2024-2025b Catalog Updates (Spring Semester/Terms 4-6)

Curricular Updates

Art Minor

• Update requirements for the Art Minor to the following:
  • ​ART Elective 3 Credits
  • ART Elective 3 Credits
  • ART Elective 3 Credits
  • ART 200 level or higher Elective 3 Credits
  • ART 300 level or higher Elective 3 Credits

A.S. Early Childhood Education 

• ​General Education updates: 
  • ​Liberal Arts
    • Add Humanities Elective (100-200 Level)
    • Add Social Sciences Elective (100-200 Level)
    • Remove PSY 101   
  • Open Electives
    • Add one three-credit open elective
• Major Core updates: 
  • Remove PSY 201 , CHS 199V , CHS 298V  
  • Add CHS 237 , and CHS 297  
• Revise program learning outcomes

B.S. Child Studies

• General Education Updates:
  • Move SOC 312  from Liberal Arts to Behavioral Science Core
  • Move PSY 201  from Major Core to Liberal Arts
• Major Core Updates:
  • Remove the following courses: CHS 113 , CHS 199 , CHS 199V , CHS 298 , CHS 298V , CHS 395 , CHS 395V , CHS 495 , CHS 495V  
  • Add CHS 437 , CHS 497       
• Revise program learning outcomes

B.S. Criminal Justice

• Revise program learning outcomes
• Revise program description
• Revise Concentrations

  • Correctional Counseling
    CRJ 103, HSV 203, HSV301 or HSV 330, SOC 324 

  • Corrections
    CRJ 103, CRJ 215, CRJ 331, CRJ 335 

  • Crime Scene Investigation
    CRJ 102, CRJ 211, CRJ 342, CRJ 344 

  • Emergency Management and Homeland Security
    EMH 101, EMH 280 or EMH 220, EMH 301 or EMH 340, EMH 360 or EMH 370 

  • Law Enforcement
    CRJ 102, CRJ 220, CRJ 305, CRJ 309 

  • Legal Studies
    LAW 101, LAW 205 or LAW 203, LAW 303, LAW 325 or LAW Directed Elective (300 Level or above)

B.S. Management

• Revise program learning outcomes

Certificate in Human Resource Management

• Title changed to Human Resource Management (Post-Baccalaureate) Certificate
  • Required courses: MGT 105, HRM0201, HRM305
  • Elective courses: HRM303, HRM307, HRM308, HRM325, HRM335, HRM341

Master of Business Administration

• ​Add the following concentrations:
  • Business Intelligence and Analytics - BIA 510 , BIA 515 , BIA 530 , BUS 640
  • Financial Analytics - BUS 676 , BUS 677 , BUS 678 , BUS 640
• Update Emergings Topics courses in each concentration to BUS 640

Policy Updates

Update to Main Campus Admissions Policy

* Under certain circumstances, an unofficial transcript or alternative documentation is acceptable for a student who is a U.S. citizen or U.S. resident if the Chief Regulatory Officer approves it. Other forms of acceptable documentation include but are not limited to, an unofficial high school transcript or an unofficial associate degree transcript showing the date of graduation. If the enrolling student is an international student, and the student cannot reasonably provide the University with an official foreign transcript, the Registrar may accept an unofficial foreign transcript.  Unofficial transcripts may be subject to a verification process, and all transcripts must show the date of graduation.

Updates to the Following Policies August 27, 2024

Transfer of Credit Policy

Transcript Policy 

Drop/Add Policy 

Grading Policy

Grade Appeal Policy

Updates to Course Load Policy August 28, 2024

Students enrolled in a SIMPath semester cannot register for the capstone course during their first SIMPath semester.