Dean Tiffany Heng-Moss will join from 1-1:30pm

I. Discussion of Previous Meeting’s Minutes – [9-23-2022]

II. Old Business

1. BIOC 848: Redox Biochemistry
Course Change Request: Chemistry has discontinued its cross listing as the course has not been taught in some time. Tabled 9.9.22 because syllabus needs to be updated. Kept tabled 9.23.22 because there were no changes.

2. BIOC 922K: Seminar in Biological Chemistry
Course Change Request: Chemistry has discontinued its cross listing as the course has not been taught in some time. Tabled 9.9.22 because syllabus needs to be updated. Kept tabled 9.23.22 because there were no changes.

Both the syllabi are updated (Highlighted in green in CIMS)

III. New Business

1. AGRO 815/PLAS 415: Applied Plant Breeding and Genetics

Course Change Request: AGRO 815 was an Inactive Course, was reactivated, and then modified with an added a 400-level counterpart. The PLAS 415 portion is a new course.

2. Entomology: Changes in Major

Modification of Undergraduate Major or Degree: Bachelor of Science in Insect Science:

Deletion of Undergraduate option IPM and Pest Science option

3. GRAS 398R: Research Experiences in Grasslands

New Course Proposal

4. NRES 475: Water Quality Strategy

Course Change Request: Sociology is removing its cross-listing as part of the CAS curriculum clean up project. Sociology students are not gravitating to this course.

5. NRES 111: Wildlife and Natural Resource Conservation

Course Change Request

6. NRES 40: Readiness for Care of Captive Wild Animals

New Course Proposal

7. NRES 41: Care of Captive Wild Animals

New Course Proposal

8. NRES 443: Global Change & Ecosystems

New Course Proposal

9. NRES 461: Soil Physics

Course Change Request: CAS curriculum clean up project. Earth and Atmospheric Science has chosen to discontinue its cross listing as the course has not been taught in some time.

10. NRES 922: Seminar in Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Course Change Request: CAS curriculum clean up project. Geography has chosen to discontinue its cross listing as the course has not been taught in some time.

11. NRES 971: Quantitative Fishery Assessment

Course Change Request: Part of SNR cleanup. SNR ran out of 800 level course numbers and is switching some doctoral courses from 800 to 900 level.

12. NRES 980: Vertebrate Population Analysis

Course Change Request: Part of SNR course clean-up. SNR ran out of 800 course numbers and is deleting old courses and changing some doctoral level courses from the 800 level to 900 level.

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IV. Informational Items

1. Vice Chair - Nominate or Contact Kaustav if anyone is interested, voting will be on Oct 28th

2. ACE Calendar

3. Catalog timeline

4. CASNR Capstone Requirements - Tim Meyer LINK