

Academic Programs [Majors/Minors] Phase-Out
None.

Moving/Discontinuing Degree Programs Among Colleges/Campuses of the University
Childhood and Early Adolescent Education, B.S., March 23, 2010, Penn State Abington is authorized to deliver the degree with the Early Education PK-4 option as an extended degree of the College of Education -- effective Fall Semester 2010
Childhood and Early Adolescent Education, B.S., March 23, 2010, Penn State Berks is authorized to deliver the degree with the Early Education PK-4 option as an extended degree of the College of Education -- effective Fall Semester 2010
Information Sciences and Technology, B.S., March 22, 2010, Penn State Mont Alto is authorized to deliver the degree with the Integration and Application option as an extended degree of the College of Information Sciences and Technology-- effective Fall Semester 2010
Security and Risk Analysis Minor, March 22, 2010, Penn State Mont Alto is authorized to deliver the minor as an extension of the College of Information Sciences and Technology -- effective Fall Semester 2010

For curriculum information (guidelines, forms, etc.), visit the Senate's curriculum page at http://www.senate.psu.edu/curriculum.asp.

SENATE COMMITTEE ON CURRICULAR AFFAIRS (2009-2010)

David Babb, Earth and Mineral Sciences
Mark Ballora, Arts and Architecture
Paul Barney, Erie
Jeremy Cohen, Resource, Undergraduate Education
John Coupland, Agricultural Sciences
Dennis Gingrich, Medicine
Michel Haigh, Communications
Harold Hayford, Altoona
Sally Heffentreyer, Resource, University Publications
Brian Hesse, Liberal Arts
Anne Hester, University College, Hazleton
Linda Higginson, Resource, Division of Undergraduate Studies
Anne Kepler, Resource, University Registrar
Ellen Knodt, Abington
Gul Kremer, Engineering
Alexandra Kuchler, (Student) Education
Ronald McCarty, Vice Chair, Erie
Paula Milone-Nuzzo, Health and Human Development
Robert Novack, Business
Judith Ozment, Resource, Schreyer Honors College
Steven Peterson, Harrisburg
Gerald Santoro, Information Sciences and Technology
Karla Schmit, Resource, Libraries
Robert Shannon, Chair, Agricultural Sciences
Christopher Teats, (Student) Harrisburg
Peggy Van Meter, Education
William Waterhouse, Science
Robert Zambanini, Berks

APPENDIX A (Undergraduate)