Time: 9:30am
Location: Exploratory Hall, Room 3301
Items to be considered on this agenda are due by 9/12/2016

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 [9:35 AM]

II. Approval of the  August 2016 Meeting Minutes  [Approved]

III. Announcements/Discussion

• An update from the Registrar’s Office regarding a course’s “Banner Title”: “… in Patriot Web the Fall 2016 sections now display the long title and course descriptions (previously listed only in the catalog). We anticipate that we will be able to let you add long titles for specific topic sections starting Spring 2017. More details will be available later.” [Registrar’s Office is now using the full Course title in Patriot Web, as abbreviated Banner title.]
• An update regarding the upcoming CourseLeaf software: Later this semester, Jen will receive training on new software that will replace the current Course Approval Form. She will then coordinate the best way to train those who will be using it in each department.
  • In 2017, the software will also be introduced as a replacement for the Program Approval Form; updates will be shared when available. [Jennifer will soon be receiving Courseleaf training and will subsequently train anyone that would like to learn (details forthcoming). Among other things, Courselea course entries will replace the current Course Approval form.]
• Updated Course Approval Form [Registrar updated the course approval form but has not enforced using it since Courseleaf is coming. Please continue to use the form linked on the COSCC website.]

IV. Old Business 

New Physics Courses

Physics and Astronomy intended to bring two course proposals to the COSCC this month: PHYS 164 and PHYS 264. PHYS 164’s similarity to the previously tabled item PHYS 150 (March 2016), was noted so instead of being voted on at this meeting, the Physics, Computational and Data Sciences, and the Mathematics departments must come to an agreement on course content before the courses are voted on by the COSCC. If consensus is not reached by the departments, the courses may come back to the COSCC for discussion in a debate format.

V. New Business – Undergraduate

[Jennifer introduced Gregory Craft, the college’s new Academic Affairs Coordinator. Gregory will be facilitating the COSCC in addition to other academic affairs-related duties.]

New Courses

• PHYS 465 Planetary Atmospheres and Ionospheres [Approved]

Modified Courses

• ASTR 103 Astronomy [Approved- pending Mason Core Committee approval]
• CDS 491 Internship [Approved]
• GGS 411 Advanced Digital Cartography [Approved]
• MATH 108 Introductory Calculus with Business Applications [Approved]

VI. New Business – Graduate

Modified Courses

• EVPP 637 Human Dimensions of Global Change [Approved]
• MATH 998 PhD Thesis Proposal [Approved]
• MATH 999 PhD Thesis Research [Approved]

Deleted Courses

• PSCI 701 Frontiers of Physical Sciences [Approved all PSCI 700 courses were part of degree that no longer exists at COS]
• PSCI 702 Research Methods [Approved]
• PSCI 703 Frontiers of Physical Sciences [Approved]
• PSCI 998 Dissertation Proposal [Approved]
• PSCI 999 Doctoral Dissertation [Approved]

VII. Adjournment [10:00 AM]

• *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.

Time: 9:30am
Location: Exploratory Hall, Room 3301
Items to be considered on this agenda are due by 8/15/2016

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 [9:31 a.m.]

II. Approval of the May 2016 Meeting Minutes .  [Approved]

III. Announcements/Discussion

• Honors Courses (K.M. Curtin).  [As a result of a meeting with the Honors College, we understand that there is an increased need for honors courses within the College of Science.  Departments are encouraged to work on developing new honors courses.  They can be existing courses designated for honors students].
• Course Hard-coding Approval Process as of Fall 2016 (J.B. Gettys).  [In an effort to reduce errors associated with these forms, all hard coding forms should be sent to Jen before going to the Registrar’s Office.  The Academic Affairs team will review these forms and route them accordingly].
• Fall 2016 COSCC Chair Appointment Voting.  [The committee voted that E.C.M. Parsons serve as chair for the fall 2016 semester; the COSCC thanks him for his continued service].

IV. Old Business

V. New Business – Undergraduate

Modified Courses

•  MLAB 401 Orientation to the Problems and Practices of the Clinical Laboratory.  [Approved]
•  MLAB 402 Clinical Hematology and Coagulation.  [Approved]
•  MLAB 403 Clinical Microscopy.  [Approved]
•  MLAB 404 Serology and Immunohematology.  [Approved]
•  MLAB 405 Clinical Microbiology.  [Approved]
•  MLAB 406 Clinical Chemistry.  [Approved]

VI. New Business – Graduate

New Courses

• EVPP 549 Marine Ecology.  [Approved with addition to Prerequisite(s):  EVPP 301 or BIOL 308 and BIOL/EVPP/GEOL 309 or permission of instructor].
• EVPP 797 Master’s Thesis Proposal.  [Approved pending change to Credits:  Variable 1-3].

VII. Adjournment  [9:52 a.m.]

• *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.

Modified Courses

• ASTR 210 Introduction to Astrophysics [Approved]
• PHYS 160 University Physics I [Approved pending “MATH 114 or equivalent” as a prerequisite or a co-requisite; whichever the department deems more appropriate upon further review.]
• PHYS 161 University Physics I Laboratory [Approved]
• PHYS 260 University Physics II [Approved pending “MATH 213 or equivalent” as a prerequisite or a co-requisite; whichever the department deems more appropriate upon further review.]
• PHYS 261 University Physics II Laboratory [Approved]
• PHYS 262 University Physics III [Approved]

• *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.

Time: 10:00am
Location: Exploratory Hall, Room 3301
Items to be considered on this agenda are due by 4/11/2016

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 [10:05 a.m.]

II. Approval of the March 2016 Meeting Minutes [Approved]

III. Announcements/Discussion

Fall 2016 Meeting Schedule [Tentative day/time – Mondays at 9:30 a.m.  Suggested dates to be discussed at May 9, 2016 meeting.]

[Dr. Kevin Curtin requested that committee members ask their departments to delete older graduate courses that are no longer being offered.  The list can be found on the Provost/Graduate Council website http://provost.gmu.edu/wp-content/uploads/Course-Offering-History-as-of-Oct-15.pdf.]

IV. Old Business

• Geography, BA with Concentration in Global and Environmental Change modification [removed from consideration]
• Physics, BS Physics Core Courses – needs further discussion. [On hold]
• PHYS 150 Course Proposal Computing for Physics and Engineering I – [remains tabled]
• GGS 313 – removed from consideration.  Needs further discussion. [On hold]

V. New Business – Undergraduate

New Courses

• EVPP 401 Integrated Environmental Assessment [Approved]
• EVPP 442 Urban Ecosystems and Processes [Approved pending amendment to prerequisite: 

CHEM 211, (add “CHEM 213”), MATH 113 or equivalent, (substitute BIOL 308 for BIOL 307″), (add “or EVPP 302”), PHYS 243).

Note on the syllabus that Undergraduate and Graduate projects must be completed separately.]

VI. New Business – Graduate

New Course

• EVPP 542  Urban Ecosystems and Processes [Approved pending syllabus language and prerequisite change to match EVPP 442.]

Modified Program/Modified Course

• Environmental GIS and Biodiversity Conservation Graduate Certificate  [Approved]

• EVPP 650 Ecosystem Analysis and Modeling [Approved]

VII. Adjournment [10:40 a.m.]

• *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.

• PHYS 150 Course Proposal Proposal:  PHYS 150 Computing for Physics and Engineering – Bob Weigel and Chi Yang.  [Tabled until Physics Department discusses with CDS Department.  After signature by both departments, bring before the COSCC.]

• Teacher Licensure [Tabled.  Some departments need more information from CEHD before moving forward.]

• *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.

Time: 10:00am
Location: Exploratory Hall, Room 3301
Items to be considered on this agenda are due by 2/8/2016

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 

Meeting was cancelled in favor of e-mail vote.

II. Approval of the January 2016 Meeting Minutes

Minutes will be approved at March meeting.

III. Announcements/Discussion

IV. Old Business

V. New Business – Undergraduate

None

VI. New Business – Graduate.  See Dropbox – February 16th’s Meeting.  Dropbox Link

Modified Courses

•  BINF 739 Modification  Topics in Bioinformatics [Approved]

•  CHEM 651 Modification Environmental Chemistry and Organic Substances  [Vote postponed. Discussion re: new course, not a modified one as little direct overlap between content of current course and modification – further clarification/explanation required.]

Modified Programs

• ESP BS/MS Accelerated Environmental Science and Policy, BS/Environmental Science and Policy accelerated MS [Approved]

VII. Adjournment

• *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.

Date:  February 1, 2016

Time: 10:00am [10:05 a.m.]
Location: Exploratory Hall, Room 3301
Items to be considered on this agenda are due by 1/11/2016

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 December 2015 Meeting Minutes [Approved]

III. Announcements/Discussion

February 22, 2016 meeting has been changed to February 29, 2016.

IV. Old Business

V. New Business – Undergraduate – See link:  Dropbox

Modified Courses

• CHEM 446 – Bioinorganic Chemistry – drop prerequisite [Approved]

Deleted Programs

• BIOL BS Modification  Biology Concentration [Approved]
• BIOL BA Modification  Biology Concentration [Approved]

Modified Programs

• ESS CHSS BA  Environmental and Sustainability Studies [Approved with the following exceptions:

1.  For Agriculture Concentration – Delete EVPP 335.

2.  For Conservation & Sustainability – Add EVPP 440 (field trip)]

VI. New Business – Graduate

Modified Programs

• CDS BS Accelerated CSS MS Computational and Data Sciences, BS and Computation Science, MS [Approved]
• CDS-CSI PhD Computational Sciences and Informatics, PhD. [Approved]

VII. Adjournment [10:21 a.m.]

• *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.

Time: 9:00am
Location: Exploratory Hall, Room 3301
Items to be considered on this agenda are due by 11/23/2015

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 [9:05am]

II. Approval of the November 2015 Meeting Minutes [Approved]

III. Announcements/Discussion

• Spring 2016 Meeting Schedule
• January and February 2016’s Meeting Procedures
  • COSCC members should have access to Jen’s Dropbox folder “COS Curriculum Committee- January and February 2016”
  • In the corresponding month’s folder, insert any course or program approval forms (one document per item)- however
    • they MUST already have a department signature on them (this MUST be the chair’s signature)
    • new courses MUST also include syllabi
  • Each meeting’s agenda will be run off of the items deposited into these folders
  • C. Parson’s will keep track of approvals and modifications that may be deemed necessary by the committee
  • The agendas and minutes will be posted to this website ~March 2016 for record keeping purposes

IV. Old Business

V. New Business – Undergraduate

New Courses

• GGS 340 Health Geography [Approved]
• GGS 384 Special Topics in Geospatial Intelligence [Approved pending a more descriptive summary and syllabi examples; these were provided later on 12/7/2015.]

Modified Courses

• CHEM 332 Physical Chemistry II [Approved- afterwards, the department asked that the forms not be routed for implementation quite yet.]
• CHEM 463 General Biochemistry I [Approved– afterwards, the department asked that the forms not be routed for implementation quite yet.]
• GGS 110 Maps and Mapping [Approved]
• GGS 303 Conservation of Resources and Environment [Approved]
• MATH 110 Introductory Probability [Approved]

Deleted Course

• GGS 353 Observations of the Earth and its Climate [Approved]

Modified Programs

• Atmospheric Sciences, BS [Approved]
• Mathematics, BA [Approved]
• Mathematics, BS plus an additional modification [Approved]

VI. New Business – Graduate

New Courses

• FRSC 517 Questioned Document Examination [Approved]
• FRSC 541  Forensic Chemistry Laboratory [Approved]
• FRSC 561 Forensic DNA Laboratory [Approved]
• FRSC 590 Medicolegal Death Investigation/Pathology [Approved]
• FRSC 620 Face and Biometric Pattern Analysis [Approved]
• FRSC 630 Fingerprint Identification [Approved]
• FRSC 640 Legal, Privacy and Ethical Issues in Identity Analysis [Approved]
• FRSC 650 Identity Analysis Applications [Approved pending change to become a ‘LEC’]
• GGS 507 Sustainable Development [Approved]
• GGS 681 Social Media Analysis [Approved]

Modified Courses

• CLIM 751 Predictability of Weather and Climate [Approved]
• GGS 900 Colloquium Earth Systems Sciences [Approved]

Modified Concentration

• Environmental Communication (within the Environmental Science, MS) [Approved]

Modified Program

• Climate Dynamics, PhD [Approved]
• Forensic Science, MS [Approved]

VII. Adjournment [10:45am]

• *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.

Time: 9:00am
Location: Exploratory Hall, Room 3301
Items to be considered on this agenda are due by 11/9/2015

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 [9:00am]

II. Approval of the October 2015 Meeting Minutes [Approved]

III. Announcements/Discussion

• The search function on the COSCC website is currently not functioning- the problem has been reported and hopefully will be remedied soon. As a work-around, go to the Meeting Archives and use the ‘Find’ function (Ctrl+F) to locate an item.

IV. Old Business

• BIOL 560 Infectious Diseases of Wildlife [Approved by SSB faculty and will now go on for Graduate Council review]

November 10th’s Email Vote Results:

• CLIM 700 Climate Comprehensive Exam [Approved]
• CLIM 798 Master’s Climate Research Project [Approved]
• CLIM 799 Master’s Thesis in Climate [Approved]
• EVPP 533 Energy Policy [Approved]

V. New Business – Undergraduate

New Courses [Going forward, attached syllabi should be near finalized with all university requirements as listed here. A link to this syllabus guidance has been added to the Procedures page for future reference.]

• CDS 201 Introduction to Computational Social Science [Approved]
• CDS 205 Introduction to Agent-based Modeling and Simulation [Approved]
• CDS 292 Introduction to Social Network Analysis [Approved]
• CHEM 213* General Chemistry Laboratory-I [Approved]
• CHEM 214* General Chemistry Laboratory-II [Approved]

New/Modified Program

• Computational and Data Sciences, BS (received SCHEV approval to revive this inactivated program) [Approved pending the following change to the ‘Science and Engineering’ section: “Choose 6 additional science or engineering credits from either: 1) additional Mason Core ‘Natural Science’ or ‘Information Technology’ courses (building upon the Mason Core courses used to fulfill the Mason Core requirements), or 2) any course offered by the College of Science, or 3) any course offered by the Volgenau School of Engineering.”]

Modified Courses

• BIOL 443 Tropical Ecology [Approved]
• BIOL 444 Tropical Ecology Laboratory [Approved]
• CDS 461 N-body Simulation Methods [Approved]
• CHEM 211* General Chemistry [Approved]
• CHEM 212* General Chemistry [Approved]
• EVPP 301 Environmental Science: Biological Diversity and Ecosystems [Approved]
• EVPP 305 Environmental Microbiology Essentials [Approved]
• EVPP 306 Environmental Microbiology Essentials Laboratory [Approved]
• EVPP 336 Human Dimensions of the Environment [Approved]
• EVPP 419 Marine Mammal Biology and Conservation [Approved]
• EVPP 420 Marine Mammal Biology and Conservation Field Course [Approved]
• EVPP 421 Marine Conservation [Approved]
• EVPP 430 Fundamentals of Environmental Geographic Information Systems [Item retracted as changing what terms a course is offered in does not require COSCC approval]
• EVPP 432 Energy Policy [Approved]
• EVPP 440 Field Environmental Science [Approved pending removal of ‘Total limit of 4 credits’]
• EVPP 480 Sustainability in Action [Approved]
• GGS 304 Population Dimensions of Global Change [Approved]
• GGS 321 Biogeography: Space, Time and Life [Approved]
• GGS 399 Selected Topics in Geography [Approved]
• GGS 480 Internship in Geography [Approved]
• GGS 495 Senior Research in Global and Environmental Change [Approved]
• GGS 499 Independent Study in Geography [Approved]

Deleted Courses

• EVPP 335 People, Plants, and Culture [Approved]
• GGS 398 Selected Topics in Global Change [Approved. Department later requested that we hold the forms until further notice.]
• GGS 410 Introduction to Hyperspectral Imaging [Approved. Department later requested that we hold the forms until further notice.]
• GGS 455 Environmental Impact Assessment [Approved. Department later requested that we hold the forms until further notice.]
• GGS 456 Introduction to Atmospheric Radiation [Approved. Department later requested that we hold the forms until further notice.]
• GGS 490 Practicum in Geographical Applications [Approved. Department later requested that we hold the forms until further notice.]

*CHEM 211 & 213; 212 & 214: COS degrees that have these courses listed in their catalog entries will be updated according to these forms by J.Gettys- please have your department’s catalog editors double check these changes when the draft catalog is distributed ~March 2016.

VI. New Business – Graduate

New Courses

• BINF 795 Bioinformatics Internship [Approved pending the addition of a syllabus, to be distributed to COSCC members via email]
• PHYS 665 Planetary Atmospheres and Ionospheres [Approved]

New/Modified Program

• Bioinformatics Management, PSM (adding PSM designation to the MS in Bioinformatics Mgmt) [Approved]

Modified Course

• GGS 704 Spatial Analysis and Modeling of Population [Approved]

Deleted Courses

• GGS 524 Intro to Environment and Resource Economics [Approved. Department later requested that we hold the forms until further notice.]
• GGS 525 Economics of Human/Environment Interactions [Approved. Department later requested that we hold the forms until further notice.]
• GGS 674 Environmental Impact Analysis [Approved. Department later requested that we hold the forms until further notice.]
• GGS 792 Seminar in Earth Systems Science [Approved. Department later requested that we hold the forms until further notice.]

Modified Programs

• Earth Systems and Geoinformation Sciences, PhD [Approved]
• Environmental Science and Policy, MS [Approved pending the addition of CLIM 512 to the Aquatic Science and Aquatic Science Methods sections]

VII. Adjournment [10:05am. The committee members agreed that spring 2016’s meeting schedule should be set for Mondays at 10:00am.]

Forensic’s items were removed on 11/20/2015 per department request.

• *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.

Time: 9:00am
Location: Exploratory Hall, Room 3301
Items to be considered on this agenda are due by 10/12/2015

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 September 2015 Meeting Minutes [Approved]

III. Announcements/Discussion

IV. Old Business

V. New Business – Undergraduate

New Courses

• BIOL 460 Infectious Diseases of Wildlife [Approved pending prerequisite update: “60 credits plus BIOL 308 or EVPP 305 and EVPP 306, or permission of the instructor” and adding EVPP 305 and EVPP 306 as equivalent courses.]
• EVPP 429 Environmental Science Communication [Approved]
• EVPP 475 Global Biodiversity Governance [Approved]

Modified Courses

• CDS 411 Modeling and Simulation [Approved]

Inactivated Course

• CHEM 341 Fundamental Inorganic Chemistry [Approved but later tabled by the department]

VI. New Business – Graduate

New Courses

• BIOL 560 Infectious Diseases of Wildlife [Approved but to be reviewed by SSB faculty before going to the Grad Council.]
• BMED 550 Special Topics in Biomedicine [Approved]
• EVPP 529 Environmental Science Communication [Approved]
• EVPP 549 Marine Ecology [Approved pending the addition of “(or the equivalent)” to the prerequisites.]
• EVPP 575 Global Biodiversity Governance [Approved pending adding EVPP 475 as an equivalent.]
• EVPP 608 Environmental Social Science [Approved pending title change to “Introduction to Environmental Social Science”. All were in favor except for GGS; their concern was that the course covers too much material.]
• EVPP 797 Master’s Thesis Proposal [Tabled for the proposing department’s further review.]
• GEOL 521 Geology of Energy Resources [Approved]

Modified Courses

• CDS 502 Scientific Data and Databases [Approved]
• CSI 780 Computational Physics and Applications [Approved]
• NEUR 603 Mammalian Neurobiology [Approved pending the prerequisite addition of “(or equivalent biology course)” and a note to see the second page for a new catalog description.]

Inactivated Courses

• CHEM 505 Hazardous Materials Waste Management [Approved]
• CHEM 554 Geochemistry of Environmental Hazards [Approved]

New Concentration

• Environmental Communication Concentration (within the Environmental Science and Policy, MS) [Approved]

Modified Concentration

• Systematics and Evolutionary Biology Concentration (within the Biology, MS) [Approved pending closer review by ESP faculty. An email from ESP’s chair on 10/28/2015 indicated that there were no concerns.]

Modified Programs

• Computational Sciences, MS [Approved pending the addition of “… graduate-level CDS, CSS, or CSI courses listed in the catalog…” and fixing “five specific courses” to “four”.]
• Computational Techniques and Applications Graduate Certificate [Approved]
• Earth Systems Science, MS [Approved]

VII. Adjournment [10:34am]

• *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.