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David Berkowitz was appointed chair on August 19, 2013; he appointed Marjorie Langell Vice Chair. Stephen Morin is an assistant professor who joined our department this past August. The credit hour changes in chemistry accurately reflect the possible credit hour totals. I added them up myself. I am not sure where the old numbers came from, but we did change the sequence of courses about 3 years ago. Perhaps the total credit hours were not adjusted at that time to reflect the change. The math credit hours (both BS and BA) result from the Math Department's change in credit hours for Math 107 from 5 to 4 credit hours.
Changing the language from "credit" to "hours" ensures consistency. We've added POLS 350 (Issues in Biology, Psychology, and Politics) as an official elective for the minor. In the past, it was substituted in on a by semester basis.
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Currently, our students satisfy ACE8 requirement by picking up 1 hour from CSCE230 and then 2 hours from CSCE486. As part of the ACE re-certification, we want to shift all three ACE8 hours into CSCE486. This creates the need to expand CSCE486 to 3 hours. We will use the one hour from the reduction of Math 107 last year to compensate for this 1 additional hour, resulting in no net gain.
The changes to the major include a new introductory course in communication, COMM 101: Communication in the 21st Century. This course was recently approved by the College Curriculum Committee and was designed to provide students with an overview of the field of communication studies and the ways in which communication can help address important challenges and opportunities in modern society. We have substituted COMM 101 for COMM 200 which will no longer be required of majors or minors.

We have also added in the requirement of two (out of three options) foundational 200-level courses to ensure that students have a foundation in one of the three core competency objectives: Advocate, Negotiate, and Relate. One of these courses is an approved existing course. The other two courses are being designed and should be approved courses by 2014-2015 AY. Therefore, we want students to begin taking them, but because we do not yet have approved course numbers we made requirement #3 purposefully broad for this year's bulletin.
David Berkowitz was appointed chair on August 19, 2013; he appointed Marjorie Langell Vice Chair. Stephen Morin is an assistant professor who joined our department this past August.  I have re-added the credits for the B.S. and B.A. total chemistry credit hours.  The initial values were correct for the B.S. major, but were light for the B.A. on the lower end; the math credit hours are one fewer because of Math's decision to change Math 107 from 5 to 4 credit hours.

Professors Du and Powers were promoted to full professor status, and are moved into that category.  Associate Professor Li was "over promoted" in the bulletin.  He is at the associate level.  Assistant professor Sinitskii's name was misspelled in the original bulletin text, and has been corrected.
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David Berkowitz was appointed chair on August 19, 2013; he appointed Marjorie Langell Vice Chair. Stephen Morin is an assistant professor who joined our department this past August.  I have re-added the credits for the B.S. and B.A. total chemistry credit hours.  The initial values were correct for the B.S. major, but were light for the B.A. on the lower end; the math credit hours are one fewer because of Math's decision to change Math 107 from 5 to 4 credit hours.

Professors Du and Powers were promoted to full professor status, and are moved into that category.  Associate Professor Li was "over promoted" in the bulletin.  He is at the associate level.  Assistant professor Sinitskii's name was misspelled in the original bulletin text, and has been corrected.
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The initial values were correct for the B.S. major, but were light for the B.A. on the lower end; the math credit hours are one fewer because of Math's decision to change Math 107 from 5 to 4 credit hours.
The initial values were correct for the B.S. major, but were light for the B.A. on the lower end; the math credit hours are one fewer because of Math's decision to change Math 107 from 5 to 4 credit hours.
Changing the language from "credit" to "hours" ensures consistency. We've added POLS 350 (Issues in Biology, Psychology, and Politics) as an official elective for the minor. In the past, it was substituted in on a by semester basis.
Updating bulletin section.