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This description of the geology major and minor reflects the number change of GEOL 152 to GEOL 252
Change in requirements
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Geology Program Proposal
IIJRN 268: Enviromental Issues and the Media
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The proposed change adds IIJRN 268 to the list of electives for the major. This interdisciplinary course focuses on media coverage of environmental issues, which directly supports the program objective of analyzing the relationship between mass media and society from historical and contemporary perspectives.
Communication Program Proposal
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The first proposed change adds three additional courses to the list of electives, for both the Communication Option and the Philosophy Option within the Communication major. IIJRN 268 and IHJRN 267 are Integrative Studies courses taught by Journalism faculty, with clear relevance to the major. II 310 is an interdisciplinary course with a philosophical theme (existentialism), and it is taught by faculty in Philosophy and Women’s Studies. All three courses help further the program objectives stated above by encouraging students to communicate effectively and think critically about issues pertaining to themselves and society.
The second proposed change adds PHIL 360 to the list of courses that satisfy the Research Methods requirement. In this course, students engage in extensive textual analysis of both legal opinions and philosophical theories of law. Effective textual analysis is one of the research methods that the department seeks to help students develop.
Sociology Program Change
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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.
Anthropology Minor
RATIONALE:
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?).
Physics Minor
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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.
Women’s Studies Minor
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Minor changes were made to the list of courses students can choose from in order to fulfill the final course requirement in our minor. These changes reflect the ongoing transition to the new Integrative Studies Program. One of these changes to our minor program is the addition of the new ISP course IIWS 300 Women of Color. All other changes to our minor program merely reflect changes that have already been made to courses that have been revised for inclusion in the Integrative Studies Program (see the list of those changes below).
Sociology Minor Program Proposal
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Explain why this change is being made. Address the connection with institutional mission, and/or department, program, and course objectives.
We have decided to eliminate Sociology 101 as a required course in our program, and to replace that with a new course entitled “Soc 201: Introduction to Sociology Major”. (Explained further in major proposal.)
Sociology Major Program Proposal
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Sociology is adapting to the Integrative Studies Program by adding a 100 level sociology course that will fulfill a Perspectives requirement for ISP. The new perspectives course will not be a requirement for our major, as Sociology 101 traditionally has been. Therefore, we have decided to eliminate Sociology 101 as a required course in our program and to replace that with a new course entitled “Soc 201: Introduction to Sociology Major”. This course will be available to students majoring in sociology, and will incorporate aspects of our current required course Sociology Proseminar. Therefore we are also deleting Sociology Proseminar from our list of required courses. One of the benefits of deleting Sociology Proseminar from our major is that the number of required credits for a B.A. in sociology will be reduced from 38 to 36, which is what the requirement was under the 3-credit model. We feel as a department that these changes will best serve both our major students and students who take sociology for Integrative Studies requirements.
Music Program Proposal
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A mid-level review has been piloted for the past several years in the Music Department.
It has proven to be an effective assessment tool and advising session for students. The
Department wishes to formalize the process by adding the Mid-Level Review statement
to the catalog.
The Music Department is seeking ways to improve the quality of its programs. Under the
Mid-Level Review, students will not be removed from the Music Department. However,
students not meeting the musical, technical, and professional standards of the Bachelor of
Music program will be directed to pursue a Bachelor of Arts in Music degree at Keene
State College. The Mid-Level Review is not an enrollment management tool, it is an
assessment tool that helps to ensure academic, artistic, and career success for all music
majors.
The proposed program change places a great emphasis on music pedagogy and
musicianship in the Music for Elementary Teachers specialization. The current
curriculum for this specialization has too many music literature requirements and too few
pedagogy requirements.