Annual Report for 2024-25
Previous year committee membership, including year when each member’s term ends
Committee Members:
Jeffrey Ballerini, International Affairs (2027)
Victoria Tomasulo, English (2027)
Leslie Ward, Library (2027)
Bonnie Flaherty, CUNY Start (2026)
George Fragopoulos, English (2026)
Tirandi Hemraj-Benny, Chemistry (2026) – Secretary
Ingrid Jaramillo-Estrella, Registrar (2025)
Shekoyan, Vazgen, Physics (2025) – Chairperson
Sullivan, Nathaniel, Art & Design (2025)
Student Representatives:
Vacant
Previous year liaisons, designees
Michael Pullin, Office of Academic Affairs, President's Liaison
Upcoming year committee membership, including year when each member’s term ends
Committee Members:
Bonnie Flaherty, CUNY Start (2026)
George Fragopoulos, English (2026)
Tirandi Hemraj-Benny, Chemistry (2026) – Chairperson
Jeffrey Ballerini, International Affairs (2027)
Victoria Tomasulo, English (2027)
Leslie Ward, Library (2027)
Zhou Zhou, Chemistry (2028)
Ingrid Jaramillo-Estrella, Registrar (2028) – Secretary
Adam Luedtke, Social Sciences (2028)
Previous year committee officers
Tirandi Hemraj-Benny, Chemistry – Secretary
Shekoyan, Vazgen, Physics – Chairperson
Upcoming year committee officers
Ingrid Jaramillo-Estrella – Secretary
Tirandi Hemraj-Benny, Chemistry – Chairperson
Committee Meeting Dates and times
Meetings:
The Committee on Curriculum met on Tuesday afternoons, from 2:00 to 4:00 P.M online using Zoom hosted from S-314. The committee met 8 times during the 2024-2025 academic year. Meetings in 2024 took place on October 1 and 29; November 19, and December 3. Meetings in 2025 took place on February 25; March 18; April 29; and May 6.
List of Bylaws charges and notation of “completed” or “not completed” with reasoning for incomplete items
The Committee on Curriculum shall:
- Consider and recommend to the Academic Senate new curricula and courses.
- Consider and recommend to the Academic Senate changes in established curricula and course credits or hours.
- Consider and recommend to the Academic Senate graduation requirements for new curricula and changes in graduation requirements for existing curricula.
Actions of the Committee
The committee took the following curricular actions during the 2024-2025 academic year:
16 course revisions
7 program revisions
2 new courses
1 new program
1 new policy proposal (Senate voted to defer the adoption of the policy)
Course Revisions (16 course revisions)
Sixteen course revisions are listed below by department. The date of committee approval is indicated in parentheses. Further information can be found in the Committee on Curriculum minutes for that date and the monthly report sent to the following Academic Senate meeting.
- Department of Biological Sciences & Geology
BI-503 General Epidemiology (10/1/2024)
- Business Department
CIS-206 Spreadsheet Business Applications and Data Analytics (3/18/2025)
- Department of Chemistry
CH-900 Cooperative Education in Chemical Techniques and Analysis I (11/19/2024)
CH-901 Cooperative Education in Chemical Techniques and Analysis II (11/19/2024)
- Engineering Technology Department
ET-575 Intro. to C++ Programming Design and Implementation (10/29/2024)
ET-760 Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing (10/29/2024)
- Department of Modern Languages and Cultures
LA-111 Elementary Arabic I (3/18/2025)
LA-112 Elementary Arabic II (3/18/2025)
LF-111 Elementary French I (3/18/2025)
LF-112 Elementary French II (3/18/2025)
- Department of Music
MUS-201 The Business of Music (10/29/2024)
MUS-471 Global Rhythms Ensemble (10/29/2024)
MUS-472 Global Rhythms Ensemble (10/29/2024)
MUS-473 Global Rhythms Ensemble (10/29/2024)
MUS-474 Global Rhythms Ensemble (10/29/2024)
Program Revisions (7 program revisions)
Seven program revisions are listed below by department. The date of committee approval is indicated in parentheses. Some details are given below; further information can be found in the Committee on Curriculum minutes for that date and the monthly report sent to the following Academic Senate meeting.
- Department of Biological Sciences & Geology
Biology (A.S.) (12/3/2024)
Rationale:
We are adding the option of taking organic chemistry and college physics as elective courses because many of the B.A. and B.S. Biology programs at the CUNY Senior Colleges require those courses. To make room for additional credits of electives, the Health and Physical Education requirements have been removed. These changes will allow QCC Biology students to be better prepared for transfer.
CH-251, CH-252, PH-301, and PH-302 have been added as major electives. The requirements for HE-101 or HE-102 and one course from DAN-100, PE-400, or PE-500 have been deleted. MA-119, MA-121, and MA-440 have been moved from Additional Coursework to Major Electives.
A.S. in Health Sciences (4/29/25)
Rationale:
A course (HE-115) needed to be added into the General Health Sciences concentration to satisfy developing articulations with four-year colleges.
- Department of Chemistry
Chemistry (A.S.) (3/18/2025)
Rationale:
This degree was initially designed to prepare students for the B.S. in Pharmaceutical Sciences at York College. However, the degree did not allow students to take physics, a required course at York, and for most B.S. in Chemistry degrees. Additionally, the program did not allow students with an incoming math placement less than Calculus I to count College Algebra, Trigonometry, or Pre-Calculus credits toward the degree. The proposed changes below address both of those problems.
Major electives have been added to the degree. BI-202 has been moved from Major Requirements to the Electives, and PH-421 and PH-422 have been added to the degree as electives. HE-102 and the three credits of foreign language or liberal arts and sciences have been eliminated in favor of free electives so that students with an incoming math placement below MA-441 may count some of the credits for MA-119, MA-121, and/or MA-440 toward the degree program.
- Department of Communication, Theatre, & Media Production
LA-AA Liberal Arts and Sciences (10/29/24)
Rationale:
Since the inception of the Communication Studies concentration in 2017-2018, the number of speech courses offered by our department have increased as well as the number of students interested in the different branches of the communication studies field.
While there is only one concentration in communication studies, we have added recommended courses for three areas: Communication Studies (for students who want to gain an overall knowledge of the communication studies field), Communication Science and Disorders (a scientific track for students who want to take prerequisite courses for a B.S. in Speech and Language Pathology or related program), and Multi-Media Communications (for students who want to master business communication skills and apply them in the Electronic Media field).
- Department of Health, Physical Education and Dance
LA-AA - Liberal Arts and Sciences (4/29/2025)
Rationale:
The revision is to add a new course, HE 115 Food and Culture as a major elective for the Nutrition Concentration in LA-AA degree program. HE 115 is equivalent to Queens' College's FNES 104, which is part of the BS Nutrition and Dietetics major, BS Food Management Studies and BS Nutrition and Exercise Science. HE 115 is equivalent to NFS 33200: Cultural Aspects of Food and Nutrition is part of the BS Public Health major at Hunter College.
A.S. in Movement Science (4/29/2025)
Rationale:
The revision is to add a new course, HE 115 Food and Culture as a major elective for the AS in Movement Science degree program. This course is equivalent to Queens' College's FNES 104, which is part of the BS Nutrition and Exercise Science major.
A.S. in Public Health (4/29/2025)
Rationale:
The revision is to add a new course, HE 115 Food and Culture as a major elective for the AS Public Health degree program. HE 115 is equivalent to NFS 33200: Cultural Aspects of Food and Nutrition which is part of the BS Public Health major at Hunter College and will be included in the articulation agreement between QCC AS Public Health and Hunter College’s BS Public Health.
New Courses (2 new courses)
Two new courses are listed below by department. The date of committee approval is indicated in parentheses. Further information can be found in the Committee on Curriculum minutes for that date and the monthly report sent to the following Academic Senate meeting.
- Department of Health, Physical Education and Dance
HE-115 Food and Culture (4/29/2025)
- Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
LC-401 Chinese Culture and Society (10/29/2024)
New Programs (1 New Program)
One new programs is listed below. The date of committee approval is indicated in parentheses. Further information can be found in the Committee on Curriculum minutes for that date and the monthly report sent to the following Academic Senate meeting.
- Department of Business
Associate of Science (A.S.) degree in Business Data Analytics (4/29/2025)
New Policy (not passed by the Senate)
Title: First-semester Forgiveness Policy.
Approved by the curriculum committee on 10/1/2024. After presenting the proposal to the Senate, the Senate voted to defer voting on the adoption of the policy. Further information can be found in the Committee on Curriculum minutes for that date and the monthly report sent to the following Academic Senate meeting.
List of Steering Committee charges and notation of “completed” or “not completed” with reasoning for incomplete items
Summary of actions not covered by above
Committee recommendations for upcoming year
Individual member contributions and thanks
Acknowledgements:
The Committee wishes to thank President Christine Mangino and the President’s Liaison, Michael Pullin, Dean of Academic Initiatives, for the multiple ways in which they have supported the work of the Committee on Curriculum. Gratitude is also due to Phyllis Curtis-Tweed, Provost and Vice President of the Office of Academic Affairs, and Arthur Corradetti, Dean for Institutional Effectiveness. Special additional gratitude goes to Michael Pullin for his consultation and guidance, especially as the committee is preparing a new method of submitting proposals to the committee (via CourseDog).
With the guidance and participation of Michael Pullin, the committee chair (Shekoyan) and committee member (Jaramillo-Estrella) gave a talk at the QCC Transparency Series titled 'Curricular Change Process.' Special thanks go to Michael Pullin for his help and for being a co-presenter.
Many faculty leaders’ guidance is also appreciated, especially the Academic Senate Steering Committee (Scott Litroff, Chair, Daniel Garbin, Vice-Chair, and Philip Nelan, Secretary), and the Academic Senate Parliamentarian, Rezan Akpinar. The help and attention of all of the Department Chairs and the many faculty members who worked on curricular items is also much appreciated.
The Chair of the Committee thanks the Committee members listed above, for their dedication and hard work, including their useful review, critiques, and constructive recommendations in considering almost 30 curricular items. Many thanks to Tirandai Hemraj-Benny, who has done an excellent job as the secretary of the Committee on Curriculum this year.
Special thanks to departing members Vazgen Shekoyan and Nathaniel Sullivan for their years of service and a welcome to Adam Luedtke, Social Sciences, and Zhou Zhou, Chemistry for the next academic year.
Respectfully Submitted,
Vazgen Shekoyan
Chair, Committee on Curriculum
