What’s New for 2022-2023

Items approved for the 2022-2023 academic year are listed below.

New Academic Programs

Master’s Degrees

• Nutrition and Dietetics (M.S.)  
• Professional Science (M.S.)  

Certificates

• Applied Physics Certificate  
• Biotechnology Certificate  
• Environmental Policy Certificate  
• Food Technology Certificate  
• Geographic Information Sciences Certificate  
• Institutional Research and Assessment in Higher Education Certificate  
• Post-Graduate Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Certificate  
• Precision Agriculture Certificate  
• Professional Management Certificate  

Accelerated Programs

• Geography (M.S.) - Geographic Information Sciences Specialization  
• Nursing (D.N.P.) - Family Nurse Practitioner Specialization  
• Nursing (M.S.) - Clinical Nurse Leader Specialization  
• Nursing (M.S.) - Nurse Administrator Specialization  
• Nursing (M.S.) - Nurse Educator Specialization  
• Nutrition and Dietetics (M.S.)  
• Professional Science (M.S.)  

Discontinued Programs

• Transdisciplinary Childhood Obesity Prevention Certificate

New Sites for Existing Programs

• Economics (M.S.)  - added online delivery
• Nursing (D.N.P.)  - added online delivery
• Nursing (D.N.P.) - Family Nurse Practitioner Specialization  - added online delivery
• Post-Graduate Family Nurse Practitioner Certificate  - added online delivery

New Courses

• BLAW 554 - Real Estate Finance Credits: 3  
• BLAW 555 - Advanced Real Property Valuation Credits: 3  
• CA 517 - Communication in Financial Planning Credits: 3  
• CEE 569 - Rural Transportation Engineering Design Credits: 3  
• CEE 764 - Pavement Sustainability Credits: 3  
• CEE 766 - Designing with Geosynthetics for Transportation Applications Credits: 3  
• CEE 767 - Advanced Transportation Design Credits: 3  
• CEE 768 - Transportation Data Analysis and Safety Credits: 3  
• EDER 605 - Foundations of Institutional Research and Assessment in Higher Education Credits: 3  
• EXS 582 - Theory of Strength and Conditioning (COM) Credits: 3  
• EXS 756 - Physical Activity Assessment and Evaluation Credits: 3  
• GEOG 568 - Paleoclimatology Credits: 3  
• GEOG 580 - Satellite Remote Sensing Credits: 2  
• GEOG 580L - Satellite Remote Sensing Lab Credits: 1  
• GEOG 784 - Machine Learning for Remote Sensing and GIS Credits: 3  
• HSC /NURS 762 - Writing for Publication Credits: 3  
• NURS 738 - AGACNP Integration: Practicum I Credits: 7  
• NURS 739 - AGACNP Integration: Practicum II Credits: 8  
• NUTR 712 - Advanced Medical Nutrition Therapy Credits: 3  
• PHA 715 - Community Pharmacy Systems Practice Experience Credits: 5  
• PHA 718 - Long Term Care Practice Experience Credits: 5  
• PHA 766 - Oncology Pharmacotherapeutics Credits: 1  
• PHA 776 - Ambulatory Care II Practice Experience Credits: 5  
• PHA 777 - Pharmacogenomics Practice Experience Credits: 5  
• PHA 778 - Compounding Practice Experience Credits: 5  
• PHA 779 - Academic Practice Experience Credits: 5  

Updates to Department Names

• The Department of English and Interdisciplinary Studies is now the School of English & Interdisciplinary Studies .