October 26, 2015- Agenda & Minutes

Time: 9:00am
Location: Exploratory Hall, Room 3301
Items to be considered on this agenda are due by 10/12/2015

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 [9:02am]

II. Approval of the September 2015 Meeting Minutes [Approved]

III. Announcements/Discussion

IV. Old Business

V. New Business – Undergraduate

New Courses

• BIOL 460 Infectious Diseases of Wildlife [Approved pending prerequisite update: “60 credits plus BIOL 308 or EVPP 305 and EVPP 306, or permission of the instructor” and adding EVPP 305 and EVPP 306 as equivalent courses.]
• EVPP 429 Environmental Science Communication [Approved]
• EVPP 475 Global Biodiversity Governance [Approved]

Modified Courses

• CDS 411 Modeling and Simulation [Approved]

Inactivated Course

• CHEM 341 Fundamental Inorganic Chemistry [Approved but later tabled by the department]

VI. New Business – Graduate

New Courses

• BIOL 560 Infectious Diseases of Wildlife [Approved but to be reviewed by SSB faculty before going to the Grad Council.]
• BMED 550 Special Topics in Biomedicine [Approved]
• EVPP 529 Environmental Science Communication [Approved]
• EVPP 549 Marine Ecology [Approved pending the addition of “(or the equivalent)” to the prerequisites.]
• EVPP 575 Global Biodiversity Governance [Approved pending adding EVPP 475 as an equivalent.]
• EVPP 608 Environmental Social Science [Approved pending title change to “Introduction to Environmental Social Science”. All were in favor except for GGS; their concern was that the course covers too much material.]
• EVPP 797 Master’s Thesis Proposal [Tabled for the proposing department’s further review.]
• GEOL 521 Geology of Energy Resources [Approved]

Modified Courses

• CDS 502 Scientific Data and Databases [Approved]
• CSI 780 Computational Physics and Applications [Approved]
• NEUR 603 Mammalian Neurobiology [Approved pending the prerequisite addition of “(or equivalent biology course)” and a note to see the second page for a new catalog description.]

Inactivated Courses

• CHEM 505 Hazardous Materials Waste Management [Approved]
• CHEM 554 Geochemistry of Environmental Hazards [Approved]

New Concentration

• Environmental Communication Concentration (within the Environmental Science and Policy, MS) [Approved]

Modified Concentration

• Systematics and Evolutionary Biology Concentration (within the Biology, MS) [Approved pending closer review by ESP faculty. An email from ESP’s chair on 10/28/2015 indicated that there were no concerns.]

Modified Programs

• Computational Sciences, MS [Approved pending the addition of “… graduate-level CDS, CSS, or CSI courses listed in the catalog…” and fixing “five specific courses” to “four”.]
• Computational Techniques and Applications Graduate Certificate [Approved]
• Earth Systems Science, MS [Approved]

VII. Adjournment [10:34am]