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 11/9/2020
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 [10:33 AM] The committee welcomed Dr. Rautenberg, our new Mathematical Sciences representative.
II. Approval of the October 26, 2020 Meeting Minutes [Approved with the addition of clarity that CHEM 471 was approved via email.]
III. Announcements/Discussion
- Bachelor’s/Accelerated Master’s Update* [The update has not yet received a final vote from the Graduate Council. Jennifer will be putting edits through the CIM approval chain as we do not have any time to spare in order to meet catalog deadlines.]
- Courses Last Taught Over Three Years Ago [If you think any of these courses need to be deleted, please delete them in the CIM system.]
- Low Enrolled Certificates* [Let Jennifer know if you want to delete these.]
- Low Enrolled Minors* [Let Jennifer know if you want to delete these.]
- Spring 2021 Meeting Schedule [Mondays at 10:30 AM works for the committee.]
IV. Old Business
V. New Business – Undergraduate
New Courses
- BIOL 102: Introductory Biology I-Survey of Biodiversity and Ecology*[Approved]
- BIOL 103: Introductory Biology I* [Approved]
- BIOL 105: Introductory Biology I Laboratory* [To be brought for an email vote once the prerequisites are clarified.]
- EVPP 381: Nature and Culture in Global Wetlands [Approved once standard syllabus language is inserted.]
Modified Courses
- BIOL 308: Foundations of Ecology and Evolution [Approved]
- FRSC 304: Forensic Chemistry [Approved]
- FRSC 305: Forensic Chemistry Lab[Approved]
- FRSC 418: Analytical Thinking and Violent Crime Profiling [Approved]
- GGS 310: Introduction to Digital Cartography* [Approved]
- GGS 311: Introduction to Geographic Information Systems* [Approved]
- GGS 325: Geography of North Africa and the Middle East* [Approved]
- GGS 411: Advanced Digital Cartography* [Approved]
- GGS 415: Seminar in Geography* [Approved]
- GGS 462: Web Mapping* [Approved]
- GGS 463:RS: Applied Geographic Information Systems* [Approved]
Modified Programs
- Environmental and Sustainability Studies, BA [Approved]
- Environmental Science, BS [Approved]
- Geography, BA/Geographic and Cartographic Sciences, Accelerated MS* [Approved]
- Geography, BA/Geoinformatics and Geospatial Intelligence, Accelerated MS* [Approved]
- Geography, BS/Geographic and Cartographic Sciences, Accelerated MS* [Approved]
- Geography, BS/Geoinformatics and Geospatial Intelligence, Accelerated MS*[Approved]
- Paleontology Minor [Approved]
- Renewable Energy Interdisciplinary Minor [Tabled as department representative is unavailable.]
VI. New Business – Graduate
New Courses
- GEOL 694: Supervised Internship Tabled by the department.]
- GEOL 894: Supervised Internship Tabled by the department.]
Modified Courses
- GEOL 541: Great Events in Earth History [Approved]
- GGS 518: Geography of North Africa and the Middle East* [Approved. Equivalent course later removed as we were advised by the Registrar’s Office that UG and GR equivalencies can’t be applied in any manner.]
- GGS 551: Thematic Cartography* [Approved. Equivalent course later removed per the reasoning listed on GGS 518.]
- GGS 553: Geographic Information Systems* [Approved with one abstention.]
- GGS 653: Geographic Information Analysis* [Approved. Equivalent course later removed per the reasoning listed on GGS 518.]
- GGS 655: Map Design* [Approved. Equivalent course later removed per the reasoning listed on GGS 518.]
- GGS 689: Seminar in Geographic Thought and Methodology* [Approved]
- GGS 692: Web-based Geographic Information Systems* [Approved. Equivalent course later removed per the reasoning listed on GGS 518.]
Modified Programs
- Bachelor’s degree (any)/Geographic and Cartographic Sciences, Accelerated MS* [Approved]
- Bachelor’s degree (any)/Geoinformatics and Geospatial Intelligence, Accelerated MS* [Approved]
- Geographic Information Science Graduate Certificate* [Approved]
VII. Adjournment [12:35 pm]
* agenda item added after the announcement