December 10, 2018- Agenda & Minutes

Time: 10:00 am
Location: Research Hall, Room 162
Items to be considered on this agenda are due by 11/26/2018

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

Relevant Links: Undergraduate Council Meeting Minutes/ Graduate Council Meeting Minutes

I. Call to Order [10:05 AM]

II. Approval of the November 19, 2018 Meeting Minutes [Approved]

III. Announcements/Discussion

• Spring 2019 Meeting Schedule [Mondays at 10am worked for everyone’s schedule]

IV. Old Business

New Courses- Undergraduate

• EVPP 433: Natural Science for Educators [Approved but will need to update that it’s a 4 credit course]
• GGS 317: Geography of China [Approved]

Modified Courses- Undergraduate

• BIOL 493: Honors Research in Biology [Approved]
• BIOL 495: Directed Studies in Biology [Approved]
• BIOL 497: Special Problems in Biology [Approved]

Deleted Courses:

• BIOL 328: Recitation for Fundamentals of Ecology and Evolution [Approved]
  • COS Impacted Courses: BIOL 308
• BIOL 406: Microbial Physiology and Metabolism [Approved]

V. New Business – Undergraduate

Modified Courses

• CDS 421: Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics [Approved, but friendly suggestion to remove “Introduction” from the title as it is a higher level course. Title will be “Computational Data Science”]
• CDS 461: Molecular Dynamics and Monte Carlo Simulations [Approved]
• EVPP 490: Special Topics in Environmental Science and Policy [Approved]
• GGS 379: Remote Sensing [Approved]
• GGS 412: Air Photography Interpretation [Approved]

Deleted Courses

• FRSC 440: Advanced Forensic Chemistry [Approved]

Modified Programs

• Biology, BA [Approved]
• Biology, BS [Approved]
• Environmental Science, BS [Approved]
• Geography, BA [Approved]
• Geography, BS [Approved]

VI. New Business – Graduate

Modified Courses

• CSI 780: Principles of Modeling and Simulation in Science [Approved]
• CSI 782: Statistical Mechanics for Modeling and Simulation [Approved]
• CSI 786: Molecular Dynamics Modeling [Approved]

Modified Programs

• Accelerated Master’s: Biology, BS/Biology, MS [Approved]
• Bioinformatics Management, MS [Approved]
• Bioinformatics Management, PSM [Approved]
• Geoinformatics and Geospatial Intelligence, MS [Approved]
• Geospatial Intelligence Graduate Certificate [Approved]
• Personalized Medicine Graduate Certificate [Approved]

VII. Adjournment [11:12 AM]