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.

Questions concerning items that have been held must be resolved within a 90-day period following the approval date of the Blue Sheets. 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 21, 1997, Senate Curriculum Report, Volume XXVI, Number 3
Items #134-137 - PLPHY 508, 509, 510, 511 (HOLD for crosslistings)

March 20, 1998, Senate Curriculum Report, Volume XXVI, Number 6
Item #048A - COMM 187H (HOLD)
Item #064 - Law and Liberal Arts Minor, Liberal Arts
Reviewed by the Board of Trustees at its meeting of March 18, 1999--effective Summer Session 1999.

April 17, 1998, Senate Curriculum Report, Volume XXVI, Number 7
Item #001 - Major in Landscape Contracting, Agricultural Sciences (HOLD)
Approved academically; pending review by Board of Trustees.
Item #034 - Basic Option and Advanced Standing Option, Major in Nursing, Health and Human Development
Reviewed by the Board of Trustees at its meeting of March 18, 1999--effective Summer Session 1999.

September 1, 1998, Senate Curriculum Report, Volume XXVII, Number 1
Items #058-061 ART H 211, ART H 212, ART H 213, ART H 214 (HOLD)

October 13, 1998, Senate Curriculum Report, Volume XXVII, Number 2
Item #002 - ENT 429 (HOLD)
Item #008 - Architecture Studies Minor, Arts and Architecture (HOLD)
Approved academically; pending review by the Board of Trustees.
Item #017 - Pre-Professional Option, Major in Biology, Behrend College
Reviewed by the Board of Trustees at its meeting of March 18, 1999--effective Summer Session 1999.
Item #053 - BIOL 429 (HOLD)

November 24, 1998, Senate Curriculum Report, Volume XXVII, Number 3
Item #001 - Agronomy Major, Drop Major, Agricultural Sciences (HOLD)
Approved academically; pending review by the Board of Trustees.
Item #040 - Manufacturing Technology, New Associate Degree Major, Behrend College (HOLD)
Approved academically; pending review by the Board of Trustees.
Item #070 - ECEEM 484W (HOLD)
Item #094 - Japanese, New Major, Liberal Arts (HOLD)
Approved academically; pending review by Board of Trustees.
Item #097 - Prelaw, Drop Major, Liberal Arts
Reviewed by the Board of Trustees at its meeting of March 18, 1999--effective Summer Session 1999.
Item #123 - Neuroscience Option, New, Biology Major, Science (HOLD)
Approved academically; pending review by Board of Trustees.

The following Course Proposals remain on HOLD pending receipt of the up-to-400 Words Descriptions:

Item #011 - TURF 237
Item #056 - ACCTG 406
Item #057 - ACCTG 432
Item #058 - B A 302
Item #062 - BUS 305
Item #063 - BUS 340
Item #064 - CINSY 446
Item #065 - MNGMT 451
Item #074 - CH E 435
Item #075 - E E 429
Item #076 - E E 453

January 12, 1999, Senate Curriculum Report, Volume XXVII, Number 4
Item #003 - Environmental Soil Science Major, Name Change, Agricultural Sciences (HOLD)
Approved academically; pending review by the Board of Trustees.
Item #007 - Dance Minor, College and Name Change, Arts and Architecture (HOLD)
Approved academically; pending review by the Board of Trustees.

February 16, 1999, Senate Curriculum Report, Volume XXVII, Number 5
Item #001 - Agricultural and Extension Education Major, Name Change, Agricultural Sciences (HOLD)
Approved academically; pending review by the Board of Trustees.
Item #001A - Youth and Family Education Major, Name Change, Agricultural Sciences (HOLD)
Approved academically; pending review by the Board of Trustees.
Item #035 - ART 270 (GA), Course Change, Arts and Architecture (HOLD)
Item #036 - ART 290 (GA), Course Change (HOLD)
Held pending receipt of a list of PSU locations that have taught the courses over the last 3-5 years and pending evidence of consultation with these locations.
Item #038 - ED&G 100S, Course Add, Behrend College
Approved as BDENG 100S--effective Fall Semester 1999.
Item #045 - A B E 494H, Course Add, College of Engineering (HOLD)
Held pending evidence of consultation with the Schreyer's Honor College.
Item #047 - Information Sciences and Technology, New Major, School of Information Sciences and Technology
Reviewed by the Board of Trustees at its meeting of March 18, 1999--effective Summer Session 1999.
Item #048 - Information Sciences and Technology, New Associate Degree Major, School of Information Sciences and Technology
Reviewed by the Board of Trustees at its meeting of March 18, 1999--effective Summer Session 1999

March 19, 1999, Senate Curriculum Report, Volume XXVII, Number 6
The entire Curriculum Report was approved with the following exceptions and corrections:

Item #004 - ENT 210, Course Add, Agricultural Sciences, (REJECTED)
The SCCA questioned the appropriateness of the course abbreviation. There was no evidence of Consultation outside the College.
General Education courses listed on the March Senate Curriculum Report are still under review.

The Senate Committee on Curricular Affairs is considering the attached proposals. New majors, options, and minors become effective following review by the Board of Trustees; 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, Birch Cottage (863-0221) on or before May 20, 1999. 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.

Ronald Bettig (CM)
Garry L. Burkle (EX-OFFICIO)
Louis J. Campbell III (AL)
Peter Deines, Chair (EM)
Richard B. Englund (BD)
Gary J. Fosmire (HH)
George W. Franz (CC)
Dennis Gouran (LA)
Sally Heffentreyer (RESOURCE)
Gretchen Kline (STUDENT)
Darla Lindberg (AA)
Herberta M. Lundegren (ACUE)
J. Daniel Marshall (ED)
Norbert Mayr (WS)
Robert A. Novack (BA)
Henry O. Patterson (BL)
Judith Ozment Payne (AB)
M. Susan Richman (CL)
Shelley M. Stoffels (EN)
Jessica L. Stuart (STUDENT)
James Thomas (IST)
Roger P. Ware (SC)
Diane Zabel (LIBRARIES)
Gregory R. Ziegler (AG)

APPENDIX A (Undergraduate)

• 294/494
• 295/395/495
• 296/496/596
• 097/197/297/397/497/597
• 098/198/298/398/498/598
• 099/199/299/399/499/599

All requests for special titles should be submitted to the Curriculum Coordinator at the Senate Office four (4) weeks prior to registration:

All course and major/option/minor proposals are due in Senate Office on the following dates:

*The following alpha letters have been reserved for identifying special types of courses:

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 honors and writing intensive courses
S - First-Year Seminar courses
T - both an honors and a First-Year Seminar course
U - both intercultural and international competence and honors courses
V - intercultural and international competence courses by section offering
W - writing intensive courses
X - First-Year Seminar and writing-intensive courses
Y - both diversity focused by section and writing intensive