November 2007 – Agenda & Minutes

Members Present: Geoff Birchard, Tim Born (chair), Sheryl Beach, Dan Cox, Robert Ellsworth, Igor Griva, Dimitri Klimov, Barry Klinger, Tim Leslie (GEOG sub), David Singman
Members Absent: Rick Diecchio, Barry Haack, Peter Becker

  1. Approval of the October 18th minutes:
    • Minutes were approved.
  2. Announcements and comments:
    • Dr Born thanked Dr. Klimov for representing the curriculum committee at the last COS faculty meeting.
    • Dr. Born wanted to thank everyone for responding quickly to comments/edits to proposals upon posting.
    • Assad made the announcement that the following courses have been approved for general education:
    • ASTR 103, ASTR 302, CDS 101, CLIM 101, EOS 121, EVPP 335
  3. Old Business
    • Conservation Biology Minor Approved
  4. New Business
    • Graduate
      • BIOL 666 [Approved]Course will ultimately be cross listed with nursing.
      • CSI 772 [Approved]Depts. of Statistics and Electrical Engineering are interest in this course as well and possible cross listing for the future.
      • EOS 684 [Approved]
      • EVPP 644, 646 and 647 [Approved] (All)
        EVPP 644 is the existing course (both lab and lecture) and was deleted.
        EVPP 646 and 647 will be splitting the course into separate lab and lecture. No change in content.
      • NEUR 600 [Tabled]
      • BIOL 507 [Approved]
      • BIOL 536 [Approved]
    • Undergraduate
      • CDS 410 and 411 [Approved]Part I and II of a course in math techniques.
      • Minor in Bioinformatics [Approved]
      • BIOL 301 [Approved]Addition of EVPP 421 to list of topics offered for BIOL 301
      • MATH modifications/deletions [Approved]31 courses (27 modifications and 4 deletions) approved as a block
      • PHYS 303 [Approved]
      • PHYS BS modification [Approved]

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Agenda: November 2007
Minutes: November 2007