The Daily Bulletin

From the Chair of the College Senate Curriculum Committee
Advanced to the President
The following have been approved by the College Senate Curriculum Committee and forwarded to the president for review:

Program Revision:
Undergraduate Certificate in World Languages Advantage, UGCT-WLA

Course Revision (Intellectual Foundations Designation Only):
DIVERSITY
EDU 304 Women and Mathematics

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Advanced to the Curriculum Committee
The following have been received in the College Senate Office and forwarded to the College Senate Curriculum Committee for spring 2021 review:

New Program:
Undergraduate Certificate in Sports Administration

New Courses:
BSC 100 The College Transition Process. Focus on improving students’ likelihood of college completion by assisting them in their transition to higher education and helping them establish strategies that will guide them on their road to success. Offered occasionally, beginning fall 2021.

ENT 446 Digital Systems Design and Analysis. Prerequisite: ENT 346. Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and their hardware description languages (HDLs), advanced microcontrollers for smart devices, serial communication, survey of smart sensors. Required for electrical engineering technology electronics option majors. Offered spring semester, beginning spring 2022.

ENT 573 Planning and Operation of Electric Vehicles in Smart Grid. Prerequisites: B.S. degree in STEM area and instructor permission. Introduction and explanation of the latest advancements in the planning and operation of electric vehicles (EV) from smart grid perspective. Problems such as charging station sizing and placement as well as charging management of EVs are studied considering the technical characteristics of EVs. Offered occasionally, beginning spring 2022.

Course Revisions:
PHY 440 Electricity and Magnetism I. Prerequisites: PHY 310 and PHY 320 or instructor permission. Coulomb forces, electric fields and potentials, Laplace equation, boundary value problems and dielectrics, multipole distributions, magnetic induction, introduction to Maxwell's equations. Offered every other fall semester, beginning fall 2022.

PHY 441 Electricity and Magnetism II. Prerequisite: PHY 440 or instructor permission. Continuation of PHY 440. Electric induction, Maxwell’s equations, momentum and energy of electromagnetic fields, propagating waves, radiation, special relativity, relativistic electrodynamics. Offered every other spring semester, beginning spring 2022.

PHY 510 Regent’s Physics Science Practices. Prerequisites: Graduate standing and introductory physics sequence or instructor permission. Students use and apply the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS Lead States, 2013) science practices of asking questions, developing and using models, planning and carrying out investigations, analyzing and interpreting data, using mathematics, constructing explanations, and engaging in argument from evidence. Students apply these practices to learn physics concepts. Offered summer semester, beginning summer 2022.

PHY 620 Mechanics for High School Teachers. Prerequisites: PHY 510 and PHY 111, or instructor permission. Designed for practicing or future high school physics teachers. Activities and laboratory experiences develop ideas in force, motion, and energy. Exemplary pedagogical techniques are modeled and examined. Offered every other summer semester, beginning summer 2022.

PHY 622 Electricity and Magnetism for High School Teachers. Prerequisites: PHY 510 and PHY 112 or instructor permission. Designed for high school physics teachers. Activities and laboratory experiences develop ideas in electricity and magnetism. Exemplary pedagogical techniques are modeled and examined. Offered every other summer semester, beginning summer 2022.