Report to the Faculty Senate - December 2007
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Graduate Council
Items Approved at December 2007 Meeting
New Courses - December 6, 2007 (Click links below to view or save PDF documents.)
AERO 605 Theory of Elasticity – Cross-listed with MEMA 601
AERO 612 Wave Propagation in Isotropic and Anisotropic Solids – Cross-listed with MEMA 612
AERO 618 Mechanics of Active Materials – Cross-listed with MEMA 626
ANTH 646 Ceramic Artifact Analysis
ANTH 647 Lithic Artifact Analysis
ANTH 651 Pleistocene Prehistory of Northeast Asia & Alaska
ANTH 653 Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology
ANTH 654 Archaeological Photography
BICH 665 Biochemical Kinetics
CHEN 660 Quantitative Risk Analysis – Cross-listed with SENG 660
GEOG 622 Environment and Society on the US-Mexico Border
GEOG 643 Geopolitics and Geostrategies of Energy
GEOG 652 Quantitative Methods in Geography
GEOP 661 Reservoir Rock Physics
ISEN 660 Quantitative Risk Analysis – Cross-listed with CHEN 660 & SENG 660
KINE 646 Fundamentals of Spaces Life Sciences – Cross-listed with NUTR 646 & NUEN 646
MATH 676 Finite Element Methods in Scientific Computing
MEEN 603 Theory of Elasticity – Cross-listed with MEMA 601
MEEN 608 Continuum Mechanics – Cross-listed with MEMA 602
MEEN 609 Materials Science – Cross-listed with MEMA 609
MEEN 610 Applied Polymer Science – Cross-listed with MEMA 610
MEEN 616 Mathematical Foundations of Continuum Mechanics – Cross-listed with MEMA 604/MATH 604
MEEN 618 Energy Methods – Cross-listed with MEMA 605
MEEN 635 Flow and Fracture of Polymeric Solids – Cross-listed with MEMA 607
MEEN 657 Viscoelasticity of Solids and Structures I – Cross-listed with MEMA 651
MEEN 661 Principles of Composite Materials – Cross-listed with MEMA 613
MEEN 666 Plasticity Theory – Cross-listed with MEMA 641
MEEN 670 Theory of Finite Element Analysis – Cross-listed with MEMA 647
MEEN 672 Introduction to the Finite Element Method – Cross-listed with MEMA 646
MEEN 673 Nonlinear finite element methods in structural mechanics – Cross-listed with MEMA 648
NUEN 646 Fundamentals of Space Life Sciences – Cross-listed with NUTR 646 & KINE 646
NUTR 646 Fundamentals of Space Life Sciences – Cross-listed with NUEN 646 & KINE 646
OCNG 611 Global Scale Oceanography
OCNG 658 Ocean Computational Analysis Lab
PHYS 614 Introduction to Methods of Mathematical Physics
WMST 634 Introduction to Gender & Education – Cross-listed with EHRD 634
WMST 649 Feminist Pedagogy – Cross-listed with ERHD 649
WMST 650 Gender and International Education – Cross-listed with EHRD 650
WMST 661 Sociology of Gender – Cross-listed with SOCI 661
Course Changes - December 6, 2007
MEMA 601 Theory of Elasticity – Cross-listed with AERO 605
MEMA 612 Wave Propagation in Isotropic and Anisotropic Solids – Cross-listed with AERO 612
MEMA 626 Mechanics of Active Materials – Cross-listed with AERO 618
ACCT 671 Contemporary Accounting Topics
GEOG 624 Biogeography: Theory and Methods
Special Consideration Items - December 6, 2007
College of Liberal Arts
Program Request for a Master of Arts in Performance Studies
The Bush School of Government & Public Service
Five-Year Joint Degree Programs for the Bush School and Department of Economics
College of Education and Human Development
Request for a Master of Science degree in Sport Management
College of Education and Human Development
Request for a Master of Education in Hispanic Bilingual Education and
a Master of Science in Hispanic Bilingual Education
College of Education and Human Development
Request for a Master of Science and a
Master of Education degree in Special Education
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Non-substantive change for the Master of Agriculture in Agricultural Development
College of Education and Human Development
Reduction of EDAD ED.D. Internship from 6 to 3 hours
Amended from December 3, 2007:
New Courses
BUSH 637 Decision Making in Government and Public Service
BUSH 639 Homeland Security and Emergency Management
STAT 662 Advanced Statistical Genetics
Course Change
KINE 641 Motor Development

