FSCC Homepage Contact Us RPInfo Site Index Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Updates for Rensselaer Catalog: 2006-2007
Ph.D. Requirements
Troy Course Additions
Troy Course Deletions
Communication Intensive Courses
Troy Other Changes
Hartford Course Deletions
Hartford Other Changes
 
Troy Course Additions 2006-2007
APPROVAL DATE SUBJECT
CODE		 COURSE
NUMBER		 COURSE TITLE
11/8/2006 DSES 4210 Design and Analysis of Supply Chains
11/8/2006 DSES 4290 Discrete Event Simulation Modeling and Analysis
11/8/2006 STSH 4430

Drugs in History (Communication Intensive)

11/8/2006 STSS 2210 Design, Culture and Society
11/8/2006 STSS 4430 Drugs in History (Communication Intensive)
12/6/2006 ITEC 1150 Introduction to UML (Unified Modeling Language)
12/6/2006 MATH 4090 Foundations of Analysis
2/7/2007 ARTS 4030 Multimedia Performance Systems
2/7/2007 ARTS 4080 Art, Community and Technology
2/7/2007 ARTS 4990 BS EARTS Thesis
2/7/2007 ARTS 6030 Multimedia Performance Systems
2/7/2007 BMED 2800 Sensing and Imaging
2/7/2007 BMED 4800 Subsurface Imaging
2/7/2007 COGS 6420 Perception and Action
2/7/2007 ECSE 2800 Sensing and Imaging
2/7/2007 ECSE 4090 Mechatronics
2/7/2007 ECSE 4800 Subsurface Imaging
2/7/2007 MGMT 4040 Mathematics and Statistical Foundation for Finance
2/7/2007 MGMT 4260 Financial Statement Analysis
2/7/2007 MGMT 4360 International Financial Management
2/7/2007 MGMT 6370 Options, Futures and Derivatives Markets
2/7/2007 MGMT 6430 Advanced Financial Statement Analysis
2/7/2007 MTLE 6120 Advanced Electronic Properties
2/7/2007 MTLE 6250 Advanced Mechanical Properties
2/7/2007 MTLE 6460 Adv. Structure and Bonding in Materials
2/7/2007 PHIL 1120 Minds and Machines
2/7/2007 PSYC 4310 Adv Experimental Methods and Statistics
2/21/2007 COMM 4210 Designing Interactive Characters for Digital Games
2/21/2007 COMM 6260 Rhetoric, Culture and Communication Technology
2/21/2007 COMM 6270 Digital Rhetoric
2/21/2007 COMM 6410 Ethnography and Cultural Analysis
2/21/2007 COMM 6790 Media Studies
2/21/2007 ECON 4260 Environmental and Resource Economics
2/21/2007 ECON 6120 Advanced Quantitative Analysis
2/21/2007 ECON 6190 International Economics and Globalization
2/21/2007 ECON 6260 Advanced Environmental and Resource Economics
2/21/2007 ECON 6260 Advanced Environmental and Resource Economics
3/21/2007 BIOL 4400 Bioterrorism, Biowarfare and Biodefense: A clear and present danger
4/4/2007 ECSE
 6220
 Physical Foundations of Solid-State Devices
       
Communications Intensive Courses
APPROVAL DATE SUBJECT
CODE		 COURSE
NUMBER		 COURSE TITLE
10/27/2006 ARTS 4963 New Media Theory
"This course qualifies as communication-intensive."
10/27/2006 IHSS 1210 Information in History and Society
"This course qualifies as communication-intensive."
10/27/2006 IHSS 1964 Minds and Machines
"This course qualifies as communication-intensive."
10/27/2006 IHSS 1970 Design, History and Society
"This course qualifies as communication-intensive."
10/27/2006 ITEC 1210 Information in History and Society
"This course qualifies as communication-intensive."
10/27/2006 LITR 2450 Utopian Literature
"This course qualifies as communication-intensive."
10/27/2006 PHIL 1960 Topics in Minds & Machines
"This course qualifies as communication-intensive."
10/27/2006 PHIL 2130 Philosophy of Science
"This course qualifies as communication-intensive."
10/27/2006 WRIT 1110 Writing for Classroom and Career
"This course qualifies as communication-intensive."
10/27/2006 WRIT 2110 Rhetoric and Writing
"This course qualifies as communication-intensive."
10/27/2006 WRIT 2310 Creative Writing
"This course qualifies as communication-intensive."
10/27/2006 WRIT 4120 Technical and Professional Communication
"This course qualifies as communication-intensive."
10/27/2006 WRIT 4550 Proposing and Persuading
"This course qualifies as communication-intensive."
11/11/2006 STSS 4430 Drugs in History
"This course qualifies as communication-intensive."
11/11/2006 STSH 4430 Drugs in History
"This course qualifies as communication-intensive."
2/5/2007 WRIT 4961 Science Writing (200701 only)
"This course qualifies as communication-intensive."
2/5/2007 WRIT 4962 Writing for Promotion and Marketing
"This course qualifies as communication-intensive."
4/4/2007 CHEM 4020 Experimental Chemistry III
"This course qualifies as communication-intensive."
4/4/2007 CHEM 4120 Experimental Chemistry IV
"This course qualifies as communication-intensive."
 
 

Return to Top
 
Troy Course Changes 2006-2007
APPROVAL DATE OLD COURSE NUMBER NEW COURSE
NUMBER		 COURSE TITLE NATURE OF CHANGE
11/8/2006 IHSS1500
 IHSS1610
 Product Design & Innovation Studio I
 Course number
11/8/2006 IHSS2500
 IHSS2610
 Product Design & Innovation Studio II
 Course number
11/8/2006 STSH2500
 STSH2310
 Bioethics
 Course number
11/8/2006 STSH4170
 STSH4220
 Ethical Issues in Computing
 Course number
11/8/2006 STSH4230
 STSH4210
 Engineering Ethics
 Course number
11/8/2006 STSH4300
 STSH4340
 Environmental Philosophy
 Course number
11/8/2006 STSH4570
 STSH4530
 Indian Politics and Culture
 Course number
11/8/2006 STSH4740
 STSH4320
 Philosophy of Law
 Course number
11/8/2006 STSH4840
 STSH4610
 Product Design & Innovation Studio V
 Course number
11/8/2006 STSS1210
 STSS1520
 Sociology
 Course number
11/8/2006 STSS2100
 STSS2400
 Medicine and Society
 Course number
11/8/2006 STSS2400
 STSS2350
 Laws, Values & Public Policy: Perspectives on Science and Technology
 Course number
11/8/2006 STSS2550
 STSS2250
 Information, Society and Culture
 Course number
11/8/2006 STSS2560
 STSS2460
 Human Evolution
 Course number
11/8/2006 STSS2630
 STSH2510
 *Foundations of American History Course number and Subject Code
11/8/2006 STSS2640
 STSH2520
 *History of the United States Since 1877
 Course number and Subject Code
11/8/2006 STSS2740
 STSH2530
 *World War II
 Course number and Subject Code
11/8/2006 STSS4140
 STSS4540
 Inequality in America
 Course number
11/8/2006 STSS4200
 STSH4520
 *China: Past and Present
 Course number and Subject Code
11/8/2006 STSS4270
 STSS4590
 The Social Relations of Science
 Course number
11/8/2006 STSS4320
 STSS4370
 Environmental Politics and Policy
 Course number
11/8/2006 STSS4400
 STSS4330
 New: 21st Century Risks: Robotics, Nanotechnology, Cloning, and Other Technologies Old: Risky Technologies
 Title, description, terms offered and course number
11/8/2006 STSS4500
 STSS4380
 Environment and Development
 Course number
11/8/2006 STSS4530
 STSS4460
 Body: Self, Symbol, and Politics
 Course number
11/8/2006 STSS4650
 STSH4510
 *History of American Technology
 Course number and Subject Code
12/6/2006 N/A MATH4950
 Senior Research
 Course number 4590 to 4950
12/6/2006 N/A MATH4010
 Abstract Algebra
 Description
12/6/2006 N/A MATH4040
 Introduction to Topology
 Description
12/6/2006 N/A MATH4200
 Mathematical Analysis I
 Description and terms offered
12/6/2006 N/A MATH4210
 Mathematical Analysis II
 Description and terms offered
12/6/2006 N/A MATH4950
 Senior Research
 Course number change
1/24/2007 PHYS6110
 PHYS6210

New: Mathematical Methods in Physics

Old: Methods in Theoretical Physics

 Title, description, credit hours, course number
1/24/2007 N/A PHYS6410
 Electrodynamics
 Description and credit hours
1/24/2007 N/A PHYS4510
 Quantum Mechanics I
 Description and credit hours
1/24/2007 N/A PHYS6510
 Quantum Mechanics I
 Description and credit hours
1/24/2007 N/A PHYS6520
 Quantum Mechanics II
 Description and credit hours
1/24/2007 N/A PHYS6590
 Statistical Mechanics
 Description and credit hours
2/7/2007 N/A MTLE6060
 New: Advanced Kinetics of Materials Reactions Old: Kinetics of Materials Reactions I
 Title
2/7/2007 N/A MTLE6030
 Advanced Thermodynamics
 Credit hours
2/7/2007 N/A MANE4030
 Elements of Mech Design
 Description
2/7/2007 N/A MANE4920
 Aerospace Structures and Control Lab
 Description
2/7/2007 N/A MANE4230
 Fixed Wing
 Description
2/7/2007 N/A MANE4060
 Aerospace Structural
 Description
2/7/2007 N/A MANE4850
 Transatmospheric Vehicle
 Description
2/7/2007 N/A MANE4900
 Aeroelasticity and Structural
 Description
2/7/2007 N/A ECSE4090
 Mechatronics
 x-list with MANE 4490
2/7/2007 N/A ECSE4900
 ECSE Design
 Description and corequisite change
2/7/2007 N/A ECSE4510
 Discrete Time System
 Description
2/7/2007 N/A ECSE4760
 Computer Application Lab
 Description and Title
2/7/2007 N/A ECSE4220
 VLSI Design
 Description
2/7/2007 N/A ECSE4790
 Microprocessor Systems
 Description and Title
2/7/2007 N/A ARCH4040
 Cities/Land
 Terms offered
2/7/2007 N/A ARCH4690
 Cast Studies
 Terms offered
2/7/2007 N/A ARTS6110
 Electronic Arts Overview
 Description, Terms offered and credit hours
2/7/2007 N/A ARTS2060
 Fundamentals of Animation
 Description and terms offered
2/7/2007 N/A ARTS4060
 Animation I
 Description
2/7/2007 N/A PHIL2830

New: Comparative Religion

Old: Intro to Philosophy of Religion

 Title and Description
2/7/2007 N/A ARCH4040
 Cities/Land
 Term change
2/7/2007 N/A ARCH4090
 Cast Studies
 Term change
2/21/2007 N/A ECON4190
 New: International Economics and Globalization Old: International Economics
 Prerequisite and title
2/21/2007 N/A COMM4400

New: Cross-Cultural Graphics

Old: Cross-Cultural Design Research

Title and Description
2/21/2007 N/A COMM6400

New: Cross-Cultural Graphics

Old: Cross-Cultural Design Research

Title and Description
2/21/2007 N/A LITR4160
 The Human Mind in Fiction
 Description and level
2/21/2007 N/A BIOL4990
 Senior Research Thesis
 Credit hours
2/21/2007 N/A MGMT6070
 Business Implications of Emerging Technologies II
 Prerequisite added
2/21/2007 N/A MGMT7040
 Strategy, Technology and Competition II
 Prerequisite added
2/21/2007 N/A MGMT7050

New: Design Manufacturing and Marketing I

Old: Developing Innovative New Products and Services I

 Title
2/21/2007 N/A MGMT7060

New: Design Manufacturing and Marketing II

Old: Developing Innovative New Products and Services II

 Title
3/21/2007 N/A MANE4260
 Design of Mechanical Systems
 Description, terms offered and prerequisite of Senior standing
3/21/2007 N/A MANE4860
 Introduction to Helicopter Design
 Description and prerequisite of Senior standing
3/21/2007 N/A MANE4230

New: Air Vehicle Design

Old: Fixed Wing Aircraft Design

 Title, Description and prerequisite of Senior standing
3/21/2007 N/A ISCI4510
 Origins of Life Seminar
 Grade Mode Change
3/21/2007 N/A BIOL1010
 Introduction to Biology
 Description
3/21/2007 N/A BIOL4400
 Bioterrorism
 Credit hours
4/4/2007 N/A CHEM4020
 Experimental Chemistry III (Communication Intensive)
 Description
4/4/2007 N/A CHEM4120
 Experimental Chemistry IV (Communication Intensive)
 Description
4/4/2007 N/A ENVE4330
 New: Introduction to Air Quality Old: Introduction to Air Quality Control
Course Title
4/4/2007 N/A ECSE4670
 Computer Communications Networks
 Description
  N/A ECSE6660
 Broadband & Optical Networking
 Description
         
*Students entering Rensselaer before Fall 2007 may take this course for social science credit for the purpose of satisfying the H&SS core distribution requirement.

Return to Top
 
Troy Course Deletions 2006-2007
APPROVAL DATE SUBJECT
CODE		 COURSE
NUMBER		 COURSE TITLE
10/26/2006 CIVL 4580 Infrastructure Engineering
10/26/2006 CIVL 6280 Infrastructure Asset Management
11/8/2006 BIOL 4280 Human Physiology II
11/8/2006 STSH 2670

History of 19th Century Europe
11/8/2006 STSH 2720 Masculine/Feminine
11/8/2006 STSH 4580 Modern Latin America
11/8/2006 STSH 4710 Psychology, Culture and Design
11/8/2006 STSH 4750 Troy, a 19th Century Industrial City
11/8/2006 STSH 4760 American Material Culture (American Architecture and Artifacts, 1700-1850)
11/8/2006 STSH 4780 Medieval Architecture and Art
11/8/2006 STSH 4800 Science, Technology, and Society Seminar: Selected Topics
11/8/2006 STSH 4920 Topics in Science, Technology, and Society
11/8/2006 STSS 2500 Historical and Cultural Perspectives
11/8/2006 STSS 2680 History of Contemporary Europe
11/8/2006 STSS 4110 Social Effects of Science and Technology
11/8/2006 STSS 4250 Human Dimensions of Biomedical Technologies
11/8/2006 STSS 4260 Sociology of Medicine
11/8/2006 STSS 4310 Politics of Science and Technology
11/8/2006 STSS 4330 World Politics
11/8/2006 STSS 4540 Environment, Law and Culture
11/8/2006 STSS 4550 The Middle East through Native and Western Eyes
11/8/2006 STSS 4580 Modern Latin America
11/8/2006 STSS 4610 20th Century Germany
11/8/2006 STSS 4620 History of Medicine
11/8/2006 STSS 4660 History of American Science
11/8/2006 STSS 4670 History of Information Technology
11/8/2006 STSS 4900 Science, Technology, and Society Seminar: Selected Topics
12/6/2006 MATH 2700 Fundamentals of Mathematics
12/6/2006 ERTH 4070 Sedimentology
12/6/2006 ERTH 6730 Groundwater Contaminant Transport
12/6/2006 ERTH 6720 Advanced Groundwater Hydraulics
1/24/2007 BIOL 4310 Industrial Microbiology
1/24/2007 BIOL 4360 Introductory Virology
1/24/2007 BIOL 4410 Plagues, Politics and People
1/24/2007 BIOL 4430 Aids: Paradise Lost
1/24/2007 BIOL 4870 Environmental Toxicology
1/24/2007 BIOL 6720 Molecular Biology of Plants
1/24/2007 CHEM 6030 Advanced Inorganic Chemistry II
1/24/2007 CHEM 6470 Photochemistry
1/24/2007 CHEM 6790 Protein Chemistry: Design and Modification
1/24/2007 PHYS 6310 Advanced Mechanics
2/7/2007 ARTS 2330 Ghanaian Drumming Ensemble
2/7/2007 ARTS 4910 Honors Capstone Design
2/7/2007 CIVL 4020 Computer Aid Design in CE
2/7/2007 COMM 4910 Honors Capstone Design
2/7/2007 ECSE 4290 Electronic Packaging
2/7/2007 MANE 4290 Electronics Packaging
2/7/2007 MTLE 4290 Electronics Packaging
2/7/2007 MTLE 4630 Composites Lab
2/7/2007 MTLE 6100 Adv Electron Microscopy
2/7/2007 MTLE 6350 Composite Materials
2/7/2007 MTLE 6830 Deformation of Materials and Rheology
2/21/2007 BCBP 4790 Protein Chemistry
2/21/2007 BCBP 6790 Protein Chemistry
2/21/2007 CHEM 4790 Protein Chemistry
2/21/2007 LITR 4450 Non-Western Fiction and Film
2/21/2007 LITR 6330 Critical Theory
3/21/2007 BIOL 1020 Introduction to Biology Laboratory
3/21/2007 DSES 2010 Statistics for Management
3/21/2007 MGMT 6310 Financial Management and Valuation of Firms
3/21/2007 MGMT 6710 Designing and Staffing High Performance Organizations I
       
 
Troy Other Course Changes 2006-2007

APPROVAL DATE & DESCRIPTION OF CHANGES

9/13/2006 Changes to the Environmental Engineering template
9/13/2006 Changes to the EMAC Curriculum
9/2/2006 Approved changes to the definition of culminating experience
11/8/2006 Change in Methods/Statistics Requirement
11/8/2006 Change in STS Concentration option
11/8/2006 Change in STS Template
11/8/2006 Change in Advanced Options
11/8/2006 Change in requirements for the STS minor.
11/8/2006 Change in requirements for various Disciplinary minors, Anthropology, History, Political Science, Sociology
11/8/2006 Change in requirements for Interdepartmental Minors, Ecological Values and Public Policy
11/8/2006 Changes to the minor in Gender, Science and Technology
11/8/2006 Proposal to change course numbers for STSH and STSS courses
11/8/2006 Changes in course titles or STSS/STSH designation
11/8/2006 Course additions and revisions
11/8/2006 Course deletions
11/8/2006 Edits to Interschool Minor in Energy
11/8/2006 Minor in Acoustics approved
11/8/2006 A 2 year grandfather clause was approved for the change in the STSS to STSH courses. Changes will be effective for the entering class of Fall 2007. Prior to Fall 2007 students will be allowed to count the STSH courses as STSS for the purposes of the Core requirement.
11/8/2006 72 hour PhD - Motion to approve the recommendation and send it back to the Faculty Senate for a vote by Faculty.
12/6/2006 Changes to the BS in ITEC Template
12/6/2006 Revisions to the Math template for the BS program
12/6/2006 Changes in the template for the BS in Geology program.
12/6/2006 A revised template for the BS in Hydrogeology.
12/6/2006 Changes to the Environmental Science template
2/7/2007 Changes to the B. Arch Template
2/7/2007 Changes to the EPOW Template
2/7/2007 Changes to the Philosophy Minors, Change the currently existing Minor in Philosophy of Science and Logic and replace it with two new minors, Minor in Logic, Computation, and Mind and Minor in Philosophy of Science and Mathematics. The currently existing Minor in Philosophy of 2/7/2007 Human Values and Society changed to Philosophy of Human Values and Cultures
2/21/2007 Delete the Web D&A concentration for BS Communication students
2/21/2007 Delete the COMM/IHSS 1969 Communication and Information Technology from BS Communication Template
2/21/2007 School of Architecture, PhD degree Change of Title, from PhD in Architectural Sciences with a concentration in Lighting to PhD in Lighting *contingent on approval by NYS
2/21/2007 Approved new minor Air and Space Studies
2/21/2007 Approved a new concentration for the BS in Communication called Graphic Design: Theory, Research, Practice.
3/21/2007 Approved revision to the minor in Game Studies
3/21/2007 Approved a minor revision to the B. Arch program
4/18/2007 Approved deleting MS in Building Conservation and MS in Informatics and Architecture
4/18/2007 Approved deleting the interdisciplinary BS dual major program in Product Design and Innovation
4/18/2007 Approved a motion to change the catalog text on minors to be consistent with the minor form
4/18/2007 Approved a change to the minor in Chemistry
 
 
Hartford Course Additions 2006-2007
  SUBJECT
CODE		 COURSE
NUMBER		 COURSE TITLE
Hartford Course Deletions 2006-2007
 
Hartford Other Course Changes 2006-2007
Approved MS Program Innovation and Corporate Entrepreneurship (ICE)
 
 
Return to Top
 FSCC Home  

Please send questions or comments about this site to Francine Fredette at fredef2@rpi.edu.