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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. [...]
RATIONALE:
Students participating in the History Honors Program will have the opportunity to explore subjects of particular interest more intensively than in larger class settings, work more closely with department faculty members learning about the production of historical scholarship, and will have their accomplishments suitably recognized by the History faculty and the College. While the Honors program is in no way restricted to students who aspire to continue engaging in historical scholarship at the graduate or professional level, this program will provide qualified students with such aspirations a chance to prepare for future study in close collaboration with professional historians.
RATIONALE:
The new baccalaureate program will speak to the multidisciplinary and integrative studies’ mission embraced by Keene State College in the early 21st century, while serving to address in substantial depth issues of discrimination, persecution, and genocide that plague a world seeking tolerance, diversity, international cooperation, and peace. While other colleges and universities offer undergraduate minors in Holocaust and genocide studies, and a few offer graduate programs—Clark University stands alone with a Ph.D.—Keene State College will be on the cutting edge as the first institution to offer an undergraduate major in this field. This should be viewed as a crucial and significant opportunity as students engaged in our minor increasingly express a desire to major in the field. The baccalaureate program will provide significant new background for young adults entering public service while, at the same time, providing a diverse and solid liberal arts education.
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Rationale for the change, as well as discussion of student demand and appropriateness to the College’s mission and values are located in the SAPC proposal, Section I (pp. 2 – 4) Section III (pp. 6 – 10), Section IV (pp. 11 – 13).