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 4/14/2023.
When available, the meeting minutes will be indicated within bold brackets [ ] and are in draft form until they are approved by the committee.
Attendees:
I. Call to Order [9:33 AM]
II. Approval of the March 31, 2023 Meeting Minutes
III. Announcements/Discussion
- Fall 2023 COSCC Meeting Schedule [The committee would like to keep fall 2023 meetings on Fridays at 9:30am.]
IV. Old Business
V. New Business – Undergraduate
New Courses
- CLIM 103: Global Warming: Weather, Climate, and Society Laboratory [Approved, pending clarification about catalog description. Post-meeting, the course was tabled.]
- COS 108: College of Science Transitions* [Approved]
- COS 390: Learning Assistant Seminar* [Approved pending syllabus updates: COVID statement removal and clarifying grading.]
- COS 391: Continuing Learning Assistant Seminar* [Approved pending change to 0-1 credits and syllabus updates: COVID statement removal.]
- EVPP 441: Protist Diversity and Ecology* [Approved]
Modified Program
- Neuroscience, BS* [Approved]
VI. New Business – Graduate
New Courses
- BINF 735: Next Generation Sequencing Data Analysis [Approved]
- BIOL 565: Medical Microbiology [Tabled per department]
- GEOL 545: Planetary Geology [Approved]
Modified Course
- BIOL 671: Fundamental Concepts in Evolution [Approved]
Modified Programs
- IN-MS-P002: INTO Mason: Science Graduate Pathways [Approved]
- Neuroscience, PhD* [Approved]
VII. Adjournment [10:45am}
*Item added after the agenda was announced.