Course Approval
New Course Proposal Core Course Proposal
New Course Proposals
Listed below is the number and title of a new course proposed to the Creighton College of Arts and Sciences. By clicking on the title, you may view the course description and by clicking on the syllabus link you may view the course syllabus.
Questions or
observations about a proposed course should be sent (through the faculty
member's department Chair) to the Associate
Dean's Administrative Assistant within 14 calendar days
(a.k.a. two weeks) of the posting date. If there are no objections by
that time or if all objections have been resolved, the course will be
adopted by the College. The number, title, course description,
prerequisites, and cross listing information will appear in the University
Undergraduate Bulletin. Additions to the Core Curriculum usually exceed the
14 day approval process. Please see additional information under Core
Curriculum below.
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Listed below are the numbers and titles for courses which have been submitted to the Core Curriculum Committee for recommendation of approval. Once accepted for approval by the Dean's Office, the semester in which such approval will become effective will be posted below. The Committee meets monthly, hence the 14 day approval process timeframe is usually extended.
| Posted | Number | Title | Core Category | Effective Semester |
| 8/25/08 | ANT 383 | Cultural Epidemiology: Global Perspectives | B | |
| 4/11/08 | SPN 401 | Advanced Spanish Conversation and Composition | CW | 200870 |
| 4/11/08 | SWK 460/480 | Field Practicum | A | |
| 4/10/08 | SWK 499 | Religion, Spirituality and Social Justice | A | |
| 4/3/08 | HIS 595 | Writing for Publication | CW | |
| 3/25/08 | CHN 202 | Intermediate Chinese II | E | 200870 |
| 3/25/08 | CHN 201 | Intermediate Chinese I | E | 200870 |
| 3/14/08 | BIO 425 | Development of Biological Thought | CW | |
| 3/10/08 | ART 389 | Women, Art and Society | CW | |
| 3/10/08 | ART 385 | History of Northern Renaissance Art and Architecture | CW | |
| 3/10/08 | ART 361 | History of Italian Renaissance Art and Architecture | CW | 200870 |
| 2/28/08 |
COM 111 |
Introduction to Communication Studies | D | 200870 |
| 2/15/08 | SOC 214 | Statistics for the Social Sciences | E | 200870 |
| 2/6/08 | BIO/EVS 539 | Ecology of Zoonotic Diseases | CW | 200870 |
| 2/4/08 | SRP/EDU 470 | Poverty in America | A, CW | 200840 |
| 1/2/08 |
ANT/SOC/ SRP/NAS/424 |
Sustainability and Rural America | A | 200870 |
| 12/4/07 | THL 341 | Ecclesiology in Context: The Church in El Salvador | B | 200840 |
| 11/28/07 | ATS 510 | Introduction to Physical Meteorology | CW | 200870 |
| 9/10/07 | PHL/PLS 365 | Classics of Political Thought | CW | |
| 8/24/07 | ART 154 | Clay Modeling I | E | 200810 |
| 8/24/07 | ART 155 | Welded Metal Sculpture I | E | 200810 |
| 8/24/07 | ART 156 | Bronze Casting I | E | 200810 |
| 8/24/07 | ART 157 | Stone Carving I | E | 200810 |
| 8/24/07 | SRP 451 | Science and Values | A CW | 200810 |
| 4/27/07 | THL 327 | Christianity and the Holocaust | A | 200810 |
Distance Education Courses
Listed below are the numbers and titles of new or existing courses which have been submitted to the College for approval to be taught as distance education courses. The Higher Learning Commission requires that the College review these courses and their modes of delivery according to the Creighton University "Quality in Distance Education Policy" and the College's own "Distance Education Policy." While the syllabus attached will show some of the features of the course's distance education pedagogy; the Distance Education Committee of Faculty Senate reviews these courses dynamically online in Blackboard or other infrastructures supported by DoIT.
| Number | Title | Credits | Syllabus Link | Approved |
| ENG 150 | Rhetoric and Composition | 3 | Syllabus ENG 150 |
Notification of Course Changes
Attention Chair or Program Director: Certain changes to the courses in your curriculum do not need approval of the College faculty. However, proper recording and notification of these changes is necessary. Please notify the College through the Notification of Course Changes form. Send to Admin 228. c/o the Associate Dean.
University and College Policies: Course title and number may not be changed at the same time. For course description changes, please consult the Associate Dean. Before changing course numbers, please check with the Registrar to ensure that the number is available (old numbers can be used after 5 years has lapsed since old course was offered). Please refer to the form for additional notices. Following are changes which have been made during AY 2007-2008.
| Number | Title | Credits | Effective | Date Applied for Change |
Change |
| THL 523 | Israelite Religions | 3 | 200910 | 8/27/08 | Cross List CNE 523 |
| ATE 161 | Life Skills for Student Athletes | 1 | 200910 | 8/27/08 | New Title to Life Skills for Student
Athletes New prefix EXS |
| EDU 301 | Methods of Teaching Lang Arts in Elem School I, II | 3 | 200910 | 8/27/08 | New Number EDU
565 EDU Major Change Prereq to EDU 503/510 Co-req EDU 566 |
| EDU 302 | Methods of Social Studies in Elementary Teaching I | 3 | 200910 | 8/27/08 | New Number EDU 567 EDU Major Change Prereq to EDU 502/510 |
| EDU 303 | Methods of Social Studies in Elementary Teaching II | 3 | 200910 | 8/27/08 | New Number EDU
568 EDU Major Change Prereq to EDU
503/510 |
| EDU 304 | Methods of Teaching Science in Elementary School I, II | 3 | 200910 | 8/27/08 | New Number EDU
569 EDU Major |
| EDU 311 | Teaching of Reading | 3 | 200910 | 8/27/08 | New number EDU 566 New title-Methods of Teaching Elementary Reading
Prereq to EDU 103/503 &210/510 |
| EDU 451 | Elementary School Observation and Student Teaching I, II | 3 | 200910 | 8/27/08 | New Number EDU
591 New Title Student Teaching Pre-req to EDU 525, 565-569 Senior Stdg Co-req EDU 593 |
| EDU 453 | Elementary School Observation and Student Teaching I, II | 3 | 200910 | 8/27/08 | New Number EDU
593 New Title Student Teaching
Seminar |
| AMS 369 | American Popular Music | 3 | 200870 | 4/6/08 | Cross List with AMS 369 Change number to 369 during approval process |
| AMS 307 | Introduction to American Studies | 3 | 200870 | 3/25/08 | Cross List with HIS 307 |
| ANT 209 | Qualitative Analysis | 3 | 200870 | 2/28/08 | Cross List with AMS 209 |
| ANT 330 | Museums and Social Science | 3 | 200870 | 2/28/08 | Cross List with AMS 330 |
| ANT 331 | Indians of the Great Plains | 3 | 200870 | 2/28/08 | Cross List with AMS 331 |
| ANT 340 | Native American Cultures and Health | 3 | 200870 | 2/28/08 | Cross List with AMS 340 |
| ANT 343 | Peoples and Cultures of Native North America | 3 | 200870 | 2/28/08 | Cross List with AMS 343 |
| ANT 358 | Critical Issues in the Study of Native American Religions | 3 | 200870 | 2/28/08 | Cross List with AMS 358 |
| SOC 223 | Social Problems | 3 | 200870 | 2/28/08 | Cross List with AMS 223 |
| SOC 355 | Environment and Society | 3 | 200870 | 2/28/08 | Cross List with AMS 355 |
| SOC 360 | Gender, Society and Culture | 3 | 200870 | 2/28/08 | Cross List with AMS 360 |
| SOC 411 | Social Inequality | 3 | 200870 | 2/28/08 | Cross List with AMS 411 |
| SOC 470 | Intro to Geographic Information Systems | 3 | 200870 | 2/28/08 | Cross List with
ANT 470 Cross List with AMS 470 |
| ANT 215 | Sociology of Health Care | 3 | 200870 | 2/19/08 | New Title to Healthcare, Society and Culture |
| THL 205 | Sickness, Disability & Healing in the Bible | 3 | 200870 | 1/7/08 | Prereq -
CCAS or Nursing students only |
| THR/DAN 355 | Lighting Design I | 3 | 200870 | 1/18/08 | Prereqs to THR 131 or THR 153 |
| PHL 459 | Marxism | 3 | 200840 | 10/30/07 | Cross List with GER 459 |
| PLS 401 | The European Union | 3 | 200840 | 10/30/07 | Cross List with GER 401 |
| PHL 374 | History of 19th Century | 3 | 200840 | 10/30/07 | Cross List GER 374 |
| SPN 571 | Latinos in the Movies | 3 | 200810 | 10/26/07 | New Title to Latin American Film |
| SPN 525 | Encuentro España | 3 | 200810 | 10/26/07 | New title to Encuentro Español II |
| SPN 324 | Encuentro Español | 3 | 200810 | 10/26/07 | New number SPN
424 Prereq SPN 202 or IC |
| SPN 401 | Advanced Spanish Conversation and Composition | 3 | 200810 | 10/26/07 | New title to Advanced Spanish Composition |
| GER 302 | Advanced German II | 3 | 200810 | 10/26/07 | New number to
GER 304 Prereq to GER 303 |
| GER 301 | Advanced German I | 3 | 200810 | 10/26/07 | New number to GER 303 |
| SRP 451 | Media Tools for Ethics Education in Physics | 3 | 200810 | 9/5/07 | Title to Science and Values |
| ART 153 | Sculpture I | 3 | 200810 | 8/24/07 | Title to 3D Foundations |
| SRP 450 | Violence in America | 3 | 200810 | 8/24/07 | Cross List with EDU 450 |