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February 11, 2003
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Volume XXXI |
Number 5 |
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 (HOLD)
-- General Option
-- Manufacturing Option
Approved academically; pending administrative approval by the Executive Vice
President and Provost.
August 27, 2002, Senate Curriculum Report, Volume XXXI, Number
1
Item #123 Integrated Statistics B.S./M.A.S., Science (HOLD)
Academically approved; pending administrative approval by the Executive Vice
President and Provost.
October 8, 2002, Senate Curriculum Report, Volume XXXI, Number
2
Item #003 Horticulture, Add two Options, Agricultural Sciences (HOLD)
-- Business/Production Option
-- Science Option
Academically approved; pending administrative approval by the Executive Vice
President and Provost.
January 14, 2003, Senate Curriculum Report, Volume XXXI, Number
4
The entire Curriculum Report was approved with the following exceptions and
corrections:
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
Approved academically; on hold in the Senate Office for costing.
Item #018 Global Studies, New, Berks-Lehigh Valley College
--Latin American Culture Option
--Contemporary History and Politics Option
Approved academically; pending administrative approval by the Executive Vice
President and Provost.
Item #019 Insurance, Program Drop, Business Administration
Approved by the Executive Vice President and Provost October 30, 2002--effective
Spring Semester 2003.
Item #020 Insurance and International Business, Program Drop, Business Administration
Approved by the Executive Vice President and Provost October 30, 2002--effective
Spring Semester 2003.
Item #021 Real Estate, Program Drop, Business Administration
Approved by the Executive Vice President and Provost October 30, 2002--effective
Spring Semester 2003.
Item #022 Real Estate and International Business, Program Drop, Business Administration
Approved by the Executive Vice President and Provost October 30, 2002--effective
Spring Semester 2003.
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.
Item #090 IST 420, Course Add, Information Sciences and Technology
Approved with change in description to read: Introductory course on integration
of information technology into different venues including the planning, development,
and implementation of integration.
Item #092 IST 230, Course Change, Information Sciences and Technology
Approved with prerequsite of MATH 110 or MATH 140.
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 March 13, 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 (No proposals submitted)
Commonwealth College
Communications, College of
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 (No proposals submitted)
APPENDIX B
Graduate
APPENDIX C
College of Medicine (No proposals submitted)
APPENDIX D
Dickinson School of Law
SUBCOMMITTEE ON RETENTION AND TRANSFER (No proposals submitted)
CURRICULAR DEADLINES
2002-2003
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 2002 and Fall Semester 2002 |
- May 1, 2002 |
Spring Semester 2003 |
- December 6, 2002 |
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Summer Session 2003 and Fall Semester 2003 |
- April 14, 2003 |
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 2002 and Fall Semester 2002 |
- April 12, 2002 |
Spring Semester 2003 |
- November 15, 2002 |
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Summer Session 2003 and Fall Semester 2003 |
- March 31, 2003 |
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 9, 2002 |
for the August 27, 2002 Issue |
September 10, 2002 |
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September 20, 2002 |
for the October 8, 2002 Issue |
October 22, 2002 |
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November 1, 2002 |
for the November 19, 2002 Issue |
December 3, 2002 |
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December 20, 2002 |
for the January 14, 2003 Issue |
January 28, 2003 |
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January 24, 2003 |
for the February 11, 2003 Issue |
February 25, 2003 |
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February 21, 2003 |
for the March 11, 2003 Issue |
March 25, 2003 |
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March 14, 2003 |
for the April 8, 2003 Issue |
April 22, 2003 |
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