March 19, 2018-Agenda & Minutes

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Time: 10:00 am
Location: Exploratory Hall, Room 3301
Items to be considered on this agenda are due by 3/5/2018

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 February 2018 Meeting Minutes [Approved]

III. Announcements/Discussion

  • Gauging Interest in a New COSCC Voting Process

[The committee discussed alternatives to the voting process in order to more efficiently vote and select proposals for discussion. The committee noted that offering a virtual meeting optionsuch as Skype could potentially help with members that are unable to attend any given meeting. Additionally, members are asked to either submit email votes or send a representative in their place if they cannot attend any given meeting.

At the next meeting, we will discuss the possibility of basing a quorum off of the number of departments in the college represented on the COSCC, as opposed to the number of departments and programs represented on the COSCC.]

  • Programs and Courses Impacted by Deactivation

[Going forward, COSCC agendas will note any COS programs or courses that will be impacted by the associated course or program deactivation. Jennifer mentioned that while courses listed as electives will automatically be removed from catalog entries, required courses for degrees or any courses that had significant impact on programs will  need a program modification. While we will just focus on COS impacts, the entry in the CIM system will note all impacts across the university.]

IV. Old Business

New Courses

  • EVPP 572 – Tools and Techniques for International Development [Approved]

Deactivated Courses [Approved]

V. New Business – Undergraduate

New Courses

  • PHYS 391: Special Topics in Physics [Tabled pending further review: is this needed considering the existence of PHYS 390?]

Modified Courses

  • ASTR 302: Foundations of Cosmological Thought [Approved]
  • ASTR 401: Computer Simulation in Astronomy [Approved]
  • BIOL 309: Introduction to Oceanography [Approved]
  • BIOL 350: Freshwater Ecosystems [Approved but requested to add EVPP 301 as a recommended perequisite]
  • BIOL 355: Ecological Engineering and Ecosystem Restoration [Approved but requested to add EVPP 301 as a recommended perquisite]
  • BIOL 402: Applied and Industrial Microbiology [Approved]
  • BIOL 403: Techniques in Applied and Industrial Microbiology [Approved]
  • MLAB 300: Science Writing [Approved; related program modifications forthcoming.]
  • PHYS 301: Analytical Methods of Physics [Approved]
  • PHYS 346: Quarks to Strings [Approved]
  • PHYS 410: Computational Physics Capstone I [Approved in addition to removing any equivalencies between PHYS 410 and PHYS 510.]

Deactivated Courses

  • CHEM 333: Physical Chemistry for the Life Sciences I [Approved]
  • CHEM 334: Physical Chemistry for the Life Sciences II [Approved]
  • PHYS 101: Light and Sound in Our World [Approved]
  • PHYS 102: Sports Physics [Approved]
  • PHYS 121: Uses of Physics [Approved]

New Programs

VI. New Business – Graduate

VII. Adjournment [11:04 AM]