August 25, 2025 Agenda & Minutes

Time: 11:00am
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 8/11/2025.

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 [11:00AM]

II. Approval of the May 9, 2025 Meeting Minutes

III. Announcements/Discussion

• Syllabus Guidance Fall 2025 [Please remember to add a statement about AI.]
• Bylaws Revision [ For discussion and future vote.]

IV. Old Business

V. New Business – Undergraduate

Modified Courses

• CLIM 103: Global Warming: Weather, Climate, and Society [Approved pending repeatable to 3.]

VI. New Business – Graduate

New Courses

• QSE 500: Ideas in Quantum Science and Technology* [Tabled for email vote. Subsequently approved via email 9/2/2025.]
• QSE 501: Mathematical Foundations of QSE* [Tabled for email vote. Subsequently approved via email 9/2/2025.]
• QSE 502: Programming Foundations of QSE* [Tabled for email vote. Subsequently approved via email 9/2/2025.]
• QSE 505: Classical and Quantum Information Theory* [Tabled for email vote. Subsequently approved via email 9/2/2025.]
• QSE 511: Quantum Algorithms* [Tabled for email vote. Subsequently approved via email 9/2/2025.]
• QSE 520: Applications of Quantum Technology* [Tabled for email vote. Subsequently approved via email 9/2/2025.]
• QSE 570: Quantum Computing System Design* [Tabled for email vote. Subsequently approved via email 9/2/2025.]
• QSE 611: Advanced Quantum Algorithms* [Tabled for email vote. Subsequently approved via email 9/2/2025.]
• QSE 621: Quantum Error Correction* [Tabled for email vote. Subsequently approved via email 9/2/2025.] 
• QSE 798: Master’s Research Project* [Tabled for email vote. Subsequently approved via email 9/2/2025.]
• QSE 799: Master’s Thesis* [Tabled for email vote. Subsequently approved via email 9/2/2025.] 

Modified Courses

• NEUR 998: Dissertation Proposal [Approved]

New Program

• Quantum Science and Engineering, MS* (note: viewing the full draft SCHEV proposal will require logging into CIM after clicking the link in the PDF.)

Modified Programs

• Advanced Biomedical Science Graduate Certificate [Tabled due to time.]

VII. Adjournment [12:25pm]

*Item added after the agenda was announced

• *The programs and services offered by George Mason University are open to all who seek them. George Mason does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, ethnic national origin (including shared ancestry and/or ethnic characteristics), sex, disability, military status (including veteran status), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, pregnancy status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. After an initial review of its policies and practices, the university affirms its commitment to meet all federal mandates as articulated in federal law, as well as recent executive orders and federal agency directives.