Social Sciences Subcommittee
REPORT
September, 2007

I.   MARSHALL SCHOOL OF BUSINESS	Finance and Business Economics
New	Course	Eff. Term:	Spring 2008
FBE-435	Applied Finance in Fixed Income Securities
	(4)
Emphasis on hedging tools necessary for portfolio managers.  Introduction of all securities available in fixed income and provision of tools to analyze investments.  Prerequisite: BUAD 306.
>	Approved

IIA.  COLLEGE OF LETTERS ARTS & SCIENCES	Political Science
New	Course	Eff. Term:	Spring 2008
POSC-323	Applied Politics: Civic Engagement and Leadership
	(4)
Provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary to become active in politics based on understanding the history, theory, and practices of public participation.
>	Approved

IIB.  COLLEGE OF LETTERS ARTS & SCIENCES	Psychology
New	Course	Eff. Term:	Spring 2008
PSYC-425	Functional Imaging of the Human Brain
	(4)
Introduction to the physical and physiological bases of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), and principles of functional MRI, safety, design and analysis of experiments, and operation.  Prerequisites: PSYC 100, PSYC 274.
>	Approved

IIC.  COLLEGE OF LETTERS ARTS & SCIENCES	Sociology
New	Course	Eff. Term:	Spring 2008
SOCI-420	Sociology of Violence
	(4)
Theoretical, conceptual and analytical skills in the study of collective violence, its legacies, and how society deals with it.  Cross listed as AMST 420.  
>	Approved
To be added to Theme Area III, Social Organization, list for the major in Sociology.  Not to be added to any specific list for the options for the general minor in Sociology, nor for the minor in Forensics and Criminality.