What’s New?

Announcements

• The Department of Kinesiology has been renamed to Department of Kinesiology and Public Health Promotion. 
• The former Bachelor of Arts in Geography degree program has been revised to a Bachelor of Science in Geography and Environmental Resources. 

8 New Policies

The following are a list of policies that require updates in the 2021-2022 Academic Catalog. For a full list of policies, visit the Policy Handbook.

• 30/AS/20/UEPC Temporary Modification to University Grading Policies
  and Published Deadlines as a Result of the COVID-19 Pandemic
  Approved by the Academic Senate on October 20, 2020.
  Approved by President Junn on October 22, 2020.

• 01/AS/21/UEPC Geography and Environmental Resources BS
  Approved by the Academic Senate on February 9, 2021.
  Approved by President Junn on March 4, 2021.

• 02/AS/21/RSCA-PC Policy on Human Subjects Research
  Approved by the Academic Senate on February 23, 2021.
  Approved by President Junn on March 16, 2021.

• 04/AS/21/UEPC Liberal Studies Computer Science Concentration
  Approved by the Academic Senate February 23, 2021.
  Approved by President Junn on March 15, 2021.

• 05/AS/21/UEPC Pre-requisites for General Education Upper Division Courses
  Approved by the Academic Senate March 23, 2021.
  Approved by President Junn on April 20, 2021.

• 07/AS/21/ATLC Web Conferencing Camera Policy
  Approved by the Academic Senate on May 4, 2021. 
  Approved by President Junn on May 20, 2021.

• 09/AS/21/UEPC Addition of an Ethnic Studies Requirement to the Baccalaureate Degree
  First reading scheduled for April 2021. 

• 11/AS/21/SEC/ASI Shared Governance Resolution
  Approved by the Academic Senate on May 4, 2021.
  Approved by President Junn on May 20, 2021.

10 Revised Programs

• Administrative Services Credential (ASC) Preliminary and Intern  (added virtual [synchronous zoom] instructional mode option)
• Criminal Justice B.A.  (added social justice requirement to core; reduced some course and prerequisite units)
• Criminal Justice B.A., Forensic Science Concentration  (modified psychology course requirement and electives; added social justice requirement)
• Criminal Justice M.A.  (modified admission requirements)
• Criminal Justice Minor  (broadened upper divison course requirements)
• Exercise Science B.S.  (modified electives and track options)
• Forensic Science Minor  (modified required and elective courses)
• Geography and Environmental Resources B.S.  (revised from Geography B.A. to Geography and Environmental Resources B.S.)
• Kinesiology Minor  (aligned minor with revised Kinesiology B.A. structure)
• Social Work M.S.W.  (collapsed content from 3 to 2 courses)

1 New Program

• Leadership Studies B.S. (Online) (Spring 2022)  

59 Revised Courses 

57 Undergraduate 

• ACC 2110 Financial Accounting  
• ACC 2130 Managerial Accounting  
• ACC 3140 Cost Accounting  
• ACC 4140 Income Tax Accounting  (Satisfies GE area UD-D)
• ACC 4180 Accounting Ethics  (No longer satisfies Writing Proficiency requirement)
• AGST 2200 Principles of Horticulture and Practices  (Satisfies GE area B2)
• CJ 4925 Historical and Contemporary Criminal Justice  
• COMM 2000, 3110, 3112, 3120, 3140, 3150, 3215, 3500, 3600, 3620, 3900, 3910, 3960, 4040, 4050, 4060, 4100, 4110, 4115, 4130, 4140, 4150, 4160, 4165, 4170, 4175, 4180, 4190, 4200, 4215, 4400, 4500, 4900 (Changed planned modality only effective Spring 2022)
• ETHS 2000 Introduction to Black/African American Studies  (Satisfies GE area D2 or area F and the Multicultural Requirement)
• ETHS 2050 Introduction to Ethnic Studies  (Satisfies GE area D2 or area F and the Multicultural Requirement)
• ETHS 2100 Introduction to Chicanx and Latinx Studies  (Satisfies GE area D2 or area F and the Multicultural Requirement)
• ETHS 2200 Introduction to Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies  (Satisfies GE area D2 or area F and the Multicultural Requirement)
• ETHS 2300 Introduction to Native American/Indigenous Studies  (Satisfies GE area D2 or area F and the Multicultural Requirement)
• ETHS 2400 Contemporary Race and Ethnic Studies  (Satisfies GE area D2 or area F and the Multicultural Requirement)
• ETHS 3110 Chicano/a/x-Latino/a/x Film  (No longer satisfies GE area UD-D) (Satisfies GE area UD-C and the Multicultural Requirement)
• ETHS 3125 Fandango Methodologies of Son Jarocho  (Satisfies the Multicultural Requirement)
• ETHS 3250 Black/African American Film  (No longer satisfies GE area UD-D) (Satisfies GE area UD-C and the Multicultural Requirement)
• ETHS 4360 Theories and Concepts in Ethnic Studies  (Satisfies GE area F)
• ETHS 4970 Community Organizing and Activism  (Satisfies GE area F)
• FIN 3220 Business Finance  
• FIN 3225 Financial Statement Analysis  
• GEND  /ETHS 4000 Chicana/o/x and Latina/o/x Families  
• GEND 4040, 4050, 4060 (Changed planned modality only effective Spring 2022)
• GEOG 2400 Global Cultures and Environments  (Satisfies GE area D2 and the Multicultural Requirement)
• GEOG 4750 Geographic Information Systems  (Satisfies GE area UD-D)
• GEOG 4800 Survey of Geographic Thought and Literature (WP)  (Satisfies Writing Proficiency Requirement)
• HIST 4970 Modern Assyrian History  
• HSCI 3000 Cultural Literacy and Contemporary Health  
• HSCI 3010 Foundations of Community and Population Health  
• HSCI 3100 Health Science Research Methods  
• HSCI 3300 Global Health  
• HSCI 4000 Health Organization and Administration  
• KINS 3900 Disparities in Public Health   (Satisfies GE area UD-D)
• KINS 4230 Coordinated School Health  
• KINS 4510 Environmental Health  
• KINS 4530 Holistic Health  
• KINS 4540 Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Health  (Satisfies GE area E and the Multicultural Requirement)
• KINS 4550 Health Behavior  
• KINS 4570 Health Program Design & Implementation  
• KINS 4590 Public Health Research and Evaluation  
• LIBS 2500 Liberal Studies Transfer Bridge  
• MATH 2300 Discrete Structures  
• MDIS 1040 Seminar in First-Year Experience  (Satisfies GE area E)
• MDIS 3010 Seminar in Community Learning  
• MGT 4900 Business Policy  
• NURS 2900 Adult Health Nursing I  
• NURS 2910 Adult Health Nursing I Clinical  
• NURS 3000 Health Assessment  
• NURS 3040 Women’s Health  (Satisfies GE area UD-D and the Multicultural Requirement)
• NURS 3110 Professional Nursing  
• NURS 3330 Nursing Leadership and Management (WP)   (Satisfies the Writing Proficiency Requirement)
• NURS 3700 Introduction to Nursing Research  
• NURS 3820 Reproductive Health Nursing  
• NURS 3900 Mental Health Nursing  
• NURS 3910 Mental Health Nursing Clinical  
• NURS 4400 Community Health Nursing  
• NURS 4410 Community Health Nursing Practicum  
• NURS 4800 Adult Health Nursing II  
• NURS 4810 Adult Health Nursing II Clinical  

2 Graduate

• SW 5031 Social Work Theory and Practice with Groups and Communities  
• SW 5034 Advanced Social Work Theory and Practice with Organizations  

26 New Courses

25 Undergraduate 

• AGEC 2400 Agricultural Accounting  
• AGEC 3250 Quantitative Methods in Agricultural Science  
• AGST 1500 Introduction to Agricultural Science  (Satisfies GE area D2)
• AGST 3500 Weed Biology and Management  
• AGST 4100 Agroecology  
• AGST 4950 Selected Topics in Agriculture * - Weed Biology and Management
• AGST 4960 Seminar in Agriculture  
• ANTH 3250 Anthropological Perspectives on Global Health  (Satisfies GE area UD-D and the Multicultural Requirement)
• ANTH 3260 Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Problems  (Satisfies GE area UD-D and the Multicultural Requirement)
• CJ 4201 Criminal Justice and Social Movements  
• COMM 4950 Selected Topics in Communication Studies * - Rhetoric of Documentary
• ENGL 4320 African American Literature and Cultural Studies   (Satisfies GE area UD-D and the Multicultural Requirement)
• ENGL 4330 Latinx Literature and Cultural Studies   (Satisfies GE area UD-D and the Multicultural Requirement)
• ENVR  / GEOG 2300 Environmental Conservation  (Satisfies GE area D2)
• ETHS 4025 Women of Color Feminisms   (Satisfies the Multicultural Requirement)
• GEND 2110 Trans Identities and Issues   (Satisfies GE area D2)
• GEOG 3540 Geography of Latin America and the Caribbean   (Satisfies GE area UD-D and the Multicultural Requirement)
• GEOG 3910 Geography in Film   
• GEOG 4810 Quantitative Methods for Spatial Analysis   
• GEOL 4950 Selected Topics in Geology * - The Climate Crisis and Solutions
• HIST 4530 A History of Mexican and Central American Migration   
• HIST 4920 History of Genocide   
• MKT 4460 Digital and Social Media Marketing   
• NURS 3400 Human Pathophysiology  (Satisfies GE area UD-B and the Multicultural Requirement)
• PSYC 4950 Selected Topics in Psychology * - Addiction and Its Treatment

1 Graduate

• GEOG 5810 Quantitative Methods for Spatial Analysis  

*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.