Proposing faculty member: Darryl Heller Date approved at Gen Ed Committee level: 11.11.2024 Category: Common Core Component: Human Behavior & Social Institutions Note: This is new VT for WGS-B 190. Description: This course will critically engage how notions of race and gender have informed how we understand equality, citizenship, and rights, especially as applied to… Read more »
RECENT APPROVALS
FL-CT: CSCI-C 251 Foundations of Digital Computing (as of Oct. 2024)
Proposing faculty members: Dana Vrajitoru and Hossein Hakimzadeh Date approved at Gen Ed Committee level: 10/30/2024 Category: Fundamental Literacies Component: Critical Thinking Description: Boolean algebra and propositional logic. Critical thinking. Set algebra, including mappings and relations. Elements of graph theory and statistical analysis. Application of all topics to computer programming.
EL-CL: CSCI-A 204 Introduction to Programming
Proposing Faculty Member: Dana Vrajitoru Category: Extended Literacies Component: Computer Literacy Description: Fundamental programming constructs, including loops, arrays, classes, and files. General problem-solving techniques. Emphasis on modular programming, user-interface design, and developing good programming style. Special Note: CSCI-A 204 is not really a new course; the new number is intended to be used specifically as… Read more »
Global Cultures: GEOG-G 213 Introduction to Economic Geography and POLS-Y 376 International Political Economy
Proposing Faculty Member: Gabriel Popescu Category: Contemporary Social Values Component: Global Cultures Description: The purpose of this course is to introduce you to the field of economic geography and to develop your geographical understanding of the world political economy in the era of Globalization. We will approach the economy as a historical and social creation… Read more »
SUST-B 399 (VT: Germany – Sustainable Development and Green Urbanism)
Proposing Faculty Member: Scott Sernau Category: Common Core Component: Human Behavior & Social Institutions Description: What are the elements of balanced, sustainable development? We will look at what they mean for the various social problems facing the planet. We will look at path–breaking efforts to forge alternative paths to development and quality of life in… Read more »
Computer Literacy: CSCI-C 155 Problem Solving and Programming 1
Proposing Faculty Member: Dana Vrajitoru Category: Extended Literacies Component: Computer Literacy Description: This course introduces problem solving by programming in Java. Programming concepts include data types, control structures, arrays, methods, exception handling, and input/output. Object-oriented thinking is acquired by using classes and objects. Students learn how to solve problems by designing, implementing, and testing simple… Read more »
Global Cultures: HIST-H 101 The World in the Twentieth Century I
Proposing Faculty Member: Hayley Froysland Category: Contemporary Social Values Component: Global Cultures Description: This course will provide a broad historical survey of the key events, inter-relationships, and competing visions of society and modern life in various regions of the world in the late-19th and 20th centuries, which will help students better understand our world today…. Read more »
Literary & Intellectual Traditions: WGS-N 390 (VT: Women in Social Movements)
Proposing Faculty Member: Darryl Heller Category: Common Core Component: Literary & Intellectual Traditions Description: This class will explore significant social movements from the 19th through the 21st Century. Unlike a course in sociology, which tend to look at social movements from a structural and organizational perspective, this course will use the lens of gender as an analytical framework… Read more »
Natural World: CLS-N 190 (VT: Uncovering a Diagnosis)
Proposing Faculty Member: Barbara Spinda Category: Common Core Component: Natural World Description: Have you ever been sick and wondered how the doctor knew you were sick, what was causing your illness, and how to treat it? Did you know that there is a whole profession dedicated to the diagnosis, interpreting, and monitoring illness in society? The Medical Laboratory Scientist… Read more »
Global Cultures: HSC-H 413 Global Health and Nutrition & DHYG-H 412 Global Health
Proposing Faculty Member: Andrew Doyle Category: Contemporary Social Values Component: Global Cultures Description: These courses, which are always cross-listed, introduce contemporary global health and nutrition issues to students, such as (but not limited to): food security, maternal and child nutrition, nutrition-related chronic diseases from across the globe, and global economic effects of disease and international… Read more »