April 27, 1999

To: The University Senate

From: C&R Subcommittee on Curriculum

The C&R Subcommittee on Curriculum reviewed and approved the requests noted below. These were forwarded to the Curriculum and Regulations Committee for appropriate action. The following summary is provided for your action/information.

Course Description: Business in a changing society. Ethics & social responsibility; financing, production, and distribution of goods & services.

Prerequisites: "Not open to students with junior/senior standing, unless written consent of the Foster College of Business Administration Dean’s office."

Rationale

Pedagogically, it is difficult to teach the fundamentals of business concepts and principles to freshmen and upper class students simultaneously. Their ability to relate to the material is vastly different and therefore makes discussion with the entire class disjointed. Since this is a foundation business course, it would defeat the purpose of the course to allow junior/senior students (whether business major or not) who have previously taken business courses to enroll in this course. Transfer business students with over 56 hours will have BUS 100 waived. For transfer students outside of business, the Dean’s office must be consulted for special permission. If a student enrolls in the business college as a freshman or sophomore and neglects to take BUS 100 during that time, he/she will be required to take it in his/her junior or senior year with permission from the Dean’s office.

Course Description: Complexities of team interactions and team work. Appropriate use and management of teams; practical strategies for functioning in team work arrangements. Pass/Fail

Prerequisites: Business Major

Rationale

This course requires external funding for the instructors and materials. The college has limited resources to support this course and must therefore limit enrollment to those students majoring in business.

Course Modifications

Course Description: Individual or small team investigation of open ended engineering problems. Emphasis on problem definition, planning, analysis, synthesis and evaluation. May involve experimentation and/or construction of models.

Prerequisites: Senior standing in ME and consent of instructor.

Rationale

Modification in title and description to reflect the present course and to make ME 410 the first of the sequence of the two required senior project courses.

Course Description: Continuation and completion of senior project begun in ME 410.

Prerequisites: ME 410 and consent of instructor.

Rationale

Modification in title and description to clarify the relation between ME 410 and ME 411 and reflect the present course.

The Department of Chemistry is requesting approval for two seminar courses. If approved, the existing seminar program will be somewhat modified and students majoring in CHM, CHMP, CHMT and BCM will be required to take the seminar courses as part of their graduation requirements. This is not much of a change in that the Department has had weekly seminars for many years. The seminars are presented by the students, faculty, alums and other outside speakers either from industry or representing graduate schools interested in attracting Bradley students to their graduate programs. Requiring the students to attend most of the seminars during their junior and senior years will expose them to a wide variety of speakers and areas of chemistry. Requiring them to give a seminar under the supervision of a faculty member makes their presentation more formal than under our present arrangement. The Department's’ Advisory Board and alums stress that oral communication skills are just as important as a solid background in chemistry. Oral presentations of laboratory results in both CHM 320 and CHM 530 are required at the present time and will continue to be required. However, the Chemistry Seminar (CHM 480) will become the student’s final oral presentation in the department.

Presently, the number of hours of required chemistry courses and the number of hours of CHM 380 and CHM 480 if approved are the following:

Major Present # of Required Hrs. Proposed # of Required Hrs.

CHM 37 38

CHMP 37 38

CHMT 37 38

BCM 34 35

The two CHM 380 courses could be taken during the junior year or the first semester of the senior year. The CHM 480 course would be taken in the first or second semester of the senior year.

Catalog will be changed as follows (Changes in Bold)

Chemistry-Professional

For those who elect this program the specific chemistry courses required are: CHM 161, 166, 191, 250, 320, 351, 380, 392, 461, 462, 463, 480, 509, and 530. For those who desire certification, CHM 464, 510, 551 and 553 are required.

Chemistry-Premedical

This program is for the student who wishes to major in chemistry and also prepare for entrance to medical, dental, or veterinary school. The required chemistry courses are CHM 161, 166, 191, 250, 320, 351, 365, 380, 392, 461, 463, and 480 plus 6 hours of additional courses in chemistry. In addition, a minimum of 12 hours of biology are required.

Professional Chemistry – Secondary Teaching

The required chemistry courses for this program are identical to those of professional chemistry. The appropriate certification courses as specified by the College of Education and Health Sciences are required.

Biochemistry/Molecular Biology Program

Additional Requirements for Biochemistry Option

CHM 391 Chemical Literature 1 sh

CHM 462 Physical Chemistry 3 sh

CHM 463 Physical Chemistry Laboratory 1 sh

CHM 530 Advanced Analytical Chemistry 4 sh

Course Description: Weekly seminars presented by a variety of speakers pertaining to all aspects of Chemistry. Course may be repeated a maximum of three times. Pass/Fail

Prerequisites: Junior standing or consent of instructor.

Course Description: Weekly seminars presented by a variety of speakers pertaining to all aspects of Chemistry. Each student will present a seminar under the supervision of a faculty member.

Prerequisites: Two semesters of CHM 380

Rationale of CHM 380 and CHM 480

The Chemistry Department is requesting the addition of two courses modeled after courses offered in the Department of Economics (see 1999-2000 Undergraduate Catalog). We have offered weekly seminars for more than twenty years, but have never had a formal means of giving students credit for attending these seminars and making presentations. Students attending the seminars have the opportunity to be exposed to fields of study that may not be available in our Department, to ask critical questions in a public meeting, and to learn about research and graduate school opportunities at other institutions in which they might be interested in attending after graduation from Bradley. Offering seminar courses for credit is being incorporated into the curriculum at many other universities. Our faculty, the Chemistry Advisory Board and other alumni all agree that our weekly seminars are a valuable experience for our majors and should be a required component of our majors. Students enrolled in CHM 380 must attend at least three-fourths of the weekly seminars and write a brief description of the presentations they attended to receive a passing grade. Students enrolled in CHM 480 must attend at least three-fourths of the weekly seminars and present a seminar. Appropriate topics to be presented are the results of research conducted at Bradley, research conducted at an off-campus site, or topics of current interest from the literature. Each student will be assigned a faculty member to assist them with the selection of a topic and preparation of the seminar. CHM 480 will be a required course for those students majoring in CHM, CHMP, CHMT and BCM. No new resources will be needed. A faculty member will receive 1 semester hour of teaching credit for CHM 480 each semester. The faculty member in charge of the course will be responsible for scheduling the times the students will make their presentations and securing speakers for the other seminars. The faculty member will also have the responsibility of assigning grades for CHM 380 (pass/fail) and for CHM 480. Although the faculty member will receive 1 semester hour of credit each semester, one semester hour courses are almost always taught as an overload.

This change in the major is requested to simply make the written description of the major consistent with the practice of it. PSY 104, a General Education course addresses the same issues as are addressed in PSY 103. Students are actively discouraged from taking both courses because of the excessive degree of overlap. Transfer students who have taken an Introduction to Psychology course elsewhere before entering Bradley are given credit for PSY 104, and thus the General Education credit. Several of the courses offered by the Psychology department specifically list "PSY 103 or PSY 104" as prerequisites (PSY 200, 206, 245, 308, and 314). Finally, the department chair routinely waives the PSY 103 requirement for students who have taken PSY 104 (assuming they earned a C or better) and then decide that they want to be a Psychology major.

Three Psychology courses list prerequisites as "PSY 103 or equivalent". We are requesting that these prerequisites be changed to "PSY 103 or 104". This change will not affect any other department, college or support services resource needs. Those who advise their students to take PSY 104 are still welcome to. The content of the course will not be changed from what it has been the last several years.

Course Description: Environmental factors applied to specification and understanding Laboratory work with animals.

Prerequisites: PSY 103 or 104

Course Description: Variables and conditions that affect the learning process; theories of learning.

Prerequisites: PSY 103 or 104

Course Description: Mental, physical, and social development from birth to adulthood.

Prerequisites: PSY 103 and 104

Course Description: Examines the meaning and significance of Constitutional law in American politics and diplomacy during the past 200 years.

Prerequisites:

Rationale

Under the heading of "History 308: Topics in American History: Political (3 hrs.)," T. Maga has taught U.S. Constitutional history, present for a total of three semesters since the 1996-97 academic year. Hence, this application is a request to transform this topical course into a specific course of its own. This practical experience is augmented by a solid academic background in U.S. political and diplomatic history. Together, this experience and background has proven most valuable to the students. Traditionally, most teaching/research universities maintain a Constitutional history course on the U.S. "side" of their history departments. Its absence here is unusual, particularly in light of the offerings of Bradley competitors (and given the core group of students who are always interested in various aspects of the law).

The "closest" in the curriculum to the proposed HIS 313 would be the PLS 459 and 460 offerings (Constitutional Law). Neither course has the basic historical sweep that is at the center of HIS 313, nor its precise accent on diplomatic and political history. HIS 313 is not a "case method" course like the PLS offerings, and its teaching approach and historical analysis mission is similar, if not identical, to any of the 300 level courses in the History department curriculum.

The Department of Computer Science & Information Systems has examined the entire curriculum over the summer of 1997 and recommended a number of changes in prerequisites and a few course changes. The prerequisite changes recommended were based on the movement of content downwards in the curriculum (often now into high school) and the admission requirements of the various graduate programs. In addition, the Department adopted a standard methodology for dealing with exceptions to prerequisite structures. As a result of agreeing on this methodology, we are removing the "consent of instructor" prerequisite from most courses except those that are cross-listed with another department. We also think that the statement "or equivalent" is usually redundant in a prerequisite since the University has transfer equivalency tables and other means of judging college level work. This, we are removing most of these to make the prerequisite statements more compact. We are leaving this statement in courses where we might wish to allow for high school course work (in lower division courses) or work or other experience (mostly for graduate courses). For example, completion of two years of high school algebra would be considered as equivalent to MTH 109. We also changed this prerequisite for CS 302 from have CS 206 as a prerequisite to having as a co-requisite. This single change has a "ripple effect" since CS 302 is a prerequisite for many upper division courses. Thus, there are very few substantive changes in this package. The Department also decided that a student with a "D" grade in a prerequisite course should be prohibited from enrolling in a subsequent class. There are several courses where this is the only change.

Course Description: Solution of data processing problems using COBOL. Introduction to file handling and use of computers in a business environment.

Prerequisites: Previous high school or college programming courses.

Rationale

Many students have now taken a programming course in high school. CIS 102, CS 104, and CS 106 are entry level programming courses. Thus, we are not changing the prerequisite, just making it clearer.

Course Description: Problem solving, algorithm development, and implementation using modern structured programming language. Software design methodologies. Introduction to Bradley University computer science software development environment. Programming language features: primitive and structured data types, data description, data and sequence control mechanisms subprograms. In-depth introduction to computer science.

Prerequisites: MTH 109 or MTH 112 or equivalent

Rationale

This course was always intended to be the introduction to Computer Science for the majors, minors, and other students seriously interested in computing. Students should have this mathematics background to be able to handle the introductory concepts of computer science. Students who wish to take a computing course for general education credit only, should use CIS 102, not CS 106.

Course Description: Continuation of CS 106: introduction to file processing, searching, sorting, and simple data structures. Emphasis on using software methodologies for large programs. Data abstraction, validation, verification, and analysis of programs.

Prerequisites: A grade of C of better in CS 106 or equivalent

Rationale

The Department decided that for core courses a grade of "C" or better should be required from students in the prerequisite courses. Here the prerequisite course is CS 106.

Course Description: Extends coverage of CS 121 Data Structures. Applications include data structures for searching and sorting, memory management, graphs, and strings. Emphasis on understanding data abstraction and relationship to good programming practices in large programs. Implementation of data structures and evaluation of results.

Prerequisites: A grade of C or better in CS 121; Co-Requisite CS 206

Rationale

CS 206 was used to ensure that students entering CS 302 were familiar with the idea of hardware addresses which are needed to understand pointers. This requirement predates our use of C++ as a programming language. These concepts are now largely covered in CS 121. Making this a co-requisite will also help sequence our graduate students that are admitted with prerequisites.

Course Description: Logical systems; prepositional and predicate calculi. Truth tables, proofs, tautologies, principles of inference, Boolean algebra, DeMorgan’s Laws, quantifiers, representations, and set theory. Cross listed as PHL 320

Prerequisites: MTH 120

Rationale

This needed prerequisite mathematical materials are covered in MTH 120. MTH 120 did not exist when this course was originally created, so we chose these courses to ensure that students have attained a level of mathematical "maturity". We now have a course that contains the needed prerequisite materials.

Course Description: Fundamentals of data communications: Data transmission, data encoding, digital data communications techniques, data link control, and multiplexing. Introduction to switched and shared medium communication networks.

Prerequisites: A grade of C or better in both CS 121 and MTH 120.

Rationale

Removed the "consent of instructor" phrase because the Department now has a standard policy on how to handle exceptional cases.

Course Description: Individual project developed under supervision of a CS faculty member. May be repeated under different topics for a maximum of 6 semester hours.

Prerequisites: Consent of Department

Rationale

The Department has a standard procedure for approving independent study topics. This change recognizes that change.

Course Description: Topics of special interest which may vary each time course is offered. Repeatable under a different topic for a maximum of six hours.

Prerequisites: Consent of Instructor

Rationale

The Department Chair has to approve a topic course in order to have it scheduled. The appropriate prerequisites would be established at that point. Thus, consent of the Chair seems to be redundant at this point.

Course Description: Logical systems: Prepositional and predicate calculi. Truth tables, proofs, tautologies, principles of inference, Boolean algebra, De Morgan’s Laws, quantifiers, representations, and set theory. Cross listed as CS 320.

Prerequisites: MTH 120

Rationale

The needed prerequisite mathematical materials are covered in MTH 120. MTH 120 did not exist when this course was originally created, so we chose these courses to ensure that students had attained a level of mathematical "maturity." We now have a course that contains the needed prerequisite material.

Subcommittee on Curriculum

Richard Hartman

Howard Goldbaum

F. Eugene Rebholz

John DePinto

Rita Jensen

Jeffrey Huberman, Chair