| 1. | Course and Program Approvals | |||
| Senate approved the following courses: | ||||
| HIST251: History of Violence in the United States, an existing three credit hour General Education course to be first offered in the Winter of 1997. | ||||
| MATH102: Survey of Mathematical Ideas in Non-European Cultures, a new three credit hour, general education, CQ, QARC undergraduate course to be first offered in Fall 1997. | ||||
| CSCI362: Data Structures, a new four credit undergraduate course to be first offered in Fall 1997. | ||||
| CSCI395: Computer Networks, a new four credit undergraduate course to be first offered in Fall 1997. | ||||
| CSCI420: Software Engineering, a new four credit undergraduate course to be first offered in Fall 1997. | ||||
| CSCI425: Human Computer Interaction, a new four credit undergraduate course to be first offered in Fall 1997. | ||||
| CSCI440: Theory of Computation, a new four credit undergraduate course to be first offered in Fall 1997. | ||||
| CSCI466: Database Management Systems, a new four credit undergraduate course to be first offered in Fall 1997. | ||||
| CSCI467: Design and Analysis of Algorithms, a new four credit undergraduate course to be offered Fall 1997. | ||||
| CSCI476: Parallel Programming, a new four credit undergraduate course to be first offered Fall 1997. | ||||
| Program Changes | ||||
| A Program Change for Geography Majors: A proposal to change the completion of the major policy for geography majors. Beginning with courses taken in the Spring 1997 semester, the Geography Department requires that in order to graduate with a BA or BSE degree in geography, each student must have a grade of C or better in each course taken to satisfy major requirements: geography courses and required related courses. To be implemented Spring Semester 1997. | ||||
| Governance Structure For The Women's Studies Program | ||||
| 2. | Election of the Chairperson of the Academic Policies Committee | |||
| Senate elected senator K. Bookmiller to be chairperson of the Academic Policies Committee for a term to end August 1997. | ||||
| 3. | Plus and Minus Grades | |||
| Senate moved to refer a list of items in the Governance Manual concerning plus and minus grades to the Academic Policies Committee for their first Spring 1997 meeting. | ||||
| 4. | Faculty Emeritus | |||
| Senate recommended: | ||||
| Mr. J. Rodney Bimson as Associate Professor of Health and Physical Education emeritus. | ||||
| Dr. John O'Donnell as Professor of English emeritus | ||||
| Dr. F. Perry Love as Professor of Educational Foundations emeritus. | ||||
| Dr. Gerald S. Weiss as Professor of Chemistry emeritus. | ||||
| 5. | Option in International Business | |||
| Senate postponed action on an Option in International Business until the 4 February 1997 senate meeting. | ||||
| 6. | Interdisciplinary Majors and Minors Policy | |||
| Senate moved to refer interdisciplinary majors and minors policy matters to the Academic Policies Committee. | ||||
| 7. | Report of the General Education Review Committee | |||
| Senate moved to continue the General Education Review Committee's discussion of the report of the General Education Task Force at the 3 February meeting with the highest possible priority. |