Time: 10:30am
Location: Zoom invite sent to committee members. If anyone else would like to attend, please email Jen for details.
Items to be considered on this agenda are due by 2/1/2021
When available, the meeting minutes will be indicated within bold brackets [ ] and are in draft form until they are approved by the committee.
Relevant Links: Undergraduate Council Meeting Minutes/ Graduate Council Meeting Minutes
I. Call to Order [10:31 am]
II. Approval of the January 25, 2021 Meeting Minutes [Approved]
III. Announcements/Discussion
- Moving March’s COSCC meeting from March 8 to March 15. [No objections were raised from the committee, the meeting will be held March 15 at 10:30am.]
- E-mail approvals collected post-January meeting for: Biology BA; Biology BS; Chemistry and Biochemistry PhD; Mechanical Engineering BS to Computational Science Accelerated MS; Neuroscience PhD.
IV. Old Business
New Courses- Undergraduate
- GEOL 109: Introduction to Oceanography [Approved pending revision to the learning outcomes, their addition to the syllabus and the addition of a grading scale to the syllabus.]
- GEOL 110: Introduction to Oceanography Lab [Approved pending revision to the learning outcomes, their addition to the syllabus and the addition of a grading scale to the syllabus.]
New Courses- Graduate
- GEOL 512: Invertebrate Paleontology [Approved pending the addition of the learning outcomes and a grading scale to the syllabus.]
V. New Business – Undergraduate
New Courses
- GGS 366: Spatial Computing [Approved.]
Modified Courses
- BIOL 309/EVPP 309/ GEOL 309: Introduction to Oceanography [Tabled to further clarify the relationship between these courses and the new 100-level GEOL courses.
- BIOL 326: Animal Physiology [Tabled for further work with Jen in order to meet Undergraduate Council expectations.]
VI. New Business – Graduate
New Courses
- EVPP 566: Coral Reef Ecology, Health, and Conservation [Tabled to provide time to separate UG and GR syllabi.]
- EVPP 567: Coral Reef Ecology, Health, and Conservation Lab/Field Experience [Tabled to provide time to separate UG and GR syllabi.]
Modified Programs
- Biology, BA or BS/Curriculum and Instruction, Accelerated* MEd (Secondary Education Biology Concentration)* [Tabled to email vote for further clarification on UG course expectations.]
- Chemistry, BA or BS/Curriculum and Instruction, Accelerated MEd (Secondary Education Chemistry Concentration)* [Tabled to email vote for further clarification on UG course expectations.]
- Earth Science, BS/Curriculum and Instruction, Accelerated MEd (Secondary Education Earth Science Concentration)* [Tabled to email vote for further clarification on UG course expectations.]
- Geology, BS/Curriculum and Instruction, Accelerated MEd (Secondary Education Earth Science Concentration)* [Tabled to email vote for further clarification on UG course expectations.]
- Mathematics, BA or BS/Curriculum and Instruction, Accelerated MEd, (Secondary Education Mathematics Concentration)* [Tabled to email vote for further clarification on UG course expectations.]
- Physics, BS/Curriculum and Instruction, Accelerated MEd (Secondary Education Physics Concentration)* [Tabled to email vote for further clarification on UG course expectations.]