Time: 10:00 am
Location: Exploratory Hall, Room 3301
Items to be considered on this agenda are due by 11/5/2018
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: 05 AM]
II. Approval of the October 22, 2018 Meeting Minutes [Approved]
III. Announcements/Discussion
Requested Modification to the College of Science Excluded Courses Policy [Approved with one abstention]
IV. Old Business
Modified Courses- Undergraduate
- NEUR 327: Cellular, Neurophysiological, and Pharmacological Neuroscience [Approved]
Modified Courses- Graduate
- GEOL 792: Seminar in Earth Systems Science, Geology, & Earth Science [Approved. A larger discussion surrounding the grading of seminar courses will be continued at a later meeting.]
V. New Business – Undergraduate
New Courses
- BIOL 101: Biology Freshman Seminar [Approved]
- BIOL 300: BioDiversity [Approved]
- BIOL 427: Disease Ecology and Conservation [Approved pending adding equivalency to EVPP 427.]
- EVPP 108: Ecosphere – Introduction to Environmental Science I-Lecture [Approved]
- EVPP 109: Ecosphere-Introduction to Environmental Science 1-Lab [Approved pending “1” to “I”.]
- EVPP 433: Natural Science for Educators [Tabled pending further department discussion.]
- FRSC 101: Principles of Forensic Science [Approved]
- GGS 317: Geography of China [Tabled per the department’s request.]
- MATH 175: Mathematics of Cryptography: An Introduction [Approved]
Modified Courses
- BIOL 107: Intro Biology II Lecture [Approved]
- BIOL 125: Human Anatomy and Physiology [Approved]
- BIOL 246: Introductory Microbiology [Approved]
- BIOL 323: Lab for Developmental Biology [Approved]
- BIOL 382: Introduction to Virology [Approved]
- BIOL 401: Phage Discovery [Approved]
- BIOL 402: Applied and Industrial Microbiology [Approved]
- BIOL 404: Medical Microbiology [Approved]
- BIOL 417: Selected Topics in Molecular and Cellular Biology [Approved]
- BIOL 420: Vaccines [Approved]
- BIOL 493: Honors Research in Biology [Tabled due to timing and subsequent loss of quorum.]
- BIOL 495: Directed Studies in Biology [Tabled due to timing and subsequent loss of quorum.]
- BIOL 497: Special Problems in Biology [Tabled due to timing and subsequent loss of quorum.]
- CHEM 464: General Biochemistry II [Approved pending modification of max repeat credits, if deemed necessary by J. Gettys.]
- CHEM 465: Biochemistry Lab [Approved pending modification of max repeat credits, if deemed necessary by J. Gettys.]
Deleted Courses:
- BIOL 328: Recitation for Fundamentals of Ecology and Evolution [Tabled due to timing and subsequent loss of quorum.]
- COS Impacted Courses: BIOL 308
- BIOL 406: Microbial Physiology and Metabolism [Tabled due to timing and subsequent loss of quorum.]
Modified Programs
- Computational and Data Sciences, BS [Approved]
- Earth Science, BS [Approved]
- Mathematics, BS [Approved, pending modification to the Justification section]
- Medical Laboratory Science, BS [Approved]
- Neuroscience, BS [Approved pending the addition of wording that elective courses need to be different than the core classes.]
- Neuroscience Minor [Approved]
- Renewable Energy Interdisciplinary Minor [Approved]
VI. New Business – Graduate
New Courses
- BIOL 527: Disease Ecology and Conservation [Approved pending adding equivalency to EVPP527.]
New Programs
- Accelerated Master’s: Neuroscience, BS/Biology, MS [Approved pending changes if needed to keep the GPA in line with current Biology, MS requirements.]
Modified Programs
- Actuarial Sciences Graduate Certificate [Approved]
VII. Adjournment [11: 44 AM]