December 7, 2015- Agenda & Minutes

Jennifer Bazaz

Time: 9:00am
Location: Exploratory Hall, Room 3301
Items to be considered on this agenda are due by 11/23/2015

When available, the meeting minutes will be indicated within bold brackets [ ] and are in draft form until they are approved by the committee.

I. Call to Order [9:05am]

II. Approval of the November 2015 Meeting Minutes [Approved]

III. Announcements/Discussion

  • Spring 2016 Meeting Schedule
  • January and February 2016’s Meeting Procedures
    • COSCC members should have access to Jen’s Dropbox folder “COS Curriculum Committee- January and February 2016”
    • In the corresponding month’s folder, insert any course or program approval forms (one document per item)- however
      • they MUST already have a department signature on them (this MUST be the chair’s signature)
      • new courses MUST also include syllabi
    • Each meeting’s agenda will be run off of the items deposited into these folders
    • C. Parson’s will keep track of approvals and modifications that may be deemed necessary by the committee
    • The agendas and minutes will be posted to this website ~March 2016 for record keeping purposes

IV. Old Business

V. New Business – Undergraduate

New Courses

  • GGS 340 Health Geography [Approved]
  • GGS 384 Special Topics in Geospatial Intelligence [Approved pending a more descriptive summary and syllabi examples; these were provided later on 12/7/2015.]

Modified Courses

  • CHEM 332 Physical Chemistry II [Approved- afterwards, the department asked that the forms not be routed for implementation quite yet.]
  • CHEM 463 General Biochemistry I [Approved– afterwards, the department asked that the forms not be routed for implementation quite yet.]
  • GGS 110 Maps and Mapping [Approved]
  • GGS 303 Conservation of Resources and Environment [Approved]
  • MATH 110 Introductory Probability [Approved]

Deleted Course

  • GGS 353 Observations of the Earth and its Climate [Approved]

Modified Programs

VI. New Business – Graduate

New Courses

  • FRSC 517 Questioned Document Examination [Approved]
  • FRSC 541  Forensic Chemistry Laboratory [Approved]
  • FRSC 561 Forensic DNA Laboratory [Approved]
  • FRSC 590 Medicolegal Death Investigation/Pathology [Approved]
  • FRSC 620 Face and Biometric Pattern Analysis [Approved]
  • FRSC 630 Fingerprint Identification [Approved]
  • FRSC 640 Legal, Privacy and Ethical Issues in Identity Analysis [Approved]
  • FRSC 650 Identity Analysis Applications [Approved pending change to become a ‘LEC’]
  • GGS 507 Sustainable Development [Approved]
  • GGS 681 Social Media Analysis [Approved]

Modified Courses

  • CLIM 751 Predictability of Weather and Climate [Approved]
  • GGS 900 Colloquium Earth Systems Sciences [Approved]

Modified Concentration

Modified Program

VII. Adjournment [10:45am]