Time: 11:00am
Location: Microsoft Teams. If anyone in addition to the COSCC would like to attend, please email Jen for details.
Items to be considered on this agenda are due by 9/15/2025.
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 [11:01AM]
II. Approval of the August 25, 2025 Meeting Minutes [Approved]
III. Announcements/Discussion
- College Policies Catalog Update [Approved pending updates to Permission to Study Elsewhere: 1. Re-insert AP1.4.2 wording. 2. Clarifying lecture and lab pairings and require them to be taken in same term.]
- COSCC Bylaws (see Teams>Files>Bylaws>”Draft COSCC Bylaws_2025″) [Tabled]
- Graduate Admissions Requirements Project Introduction [To be discussed further in October.]
- BAM Template Project Update [These formatting updates are forthcoming in CIM.]
IV. Old Business
Modified Programs
V. New Business – Undergraduate
New Courses
- COS 411: Introduction to Science Policy [Approved]
Modified Courses
- GEOL 302: Mineralogy [Approved pending clarity on prerequisites.]
- GEOL 313: Hydrology [Approved pending lab hours update and clarity on required vs. recommended.]
- GGS 300: Quantitative Methods for Geographical Analysis [Approved]
- GGS 302: Global Environmental Hazards [Approved]
- GGS 303: Geography of Resource Conservation [Approved]
- GGS 304: Population Geography [Approved]
- GGS 306: Urban Geography [Approved]
- GGS 307: Geographic Approaches for Sustainable Development [Approved]
- GGS 310: Cartographic Design [Approved]
- GGS 311: Geographic Information Systems [Approved]
- GGS 315: Geography of the United States [Approved]
- GGS 316: Geography of Latin America [Approved]
- GGS 317: Geography of China [Approved]
- GGS 320: Geography of Europe [Approved]
- GGS 325: Geography of North Africa and the Middle East [Approved]
- GGS 326: Geography of Eastern Europe and Russia [Approved]
- GGS 340: Health Geography [Approved]
- GGS 344: Military Geography [Approved]
- GGS 346: Geography of Religions and Belief Systems [Approved]
- GGS 354_Data Analysis and Global Change Detection Techniques [Approved]
- GGS 366: Spatial Computing [Approved]
- GGS 379: Remote Sensing [Approved]
Course Deactivations
- COS 310: Introduction to Science Policy [Approved]
- Affected programs: Science and Technology Policy Minor
- Affected courses: COS 315: Science Policy Internship Program, COS 320: Science Policy in Practice
VI. New Business – Graduate
New Courses
- GEOL 507: Geological Field Experience* [Approved, pending change to grading scale, learning outcome wording, and academic policies.]
Modified Courses
- GEOL 513: Hydrology [Approved]
- GEOL 535: Advanced Stratigraphy [Approved pending course description update.]
- GEOL 536: Paleontology Seminar [Approved]
- GGS 517: Geography of China [Approved]
VII. Adjournment [12:19pm]
*Item added after the agenda was announced