UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND

Kingston, Rhode Island

Faculty Senate

November 4, 2003

Faculty Senate Curricular Affairs Committee

Four Hundred Seventeenth Report

At the September 30 and October 27, 2003 meetings of the Curricular Affairs Committee and the September 5 and October 31, 2003 meetings of the Graduate Council the following matters at the 400-level were considered and are now presented to the Faculty Senate.

SECTION I

Informational Matters

College of Engineering

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

CHANGE: Prerequisite for the following courses:

a. CVE 472 to "Pre: permission of instructor."

b. CVE 475 to "Pre: 370 or permission of instructor."

c. CVE 478 to " Pre: permission of instructor."

SECTION II

A. *College of the Environment and Life Sciences

Department of Plant Sciences

CHANGE: Level, number and description for PLS 405 as follows:

PLS 215 (405) Propagation of Plant Materials (4)

Theory and practice of the propagation of ornamental plants by seed, cuttings, grafting and tissue culture (Lec. 2 Lab. 4) Pre: 150 or permission of instructor.

B. College of Human Science and Services

Department of Human Development and Family Studies

ADD: the following new course:

HDF 471 Responding to Grief (3)

Examines conceptual, psychosocial, somatic and pragmatic issues faced when grieving and how to cope or assist others accommodating imminent or realized loss due to death. (Lec. 3) Pre: 421, NUR 360 or equivalent or permission of instructor.

*No action by the Graduate Council. Not for graduate credit.