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January 11, 2000
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Volume XXVIII |
Number 4 |
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.
Special Notice Regarding the Implementation of General Education:
It is the normal policy of the University to permit a student to choose to follow the curriculum under which they originally enrolled or to choose to follow a newly approved curriculum. Based upon the recommendation of the Subcommittee on General Education of the Senate Comittee on Curriculuar Affairs, the Committee on Curricular Affairs reaffirms this policy as it relates to students' ability to follow the newly approved General Education program.
As with all changes to a student's curriculum, the student's Dean may approve petitions as appropriate. Thus, students may choose to follow either the old General Eduation program or the new program and the Dean will be responsible, as always, to ensure that the student completes the appropriate program.
Louis F. Geschwindner, Chair
Senate Committee on Curricular Affairs
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 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 #070 ECEEM 484W (HOLD)
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 #074 CH E 435
February 16, 1999, Senate Curriculum Report, Volume XXVII, Number 5
Item #036 ART 290 (GA), Course Change (HOLD)
March 19, 1999, Senate Curriculum Report, Volume XXVII, Number 6
Item #030 KINES 190S GHA, Health and Human Development (HOLD)
Item #078 SOC 001 GS, Liberal Arts (HOLD)
April 19, 1999, Senate Curriculum Report, Volume XXVII, Number 7
Item #005 MUSIC (MUSBA), Program Change, Arts and Architecture (HOLD)
Item #006 MUSIC (MUSBM), Program Change (HOLD)
Item #008 MUSIC ART (MUBMA), Program Change (HOLD)
Item #066 Classical Studies Minor, Drop Minor, Liberal Arts (HOLD)
Approved academically, pending review by Board of Trustees.
August 31, 1999, Senate Curriculum Report, Volume XXVIII, Number 1
Item #017A Environmental Studies Major and Environmental Studies Minor, New, Altoona College (HOLD)
Approved academically; pending review by the Board of Trustees.
Item #023 Global Business Strategies for the Earth, Energy and Material Industries Minor, New Interdisciplinary Minor, Earth and Mineral Sciences/Business Administration (HOLD)
Approved academically; pending review by the Board of Trustees.
Item #066 HIST 458W, Course Change, Liberal Arts (HOLD)
Item #067 L I R 136(DF), Course Change, Liberal Arts (HOLD)
Item #068 L I R 458W, Course Change, Liberal Arts (HOLD)
Item #085 PHYS 419, Course Change, Science (HOLD)
October 12, 1999, Senate Curriculum Report, Volume XXVIII, Number 2
Item #004 Kinesiology Major, Wellness Development Specialization Option, New Option, Berks-Lehigh Valley (HOLD)
Approved academically; pending review by the Board of Trustees.
Item #011 ENLSH 404, Course Add, Capital College
Item #012 ENLSH 453, Course Add, Capital College
Proposals withdrawn by department.
November 23, 1999, Senate Curriculum Report, Volume XXVIII, Number 3
The entire Curriculum Report was approved with the following exceptions and corrections:
II. NEW BUSINESS
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 (863-1202) on or before February 10, 2000. 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 for a listing of proposed General Education Courses 400-Word Descriptions: http:// www.psu.edu/ufs/
SENATE COMMITTEE ON CURRICULAR AFFAIRS
Connie D. Baggett, Agricultural
Kevin Berland, Commonwealth College
Ronald Bettig, Communications
Barton Browning, Liberal Arts Representative
Garry L. Burkle, Ex Officio
Robert G. Crane, Earth and Mineral Sciences/ACUE
Todd D. Ellis, Student
Richard B. Englund, Behrend
Donald E. Fahnline, Altoona
Gary J. Fosmire, Health and Human Development
George W. Franz, Delaware
Louis F. Geschwindner, Chair
Lisa C. Hatcher, Student
Sally Heffentreyer, Resources
Margaret M. Lyday, Liberal Arts
J. Daniel Marshall, Vice Chair/Education
Annette K. McGregor, Arts and Architecture
Robert D. Minard, Science Representative
Henry O. Patterson, Berks-Lehigh
Judith Ozment Payne, Abington
M. Susan Richman, Capitol
Howard Sachs, Graduate School
Shelley M. Stoffels, Engineering
Arkady Tempelman, Science
James B. Thomas, Information Sciences and Technology
Linda K. Trevino, Business Administration
Diane Zabel, Libraries
APPENDIX A (Undergraduate)
Abington College (No proposals submitted)APPENDIX B
Agricultural Sciences, College of
Altoona College (No proposals submitted)
Arts and Architecture, College of (No proposals submitted)
Behrend College
Berks-Lehigh Valley College (No proposals submitted)
Business Administration, The Smeal College of
Capital College
Commonwealth College (No proposals submitted)
Communications College
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
Intercollege Programs (No proposals submitted)
Liberal Arts, College of the
Life Sciences Consortium (No proposals submitted)
Science, Eberly College of (No proposals submitted)
GraduateAPPENDIX C
College of MedicineAPPENDIX D
Dickinson School of Law (No proposals submitted)SUBCOMMITTEE ON RETENTION AND TRANSFER (No proposals submitted)
CURRICULAR DEADLINES
1999-2000
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)*Intercultural and International Competence and Writing-Intensive Course Proposals
Summer Session 1999 and Fall Semester 1999 - May 1, 1999 Spring Session 2000 - December, 10 1999 Summer Semester 2000 and Fall 2000 - May 3, 2000
Senate Curriculum Report (Blue Sheet) Schedule
Summer Semester 1999 and Fall Semester 1999 - April 16, 1999 Spring Session 2000 - November 19, 1999 Summer Semester 2000 and Fall Semester 2000 - April 14, 2000
Proposal Due Date
Record Publication Date
SCCA Meeting Date
August 19, 1999
for the August 31, 1999 Issue
September 14, 1999
September 30, 1999
for the October 12, 1999 Issue
October 26, 1999
November 11, 1999
for the November 23, 1999 Issue
December 7, 1999
December 21, 1999
for the January 11, 2000 Issue
February 1, 2000
February 3, 2000
for the February 15, 2000 Issue
February 29, 2000
March 2, 2000
for the March 14, 2000 Issue
March 28, 2000
March 30, 2000
for the April 11, 2000 Issue
April 25, 2000
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*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 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