March 20, 2026 Agenda & Minutes

Time: 9:30am
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 3/6/2026.

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

II. Approval of the February 20, 2026 Meeting Minutes

III. Announcements/Discussion

IV. Old Business

• February 2026 E-vote: Mathematics, BA or BS/Mathematics, Accelerated MS

V. New Business – Undergraduate

Modified Courses

• CLIM 103: Global Warming: Weather, Climate, and Society Laboratory

Modified Programs

• Chemistry, BA
• Computational Data Science Minor
• Geography Minor
• Mathematics, BA
• Mathematics, BS
• STEM in Society Minor

Program Inactivation

• Biology, BA or BS/Secondary Education, Accelerated MEd (Secondary Education – Science Concentration)
• Chemistry, BA or BS/Secondary Education, Accelerated MEd (Secondary Education – Science Concentration)
• Geology, BA or BS/Secondary Education, Accelerated MEd (Secondary Education – Science Concentration)

VI. New Business – Graduate

New Courses

• GEOL 538: Paleoceanography Seminar
• GGS 662: Agentic GeoAI
• MATH 546: Numerical Analysis I
• MATH 642: Enumerative Graph Theory
• MATH 720: Algebraic Combinatorics

Modified Programs

• Bioinformatics Management, Professional Science Master’s
• Bioinformatics Management, MS
• Geoinformatics and Geospatial Intelligence, MS

VII. Adjournment

*Item added after the agenda was announced

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