September 28, 2015- Agenda & Minutes

Jennifer Bazaz

Time: 9:00am
Location: Exploratory Hall, Room 3301 3202 (Dean’s conference room)
Items to be considered on this agenda are due by 9/14/2015

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 August 2015 Meeting Minutes [Approved]

III. Announcements/Discussion

IV. Old Business

New Courses

V. New Business – Undergraduate

New Courses

  • CDS 230 Modeling and Simulation I [Approved]
  • MATH 044 Business Math Preparation [Approved]
  • MATH 045 STEM Math Preparation [Approved]

VI. New Business – Graduate

New Courses

  • CDS 501 Scientific Information and Data Visualization [Approved pending an addition to the syllabus: “Graduate students will be graded under a different rubric with different assignments than the undergraduate students that co-meet in class.”]
  • CDS 502 Scientific Data and Databases [Approved pending an addition to the syllabus: “Graduate students will be graded under a different rubric with different assignments than the undergraduate students that co-meet in class.”]
  • CDS 503 Scientific Data Mining [Tabled prior to meeting to allow for discussions between CDS and GGS.]

Modified Courses

  • CSI 702 High Performance Computing [Approved]
  • CSI 780 Computational Physics and Applications [Approved pending the following prerequisite clarification: “Completion of college or university-level physics sequence or the equivalent.” The course modification was later retracted by the department and was not submitted to the Graduate Council.]
  • CSI 798 Research Project [Approved pending a wording modification from “Internship” to “Research Project” in the course description.]

Modified Program

Inactivated Courses

  • BIOL 504 VA. Nat. Hist. for Teachers [Approved]
  • BIOL 520 Systematics in Complex Angiosperm Families [Approved]
  • BIOL 534 Advanced Plant Taxonomy [Approved]
  • BIOL 535 Ancient Plants and their Environment [Approved]
  • BIOL 536 Ichthyology [Approved]
  • BIOL 547 Terrestrial Plant Ecology [Approved]
  • BIOL 554 Plant Physiology [Approved]
  • BIOL 576 Microbial Ecology of Soils [Approved]
  • BIOL 587 Soil Ecology [Approved. The course inactivation was later retracted by the department and was not submitted to the Graduate Council.]
  • BIOL 588 Global Changes in Climate and Ecology [Approved]
  • BIOL 622 Methods and Principles of Animal Taxonomy [Approved]
  • BIOL 640 Environmental Biology [Approved]
  • BIOL 641 Envr Sci/Pub Policy [Approved]
  • BIOL 670 Environmental Law for Biologists [Approved]
  • BIOL 741 Advanced Topics in Environmental Biology [Approved]
  • BIOL 800 Studies for the Doctor of Philosophy in Education [Approved]

VII. Adjournment [9:50am]