COLLEGE OF LETTERS & SCIENCES
CURRICULUM COMMITTEE

AGENDA

The Committee will meet  THURSDAY, September 30, 2004
at 2:15 PM in Salisbury 102


    1. Approval of the September 16, 2004 Minutes

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    2. Announcements

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    3. Sociology
      1. New Sociology course, SOCIOLGY 319 "Introduction to Environmental Sociology."  (This course analyzes the impact that collective social actors have as they mobilize to influence environmental policy in response to environmental and technological risks.  This issue is of vital importance to environmental sociology as it has continuously grown and developed in the past 30 years across the US and Northern Europe).
    4. Psychology
      1. Course revision, description change and title change for the Psychology course, PSYCH 740 FROM Assessment I: Early Childhood  TO Assessment I: Academic Achievement and Progress Monitoring.  (Early childhood assessment will be incorporated into the three current assessment courses (PSYCH 740, 745, & 770) as appropriate to allow for increased focus on curriculum-based assessment and progress monitoring, proficiencies more relevant to assessment of academic achievement in school settings).
    1. Informational Items
      1. Change in prerequisite for SOCWORK 372, "Social Work Practice II."  (Drops SOCWORK 312, "Human Behavior and the Social Environment II" as a Coreq).
      2. Change in prerequisite for SOCWORK 473, "Social Work Practice III." (Adds SOCWORK 312, "Human Behavior and the Social Environment II" as a Prereq/Coreq).
      3. Change in the "Human Services Foundations" minor.  (In section 3, changes "select any four courses" to "select 12 credits" listed in this section.  Also Adds the statement "A second course from the Analytic and Writing skills section can be used as an elective").