Chapter 5
Saginaw Valley State University: Academic Programs
5.2 Undergraduate Programs
Departments in the traditional Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (such
as English, History, Geography, Philosophy, Sociology, Political Science,
and Psychology) and the traditional Sciences (such as Biology, Physics,
Mathematics, and Chemistry) carry a heavy load of service courses for General
Education and for professional programs, such as teaching, engineering,
social work, business, and nursing.
It is essential that, in the process of providing sufficient
introductory courses to meet the high need at this level, departments
are
also able to offer enough upper division courses to accommodate
majors in these disciplines and allow students to graduate
in a timely fashion. An additional academic planning concern
is the desire of highly trained faculty to be able to teach
in their area of specialization and enhance their own professional
development, even as they meet the demands of their departments.
Programs in each college have been built with these needs in
mind, and each college has created structures and practices
which support its mission.
