Keene State College Catalog information
SUSTAINABLE PRODUCT DESIGN AND INNOVATION
Bachelor of Science
The Sustainable Product Design and Innovation major at Keene State College is a pre-professional four-year program offering a cross-disciplinary curriculum to give the student a solid foundation in the artistic, scientific, and technical aspects of product design and the social and scientific aspects of sustainability concerns. [...]
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This new course reflects the need for more substantial course content in flexible (lean) manufacturing processes and operations management for the product design and development arena. The changes reflect areas of integration between management and product design in support of the new Sustainable Product Design and Innovation program.
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MGT 408 Small Business Institute is a nationally acclaimed program. Students registered in this course enter into a national case competition. The cases submitted are comprehensive strategic plans and are judged by blind review process. The cases are of publishable quality. Keene State College’s SBI teams have consistently placed in the top ten in national case competition. In the past decade three case teams have won first place awards and have been invited to the national awards ceremonies. Participation in the course is by invitation only. Admission into the course is highly competitive. Interested students with a 3.2 GPA in management must apply for the program and have the support of a member of the Management faculty. Students selected by the SBI faculty member must demonstrate excellent academic skills and an ability to work as a team. The change in title constitutes a long overdue recognition of this course as an honors course by the Department of Management.
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Students are encouraged to do research and will not be limited in their pursuit of accomplishing a project, or projects by credit limitations. Removing the maximum allowable independent study credits will allow students to do as much research as they like, and get credit for it. This does not impact their other program requirements and additional credits earned would be above and beyond degree requirements.
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Anthropology redesigned the ANTH 111 course to better suit the perceived needs of the
new ISP program and to focus on some topics in greater detail (please refer to their course
and program proposal forms). The Sociology Major is simply acknowledging this
curricular change in its overall program design.
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The change from ANTH 111 to ISANTH 111 provides the opportunity for more
students to take this course as an ISP Perspectives option in Social Science. With
additions in the areas of ethics and diversity (as outlined below), this course better
fits into the ISP program. We anticipate both the course’s designation as an ISP
Perspectives option and the updated/revised content will make this a more
valuable and attractive choice for students.
Important components have been added to ISANTH 111, including discussion of
ethical issues for archaeologists and physical anthropologists (such as repatriation
and indigenous peoples), a specific section on social justice (particularly the role
of physical anthropologists and archaeologists in recognizing and proving
genocide through exhumation of mass graves) and more focus on the question of
race (can it be seen as something biological in the process of human evolution?).
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With the continued decrease in students who matriculated prior to fall 2007, this course
does not adequately serve the needs of the incoming students, the minor program, and
ISP. By changing the ANTH 111 to ISANTH 111, this course will be able to satisfy ISP
perspectives requirements thus providing students with a knowledge of human prehistory
and development, highly appropriate for a liberal arts education. . This past year, the
course was redesigned with this anticipated change to ISP in mind. Important components
have been added including discussion of ethical issues for archaeologists and physical
anthropologists (such as repatriation and indigenous peoples), a section on social justice
(particularly the role of physical anthropologists and archaeologists in recognizing and
proving genocide through exhumation of mass graves) and greater focus on the question
of “race” when applied to human beings (can it be seen as something biological in the
process of human evolution?).
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This course is no longer being taught. It has been replaced with ISANTH 110.
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This course will no longer be taught. It will be replaced with ISANTH 111.
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This change is being made in the physics minor program to encourage students in related fields (e.g. Mathematics, Chemistry) to consider completing a physics minor. The courses added
to the list of choices come from outside the field of physics and contain a significant amount of
upper level material from the field of physics.