New course PSYCH 407
"Psychology of Emotion and Motivation." (Motivation is fundamental to human
behavior, and emotion is intricately
involved in motivational processes as both cause and effect. This
course offers
an introduction to the psychological bases of and interrelations
between human
emotion and motivation).
Foreign Languages
New course SPANISH 484 "
Women Writers of Spain and the
Americas." (The course
will fulfill
the need to add diversity to the Spanish program by
offering a course
that familiarizes the students with a variety of representative samples
of the
works of women writers of the Americas and Spain from the XVI century
to the
present, and that allows them to historically contextualize their
production
and critically analyze its socio-political and cultural impact).
Political Science
New
course POLISCI_ASIANST
480 "Government and Politics of Japan." (This course
will present a historic
and thematic overview of political development in contemporary Japan. It consists of analysis of
Japanese postwar
politics, government decision-making structures and processes, foreign
affairs
and political economy).
Philosophy & Religious Studies
New course RELIGST 304
"Contemporary Islamic Thought and Practice." (This
course will
explore—thematically rather than chronologically--major trends in
contemporary
Islamic thought and practice through a study of key thinkers and a
close
reading of their works. Such trends include modernism, reformism,
fundamentalism, nationalism, centrism, liberalism and feminism).
Informational
Items
Number
change and requisite change for the "Introduction to the
Scientist-Practitioner Disciplines in Psychology" course FROM PSYCH 446
TO PSYCH 327. (Due
to the high number of the course and current prerequisites, students
are
necessarily taking this class at the end of their undergraduate careers
when
decisions regarding career and graduate school are already in
progress.
Offering this class earlier in the psychology
curriculum and with fewer prerequisites would allow students to enroll
earlier,
facilitating their ability to prepare themselves appropriately for the
career
path that they choose)
Requisite
change for PSYCH
345_545 "Abnormal Psychology." (The content
of Abnormal Psychology does not require
enrollment in Psychology of Personality (PSYCH 304) as either a
prerequisite or
corequisite. Students who have taken
Introduction to Psychology (PSYCH 211) should be well-prepared for
entry into
Abnormal Psychology. Making this change
will make Abnormal Psychology accessible to a larger number of
qualified
students)
Delete PSYCH 646
"Introduction to the Scientist Practitioner Disciplines in Psychology." (As a survey
course providing an introduction to
applied scientist-practitioner professions in psychology, provision of
graduate
level credit is not appropriate).