COS Curriculum Committee

December 2012 – Proposal Repository

Graduate Program – New Concentration
- MS in Environmental Science and Public Policy new concentration in Aquatic Ecology
Graduate Program Modifcations
- PhD in Earth Systems and Geoinformation Sciences modification
- MS in Mathematics modification
Graduate Course Deletion
- BIOL 590 – Forensic Entomology
Undergraduate Program Modifications
- BA in Geography modification
- BA in Geology modification
New Undergraduate Courses
- NEUR 327 – Cellular, Neurophysiological and Pharmacological Neuroscience
- NEUR 380 – Biological Bases of Alzheimer’s Disease
- NEUR 395 – Laboratory Methods in Behavioral Science
- NEUR 411 – Seminar in Neuroscience
- NEUR 440 – Independent Study in Neuroscience
- NEUR 450 – Honors Thesis Proposal
- NEUR 451 – Honors Thesis
Undergraduate Course Modifications
- GEOL 404 – Geological Field Techniques

December 17, 2012Webmaster

Old Business
- ASTR 602 – Methods of Observational Astronomy [Approved]
- ASTR 402 – Methods of Observational Astronomy [Approved]
Graduate Course Modifications
- CSI 898 – Research Colloquium in Computational Sciences and Informatics modification [Approved]
- CSI 899 – Colloquium in Computational Sciences and Informatics modification [Approved]
Undergraduate Program Modifications
- Biology Honors Program modification
Undergraduate New Courses
- ASTR 115 – Finding New Worlds [Approved]
- BIOL 328 – Recitation for Fundamentals of Ecology and Evolution [Approved]
- BIOL 338 – Recitation and Lab for Fundamentals of Ecology and Evolution [Approved]
- BIOL 333 – Forensic Entomology [Tabled]
- BIOL 408 – Mushrooms, Molds and Mankind [Approved]
- BIOL 409 – Medical Mycology [Approved]
- BIOL 487 – DNA Analysis of Biological Evidence [Tabled]
Undergraduate Course Modifications
- BIOL 308 – Foundations of Ecology and Evolution [Approved]
- BIOL 310 – Biodiversity [Approved]
- BIOL 382 – Introduction to Virology [Approved]
- BIOL 452 – Immunology [Approved]
- BIOL 484 – Eukaryotic Cell Biology [Approved]
- BIOL 499 – Research in Biology [Approved]
- CDS 410 – Numerical Analysis II [Approved]
- CDS 411 – Modeling and Simulation II [Tabled]

October 17, 2012Webmaster

New Graduate Programs
- MS in Biology concentration in Neuroscience [Approved]
New Graduate Courses
- CHEM 817 – Organic Structural Spectroscopy [Approved]
Graduate Course Modifications
- ASTR 602 – Methods of Observational Astronomy [Tabled]
- BMED 602 – Biostatistics [Approved]
Undergraduate Program Modifications
- BS in Astronomy Modification [Approved]
- BS in Physics Modification [Approved]
- BA in Mathematics Modification – Concentration in Education [Approved]
- BS in Mathematics Modification – Concentration in Education [Approved]
- Minor in Astronomy modification [Approved]
New Undergraduate Course
- CHEM 413 – Synthetic and Mechanistic Organic Chemistry [Approved]
Undergraduate Course Modifications
- ASTR 328 – Stars and Interstellar Medium [Approved]
- ASTR 401 – Computer Simulation in Astronomy [Approved]
- ASTR 402 – Methods of Observational Astronomy [Tabled]
- ASTR 403 – Planetary Sciences [Approved]
- ASTR 404 – Galaxies and Cosmology [Approved]
- PHYS 428 – Relativity and Cosmology [Approved]
Undergraduate Course Deletions
- ASTR 428 – Relativity [Approved]

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