Election of a representative on the College Budget and Planning
Committee
Announcements
Sociology
New Course SOCIOLGY
342, "Sociology of Family and Work" (This course reviews the relationship
between the
social institutions of family and workplace.
It examines how they interact with each other, and how key social
factors such as gender, class, job type and culture affect that
interaction).
Philosophy and Religous Studies
New
Minor "World Religions Minor". (Religion in the 21st
century continues to exert an enormous influence over the lives of
individuals,
communities, nations, and the world, yet it is often poorly understood.
The
World Religions minor gives students a basic understanding of the
world’s major
religions: their historical origins, organization, and contemporary
beliefs and
practices. The World Religions minor will deepen students’ awareness of
the
sacred, heighten self-awareness of their own religious tradition, and
enable
them to deal more effectively with religious diversity in the workplace
and in
their own lives).
Change in the Liberal
Studies Minor. (The rationale for these
changes is: first, to bring the course lists up-to-date; second, to
make the
Liberal Studies minor more accessible online; third, we to alter the
names of
requirement categories 4, 7, and 8, in order to more accurately
describe them
while differentiating them from the General Education core courses;
and,
fourth, to make the minor better for transfer students).
Biological
Sciences
Course revision, description
change and contact hour and/or credit change for BIOLOGY 254
"Biotechnology Laboratory Methods I"
Course
revision, description change and contact hour and/or credit change for BIOLOGY 364
"Biotechnology Laboratory Methods II (The Dept wishes to
exchange basic nucleic acid (DNA &
RNA) methodology presently taught at the junior-level Biotechnology Lab
Methods
II with cell culture and advanced microscopy
methods now taught in the sophomore-level Biotechnology Lab Methods I. This change is requested because BLM I is required for
the great majority of Biology
majors while BLM II is an elective. Also the credit change from 1 to 2
credits is requested because of
the unusually heavy outside-of-class workload associated with this
course).
Informational Items
Repeatability change for the
History course, HISTRY 110,
"History Through Film". (Changes
the repeatability of this course
by allowing a one time repeat for the degree and eliminates the
repeatability in the major).
Requsite changes for the
following Physics courses:
PHYSCS 310,
"Mechanics -
Dynamics" (Requisite changes
reflect the changes previously made in Physics courses)
Requisite change for COMPSCI 433
"Theory of Algorithms:" (The
current prerequisites are met by only a small number of students
greatly
reducing the audience for the course.
The relaxed prerequisites will be sufficient for the course at the
level
that it is currently taught).
Deletion of the Physics Course, PHYSCS
282, "Engineering Mechanics: Dynamics." (This course has
been replaced with PHYSCS 310, "Mechanics - Dynamics"
Changes to the following
Political Science Majors and Minors:
Political
Science Education
Minor (Adds POLISCI 416
"Constitution and Civil Rights" to the American Government section of
the above majors and minors).