University Curriculum Committee Report

Spring Semester 2004

March 2004

New Academic Programs with New Courses

Master of Science in Applied Economics

Econ 516 Advanced Managerial Economics 3 cr

Econ 524 Applied Economic Analysis I 3 cr

Econ 534 Applied Economic Analysis II 3 cr

Econ 580 Economic Development 3 cr

Econ 997 Independent Study 2 cr

Econ 998 Thesis 4 cr

New Courses

Anth 200 World Prehistory 3 cr

BMB 401 Biochemistry of Proteins and Information Flow 3 cr

BMB 403 Advanced Biochemistry Laboratory 2 cr

Chem 221 Fundamentals of Chemistry – Concepts 3 cr

Chem 221L Fundamentals of Chemistry Laboratory 1 cr

Chem 222 Fundamentals of Chemistry – Analysis 3 cr

Chem 222L Quantitative Chemical Analysis Laboratory 1 cr

Comm 452 Public Relations Campaigns 3 cr

SPST 521 The Plant Mars 3 cr

Course Deletions

Econ 514 Advanced Managerial Economics 3 cr

SPST 421 The Planet Mars 3 cr

Senate approval is not required for the following report items

Course Change Requests

Anth 172 Introduction to Archaeology and World Prehistory – change course title to Introduction to Archaeology; change course description

Anth 330 Human Variation – change prerequisites from none to Anth 170 or consent of instructor

Anth 370 Language and Culture – change prerequisites from Anth 170, Anth 171 or Anth 172 or consent of instructor to Anth 171 or consent of instructor

Anth 376 The Aztec, Maya and Inca – change prerequisite from Anth 170 to Anth 172

Anth 494 Readings in Anthropology – change prerequisites to read Consent of Instructor

Econ 504 Advanced Price Theory – change prerequisites from Econ 308 to Econ 308 and Econ 416

Econ 505 Advanced Macroeconomic Theory – change prerequisites from Econ 309 to Econ 309 and Econ 416

Econ 597 Readings in Economics – change title to Economic Research Internship and change in course description

Geog 322 Natural Hazards – change title to Environmental Hazards and change course description

Geol/GeoE 417 Groundwater Modeling – Drop Geol from course; drop geol from prerequisites; change in program description

Program Requirements Change Requests

B.S. in Chemistry – replace Chem 121(L)122(L) with Chem 221(L)222(L) and drop Chem 330 from requirements

B.S. with major in Chemistry – add BMB 401 and BMB 403 to Option B Health Sciences Emphasis

B.A. in English – adding sentence to requirements “at least six of those twenty must be at the 400 level.