April 28, 2023 Agenda & Minutes

Time:  9:30am
Location: Microsoft Teams. If anyone in addition to the COSCC would like to attend, please email Jen for details.

Items to be considered on this agenda are due by 4/14/2023.

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

Attendees:

I. Call to Order [9:33 AM]

II. Approval of the March 31, 2023 Meeting Minutes

III. Announcements/Discussion

• Fall 2023 COSCC Meeting Schedule [The committee would like to keep fall 2023 meetings on Fridays at 9:30am.]

IV. Old Business

V. New Business – Undergraduate

New Courses

• CLIM 103: Global Warming: Weather, Climate, and Society Laboratory  [Approved, pending clarification about catalog description. Post-meeting, the course was tabled.]
• COS 108: College of Science Transitions* [Approved]
• COS 390: Learning Assistant Seminar* [Approved pending syllabus updates: COVID statement removal and clarifying grading.]
• COS 391: Continuing Learning Assistant Seminar* [Approved pending change to 0-1 credits and syllabus updates: COVID statement removal.]
• EVPP 441: Protist Diversity and Ecology* [Approved]

Modified Program

• Neuroscience, BS* [Approved]

VI. New Business – Graduate

New Courses

• BINF 735: Next Generation Sequencing Data Analysis [Approved]
• BIOL 565: Medical Microbiology  [Tabled per department]
• GEOL 545: Planetary Geology [Approved]

Modified Course

• BIOL 671: Fundamental Concepts in Evolution [Approved]

Modified Programs

• IN-MS-P002: INTO Mason: Science Graduate Pathways [Approved]
• Neuroscience, PhD* [Approved]

VII. Adjournment [10:45am}

*Item added after the agenda was announced.