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Announcements

• The Chancellor’s Office has suspended all GWAR testing (not WP courses), so the Writing Proficiency Screening Test (WPST) will not be offered in 2020-21 Academic Year and will not be a graduation requirement. 

• Provost Greer approved the move of the Journalism minor, JOUR curriculum and faculty, and the Signal from the Department of Communication Studies to the Department of English.

• Provost Greer approved the name change for Department of Political Science and Public Administration to Department of Political Science, Public Administration, and Leadership Studies.

• Provost Greer approved the move of Leadership Studies program, Leadership Studies minor, and LEAD curriculum from the Department of Communication Studies to the Department of Political Science, Public Administration, and Leadership Studies. 

• 12 courses lost GE status for the 2020/21 catalog year.

7 New Policies

The following are a list of policies that require updates in the 2020-2021 Academic Catalog. For a full list of policies, visit the Policy Handbook.

• 03/AS/20/UEPC Cybersecurity Minor
  Approved by the Academic Senate on March 10, 2020.
  Approved by President Junn on April 7, 2020.

• 04/AS/20/GC Online MBA HR Concentration
  Approved by the Academic Senate on February 25, 2020.
  Approved by President Junn on March 19, 2020.

• 05/AS/20/GC Nonprofit Management Certificate
  Approved by the Academic Senate on February 25,2020.
  Approved by President Junn on March 19, 2020.

• 06/AS/20/UEPC BS In Public Health Promotion
  Approved by the Academic Senate on March 10, 2020.
  Approved by President Junn on April 7, 2020.

• 12/AS/20/UEPC Cybersecurity Concentration
  Approved by the Academic Senate April 21, 2020.
  Approved by President Junn on May 7, 2020.

• 16/AS/20/UEPC Priority Registration for Student Athletes
  Approved by the Academic Senate April 28, 2020.
  Approved by President Junn on May 16, 2020.

• 20/AS/20/UEPC Pre-Law Minor
  Approved by the Academic Senate April 28, 2020.
  Approved by President Junn on May 14, 2020.

• 24/AS/20/UEPC Credit/No Credit
  Approved by the Academic Senate May 5, 2020.
  Approved by President Junn on May 22, 2020.

12 Revised Programs

• Economics B.A.  (added catalog description, changed curriculum)
• Educational Leadership Ed.D.  (added new courses)
• Education M.A.: Curriculum and Instruction  (organized the program, revised for EO 1071 compliance)
• Ethnic Studies B.A.  (added more courses in discipline, updated curriculum)
• Ethnic Studies Minor  (added more courses in discipline, updated curriculum and program description) 
• Health Science B.S.* (Degree Completion)  (updated courses and units) 
• Journalism Minor  (changed from Communication Studies to English department, revised curriculum requirements)
• Marketing Concentration - Business Administration B.S.  (revised curriculum requirements)
• Management Concentration - Business Administration B.S.  (revised curriculum requirements)
• Psychology M.S.  (changed concentration names)
• Social Sciences B.A.  (organized one concentration)
• Theatre Arts B.A.  (reorganized courses)

7 New Programs 

• Creative Media B.A.  (Pilot Program)
• Cybersecurity Concentration in Computer Science B.S.  
• Cybersecurity Minor  
• Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Management  (self-support)
• Human Resource Management Concentration in Business Administration (Online M.B.A.)  
• Public Health Promotion B.S. (elevation of Health Promotion Concentration in Kinesiology) 
• Pre-Law Minor

59 Revised Courses 

50 Undergraduate 

• ACC 4180 Accounting Ethics  (No longer satisfies Writing Proficiency requirement)
• ANTH 4040 Ethnographic Research Methods   
• ANTH 4321 Historical Archaeology  /HIST 4321 Historical Archaeology   
• ART 4545 Modern Art, 1870-1970  (No longer satisfies G.E. area UD-C)
• BIOL 4050 Ecosystem Case Studies (No longer satisfies G.E. area UD-B)
• CHEM 2400 The Science of Winemaking (No longer satisfies G.E. area B1)
• CHEM 3170 Real World Chemistry (No longer satisfies G.E. area UD-B)
• CJ 3100 Legal Research and Writing  
• CJ 4945 Court Observer Program  
• COMM 3112 Radio Production Laboratory  
• CS 3100 Data Structures and Algorithms  
• CS 3400 Neural Networks and Intelligent Machines /COGS 3400 Neural Networks and Intelligent Machines  
• CS 4840 Cybersecurity Fundamentals  
• EDMS 4111 Reading/Language Arts Methods: Bilingual Instruction in English and Spanish  
• EDUC 4400 Foundations for Bilingual Education Policy & Practice  
• EDUC 4460 Educational Experiences of the Latinx Diaspora  
• ENGL 2010 Introduction to Creative Writing  (Satisfies G.E. area C2)
• ENGL 110 Composition Workshop  
• ENGL 3008 Technical Writing (WP)  
• ENGL 3940 Multicultural American Literature  
• ENGL 4019 Editing Literary Magazines  
• ENGL 4600 Tutorial Projects in English  
• ETHS 2200 Introduction to Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies  (Satisfies G.E. area D2)
• ETHS 4000 Chicana/o/x and Latina/o/x Families /GEND 4000 Chicana/o/x and Latina/o/x Families  
• FA 1030 Practicum: Intro Music Skills (No longer satisfies G.E. area C1)
• GEND 2500 Women’s Lives and Sustainable Happiness  (Satisfies G.E. area E)
• GEND 4940 Gender Studies Internship  
• GEOL 2000 California Geology (No longer satisfies G.E. area B1)
• GEOL 4380 Sedimentary Rocks and Depositional Environments  
• HIST 3090 Contemporary World History (No longer satisfies G.E. area UD-D)
• HIST 4730 Disease and World Societies (No longer satisfies G.E. area UD-D)
• HSCI 3000 Health Foundations and Cultural Variations  
• HSCI 4948 Practicum and Seminar in Health Science  
• ITAL 2010 Intermediate Italian I  (No longer satisfies G.E. area C2)
• ITAL 2020 Intermediate Italian II  (No longer satisfies G.E. area C2)
• KINS 4030 Epidemiology  
• KINS 4150 Secondary Pedagogy of Physical Education  
• KINS 4570 Health Program Design & Implementation  
• LEAD 2500 Leadership Development /MDIS 2500 Leadership Development  (Satisfies G.E. area E)
• LIBS 2000 Analysis of Classroom Environments  
• LIBS 4960 Senior Seminar  
• MDIS 3010 Seminar in Community Learning  
• MGT 4200 Negotiation Skills  
• MUS 2460 Symphony Band  (No longer satisfies G.E. area C1)
• MUS 3170 MIDI (Music Instrument Digital Interface)  
• NURS 3800 Pediatric Nursing  
• NURS 3850 Maternal-Child Health Clinical  
• NURS 4400 Community Health Nursing  
• PHYS 3800 Fundamentals of Nuclear Energy  (No longer satisfies G.E. area UD-B)
• PHYS 4102 Experimental Physics (WP)  
• THEA 2500 Script Analysis  

9 Graduate

• BIOL 5010 Scientific Writing and Communication  
• EDEL 9001 Qualitative Research for Scholar-Practitioners  
• EDEL 9002 Quantitative Research for Scholar-Practitioners  
• EDEL 9005 Policy Creation, Implementation and Evaluation for Equitable Outcomes  
• EDEL 9007 Social Foundations and Structural Inequities in Education  
• EDEL 9009 Adult Learning Theories for Agency and Empowerment  
• EDEL 9010 Inquiry and Research for Scholar-Practitioners  
• MGT 5610 Strategic Human Resource Management  
• PSYC 5150 Clinical Interventions with Families and Individuals  

43 New Courses

34 Undergraduate 

• ANTH 4630 Museum Collections Management  
• ASTR 3600 Stellar Astrophysics  
• COMM 4175 Activism & Social Movements  
• CS 3810 Android Mobile Application Development  
• CS 4280 Non-Relational (NoSQL) Database Systems  
• CS 4710 Mobile Robotics  
• ENGL 1004 Reading and Writing for Multicultural Writers   (Satisfies G.E. area A2)
• ENGL 2600 Introduction to Tutoring Writing  
• ENGL 4016 Copyediting  
• ETHS 3125 Afro-Mexican Indigenous Cultural Practice  
• ETHS 3350 Asian American and Pacific Islander Experiences  (Satisfies G.E. area UD-D and the Multicultural Requirement)
• ETHS 3700 Decolonial Spiritualities and Healing Practices  
• ETHS 3950 Producing Media for Social Change  (Satisfies G.E. area UD-C)
• ETHS 4970 Community Organizing and Activism  
• GEND 4800 Transgender Theory and Policy  
• GEOL 3040 Science and Engineering for Educators /NSCI 3040 Science and Engineering for Educators  
• HIST 4230 The Crusades  
• HIST 4370 Tudor-Stuart England  
• HSCI 4310 Financial Acumen For Healthcare  (Satisfies G.E. area C2)
• KINS 2000 Introduction to Public Health  
• KINS 3900 Health Disparities  
• KINS 4590 Public Health Research and Evaluation  
• LIBS 4400 Introduction to Bilingual Education and Language Acquisition for Multilingual Learners  
• MBIO 3000 Microbes and You  
• MDIS 4975 Portfolio Practicum  
• MUS 2170 Live Sound Design  
• MUS 2180 Computer Music Notation  
• MUS 2190 Studio Performance Techniques  
• MUS 3220 Media Composition  
• PORT 1000 Elementary Portuguese  
• PORT 2000 Intermediate Portuguese  (Satisfies G.E. area C2)
• PORT 3000 Advanced Portuguese  (Satisfies G.E. area C2)
• THEA 3400 Voice and Movement I  
• THEA 4940 Internship  

11 Graduate

• EDEL 9015 Leadership Models and Practice  
• EDEL 9016 Seminar: Educational Leadership and Career Planning  
• ENGL 5860 Principles of Sociolinguistics in Language Education  
• ENGL 5880 Pedagogical Grammar  
• GEND 5940 Internship in Gender Studies  
• HIST 5960 Graduate Seminar: Middle East and North Africa  
• MGT 5620 Compensation and Benefits  
• MGT 5630 Human Resources Information Systems and People Analytics  
• MGT 5650 Selection, Recruitment, Training and Development of Human Resources  
• MGT 5660 Labor Relations and Negotiation   
• PSYC 5870 Behavior Analysis of Personnel Supervision ​  

*Selected Topics are only offered twice at the undergraduate level and once at the graduate level. Subsequently the faculty may select to create a course in the topic.