Curriculum Approval
Academic Year 2008-2009
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Napa Valley College______Office of Instruction
MEMO TO: Napa Valley College Board of Trustees
VIA: Dr. Christopher McCarthy
FROM: Sue Nelson, Co-Chair; Curriculum Committee
Erik Shearer, Co-Chair; Curriculum Committee
DATE: May 14, 2009
SUBJECT: CURRICULUM APPROVAL
The following curriculum proposals have been carefully reviewed and approved within the fall 2008 semester and spring 2009 semester by the appropriate division, division chair, Curriculum Committee and Academic Senate. They are hereby recommended for approval by the Board of Trustees.
1.0 NEW COURSES (CREDIT)
1.1 ART 227: Encaustic Painting Workshop
1 - 2 Units, Transfers to: CSU
Rationale: This short-term course focuses on the history, materials, and applications of wax- based paints, traditionally called "encaustics." This course was successfully offered twice as a 298 and is ready for incorporation into our permanent curriculum.
1.2 ARTH 110: History of Graphic Design
3 Units, Transfers to: CSU
Rationale: This course will be required for the new A.A. in Graphic Design, facilitated by the CTE grant. It will also provide important historical and critical context for those studying and practicing Graphic Design.
1.3 CHEM 105: Chemistry for the Health Sciences
4 Units, Transfers to: CSU
Rationale: CHEM 110 does not provide adequate preparation for the Biology courses nursing students must take. To amend these deficiencies it is proposed that we add a new course, CHEM 105, that is specifically tailored to the needs of our nursing students and better prepare them for their Biology courses.
1.4 CISA 168: Advanced Microsoft Excel for Business Professionals
1 Unit, Transfers to: CSU
Rationale: This course is designed to be offered as a 9 week short-term course. It focuses on the needs of business professionals for use in the office or home environment and will provide training in advanced features of Microsoft Excel.
1.5 COUN 130: Crisis Intervention in Human Services
3 Units, Transfers to: CSU
Rationale: Crisis intervention is a new course for individuals working in Human Services. In addition, several non-profit agencies in Napa County have offered this curriculum as a training requirement for volunteers who work at their site. The agencies are no longer able to afford the training, and have requested Napa Valley College offer the training. This training will help all Human Services students working in the field and better prepare them for their required internship. It will also become part of the certificate and degree requirement in Human Services.
1.6 COUN 131: Introduction to Group Process
3 Units, Transfers to: CSU
Rationale: This is one of 5 new courses for the new Addiction Studies 38-unit Certificate and 60 units AS degree program. The other units beyond the 5 new courses are taken from the existing Human Services Courses and Program. This certificate and degree is in response to a labor market survey conducted in five surrounding counties which has demonstrated the need for training Drug and Alcohol Counselors. The Addiction Studies Program will meet the State guidelines for CAADE, California Association of Alcohol and Drug Educators, and meet the State guidelines for certifying Drug and Alcohol Counselors. It is comparable to 36 other Addiction Studies programs offered at CA Community Colleges.
1.7 COUN 132: Alcohol & Drug Prevention and Treatment
3 Units, Transfers to: CSU
Rationale: This course covers the introduction to treatment services in Addiction Studies. Treatment services are addressed in more depth in the COUN 133 Assessment and Treatment Planning in Addiction Treatment, and COUN 134 Co-Occurring Disorders in Addiction courses.
1.8 COUN 133: Assessment and Treatment Planning in Addiction Studies
2 Units, Transfers to: CSU
Rationale: This course is a co-requisite for COUN 126: Introduction to Case Management, which covers the primary case management principles applied to the Human Services work settings. COUN 133 specializes in applying the case management concepts to Alcohol and Drug Treatment, and examines and applies the assessment and treatment planning techniques to the drug and alcohol work settings.
1.9 COUN 134: Co-occurring Disorders in Addiction
3 Units, Transfers to: CSU
Rationale: This is a specialized course dealing with understanding and treating persons with psychological, physical and substance use disorders (co-occurring). It is similar to COUN 132 and COUN 133 in the way it looks at treatment and understanding of substance abuse, but the focus is in working with co-occurring disorders.
1.10 COUN 135: Pharmacology & the Physiological Effects of Addiction
3 Units, Transfers to: CSU
Rationale: This course is similar to the Addiction Studies courses in a broad sense of understanding the stages of addiction. It is also similar to HEOC 101 in examining general principles of pharmacology. However, this is a very specialized course that includes pharmacology as it applies to persons using and abusing substances.
1.11 DANS 126: Cardio Salsa
1 – 1.5 Units, Transfers to: CSU
Rationale: Created in order to expand the Dance/PE department offerings to reach out to a more diverse population in accordance with the PEP report findings.
1.12 DANS 128: Salsa and Latin Social Dance Forms
1 – 1.5 Units, Transfers to: CSU
Rationale: Created in order to expand the Dance/PE department offerings to reach out to a more diverse population in accordance with the PEP report findings.
1.13 DANS 132: Dance Styles
1 – 1.5 Units, Transfers to: CSU
Rationale: This course will allow students to learn a variety of dance styles/genres.
1.14 DANS 133: Ballet Fit
1 – 1.5 Units, Transfers to: CSU
Rationale: This course focuses on specific conditioning methods to enhance ballet performance and overall physical fitness. Created to expand the dance program and contribute to the fitness elements of the PE department.
1.15 DART 85: Digital Art Academy
.5 - 3 Units
Rationale: The creation of this course is a fundamental charge of the CTE Community Collaborative Grant and will provide high school and other students interested in the digital arts the opportunity for an intensive, two-week summer academy that will broadly introduce them to various aspects of the Digital Arts curriculum and provide information about career pathways in this field. This course touches on some content covered in other DART, ART and PHOT courses, but does so at a much less sophisticated level and is primarily geared towards students without college experience.
1.16 DART 155: Production & Prepress
3 Units, Transfers to: CSU
Rationale: This course is an essential component of the new degrees and certificates in Graphic Arts. No courses in our curriculum currently cover this subject matter.
1.17 DART 160: Introduction to Adobe Flash
3 Units, Transfers to: CSU
Rationale: This course will round out our offerings in the sequence of courses focusing on Adobe imaging and design software. This course is also a key component of our new degrees and certificates in the multi-media arts, digital photography, and graphic design.
1.18 DRAM 127: Voice, Speech and Text
2 Units, Transfers to: CSU
Rationale: A voice, speech and text course is currently not in the curriculum and is integral to the development of students focusing on acting/theater.
1.19 DRAM 130: Stage Combat
2 Units, Transfers to: CSU
Rationale: There are no other courses at Napa Valley College teaching this stage combat. It is a course that is offered at other community colleges. It will allow students to take the course here rather than traveling out of the county.
1.20 DRAM 137: Stage Movement
2 Units, Transfers to: CSU
Rationale: A stage movement course is currently not in the dramatic art curriculum and is essential to the development of the actor's instrument.
1.21 DRAM 154: Repertory Theater
3 Units, Transfers to: CSU
Rationale: In 2009, the Department of Dramatic Art will be operating out of new Performing Arts Facility that will offer multiple performance opportunities. Currently, we do not have a course that provides students with the opportunity to work in rep. Students will be able to participate in more than one show per semester.
1.22 EDUC 110: African American Youth in Education
3 Units, Transfers to: CSU
Rationale: This course aims to explore African American youth and their interaction with the education system and the education system's response to African American youth. Teachers need additional information on who their students are and how schools and teachers impact students. This course is a compliment and follow-up to the CFS 184 Teaching Children in a Diverse Society and EDUC 100 Teaching as a Profession. This course provides more focus on a specific group and is geared toward K-14 educators. The demographics of our community and the college DTF plan indicate a need for such courses.
1.23 HEOC 97: Preparation for Healthcare Programs
3 Units
Rationale: This course will offer preparatory skills training for pre-nursing and beginning nursing students, pre-respiratory therapy and beginning respiratory therapy students, and pre- paramedic and beginning paramedic students. It will be offered as a distance education course to increase accessibility for students and to encourage participation from students awaiting entry into a nursing, respiratory therapy, or paramedic programs. It is believed that gaining skills prior to entry into these health care programs will improve student retention.
1.24 LRNS 77: Assistive Technology for Learning
.5 Unit
Rationale: The Assistive Technology lab will support students in learning different technologies to access reading. Recognizing that students learn in different modalities, teaching alternative technologies to access the written word will support students in gaining college level reading abilities. This course will provide an opportunity for students to learn to incorporate current technologies to access electronic text and audio books. Students completing the lab will gain the skills necessary to read, comprehend and study college level material. This meets the needs of students, community at large, and overall improves the college curriculum.
1.25 MUSI 90: Supervised Music Lab
.5 – 1 Unit
Rationale: The course will create a supervised lab class for students to practice their performing arts skills such as: piano, voice, theory, ear training, etc. This course is the first in the curriculum designed to link with other music.
1.26 MUSI 124: Computer Applications in Music
3 Units, Transfers to: CSU
Rationale: The course will be added to the music curriculum in response to the increased use of technology in the training and creation of music. The class will be an introduction to both hardware and software related and currently used by music industry professionals, and its growth in professional and academic use. This is the first course in the music curriculum that integrates the use of computer with music notational skills and digital sound capture and manipulation.
1.27 MUSI 126: Introduction to Sound Reinforcement & Recording
3 Units, Transfers to: CSU
Rationale: The course will be added to the music curriculum in response to the increased use of technology in the creation and reproduction of music. The class will be an introduction to both hardware and software related and currently used by music industry professionals in the field of sound reinforcement and recording: live and studio. It is the introductory course in a sound reinforcement and recording program of music technology.
1.28 MUSI 266: Women’s Ensemble
1 Unit, Transfers to: CSU
Rationale: The course will increase the offerings for women singers who need to expand the musical difficulty of their performance repertoire. This group will sing advanced musical and performance difficulty repertoire. The repertoire will be advanced (3-6 part harmony), using extended vocal range and rhythmic complexity, focusing on complex harmonies performed in "a capella" performance style.
1.29 PHOT 122: Intermediate Photography
3 Units, Transfers to: CSU
Rationale: This course complements existing offerings in our studio arts program. This new course will give students the studio time to enhance their techniques and aesthetic sensibilities and prepare students for advanced courses.
1.30 PHOT 152: Advanced Digital Imaging
3 Units, Transfers to: CSU
Rationale: Currently PHOT 150, Digital Imaging for Photographers, Is far too comprehensive for a one semester course. The advisory committee to the Photography Technology Program has reviewed and also recommended a 2 course, 2 semester approach and PHOT 151 has been created. This course, PHOT 153, would be the Third in that sequence that aligns with the Digital Arts curriculum. The shift to digital imaging in photography is rapid and profound. The greatest request we receive from students is for more digital courses. We feel this approach and this course will better support the needs of our students in a rapidly changing field.
1.31 PHOT 281: Digital Tools for Artist Promotion
3 Units, Transfers to: CSU
Rationale: This class is part of number of classes with a digital emphasis. PHOT 281 will be a required class for the Digital Media certificate. With Kodak's retirement of the beloved Carousal slide projector, artists have turned to digital tools to promote their work. This class will focus on three methods of promoting work: A DVD, webpage and book. Using digital such as Apple's DVD studio Pro and Aperture and Adobe's InDesign, Acrobat and Flash, artist now have at their finger tips tools for self promotion. Professional artists in the community wanting a way to promote and market their work to students submitting their portfolio as a critical part of the admissions process, now have the tools available to them. Students completing this course will acquire skill necessary to become Apple authorized in DVD Studio Pro software
1.32 PHYE 117: Fundamentals of Rock Climbing
1.5 Units, Transfers to: CSU
Rationale: We do not currently offer any courses in this area. We have had interest expressed by students to add this curriculum to our selection of offerings. We have an off campus site that will host the classes.
1.33 PHYE 180: Critical Issues for Student/Athletes
1 Unit, Transfers to: CSU
Rationale: Student athletes need specialized orientation and guidance to cover athletic eligibility, major and transfer requirements. There are no other courses that focus on this content in our division. This is specifically designed to meet the needs of student-athletes.
1.34 PSYC 127: Psychology of Childhood and Adolescence
3 Units, Transfers to: CSU
Rationale: Currently the psychology department does not offer a course in the psychology of childhood and adolescence. Recent student surveys, as part of program review, revealed adolescent psychology to be the number one new course of interest. This course is differentiated from development-focused courses such as CFS 120 and PSYC 125 in that it emphasizes clinical issues, identity, neuroscience, social psychology, and criminality.