Course & Program Action Form

Course & Program Action Form
Contact information of the person submitting the form
Full name*

First NameLast Name
Title*
Administrative Manager, Dean, etc.
Department*
Please indicate the department on behalf of which the form is submitted
UAlbany email*
example@albany.edu
College/School*
Please indicate the college, school, or unit on behalf of which the form is submitted
Calculation*
College/School Email*
College/School Second Email
CAS Department CAF was submitted by: *
SOB Department CAF was submitted by: *
CRJ Department CAF was submitted by: *
ROCK Department CAF was submitted by: *
SOE Department CAF was submitted by: *
SPH Department CAF was submitted by: *
CEHC Department CAF was submitted by: *
SNSE Department CAF was submitted by: *
SSW Department CAF was submitted by: *
University Wide Department CAF was submitted by: *
Department Chair Email (to receive a copy of the submission)*
example@albany.edu
Is the change related to*

Undergraduate course(s) or program(s)Graduate course(s) or program(s)Shared-resources course(s) or combined undergraduate/graduate programs
Please keep in mind that only 400- and 500-level courses qualify as shared-resources
Date CAF is being submitted*

MonthDayYear
The semester/term you expect changes to be applied*
Academic term
The year you expect changes to be applied*
Year
Please keep in mind that if you are requesting change(s) for a term that has already been scheduled, such change(s) will come into effect the next available term.
Type of request (please check all that apply)*

New courseChange to course (Title/description/credits/prerequisites/corequisites/repeatability/shared-resources designation)New certificateChanges to existing certificateCross listing addition or changeInactivation of courseReactivation of courseProposal for new minor (undergraduate only)Changes to existing minor (undergraduate only)Proposal for new major (undergraduate only)Changes to existing major (undergraduate only)Proposal for a new graduate program (graduate only)Changes to existing graduate program (graduate only)Combined undergraduate and graduate proposal
Please note that course numbers cannot be recycled for a new course.
Explanation of proposal or change: *

Cross listing addition or change
** Please note that to have any new cross listing or removal of cross listing, you need to provide an email trail or signed letter from the department that ‘owns’ the course you are cross listing or removing from cross listing. Please provide this in the upload at the end of the document.
Do you have documentation from the department that owns the cross listing course?*

YesNo
If the cross listed course is offered by another department, please provide documentation indicating that department's consent*

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Please fill out the CURRENT information for the course
Course subject & catalog number*
Example: AHIS 100
Course title*
Would you like to add or remove cross listing?*

AddRemove/Inactivate
New cross listings:*
1)

Inactivation of course
Please fill out the CURRENT information for the course
Course subject & catalog number*
Example: AHIS 100
Course title*
Other programs affected by this inactivation*
Effective term of inactivation*
Effective year of inactivation*

Reactivation of course
Please fill out the CURRENT information for the course
Course subject & catalog number*
Example: AHIS 100
Course title*
Course credits*
Effective semester of reactivation*
Effective year of reactivation*

Proposal for new minor
New minors must be approved through shared governence.
Name of minor*
Minimum number of required credits in the minor*
Minor courses*
Are there any restrictions on who may declare this minor?*

YesNo
What are the restrictions?*

Changes to an existing minor
Current name of the existing minor*
Proposed changes (click at all that apply)*

Required course changesAdditional course options within minorChanges to the name of minorInactivation of minor
Description of changes to existing minor*

Proposal for new major
Please note that new major programs must be registered with SUNY and SED. Please contact Kaitlyn Beachner (kbeachner@albany.edu) for more information.
Name of major*
Minimum number of required credits in the major*
Major courses*
Are there any restrictions on who may declare this major?*

YesNo
What are the restrictions?*

Changes to an existing major
Current name of the existing major*
Proposed changes (click at all that apply)*

Revision of requirementsChanges to the name of existing majorInactivation of existing majorOther
Description of changes to existing major*

Proposal for a new graduate program
Please note that new graduate programs must be registered with SUNY and SED. Please contact Colleen Davis (cdavis@albany.edu) for more information.
Name of new graduate program*
Minimum number of required credits in the new graduate program*
Graduate program courses*

Changes to an existing graduate program
Current name of the existing graduate program*
Proposed changes (click at all that apply)*

Revision of requirementsChanges to the name of existing graduate programInactivation of existing graduate programOther
Description of changes to existing graduate program*

Combined undergraduate and graduate proposal
This is...*

NewExisting
What are the specific changes being requested?*
Current undergraduate major*
Current graduate program*
Which graduate courses are undergraduate students allowed to take and where would they apply in the undergraduate major?*

Gen Ed Proposal?
Are you proposing this course to fulfill a General Education Requirement?*

YesNo

Writing and Critical Inquiry
B. The following general characteristics apply to all General Education courses at UAlbany. Please briefly indicate how the course fulfills each of the following characteristics:

1. Offers explicit understandings of the procedures and practices of disciplines and interdisciplinary fields;

2. Provides multiple perspectives on the subject matter, reflecting the intellectual and cultural diversity within and beyond the university;

3. Emphasizes active learning in an engaged environment that enables students to be producers as well as consumers of knowledge;

4. Promotes critical inquiry about the assumptions, goals, and methods of various fields of academic study and the interpretive, analytic, and evaluative competencies central to intellectual development;
B.*
C. Please indicate how the course is designed to meet the specific learning objectives of courses in the area of Writing and Critical Inquiry, which specify that courses enable students to:

1. communicate effectively in college-level forms, orally and in writing, in ways that engage relevant audiences

2. make sustained efforts to revise and improve this oral and written communication

3. clearly describe an issue or problem, gather relevant data and research, and develop well-reasoned analysis, arguments, and conclusions

4. identify, analyze, and evaluate ideas, arguments, and information in their own or others’ work, demonstrating an awareness of authority, perspective, bias, and intended effect

5. demonstrate an understanding of the ethical dimensions of information use, creation, and dissemination
C.*

Diversity: Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice
B. The following general characteristics apply to all General Education courses at UAlbany. Please briefly indicate how the course fulfills each of the following characteristics:

1. Offers explicit understandings of the procedures and practices of disciplines and interdisciplinary fields;

2. Provides multiple perspectives on the subject matter, reflecting the intellectual and cultural diversity within and beyond the university;

3. Emphasizes active learning in an engaged environment that enables students to be producers as well as consumers of knowledge;

4. Promotes critical inquiry about the assumptions, goals, and methods of various fields of academic study and the interpretive, analytic, and evaluative competencies central to intellectual development;
B.*
C. Please indicate how the course is designed to meet the specific learning objectives of courses in the area of Diversity: Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice, which specify that courses enable students to:

1. describe the historical and contemporary societal factors that shape the development of individual and group identity involving, at minimum, race, class, and gender

2. analyze the role that social structures and systems play in the creation and perpetuation of the dynamics of power, privilege, oppression, and opportunity

3. apply the principles of rights, access, equity, and autonomous participation to past, current, or future social justice action
C.*

Mathematics and Quantitative Reasoning
B. The following general characteristics apply to all General Education courses at UAlbany. Please briefly indicate how the course fulfills each of the following characteristics:

1. Offers explicit understandings of the procedures and practices of disciplines and interdisciplinary fields;

2. Provides multiple perspectives on the subject matter, reflecting the intellectual and cultural diversity within and beyond the university;

3. Emphasizes active learning in an engaged environment that enables students to be producers as well as consumers of knowledge;
B.*
C. Please indicate how the course is designed to meet the specific learning objectives of courses in the area of Mathematics and Quantitative Reasoning, which specify that courses enable students to:

1. decipher, interpret, and draw conclusions from formal mathematical models such as formulas, graphs, tables, or schematics

2. represent mathematical information symbolically, visually, numerically, or verbally as appropriate to mathematical, statistical, or logical analysis

3. demonstrate the ability to employ appropriate mathematical computations, statistical techniques, or logical methods to solve problems and/or draw conclusions from data
C.*

Natural Sciences and Scientific Reasoning
B. The following general characteristics apply to all General Education courses at UAlbany. Please briefly indicate how the course fulfills each of the following characteristics:

1. Offers explicit understandings of the procedures and practices of disciplines and interdisciplinary fields;

2. Provides multiple perspectives on the subject matter, reflecting the intellectual and cultural diversity within and beyond the university;

3. Emphasizes active learning in an engaged environment that enables students to be producers as well as consumers of knowledge;

4. Promotes critical inquiry about the assumptions, goals, and methods of various fields of academic study and the interpretive, analytic, and evaluative competencies central to intellectual development;
B.*
C. Please indicate how the course is designed to meet the specific learning objectives of courses in the area of Natural Sciences and Scientific Reasoning, which specify that courses enable students to demonstrate:

1. an understanding of the methods scientists use to explore natural phenomena, including observation, hypothesis development, measurement and data collection, experimentation, evaluation of evidence, and employment of data analysis or mathematical modeling

2. application of scientific data, concepts, and models in one or more of the natural sciences

3. an understanding of the major principles and concepts that form the basis of the knowledge covered in the course and a command of the relevant terminology appropriate for basic discourse in the discipline or disciplines of the course
C.*

Humanities
B. The following general characteristics apply to all General Education courses at UAlbany. Please briefly indicate how the course fulfills each of the following characteristics:

1. Offers explicit understandings of the procedures and practices of disciplines and interdisciplinary fields;

2. Provides multiple perspectives on the subject matter, reflecting the intellectual and cultural diversity within and beyond the university;

3. Emphasizes active learning in an engaged environment that enables students to be producers as well as consumers of knowledge;

4. Promotes critical inquiry about the assumptions, goals, and methods of various fields of academic study and the interpretive, analytic, and evaluative competencies central to intellectual development;
B.*
C. Please indicate how the course is designed to meet the specific learning objectives of courses in the area of Humanities, which specify that courses enable students to:

1. demonstrate knowledge of the conventions and methods of at least one of the humanities

2. recognize and analyze nuance and complexity of meaning through critical reflections on text, visual images, or artifacts

3. demonstrate an understanding of the objects of study as expressions of the cultural contexts of the people who created them

4. understand the continuing relevance of the objects of study to the present and to the world outside the university
C.*

Social Sciences
B. The following general characteristics apply to all General Education courses at UAlbany. Please briefly indicate how the course fulfills each of the following characteristics:

1. Offers explicit understandings of the procedures and practices of disciplines and interdisciplinary fields;

2. Provides multiple perspectives on the subject matter, reflecting the intellectual and cultural diversity within and beyond the university;

3. Emphasizes active learning in an engaged environment that enables students to be producers as well as consumers of knowledge;

4. Promotes critical inquiry about the assumptions, goals, and methods of various fields of academic study and the interpretive, analytic, and evaluative competencies central to intellectual development;
B.*
C. Please indicate how the course is designed to meet the specific learning objectives of courses in the area of Social Sciences, which specify that courses enable students to:

1. describe major concepts and theories of at least one discipline in the social sciences

2. demonstrate an understanding of the methods social scientists use to explore questions about social phenomena, such as observation, hypothesis development, measurement and data collection, experimentation, evaluation of evidence, employment of mathematical analysis, employment of interpretive analysis

3. understand human conduct and behavior as subject to rigorous and systematic scientific inquiry, as opposed to uncritical thinking about social phenomena
C.*

The Arts
B. The following general characteristics apply to all General Education courses at UAlbany. Please briefly indicate how the course fulfills each of the following characteristics:

1. Offers explicit understandings of the procedures and practices of disciplines and interdisciplinary fields;

2. Provides multiple perspectives on the subject matter, reflecting the intellectual and cultural diversity within and beyond the university;

3. Emphasizes active learning in an engaged environment that enables students to be producers as well as consumers of knowledge;

4. Promotes critical inquiry about the assumptions, goals, and methods of various fields of academic study and the interpretive, analytic, and evaluative competencies central to intellectual development;
B.*
C. Please indicate how the course is designed to meet the specific learning objectives of courses in the area of The Arts, which specify that courses enable students to:

1. demonstrate an understanding of the history and/or practice of at least one principal form of artistic expression and the creative process inherent therein

2. understand the function and meaning of form

3. acquire the vocabulary necessary to continue to learn about how art is made and interpreted
C.*

U.S. History and Civic Engagement
B. The following general characteristics apply to all General Education courses at UAlbany. Please briefly indicate how the course fulfills each of the following characteristics:

1. Offers explicit understandings of the procedures and practices of disciplines and interdisciplinary fields;

2. Provides multiple perspectives on the subject matter, reflecting the intellectual and cultural diversity within and beyond the university;

3. Emphasizes active learning in an engaged environment that enables students to be producers as well as consumers of knowledge;

4. Promotes critical inquiry about the assumptions, goals, and methods of various fields of academic study and the interpretive, analytic, and evaluative competencies central to intellectual development;
B.*
C. Please indicate how the course is designed to meet the specific learning objectives of courses in the area of U.S. History and Civic Engagement, which specify that courses enable students to:

1. demonstrate an understanding of the history and society of the United States, including the diversity of individuals and communities that have shaped the nation

2. understand the role of individual participation in US communities and government

3. understand of the relationships between the United States and other parts of the world

4. apply historical and contemporary evidence to draw, support, or verify conclusions
C.*

World History and International Perspectives
B. The following general characteristics apply to all General Education courses at UAlbany. Please briefly indicate how the course fulfills each of the following characteristics:

1. Offers explicit understandings of the procedures and practices of disciplines and interdisciplinary fields;

2. Provides multiple perspectives on the subject matter, reflecting the intellectual and cultural diversity within and beyond the university;

3. Emphasizes active learning in an engaged environment that enables students to be producers as well as consumers of knowledge;

4. Promotes critical inquiry about the assumptions, goals, and methods of various fields of academic study and the interpretive, analytic, and evaluative competencies central to intellectual development;
B.*
C. Please indicate how the course is designed to meet the specific learning objectives of courses in the area of World History and International Perspectives, which specify that courses enable students to:

1. demonstrate knowledge of a broad outline of world history and/or the development of the distinctive features of at least one civilization or culture, other than that of the United States, in relation to other regions of the world

2. demonstrate an understanding of the structures and systems of, and interrelationships among civilizations and cultures within historical and/or contemporary contexts, and their impact on wellbeing and sustainability[1]

[1] SUNY explains the reference to sustainability in this way: “Sustainability is meant to be interpreted broadly as in the sustainability of a culture, civilization, nation, etc. as in the UN Sustainable Development Goals (https://sdgs.un.org/goals) which include access to education, economic vitality, etc. The goal was not to restrict narrowly the type of impact on wellbeing and sustainability. Instead, we wanted faculty to be able to select an impact in these broad areas appropriate to the content of their courses. For example, the environment quickly comes to mind when thinking about sustainability. However, an investment and finance course might consider the impact of the world bank [sic] on sustaining economies and reducing poverty.”
C.*

Languages Other Than English
B. The following general characteristics apply to all General Education courses at UAlbany. Please briefly indicate how the course fulfills each of the following characteristics:

1. Offers explicit understandings of the procedures and practices of disciplines and interdisciplinary fields;

2. Provides multiple perspectives on the subject matter, reflecting the intellectual and cultural diversity within and beyond the university;

3. Emphasizes active learning in an engaged environment that enables students to be producers as well as consumers of knowledge;

4. Promotes critical inquiry about the assumptions, goals, and methods of various fields of academic study and the interpretive, analytic, and evaluative competencies central to intellectual development;
B.*
C. Please indicate how the course is designed to meet the specific learning objectives of courses in the area of Languages Other Than English, which specify that courses enable students to:

1. exhibit basic proficiency in the understanding and use of a language other than English

2. demonstrate knowledge of the distinctive features of culture(s) associated with the language they are studying
C.*

New course action for multiple Courses
Would you like to perform this action on multiple courses?*

YesNo
How many courses?*

New course 11+
Please write out the subject & catalog number and course title for the remaining courses (or submit an additional form):*

Change course action for multiple Courses
Would you like to perform this action on multiple courses?*

YesNo
How many courses?*

Changes to course 11+
Please write out the subject & catalog number and course title for the remaining courses (or submit an additional form):*

Final comments, uploading files, & submitting
Notes
Please upload syllabi for any new course, course with changes, or syllabi for all courses that are part of a minor

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Please upload any other document(s) to support these changes

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Course & Program Action Form

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