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Mathematics has developed over the years in part by mathematicians considering questions of practical importance from other disciplines. Understanding many of those applications requires a mathematical background that most college students do not possess. This course presents an array of topics from political science, history, economics and business management. The advantage here is that the tools do not require an extensive mathematical background but in this course, students do develop the analytical skills that mathematicians commonly use to solve problems.
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IIMATH 315: MATHEMATICS AND SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS
IIMATH 310: THE EVOLUTION OF MATHEMATICS
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The current MATH 310 addresses the development of mathematical ideas and applications from mathematical, historical, cultural, and scientific perspectives. In addition, the course considers how mathematics has contributed to many other fields of study, and how these other disciplines have in turn enriched the subject of mathematics. It therefore makes sense to revise the course as an interdisciplinary offering in the Integrative Studies Program. As the course builds on both ISP foundations courses, ITW-101 and IQL-101, it would appear most suitable to offer it at the upper-level.
MGT 408 Honors Small Business Institute
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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.
MUAP 402 Applied Music - Performance
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I. Under the current system, applied lessons still must be scheduled manually. Students are required to complete a course add form, submit it to the administrative assistant, who in turn sends the completed forms to the registrar. The above changes will enable the Registrar to bring the registration procedure for applied lessons in line with current college procedures.
II. There is frequent confusion during registration with the current applied lesson numbering system. As a result, students register for incorrect course numbers and/or credits. Revising the course prefixes and titles will clarify the applied course sequence.
III. Additionally, there are also frequent errors made when listing applied lessons on student transcripts causing undue stress and extra work for students and advisors. Revising the course prefixes and title will clarify the application of the course sequence on transcripts.
MUA, MUAP, and MUAS
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The reorganization of our applied music numbering system is brought about by the online registration of courses at KSC. The Music Department currently registers students for their applied music lessons manually, not via online registration. The Department met with the Registrar’s Office in Spring 2008 to determine the best approach to move registration of applied music online. After discussions about the varied nuances of applied music and their relationship to degree requirements at KSC, we moved to clarify the system by putting more detail into the titling and numbering of the applied music sequence. Although confusing at first glance, the system will better identify the correct applied music courses that students are to take in fulfilling their degree requirements.
MUA 401 Applied Music/ MUAP 401 Applied Music Preformance
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I. Under the current system, applied lessons still must be scheduled manually. Students are required to complete a course add form, submit it to the administrative assistant, who in turn sends the completed forms to the registrar. The above changes will enable the Registrar to bring the registration procedure for applied lessons in line with current college procedures.
II. There is frequent confusion during registration with the current applied lesson numbering system. As a result, students register for incorrect course numbers and/or credits. Revising the course prefixes and titles will clarify the applied course sequence.
III. Additionally, there are also frequent errors made when listing applied lessons on student transcripts causing undue stress and extra work for students and advisors. Revising the course prefixes and title will clarify the application of the course sequence on transcripts.
IIHLSC 350: Women and Health: Witches, Harlots, & Healers
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We, in Health Science, believe this course is a good course to add to the interdisciplinary program because it is taught from different disciplinary perspectives. Women’s health is primarily studied from health science, history, psychology, and sociology. However, these four dominant perspectives also require the discussion of such topics as economics, politics, women studies, and social justice. For example, in using a historical view, we discuss and analyze the history of women’s health and health related issues (e.g. women’s role in health care). In using the psychological perspective, we look at mental health and mental health related topics, particularly focusing on the history of women’s mental health, the psycho-sociocultural issues of diagnostic categories, and the biopsychosocial issues of body image, eating disorders, and alcohol and other drug problems. In using the sociological view, we incorporate the issues of societal roles, sexism, and oppression in understanding women’s health from the past to the present.
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IIHGS 254/IIWS 254 Women in the Holocaust
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The course and prefix are being changed for the proposed major in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and to conform to ISP Interdisciplinary Outcomes. It will then be cross-listed as IIWS 254, applicable to the Women’s Studies Minor. The title is being changed (Women in, not and, the Holocaust) to underscore women’s involvement in the Holocaust.
FILM 352 Topics in Film Studies
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Existing title “Film Genres and Directors” does not adequately represent the variety of topics different FILM 352 sections cover in each semester.
Existing course description is not inclusive of non-narrative film texts some of the sections of FILM 352 centrally or partially deal with.
ENG 202 Creative Nonfiction Writing
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Historically, ENG 202 Expository Writing has served as one of two possible introductory courses in the writing minor and also as an advanced writing course for Keene State College students who had previously taken ENG 101. With the growing popularity of the Writing minor and with the larger collegiate adoption of the Integrative Studies Program and the Thinking and Writing course in particular, the English Department has reassessed the role and function of this 200-level course, and feels that this new direction for the course will better reflect, in part, the way the course is currently being taught. This new course title and description will clarify the purpose of this course for students choosing to minor in Writing as well as other Keene State College students who are interested in taking additional writing courses. This course will also provide an important introduction for students in the minor who intend to focus on writing nonfiction and who plan to take ENG 303: Nonfiction Workshop.
The proposed name change of the course reflects both the larger philosophical shift described above as well as a disciplinary shift in field of English Studies, particularly in creative writing and composition studies. The term “Expository Writing” has become a contested term, as it attempts to describe a mode of writing that is not clearly defined by a particular purpose, audience or tradition. The term “Creative Nonfiction” more clearly describes a well established tradition of writing, one that our writing minors will benefit from learning more about.