College of Science Curriculum Committee

November 2007 – Agenda & Minutes

Members Present: Geoff Birchard, Tim Born (chair), Sheryl Beach, Dan Cox, Robert Ellsworth, Igor Griva, Dimitri Klimov, Barry Klinger, Tim Leslie (GEOG sub), David Singman[br]Members Absent: Rick Diecchio, Barry Haack, Peter Becker

  1. Approval of the October 18th minutes:
    • Minutes were approved.
  2. Announcements and comments:
    • Dr Born thanked Dr. Klimov for representing the curriculum committee at the last COS faculty meeting.
    • Dr. Born wanted to thank everyone for responding quickly to comments/edits to proposals upon posting.
    • Assad made the announcement that the following courses have been approved for general education:
    • ASTR 103, ASTR 302, CDS 101, CLIM 101, EOS 121, EVPP 335
  3. Old Business
    • Conservation Biology Minor Approved
  4. New Business
    • Graduate
      • BIOL 666 [Approved][br]Course will ultimately be cross listed with nursing.
      • CSI 772 [Approved][br]Depts. of Statistics and Electrical Engineering are interest in this course as well and possible cross listing for the future.
      • EOS 684 [Approved]
      • EVPP 644, 646 and 647 [Approved] (All)[br]EVPP 644 is the existing course (both lab and lecture) and was deleted.[br]EVPP 646 and 647 will be splitting the course into separate lab and lecture. No change in content.
      • NEUR 600 [Tabled]
      • BIOL 507 [Approved]
      • BIOL 536 [Approved]
    • Undergraduate
      • CDS 410 and 411 [Approved][br]Part I and II of a course in math techniques.
      • Minor in Bioinformatics [Approved]
      • BIOL 301 [Approved][br]Addition of EVPP 421 to list of topics offered for BIOL 301
      • MATH modifications/deletions [Approved][br]31 courses (27 modifications and 4 deletions) approved as a block
      • PHYS 303 [Approved]
      • PHYS BS modification [Approved]

Download original PDF documents:[br]Agenda: November 2007[br]Minutes: November 2007