Social Sciences Subcommittee
REPORT

January 2010

I.	MARSHALL SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
A.	Pre-Business
Terminate a Program								Eff. Term: FALL 2010
1.	B.S.	Pre-Business
Terminate Pre-Business (POSt 497).  Marshall converted to a four-year degree program several years ago and admits freshmen directly into it.
	>	Approved

B.	Graduate School of Business Administration
Revise a course
1.	GSBA-523T	
Eff. Term: FALL 2010	
NEW: Communication for Accounting and Tax Professionals (3)
Communication strategies to ensure effective communication to internal and external business audiences at all levels; business writing and presentations; electronic communication; communicating ethics in business. (Duplicates credit in GSBA 502, the former GSBA 502b, GSBA 523, and GSBA 542). Open only to: Accounting, Business Taxation, Law/Business, and Taxation majors
CURRENT:  Communication for Accounting Professionals (3)
Communications strategy for internal audit reports, management letters, proposals: engagement team planning; oral presentations; case and field studies; critical thinking for audit communication requirements, research.	
	>	Approved

II.	ANNENBERG SCHOOL FOR COMMUNICATION & JOURNALISM 
Communication-COMM 
Revise a course								    Eff. Term: FALL 2010
1.	COMM-200		
Communication and Social Science (4)
Social scientific inquiry into human communication; core theories of message production and reception in interpersonal, group and organizational contexts. 	
Add a discussion section (add mode of ‘D’ to SIS.)  No change to the catalogue.
	>	Approved

III.	COLLEGE OF LETTERS ARTS & SCIENCES			
A.	Anthropology
Revise a Program									Eff. Term: Fall 2010
1.	B.A.	Anthropology [128 units]
Revise program to have three tracks: Cultural Anthropology (formerly an area of emphasis, which is being dropped), Medical Anthropology and Biological Anthropology.  All three tracks share the same lower division core (8 units) and one upper division requirement (4 units).  The remaining courses vary, but the total number of units (40 for the major) is the same for all tracks, and is unchanged from the previous major.
	>	Approved
NOTE:  Subcommittee chair recommended a clarification of the catalogue copy.

Terminate a Program								Eff. Term: Fall 2010
2.	B.A.	Anthropology (Urban Applied Anthropology) [128 units]
This area of emphasis has become the Cultural Anthropology track in the revised BA Anthropology (the courses are almost the same)
	>	Approved

B.	Psychology
Create two new courses								Eff. Term: FALL 2010 
	
1.	PSYC-440		
Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience (4)
Introduction to the major components of cognition (perception, memory, intelligence) in terms of the neural coding characteristic of the relevant brain areas.  Prerequisite(s): PSYC-100	
	>	Approved
NOTE:  This course should be included in the ‘cognitive’ list in the B.A., Psychology major.

2.	PSYC-500L	Eff. Term: FALL 2010	
An Overview of Quantitative Methods in Psychology (4)
Team taught introduction to Analysis of Variance, Regression Analysis, Multivariate Measurement, and Significance Testing. Computer laboratory linked to class material using SAS, SPSS, and R. Open only to Psychology majors.	
	>	Approved

IV. 	SCHOOL OF POLICY, PLANNING, AND DEVELOPMENT 
Create a new course								Eff. Term: FALL 2010
1.	PPDE-630		
Community Health Planning (4)
The role of planning in sustaining community health; examines relationship between health and environment; historical development, conceptualization and practice of community health planning