21st Meeting, March 24, 2004 – Approved on April
15, 2004
Present:
The
minutes of March 17th were approved.
II Routine Administrative Matters
Physics:
Removal of
“permission of instructor” from PHY 311 Connections in Science.
Political Science:
Change the grading requirements for the major from: All political science courses numbered 200 or
above offered for the major must be passed with a letter grade of C or higher
to: All courses numbered 200 or above offered for the major must be passed with a
letter grade of C or higher. (The
difference is that this includes the six credits of cognate courses that are
required.)
Members wondered why POL 101, 102 and
103 were not included in the grading stipulation. It was later discovered that these are
included as a separate statement. The
statement will be reworded in one place to read: All courses offered for the major must be
passed with a letter grade of C or higher.
III Old Business:
Restoration of DEC K
With the exception of Linguistics and
Philosophy, all departments had responded quickly to the request that they
review the restored definition of DEC Category K and whether the courses that
had been moved into another category should be returned to DEC K. Most of the courses will be returned to DEC
K; a few will remain where they are.
Correspondence from University Senate
Brent Lindquist was reviewed. Lindquist
had requested that the Undergraduate Council review this proposal and report
back to the University Senate Executive Committee. Members wondered why this was necessary,
since the Undergraduate Council doesn’t have the purview over curricular
matters. In addition, time is of the
essence.
Kaplan has been directed to make sure
that the courses offered for Fall 04 that fall into the restored DEC K category
are so designated in the official class schedule which is currently being
finalized.
IV New Business
PSY 334 Autism and Mental Retardation
The course was approved pending a few small clarifications
regarding a discrepancy in the prerequisites and advisory prerequisites for the
course.
Members also questioned a statement on the course syllabus that
reads “As per university regulation, there is no make-up work in
courses. The grade you receive is based
solely on the two midterms plus final exam.
No requests for make-up work can be honored."
What is meant by “make-up work?”
If a student misses an exam for a legitimate, well documented reason
such as a major illness, there is no university regulation that prevents
instructors from giving a substitute exam.
Most instructors provide this as a courtesy for students, assuming the
reason for the make-up examination is valid.
If "make-up work" means that a student cannot make
individual arrangements with a professor to do extra work during a semester to
improve his or her grade, without the professor's offering that same
opportunity to everyone in the class, then the statement is correct. University policy does prohibit this.
Kaplan will request clarification of this statement.
20th
Meeting, March 17, 2004 – Approved on March 24th
Present:
The
minutes of March 3rd were approved.
Update on Senate Proposals:
Two
Curriculum Committee proposals were approved at the March 15th meeting
of the Arts and Sciences Senate—the proposal to add two ex-officio professional
staff members to the Committee and the proposal to return to the original
definition of DEC Category K.
The
Committee reviewed three lists of courses—the original list of courses included
in Category K; the list of courses removed from Category K since 2001; and the
list of courses approved for Category K since 2001.
Kaplan
will write to the affected departments to inform them about the change in the
title of Category K from The American Experience in Historical Perspective to
American Pluralism. The directors of
undergraduate studies and the chairpersons will be ask to review the list of
courses removed from Category K The American Experience in Historical Perspective since 2001 and to determine whether these
courses should be put back into Category K American Pluralism. They will also be asked to look at the
courses that have been approved since 2001 for Category K The American
Experience in Historical Perspective and to determine whether these courses
should continue to be included in Category K American Pluralism.
This
project must be completed by the end of March, since the fall 2004 schedule
will become official at that point.
II Routine Administrative Matters
Psychology
PSY 240
Survey in Social Psychology was removed as a prerequisite to PSY 349 Special
Topics in Social Psychology.
Marine Sciences:
At the request of the
Mathematics:
Revision
of prerequisites for MAT 322 Analysis in Several Dimensions from: C or higher in MAT 203 or 205 or AMS 261; B
or higher in MAT 320 to: C or higher in MAT 203, 205 or AMS 261; C or
higher in MAT 211 or AMS 210; B or higher in MAT 320; Advisory pre or
co-requisite: MAT 310.
Although
this particular matter was approved routinely, members expressed concern with
the notion of requiring a grade of B or higher to continue in subsequent course
or in a particular program. Earlier
conversations regarding the request by the Professional Education Program to
require a grade of B-minus or higher in the first semester of the methods
sequence in order to continue in the second semester methods were
recalled. Members think that requiring a
minimum grade above C will make B the average grade and will result in grade
inflation. This issue will be revisited
at a later date.
III Old Business
LSE 320-H Future Trends in Science
and Engineering
A revised
course proposal was received from Tom Cortina.
The course was approved and members agreed with the Category H
designation.
Organic Chemistry
Correspondence
from David Hanson was reviewed. The
Department has changed its plan to offer CHE 324 and proposes to offer CHE 322
Organic Chemistry II A and the alternative course CHE 326 Organic Chemistry IIB
instead. Both courses will satisfy the
prerequisites for all chemistry courses that have organic chemistry as a
prerequisite. Biochemistry students will
be encouraged to take CHE 326.
This
proposal was approved by the committee.
IV New Business
Revision of prerequisites for WST
courses
The
department has requested that for all courses in the 390 topics course series,
the prerequisites read: WST major or
minor or WST 102 or WST 103 or 6 credits of WST or related classes in other
departments.
For WST
301-G, the prerequisites will read: WST
major or minor or WST 102 or WST 103.
For WST
305 the prerequisites will read: WST
major or minor or WST 102 or WST 103 or WST/PHI 284.
____________________________________
19th Meeting, March 3, 2004 – Approved on March
17th
Present: R. Cerrato (chair), S. Sternglanz, J.
Lochhead, M. Barnhart, A. Hasloecher, E. Kaplan (secretary), C. Marrone, C.
Green-Forde
The
minutes of February 25th, 2004 were approved.
II Routine Administrative Matters
Chemistry:
As
part of the revisions to the organic chemistry curriculum, the following new
course descriptions were approved:
CHE
321 Organic Chemistry I
Introduction
to the structure, reactivity and properties of organic compounds is presented
using modern views of chemical bonding.
These fundamental ideas are applied to topics ranging from synthetic
chemistry to complex functional structures such as lipid bilayers.
Prerequisites
to CHE 321: C or higher in CHE 132 or 142.
3
credits
CHE 341 Organic Chemistry Honors Seminar I
Advanced topics in organic chemistry within the scope but
beyond the reach of CHE 321 (Organic Chemistry I) will be discussed along with
an introduction to contemporary research topics. Permission to enroll will be granted to
students who have demonstrated excellence in their General Chemistry courses.
Prerequisites to CHE 341: CHE 132 or 142, Permission of the
instructor.
Corequisite to CHE 341: CHE 321
1 credit
CHE 342 Organic Chemistry Honors Seminar II
Advanced topics in organic chemistry within the scope but
beyond the reach of CHE 322 (Organic Chemistry II) will be discussed along with
topics in contemporary research.
Permission to enroll will be granted to students who have demonstrated
excellence in CHE 321.
Prerequisites to CHE 342: CHE 321, Permission of the
instructor.
Corequisite to CHE 342: CHE 322.
1 credit
Economics:
The
prerequisite of WRT 101 or equivalent was removed from ECO 108. The majority of incoming students are now
placing into WRT 101, so many freshmen cannot take ECO 108. This is delaying their progress toward
necessary prerequisites for ECO and BUS majors.
III Old Business
Category K resolution
Cerrato
reported that the Arts and Sciences Senate Executive Committee agreed with the
Curriculum Committee’s proposal to return to the original definition of DEC
Category K. The Exec requested that
Cerrato draft a formal proposal for consideration at its meeting on Monday,
March 8th and for presentation at the Arts and Sciences Senate
meeting on Monday, March 15th.
Cerrato
mentioned that the campus has still not received official notification that its
proposal for Competence in American History has been approved by SUNY System
Administration to meet the SUNY-GER American History requirement.
Specializations
The
specializations proposal has been redrafted and is now ready for resubmission
to the Senate Exec. It currently reads:
Guidelines for Specializations:
The following
guidelines will be used by the Curriculum Committee in reviewing requests for
listing an approved track within a major as a specialization on the transcript:
1) To propose
listing a specialization, the major must have at least two distinct
tracks. One of these may be considered a
"general" track and need not be listed as a specialization.
2) For departmental majors, the specialization
should be an area of concentrated study that involves at least 18
upper-division credits within the major.
3) For
interdisciplinary majors such as MTD, the track being proposed for listing as a
specialization must focus study on a single theme, it must incorporated all of
the two or three areas of study within the major, and it must involve most of
the upper-division courses.
Economics
The Committee approved the request by the
department to add “ passed with a grade of C or higher” to all economics
courses that have other economics courses as prerequisites. This change will become effective in fall
2004.
LSE 320-H Future Trends in Science and Engineering
The Committee received correspondence from Tom
Cortina in answer to questions raised about the course. The matter was postponed until the next
meeting because Tom Weinacht, the presenter, was unable to attend today’s
meeting.
Organic Chemistry Proposals:
At the Curriculum Committee’s request, the
Chemistry Department sent its proposal for the new courses CHE 324 and 326 to
the academic units that would be affected by this change in the
curriculum. A number of concerns were
raised. Until these concerns can be
addressed, the Chemistry Department requested that the matter be tabled.
It should be noted that the Committee’s policy of
requiring departments to consult with units within the purview of the Arts and
Sciences Curriculum Committee, and, where applicable, with programs in the
College of Engineering and Applied Sciences and in the Health Sciences Center,
is an excellent mechanism to ensure that proposed curricular changes are
acceptable to all stakeholders.
New Business:
MAT 319 Foundations of Analysis and MAT 320 Introduction to Analysis
For the past few years, these courses, which are
scheduled at the same time, have had a special registration arrangement. Students initially select the class that they
believe is more appropriate for them (MAT 319 is more applied; MAT 320 is more
theoretical). After six weeks, MAT 320
students who would be better served by MAT 319 and vice versa are permitted to
switch to the alternate course.
In order to facilitate this process, the department
has proposed an alternative registration procedure. All students would register initially for MAT
319. After the six-week period, students
who qualify for MAT 320 would be moved into the course by the Registrar’s
Office.
The Committee approved this plan.
MAT 205 Calculi III
The Mathematics Department requested additional
prerequisites for MAT 205. Currently the
course prerequisites are a grade of C or higher in MAT 127 or 132 or 142 or AMS
162 or level 9 on the Mathematics Placement Examination. Prerequisite courses MAT 211 or AMS 210 (or
corequsite enrollment in either of these courses) will now be required.
The department feels that knowledge of linear
algebra is important to students’ success in this course. Since MAT 203 and AMS 261, alternatives to
MAT 205, do not require the linear algebra prerequisite, students’ progress toward
degree should not be impacted by the linear algebra pre- or corequisite.
This was approved by the Committee.
18th Meeting, February 25, 2004 – Approved
Present: R. Cerrato (chair), S. Sternglanz , T.
Weinacht, J. Lochhead, M. Read, M. Barnhart, A. Hasloecher, A Feldman, E.
Kaplan (secretary), E. Lindquist (observer), D. Hanson (guest)
The
minutes of February 18, 2004 were approved.
II Routine Administrative Matters
English
The
Committee had previously questioned whether LIN 101 was an appropriate
alternative for the otherwise upper-division requirement “Study of
English.” In response, the department
decided to drop LIN 101 as an alternative.
Asian and Asian-American Studies
AAS 211-F
Asian and Asian-American Studies Topics in the Social and Behavioral Sciences
and AAS 212-G Asian and Asian-American Topics in the Humanities were
approved. Since these are general
education courses, they need to be sent to SUNY System Administration for
review before the courses can be scheduled.
Women’s Studies
The
department wanted to change DEC codes for some of its 390 series of topics
courses. The current numbering system
had been adopted under the Legacy system, which could only allow one section of
a topics course per number. In addition,
the department now has a requirement that students take one course in gender
and sexuality. This course can be taken
as either a social science course or a humanities topics course. The department wanted to make this
distinction clearer to students by having WST 398-F Topics in Gender and
Sexuality and WST 399-G Topics in Gender and Sexuality.
It was
pointed out that these changes would need to be submitted to SUNY System
Administration and, even though this was basically a case of course
renumbering, not a change in the content of the courses, it might mean that the courses would be
scrutinized once again.
The
Committee agreed that the department should simply use the topics course
numbers that are already approved and advise students accordingly. WST 391-F is approved as Special Topics in
Women and the Social Sciences.
III Old Business
Chemistry:
David
Hanson, director of undergraduate studies for chemistry, explained the reasons
for the course reorganization in organic chemistry. Previously, the standard two semester
sequence of organic chemistry was jammed, while seats in the honors version of
the course were underutilized.
The
department would like to split the second semester of the standard sequence
into CHE 324, designed for students who will not enroll in subsequent chemistry
or biochemistry courses and CHE 326, designed for students who will enroll in
subsequent courses in chemistry or biochemistry. It is expected that this will split the very
large student population more nearly in half.
The
explanation of material covered and the assurance that students, especially
transfer students, would be accommodated, was reassuring to the Committee. We still need to be sure that CEAS programs
and the HSC program in Clinical Laboratory Sciences are notified in advance of
the implementation of these changes.
The Committee needs fuller course
descriptions for CHE 324, CHE 326, 341 and 342.
Hanson will follow up with the above
two items and will then correspond again with the Committee.
Resolution on Restoration of
Category K
Cerrato presented a revised version
of the memo discussed at last week’s meeting.
Members will review the memo and will respond to Cerrato by e-mail if
they have any comments.
Specializations
Cerrato distributed a revised draft
of the proposal but indicated that he still had more work to do on it. This will be discussed at a future meeting.
New Business:
Economics
The
department had sent a terse request that a grade of C or higher be required for
any economics course that has another economics course as its
prerequisite. No rationale was
included. Presumably the reason is that
students who earn a D in a pre-requisite course don't have the necessary
background to succeed in the next course, but that may not be the only reason
for the request.
One member noted
that a C grade in all courses is required to graduate with an economics
major. Wouldn't that be sufficient to
discourage the D students from taking economics courses?
Revisions to
Living/Learning Center Minor in Science and Engineering and new course LSE 320
H Future Trends in Science and Engineering
The minor has been revised to reflect the Living/Learning Centers
new status as an upper-division component of the Undergraduate Colleges
structure. The Committee approved the
text of the recommended changes to the minor program, with the deletion of one
left-over sentence from its previous focus on freshman and sophomore
students.
The concern with LSE 320 involved the method of grading, which
seemed somewhat inconsistent with the format of the course. According to the course proposal, 60% of the
grade is based on quizzes and exams on material that would be taken from the
presentations by guest lecturers discussing their research. The Committee suggested that this be
rethought.
The Committee
also wanted to know more about how the courses in the minor would address the
advances in biotechnology.
Kaplan will
correspond with Tom Cortina to resolve these matters.
_____________________________________________________________
17th Meeting, February 18, 2004 – Approved on
2/25/04
Present: R. Cerrato (chair), S. Sternglanz , C.
Marrone, T. Weinacht, J. Lochhead, M. Read, M. Barnhart, A. Hasloecher, A.
Phillips, A Feldman, E. Kaplan
(secretary), E. Lindquist (observer)
The
minutes of February 11, 2004 were approved
Cerrato
reported that the Arts and Sciences Senate had unanimously endorsed the
Curriculum Committee’s proposal to increase the number of ex-officio members on
the Curriculum Committee to include two professional representatives. The proposal must be presented at two Senate
meetings before it can be voted on. The
next Senate meeting is on March 15th.
II Routine Administrative Matters
At the
request of the Department of European Languages and Literatures, the title of
HUR 141 was changed from Literature and Empire to The Age of Empire and the
title of HUR 142 was changed from Literature and Revolution to Culture and
Revolution.
III Old Business
Specializations:
Cerrato
reported that the A and S Senate Executive Committee had also discussed the
Curriculum Committee’s proposal for specializations within majors. Some wording changes were suggested. Members of the Executive Committee also
thought that, for interdisciplinary majors, more than 18 credits should be
required to complete a specialization.
Cerrato will rewrite the proposal for further discussion by the
Committee.
IV New Business
Chemistry proposals
The
department had temporarily discontinued its honors version of the two-semester
organic chemistry sequence (CHE 331 and 332 Honors Organic Chemistry I and II),
replacing these courses with optional one-credit seminars to supplement the
standard CHE 321 and CHE 322 organic chemistry courses. The department is now requesting that CHE 331
and 332 be permanently deleted from the curriculum and that the experimental courses CHE 341 and CHE 342
Organic Chemistry Honors Seminar I, II be permanent replacements for the CHE
331-332 sequence.
In
addition, the department proposes to replace the second semester of the
standard organic chemistry course sequence (CHE 322) with two courses, CHE 324
Organic Chemistry IIA and CHE 326 Organic Chemistry II B. CHE 324 is designed for students who will not
enroll in subsequent courses in chemistry or biochemistry and CHE 326 is
designed for students who will enroll in subsequent courses in chemistry or
biochemistry.
Committee members raised a number of
questions about the proposals. The course
descriptions submitted for CHE 324 and 326 did not indicate the material that
would be covered in each course and did not include the required syllabi.
University Senate policy requires
that departments proposing curricular changes consult with affected units as
the changes are proposed. In this case,
the affected majors could be pharmacology and clinical laboratory sciences in
the HSC and biomedical engineering and chemical and molecular engineering in
CEAS.
The issue of awarding appropriate transfer
credit for the second semester of standard organic chemistry courses was also
raised.
More information and answers to the
above questions will be requested from David Hanson and Robert Kerber.
DEC K Update and Restoration
Proposals
Earlier
this week the campus received notice that the 22 non-history courses pending
approval for the SUNY-GER American History requirement had been rejected by the
Advisory Council on General Education.
This unsurprising news underscored
the soundness of last semester’s decision to divorce DEC Category K from the
SUNY-GER American History requirement and create Skills 4 Competence in
American History requirement. It also
underscored the proposal discussed at last week’s meeting to restore Category K
to its original intent.
The proposal, drafted by Kaplan at the request
of the Committee, restores the original
DEC Category K American Pluralism definition and returns courses removed from
DEC K because they did not fit the new “The American Experience in Historical
Perspective” requirement. The new
definition of K had been adopted by the campus in an effort to fulfill the
SUNY-GER requirement in American History.
This effort was unsuccessful and last fall we shifted gears in an effort
to develop a more direct approach to the SUNY-GER American History requirement—Skills 4 Competence in American
History.
The
Committee voted unanimously to present this resolution to the Arts and Sciences
Senate for its discussion and approval.
Cerrato will re-write the draft and resend it to the Committee for
endorsement.
Once approved by the Arts and
Sciences’ Senate Executive Committee, it must go to the full Arts and Sciences’
Senate for approval at the March 15th meeting and then to the
University Senate for a vote on April 12th. Implementation of this for the fall 04
semester would be desirable, but it was noted that students begin registration
for fall 04 classes on April 19th.
16th Meeting, February 11, 2004 – Approved on
February 18, 2004
Present: S. Sternglanz (acting chair), C.
Marrone, J. Lochhead, M. Read, M.
Barnhart, A. Phillips, A Feldman, E. Kaplan (secretary), E. Lindquist
(observer)
The
minutes of February 4, 2004 were approved.
Kaplan
announced that 13 newly general education courses approved by the Committee
from December 11, 2003 to February 4, 2004 were sent to Mark Aronoff for
submission to SUNY System Administration.
II Routine Administrative Matters
Revised prerequisites
for CAR 110 and CAR 210
Approved request by Career Center to limit CAR 110 Career
Development and Decision Making to U1 and U2 students. Prerequisite of “U 1 or U2 standing” added to
current prerequisite of “Completion of DEC category A, first course.”
Approved request by Career Center to limit CAR 210 Career
Planning” to U3 and U4 students.
Prerequisite “U3 or U4 standing” was added to current prerequisite of
“Completion of DEC category A.”
ANT 203-J Native
Peoples of North America
Approved request by the department to eliminate prerequisite of
ANT 102.
III Old Business
ECO 329-F Urban
Economics
The course, previously offered under a topics number, was approved
by the Committee as a regular course offering.
IV New Business
ANT 105 Introduction to
Archaeology Lab
This one-credit optional laboratory supplement to ANT 104
Introduction to Archaeology was approved by the Committee.
EGL 380 The English
Language
The department requested the renumbering of EGL 207-G and a
revision of the English major’s Study of the English Language requirement.
The reason for the request was that, in their quest to satisfy the
DEC category G requirement, students were signing up for this course for the
wrong reasons. They found themselves in
an increasingly difficult, technical course that was designed for English
majors. In addition, since EGL 207 was
required for the English major, students who needed the course were being shut
out from it by students who were taking the course because it was a DEC G
course.
Moving the course to the 300 level and dropping the DEC
designation would address the issues listed above.
The department has also proposed alternative ways to satisfy the
Study of the English Language requirement.
In addition to EGL 380, students can use EGL 300-G Old English, LIN 101,
or a language study course planned by the Secondary Education Program for NCATE
certification requirements.
The change increases the number of 300-level courses required by
the English major from six to seven.
The Curriculum Committee approved the new course and the changes
to the major that resulted. The course
description for EGL 380 will state “Not for credit in addition to the
discontinued EGL 207.” Retroactive
upper-division credit for students who took the course as EGL 207 will not be
possible as this would involve determining an exact date that the course became
more suited for upper-division credit.
Discussion about DEC
Category K
Since the agenda
was completed early, the Committee began its discussion of the restoration of
DEC Category K that had been planned for the February 18th
meeting. Now that Stony Brook has
submitted a new plan to address the SUNY general education requirement in
American history and these plans do not rely on the current definition of
Category K and the pared-down list of courses now in Category K, members
believe that we should propose a return to the Category K American Pluralism
requirement that was in effect from 1991-2001.
Kaplan was asked
to provide a list of the courses that were previously in DEC K and information
about what has happened to these courses.
She was also asked to draft the wording of a resolution that the
Curriculum Committee could edit next week for presentation to the A and S
Senate and then to the University
Senate.
________________________________________
15th Meeting, February 4, 2004 (Approved on
February 11, 2004)
Present: R. Cerrato (chair), C. Marrone, A.
Hasloecher, T. Weinacht, J. Lochhead, S. Sternglanz, M. Read, M. Barnhart, A.
Phillips, A Feldman, E. Kaplan (secretary)
Michael
Barnhart (History) and Malcolm Read (Hispanic Languages) were welcomed back to
the committee.
The
minutes of December 11th
were approved.
Cerrato
read e-mail correspondence from Patricia Pietrapaolo to Mark Aronoff addressing
the delay by SUNY System Administration to the changes in the DEC and the delay
by ACGE to the proposals that were forwarded to them in November. No official decisions on the changes to DEC
and the 22 contested courses has been made.
In addition, we have not had a response to the Skill 4 proposal.
Just
before Christmas, the Committee voted to send updated requests for Skill 4
approval for the following courses: AMR
301, SOC 302, AFS 101, AFS 102, POL 317, POL 322, POL 323, POL 324, POL 326 and
POL 336. But some faculty and
administrators expressed the opinion that this should wait until we hear
whether the Skill 4 plan has been accepted by SUNY System Administration. The Committee decided that, since scheduling
for the fall semester is now taking place, the Secretary should forward the
“State University General Education Requirement Course Addition Reporting
Template” form for the courses listed above and for any other general education
courses to the Stony Brook Provost’s office as soon as they are approved.
II Routine Administrative Matters
Environmental
Studies Major:
BIO 150 was added as an option to requirement
B.1 of the major. The requirement will
now read:
1.
BIO
113 General Ecology or
BIO 150 The Living World
This 1 credit course concentrates on
problem solving techniques, encouraging students for the yearly Putnam
competition. Because it is yearly,
students take it multiple times. The
problems in the course differ each time.
The course was approved as repeatable, up to a limit of four credits.
III Old Business
Proposal to add two ex-officio
members to the Curriculum Committee
As discussed last semester, the
Committee values the expertise of professional employees and would like to
propose an amendment to the bylaws to allow two additional professional
employees to serve as ex-officio, non-voting members.
The approved the following proposal
presented by Cerrato, who will now bring it to the Arts and Sciences Executive
Committee:
One
professional employee knowledgeable about registration procedures and
graduation requirements appointed from the Registrar’s Office as a non-voting
member. This individual will be
appointed annually by the Registrar after consultation with the Curriculum
Committee.
One
professional employee knowledgeable about both general student concerns and
transfer student issues appointed from Enrollment and Retention Management as a
non-voting member. This individual will
be appointed annually by the Associate Provost for Enrollment and Retention
Management after consultation with the Curriculum Committee.
Discussion about specializations
within majors
Cerrato presented the revised
guidelines for specializations that appear on students’ transcripts. The following guidelines were approved by the
Committee and will be brought to the Senate Executive Committee for its
consideration:
1) To propose listing a
specialization, a major must have at least two distinct tracks. One of these may be considered a “general”
track and need not be listed as a specialization.
2) Specializations must be in areas of
concentration that are distinct from one another. They should involve at least 18
upper-division credits within the major.
3) For MTD majors and other
interdisciplinary majors, the name of the proposed specialization must reflect
all of the two or three areas of study.
Only coherent plans, submitted by the Program Director and intended as a
regular course of study for multiple students, will be considered. Specializations will not be granted for an
individual student program.
Economics Matters
1) The revised proposal for the honors
program requirements was approved.
2) ECO 316-K U.S. Class Structure was approved. In
addition, the Committee would like to submit the course for Skill 4 American
History. The course will be entered into
PeopleSoft as a Category K for fall 04, since K is a local category. The Skill 4 designation will be entered when
it is approved by Albany.
3) ECO 337-F Health Economics. Since health economics is a controversial
topic, the Committee would like additional information on the textbook to make
sure that it includes information about different viewpoints. Kaplan will request this information from
the department.
4) ECO 328-F Regional Economics was approved
5) ECO 346-K US Economic History was approved and the Committee would like to submit the
course to Albany for Skill 4. Professor
Sanderson has a joint appointment with the History Department, so perhaps
crosslisting the course with History would strengthen the submission of the
course to meet Skill 4. This will be
suggested to the economics department.
6)
ECO 362-F Financial Economics—The course was approved, but
members were unsure about how it differed from ECO 389 Corporate Finance. The department will be asked to re-write the
course descriptions for ECO 362 and 389 to more clearly distinguish between the
two courses.
7) ECO 364-F
Thinking Strategically-- The course was approved, but members were unclear
about how it differed from ECO 355/AMS 335 Game Theory. The department will be
asked to re-write the course descriptions for ECO 364 and for ECO 355/AMS 335
to more clearly distinguish between the two courses.
There was general concern about how
students in ECO will fulfill the upper-division writing requirement since most
of the courses do not require term papers.