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UNDERGRADUATE CURRICULUM PROPOSAL IDENTIFIER AND ROUTING SHEET
Please complete the information requested below and place on the front of the proposal. Complete one of these
for each proposal.
1. This is page 1 of 4 pages of proposal number PSYC-14-U-1
.
2. AS College (AgNRHS, AS, BA, EDHP, EN,)
3. PSYC
Department or program area (please specify, using catalog prefix: e.g., STAT,
HSCI, HIST, etc.)
4. Type of Request:
____ Add new program/degree/major
__X__ Modify program/degree/major
____ Delete program/degree/major
____ Add/Change lab fee
Add new course to catalog/inventory
____ Reinstate course to catalog/inventory
____ Delete course from catalog/inventory
____ Change course number and delete prior course from catalog/inventory
____ Change course replace prior course
____ Change course title
____ Change course credit, class, and/or lab hours
____ Change course description
____ Change course prerequisites
____ Review for non-traditional/distance learning delivery
Other (please specify):
5. If this change could affect other department(s), please attach a memo from each department stating
the name of chair/authorized person and the opinions of that department.
6. Submission procedures:
Proposal should be submitted to department/area and include:
(a) CURRICULUM PROPOSAL APPROVAL FORM. One form per set of proposals is necessary.
(b) CURRICULUM PROPOSAL IDENTIFIER AND ROUTING SHEET. One per proposal.
(c) PROPOSAL (one or more pages describing in detail the proposal following the
prescribed format.
7.
Deadlines: Fall College Curriculum Committee – September 15
University Curriculum Committee - October 15
Provost - November 15
Registrar’s Office for Implementation – December 15
A new courses and significant changes to existing course descriptions require a syllabus/course outline to be
attached. A syllabus/course outline must be attached when the course is to be offered through distance learning.
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PROPOSAL NO. PSYC-14-U-1
PROPOSAL SYNOPSIS:
Update the degree plan for the B.A. in psychology.
PRESENT CATALOG MATERIAL:
See p. 4 (top).
PROPOSED CATALOG MATERIAL:
See p. 4 (bottom).
SUMMARY OF CHANGES
1. Replace PSYC 2302 with PSYC 2308, PSYC 2314, or PSYC 3314 (Fr. 2nd)
2. Move PSYC 3381 from Jr. 2nd to So. 1st.
3. Move PSYC 3387 from Sr. 2nd to So. 2nd.
4. Separate PSYC 3304, PSYC 4312, or PSYC 4328 in Sr. 1st, moving PSYC 4312 and 4328 to Jr. 1st, and replacing
PSYC 3304 with PSYC 43XX[4350] in Jr. 2nd.
5. Combine PSYC 4322 and PSYC 4325 (Jr. 1st) into PSYC 4322 or PSYC 4325.
6. Add PSYC 43XX[4301] and PSYC 43XX[4303], replacing PSYC 4308, as alternatives to PSYC 3301 and PSYC
4302 in Jr. 2nd.
7. Replace PSYC, adv. (Jr. 1st), with PSYC 43XX[4329] (Sr. 1st).
8. Replace Elective, adv. (Jr. 2nd) with PSYC 43XX[4330] or PSYC 33XX[3325] (Sr. 2nd.).
9. Move POLS 2301 (1st) and POLS 2302 (2nd) from So. to Jr.
10. Change Elective to Elective, adv. in Sr. 1st, and split the 6 hours between Sr.1st and Sr. 2nd.
11. Split 6 hours of Minor, adv. in Sr. 2nd between Sr. 1st and Sr. 2nd.
RATIONALE:
1. The Psychology program is moving to a one-semester introductory course rather than the existing two-semester
course, in keeping with the common practice at 90% of undergraduate psychology programs. This allows us to
offer the option of a second, more specialized course appropriate for beginning students.
2. Statistics is a gateway course in a psychology curriculum and should be taken before moving to more advanced
courses. In addition, this course is valuable in allowing students to change majors early if psychology is not a
good fit.
3. Experimental Psychology is a gateway course in a psychology curriculum and should be taken before moving to
more advanced courses. In addition, this course is valuable in allowing students to change majors early if
psychology is not a good fit.
4. PSYC 4312, Physiological Psych, and PSYC 4328, Perception, will be our WI courses. PSYC 43XX[4350], ref.
PSYC-14-U-6, is essentially a renumbering of PSYC 3304, Psych of Learning.
5. PSYC 4322, Personality, and PSYC 4325, Abnormal, overlap substantially; requiring both is somewhat redundant.
6. The new courses PSYC 43XX[4301], Cross Cultural Psychology, ref. PSYC-14-U-10, and PSYC 43XX[4303],
ref. PSYC-14-U-7, Environmental Psychology, are more suitable alternatives to PSYC 3301, Social Psychology,
and PSYC 4302, Industrial/Organizational, than PSYC 4308, Testing, is.
7. Cognitive Psychology, PSYC 43XX[4329], ref. PSYC-14-U-3, is an essential topic in current psychology.
8. The material covered in Biological Psychology, PSYC 43XX[4330], ref. PSYC-14-U-4, and Evolutionary
Psychology PSYC 33XX[3325], ref. PSYC-14-U-5, is central to the science of psychology.
9. This makes room for changes 2 and 3.
10. The present plan falls short in advanced hours. Also, splitting these electives between terms makes the
requirement of two courses more apparent.
11. Splitting these Minor hours between terms makes the requirement of two courses more apparent.
NOTES:
This proposal must be acted on in concert with PSYC-14-U-3, which creates PSYC 43xx[4329]; PSYC-14-U-4, which
creates PSYC 43xx[4330]; PSCY-14-U-5, which creates PSYC 33xx[3325]; PSYC-14-U-6, which changes the course
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number from 3304 to 43xx[4350]; PSYC-14-U-7, which creates Environmental Psychology 43xx[4303]; PSYC-14-U-8,
which deletes PSYC 2302; PSYC-14-U-10, which creates Cross-Cultural Psychology 43xx[4301].
CATALOG PAGES AFFECTED:
2014-2016 Undergraduate p. 226
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Present Catalog Material:
Degree Requirements
Bachelor of Arts
Psychology
Freshman Year
Junior Year
ENGL 1301
3
COMS 1311
3
PSYC 4322
3
HIST 1301
MATH 1314 or
MATH 1334
PSYC 2301
UNIV 1101
Kinesiology
3
3
ENGL 1302
HIST 1302
3
3
PSYC 4325
Elective
3
3
3
1
1
14
PSYC 2302
UNIV 1102
Minor
3
1
3
16
Foreign language
PSYC, adv.
ENGL 2342
3
ENGL 2362
3
POLS 2301
^Creative arts
^Life/physical sciences+
Minor
3
3
3
3
15
POLS 2302
SOCI 2361
^Life/physical sciences+
Minor
3
3
3
3
15
Sophomore Year
PSYC 3301, PSYC 4302
or PSYC 4308
PSYC 3381
Elective, adv.
3
3
3
15
Minor, adv.
Foreign language
3
3
15
3
PSYC 3387
3
6
3
3
15
PSYC 4323
Foreign language
Minor, adv.
3
3
6
15
3
3
Senior Year
PSYC 3304, PSYC 4312,
or PSYC 4328
Elective
Foreign language
PSYC, adv.
Total Hours Required: 120
+ BIOL or CHEM recommended
Proposed Catalog Material:
Degree Requirements
Bachelor of Arts
Psychology
Freshman Year
Junior Year
ENGL 1301
HIST 1301
3
3
COMS 1311
ENGL 1302
3
3
POLS 2301
PSYC 4312 or
PSYC 4328
3
3
MATH 1314 or
MATH 1334
PSYC 2301
3
HIST 1302
3
3
3
UNIV 1101
Kinesiology
1
1
14
PSYC 2308, PSYC 2314,
or PSYC 3314
UNIV 1102
Minor
PSYC 4322 or
PSYC 4325
Elective
Foreign language
PSYC, adv.
1
3
16
Sophomore Year
3
3
3
POLS 2302
PSYC 3301, PSYC
43XX[4301], PSYC
4302, or PSYC
43XX[4303]
PSYC 43XX[4350]
3
Minor, adv.
3
3
3
18
Foreign language
3
15
PSYC 33XX[3325] or
PSYC 43XX[4330]
PSYC 4323
Foreign language
Minor, adv.
3
Total Hours Required:
120
3
Senior Year
ENGL 2342
3
ENGL 2362
3
PSYC 43XX[4329]
3
PSYC 3381
^Creative arts
^Life/physical sciences+
Minor
3
3
3
3
15
PSYC 3387
SOCI 2361
^Life/physical sciences+
Minor
3
3
3
3
15
Elective, adv.
Foreign language
Minor, adv.
PSYC, adv.
3
3
3
3
15
3
3
3
12
+ BIOL or CHEM recommended
^For courses listed under Core Curriculum “Components” see “General Requirements for Graduation with a Baccalaureate Degree”
in an earlier section of this Catalog