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Senate Bill 1112-26
UNIVERSITY SENATE
UNVERSITY AT ALBANY
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
Introduced by:
UAC
Date:
May 14, 2012
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENT TO CHEMISTRY B.S.,
CHEMICAL BIOLOGY EMPSHASIS
IT IS HEREBY PROPOSED THAT THE FOLLOWING BE ADOPTED:
1. That this takes effect for the Fall 2012 semester.
2. That this proposal be forwarded to President George M. Philip for approval.
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March 20, 2012
To Whom It May Concern:
This cover letter explains the Department of Chemistry's proposal for the additional
requirement of a three-credit advanced chemistry laboratory course for our B.S. Chemistry,
Chemical Biology Emphasis. While our B.S. Chemistry, Chemistry Emphasis (general program)
has long been certified by the American Chemical Society (ACS) and our two Forensics
Emphases have recently been certified, the Chemical Biology Emphasis currently lacks sufficient
advanced laboratory hours to be certified. It is our desire to have all of our B.S. degree programs
to be certified by ACS, hence this proposal.
The Chemical Biology Emphasis was originally proposed and approved several years ago
with a total of 68 credits. At that time, we had some difficulty in getting approval at that level of
credits, which was more than the usual 66 credits; thus, we did not incorporate the "extra" lab
course, which would have raised the total to an even higher 71 credits. In the interim, we have
gained University approval for our Comprehensive Forensics Emphasis (82 credits); there are
other degree programs, notably in the Nano School, that require even higher numbers of credits.
Thus, this seemed to be an auspicious time to propose this small addition to the Chemical
Biology track, so that it will be able to be certified by ACS when our programs are evaluated
again in the next couple of years.
We note that we have an accompanying course action that has been submitted in order to
develop an Honors B.S. Chemistry degree with Chemical Biology Emphasis. If you have further
questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Yours sincerely,
Paul Toscano
Associate Professor of Chemistry
and Director of UG Studies, Chem
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University at Albany – State University of New York
College of Arts and Sciences
Please check one:
Course and Program Action Form
Course Proposal
X
Proposal No.
12-057
Program Proposal
Please mark all that apply:
New Course
Revision of:
Number
X
Cross-Listing
Title
Shared-Resources Course
Credits
Deactivate/Activate Course (boldface & underline as appropriate)
Other (specify):
Department:
Chemistry
Course Number
Current: n/a
New:
Chemistry Department Program revised bulletin copy
Course Title:
Description
Prerequisites
Effective Semester, Year: Spring 2013
Credits: n/a
Course Description to appear in Bulletin:
Please see attached changes to Bulletin Copy below. Additions/changes are underlined.
Prerequisites statement to be appended to description in Bulletin:
If S/U is to be designated as the only grading system in the course, check here:
n/a
This course is (will be) cross listed with (i.e., CAS ###):
This course is (will be) a shared-resources course with (i.e., CAS ###):
Explanation of proposal:
We propose to add an advanced chemistry laboratory course requirement to our Chemical Biology Emphasis in order to allow this
program to be certified the next time that the American Chemical Society evaluates our B.S. degree programs.
Other departments or schools which offer similar or related courses and which have certified that this proposal does not overlap
their offering:
Chair of Proposing Department
Date
Li Niu
3/20/12
Approved by Chair(s) of Departments having cross-listed course(s)
[Copy of e-mail approval on following page.]
Chair of Academic Programs Committee
Pinka Chatterji
Date
Dean of College
Gregory Stevens
Date
Dean of Undergraduate or Graduate Studies
4/10/12
Date
4/10/11
Date
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General Program B.S. Within this program, a student has a choice of four tracks: Chemistry Emphasis
(66 credits); Chemical Biology Emphasis (71 credits); Chemistry/Forensics Chemistry Emphasis (69
credits); Comprehensive Forensics Chemistry Emphasis (82-83 credits). The specific requirements for
individual tracks are outlined below:
Chemical Biology Emphasis B.S. Combined major and minor sequence consisting of 71 credits: A
CHM 120 or 130 or T CHM 130, 121 or 131 or TCHM 131, 124, 125, 220, 221, 222, 223, 225, 350 or
444, 351 or 445, 352Z, 420, 442, 443, 446, 3 credits in advanced chemistry laboratory to be chosen from
A CHM 417, 426 or 430; A BIO 110 or 120 & 122, 111 or 121 & 123, 212; A MAT 111 or 112 or 118;
113 or 119; A PHY 140 or 141, 145, 150 or 151, 155.