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:

Course Revisions:
BUS 360 Principles of Management
BUS 403 Consumer Behavior
BUS 430 Strategic Management
CIS 400 .NET Application Development (formerly CIS 400 VB.NET Programming)
CRJ 501 Theoretical Perspectives on Crime and Criminal Justice
CRJ 601 Correctional Strategies
HEA 620 Strategic Planning and Budgeting in Higher Education (formerly HEA 620 Planning and Finance in Higher Education)

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

Course Revisions:
BUS 116 Introduction to Business. Overview of the characteristics, elements, principles, and practices of contemporary business. Students learn basic business concepts: variations in business genesis processes, life cycle stages, environmental factors as they affect business; and the critical role business plays as a socioeconomic subsystem of society. Offered every semester.

BUS 330 Marketing Management. Prerequisites: BUS 320, business major. Marketing-oriented thinking in today’s competitive environment; analyzing needs, identifying opportunities, bringing valued offers to targeted customer groups; analyzing, planning, implementing, and controlling marketing strategies. Includes recent themes: customer relationship management, technology/Internet revolution, brand building, and global marketing from a marketing manager’s perspective. Offered every semester.

CIS 315 Computer Organization. Prerequisite: CIS 151. Introduction to the organization and function of various components in a computer system. Topics include data representation, digital logic circuits, the CPU, memory, bus, instruction set architecture, machine and assembly languages, and parallel processing; discussion of the interaction of system components; analysis of computing performance issues. Offered every semester.

CIS 380 Database Systems I (formerly CIS 380 Microcomputer Applications). Prerequisites: CIS 151, CIS 370. Introduction to database systems, including spreadsheets, database uses and applications, data manipulation, sorting and indexing, functions of database systems, basic concepts of relational databases, and SQL programming. Offered every semester.

CIS 425 Object-Oriented Development. Prerequisite: CIS 251. Object-oriented approach to programming and design including its rationale. Topics include objects, encapsulation, information hiding, data and methods, access modifiers, exception handling, and inheritance. Students gain hands-on programming experience using an appropriate object-oriented language such as Java. Offered fall semester.

Change of Status: Program Deactivation:
B.S. Applied Mathematics
Deactivation effective December 31, 2024; Buffalo State will not accept students into the program as of January 1, 2025.