COLLEGE OF LETTERS & SCIENCES
CURRICULUM COMMITTEE

AGENDA

The Committee will meet THURSDAY, October 4,  2007
at 2:15 PM in White 6C

       
       
  1. Approval of the September 6, 2007 Minutes.
  2. Announcements
  3. Monitoring repeat of prerequisite courses.
  4. Social Work
    1. New Course SOCWORK 350, "Psychopharmacology Basics for the Helping Professional." (This course introduces students to the basic principles of psychotropic medication and their role when working with clients taking psychotropic medication. Basic neuropsychological principles and diagnostic groups involving various classes of psychopharmacological medications will be discussed. It will introduce the student to medical terminology and the medical field).
  5. Informational Items
    1. Requisite change for CRIMJUS 325, "Forensic Documentation." (The Bio 225 Science of Forensics course is being offered once a year in the spring semester. The enrollment is capped at twenty. This causes a bottleneck in field class in CJ 325/ Anthropl  325 Forensics (The Forensic documentation course), which is desired by the criminal justice majors. Currently we are running two sections each semester each capable of holding thirty students. Each has to been signed in by permission of instructor. We wish to remove this obstacle so we can maintain enrollment).
    2. Add the Diversity option for CHICANO 150, "Introduction to Chicano Studies." (This course focuses on the Latino/Chicano communities in the U.S.  Since all other lower level courses in Race & Ethnic Studies carries a Diversity designation, this change will provide greater consistency and will cause less confusion for students).
    3. Change in the "Women's Studies Major." (The exit interview is a standard assessment tool.  It will be especially useful to Women’s Studies because our programs are interdisciplinary and our interaction with students less predictable).
  6. Discuss new program planning.