Approved Curriculum Proposals 2011-2012

The proposal is to include in the curriculum an upper-division Special Topics (elective) course in Philosophy. This is meant as an addition to the Philosophy curriculum, and serves a variety of roles for offering upper-level courses to students, especially since the curriculum, as it stands, almost entirely lacks upper-division courses.

Within the Department of Behavioral Sciences, we wish to remove courses from the catalog that have not been offered in over five years, adjust the credit hours for two courses, and change the name of one course.

The content of this proposal is (1) to raise the course number of Music in the Elementary Classroom, a required course for Elementary Education Majors, from 2230 to a 3000-level number (3330), consistent with its content and purpose and in line with other methods courses; and (2) to add the prerequisite that students should be admitted to the School of Education before enrolling in the class.

This proposal adds to the curriculum an elective course focusing on new product decisions. This course will serve as an additional elective to business curriculum (primarily the marketing concentration). Also, it is beneficial to students pursuing careers in new product development and other related fields, as well as students preparing to enter MBA programs.

This proposal also includes changes to the required/elective status of four marketing courses. Appendix E (page 9) shows the changes to the Marketing Curriculum as they would appear in the catalog. The Marketing Curriculum is 18 hours and will remain 18 hours with this proposal. By the addition of this new course (an elective course), four of the current courses will become electives, thereby giving students the choice of four of five marketing electives.

This proposal presents the new general studies requirements for the Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing and curricular changes approved by the nursing faculty. The curricular changes include:
1. deletion of NURS 3330 Health Deviations
2. creation of a new nursing course, NURS 3340 Nursing Care of the Older Adult
3. reduction of credit hours from 6 to 5 in NURS 4410 Community Health Nursing
4. reduction of credit hours from 5 to 4 in NURS 4440 Nursing Practicum, and
5. a change in title for NURS 3360 from Ethical Decision-Making in Healthcare to Nursing Ethics.

The purpose of this proposal is two-fold:

1. To change the course title, change prerequisites, and clarify content for an existing course, BUSN 4420- Business and Society; and,
2. To amend the current Business Core curriculum to include the revised course, BUSN 4420- BusinessEthics and Corporate Accountability.
    

The faculty in the Chemistry program area proposed a curriculum revision to the Department of Biology, Chemistry, and Geoscience on February 25, 2011.  This was reviewed by the faculty and approved on March 7, 2011.  The proposal changes the requirements for the B.S. in Chemistry, the B.A. in Education with a Teaching Specialization in Chemistry, and the Chemistry minor.  The proposal also contains two new courses and the removal of several other courses form the above programs.