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January 20, 2004
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Volume XXXII |
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, 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.
January 15, 2002, Senate Curriculum Report, Volume XXX, Number
4
Item #001A Environmental and Renewable Resource Economics Minor, New, Agricultural
Sciences (HOLD)
Approved academically; pending administrative approval by the Executive Vice President and Provost.
April 8, 2003, Senate Curriculum Report, Volume XXXI, Number
7
Item #032 HLHED 401, Course Add, Capital College (HOLD)
Item #033 HLHED 402, Course Add, Capital College (HOLD)
Item #034 HLHED 405, Course Add, Capital College (HOLD)
Item #035 HLHED 463, Course Add, Capital College (HOLD)
Item #036 HLHED 464, Course Add, Capital College (HOLD)
Item #037 HLHED 468, Course Add, Capital College (HOLD)
Item #038 HLHED 471, Course Add, Capital College (HOLD)
Item #039 HLHED 475, Course Add, Capital College (HOLD)
Item #040 HLHED 479, Course Add, Capital College (HOLD)
Item #041 HLHED 482, Course Add, Capital College (HOLD)
Item #042 HLHED 483, Course Add, Capital College (HOLD)
Item #043 HLHED 485, Course Add, Capital College (HOLD)
September 2, 2003, Senate Curriculum Report, Volume XXXII, Number
1
Item #074 Kinesiology, Change, Health and Human Development
Approved--effective Summer Session 2004.
October 14, 2003, Senate Curriculum Report, Volume XXXII, Number
2
Item #029 Applied Behavioral Science Major, Add two Options, Capital College
(HOLD)
--Interdisciplinary Social Science Option
--Social and Human Services Option
Approved academically; on hold in the Senate Office for costing.
November 25, 2003, Senate Curriculum Report, Volume XXXII, Number
3
The entire Curriculum Report was approved with the following exceptions and
corrections:
Item #005 Chemistry Major, Add Five Options, Behrend College (HOLD)
--General Chemistry Option
--Biochemistry Option
--Business Option
--Computer Science Option
--Chemistry Education Pre-Certification Option
Approved academically; on hold in the Senate Office for costing.
Item #006 Creative Writing Major, New, Behrend College (HOLD)
Approved academically; pending administrative approval by the Executive Vice
President and Provost.
Item #019 Occupational Therapy Major, Drop, Commonwealth College
Approved by the Executive Vice President and Provost November 20, 2003--effective
Spring Semester 2004.
Item #020 Energy Business and Finance Major, New, Earth and Mineral Sciences
(HOLD)
Approved academically; pending administrative approval by the Executive Vice
President and Provost.
Item #065 Crime, Law, and Justice Major (CLJBS), Add Five Options, Liberal Arts
(HOLD)
--Business Option
--Computer and Statistics Option
--Legal Studies Option
--Pre-Forensics Option, and Social Science Research Option
Approved academically; pending administrative approval by the Executive Vice
President and Provost.
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 February 19, 2004. 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/bulletins/bluebook/.
SENATE COMMITTEE ON CURRICULAR AFFAIRS
Christopher S. Adams, Student, Berks-Lehigh Valley
Phyllis F. Adams, Agricultural Sciences
Laurie P. Breakey, Vice Chair, DuBois
Douglas K. Brown, Altoona
Barton W. Browning, Liberal Arts
Garry L. Burkle, Ex Officio
Chao-Hsien Chu, Information Sciences and Technology
Jeremy Cohen, Resource, Undergraduate Education and International Programs
Valerie A. Earnshaw, Student, Liberal Arts
Roger A. Egolf, Berks-Lehigh Valley
Christopher J. Falzone, Science
Edgar I. Farmer, Education
David J. Green, Earth and Mineral Sciences
Sally Heffentreyer, Resource, University Publications
Binh P. Le, Abington College
Robert A. Novack, Business Administration
Mary Beth Oliver, Communications
Robert D. Ricketts, Health and Human Development
David W. Russell, Commonwealth College
Richard J. Simons, Jr., Hershey Medical Center
Loanne L. Snavely, Libraries
Shelley M. Stoffels, Chair, Engineering
Bonj Szczygiel, Arts and Architecture
Rodney L. Troester, Behrend
Horst von Dorpowski, ACUE, Education
Mark L. Wardell, Graduate School
Matthew T. Wilson, Capital
APPENDIX A (Undergraduate)
Abington College (No proposals submitted)
Agricultural Sciences, College of
Altoona College (No proposals submitted)
Arts and Architecture, College of
Behrend College (No proposals submitted)
Berks-Lehigh Valley College
Business Administration, The Smeal College of (No proposals submitted)
Capital College
Commonwealth College
Communications, College of (No proposals submitted)
Dickinson School of Law (No proposals submitted)
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
APPENDIX B
Graduate
Post-Baccalaureate Credit Certificate Programs (No proposals submitted)
APPENDIX C
College of Medicine (No proposals submitted)
APPENDIX D
Dickinson School of Law (No proposals submitted)
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