March 28, 2024 Agenda & Minutes
Time: 1:00pm
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 3/14/2024.
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 [1:01pm]
II. Approval of the February 29, 2023 Meeting Minutes [Approved]
III. Announcements/Discussion
[The COSCC thanked Wendy Lewis for her valuable contributions to the committee over the years and wished her well in her new position!]
IV. Old Business
V. New Business- College-wide
- Catalog edits to College Policies [Approved]
VI. New Business – Undergraduate
New Courses
Modified Courses
- GGS 480: GGS Internship [Approved]
Modified Programs
- Atmospheric Sciences, BS [Approved]
- Biology, BA [Approved pending a correction to the “Why” statement.]
- Computational and Data Sciences, BS [Approved]
- Geography, BA [Approved]
- Geography, BS [Approved]
- Geology, BA [Approved]
- Geology, BS [Approved]
- Neuroscience, BS [Approved pending the removal of the second instance of NEUR 328.]
- Neuroscience Minor [Approved]
- STEM: STEM in Society Minor “Please reach out to Jen ASAP if you’d like a guest invited to present this modification.” [Approved]
- RNRG: Renewable Energy Interdisciplinary Minor [Approved pending removal of EVPP 401 as it has recently been deactivated.]
VII. New Business – Graduate
New Courses
- ASTR 794: Astronomy Internship [Approved pending the requirement for an Experiential Learning Agreement.]
- BIOL 586: Medical Biochemistry*[Tabled by SSB.]
- CLIM 636: Atmospheric Aerosols [Approved pending syllabus updates to the grading scale, repeatable status, and details on the expectations for course deliverables.]
- CSI 745: Robust Optimization for Decision Making [Approved]
- EVPP 585: Quantitative Analysis for Environmental Scientists* [Approved]
- GGS 788: Deep Learning for Geoinformation [Approved]
- PHYS 794: Physics Internship [Approved pending the requirement for an Experiential Learning Agreement.]
Modified Courses
- CSS 625: Complexity Theory in the Social Sciences*[Approved]
- CSS 665: Complex Adaptive Systems in Public Policy* [Approved]
- EVPP 894: Supervised Internship* [Approved]
- EVPP 998: Doctoral Dissertation Proposal [Approved pending wording for updating the “Justification” statement.]
- GGS 505: Transportation Geography [Approved]
- GGS 560: Quantitative Methods [Approved]
- GGS 579_Remote Sensing [Approved]
- GGS 655: Geovisualization [Approved]
- GGS 684: Selected Topics in Geospatial Intelligence [Approved]
- GGS 685: Capstone Course in Geoinformatics [Approved]
- GGS 692: Web-Based Geographic Information Systems [Approved]
- GGS 695_ Geography and Geoinformation Science Graduate Internship [Approved]
- GGS 740: Hyperspectral Imaging Systems [Approved]
Deactivated Courses
- BIOL 550_Waterscape Ecology and Management* [Tabled as ESP desires to continue teaching the associated/bundled course EVPP 550.]
- CSI 754: Earth Science Data and Advanced Data Analysis [Approved]
Modified Programs: Substantive Changes
- Applied and Engineering Physics, MS [Approved]
- Biosciences, PhD*[Approved]
- Climate Science, MS [Approved]
- Earth Systems and Geoinformation Sciences, PhD [Approved]
- Environmental Science and Policy, MS [Approved]
- Environmental Science and Public Policy, PhD [Approved pending clarity on the dissertation committee requirements.]
- Geographic and Cartographic Sciences, MS [Approved]
- Geoinformatics and Geospatial Intelligence, MS [Approved]
- Geographic Information Science Graduate Certificate [Approved]
- Geospatial Intelligence Graduate Certificate [Approved]
- Neuroscience, PhD [Approved]
- Physics, PhD [Approved pending clarity on the dissertation committee requirements.]
Modified Programs: Reduction/Transfer of Credit and Admissions & Policy Section Re-organization (non-substantive changes)
- Actuarial Sciences Graduate Certificate [Approved]
- Advanced Biomedical Sciences, GC [Approved]
- Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Certificate*[Approved]
- Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, MS*[Approved]
- Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, PhD*[Approved]
- Bioinformatics Management, MS*[Approved]
- Bioinformatics Management, Professional Science Master’s*[Approved]
- Biology, MS* [Approved]
- Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Certificate* [Approved]
- Chemistry, MS [Approved]
- Chemistry and Biochemistry, PhD [Approved]
- Climate Dynamics, PhD [Approved]
- Computational Science, MS [Approved]
- Computational Sciences and Informatics, PhD [Approved]
- Computational Social Science Graduate Certificate [Approved]
- Computational Social Science, PhD [Approved]
- Data Science Graduate Certificate [Approved]
- Earth Systems Science, MS [Approved]
- Environmental GIS and Biodiversity Conservation Graduate Certificate [Approved]
- Environmental and Sustainability Management Graduate Certificate [Approved]
- Forensics Graduate Certificate [Approved]
- Forensic Science, MS [Approved]
- Mathematics, PhD [Approved]
- Remote Sensing and Image Processing Graduate Certificate [Approved]
- Science Policy Graduate Certificate [Approved]
VIII. Adjournment [3:13pm]
*Item added after the agenda was announced.
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