Faculty of Science, Meeting of Faculty
Tuesday, 17 November, 2015
3:00 p.m., Leacock Council Room (232)
Research Presentations (3 minutes)
Prof. Lauren Human, Department of Psychology
Prof. Graham MacDonald, Department of Geography
1. Adoption of Agenda
2. Minutes of 20 October 2015 s-15-12.pdf
3. Business Arising from the Minutes
4. Provost and Vice-Principal (Academic) Christopher Manfredi
5. Report of Committee:
Academic Committee: Associate Dean, Tamara Western s-15-13.pdf
6. Dean's Business
a) Announcements
b) Budget
7. Reports of Associate Deans
a) Associate Dean (Graduate Education) Laura Nilson
b) Associate Dean (Research) Doina Precup
c) Associate Dean (Academic) Tamara Western
8. Reports on Actions of Senate
Prof. Gregory Dudek: Senate Meeting of 21 October 2015
Prof. Peter Grutter: Senate Meeting of 3 November 2015
9. Members' Question Period
10. Other Business
Academic Committee Documents
The Academic Committee approved the following on Tuesday, 27 October 2015:
SECTION A; NEW COURSES
(1) Earth & Planetary Sciences
-EPSC 520/Earthquake Physics and Geology/3 credits ac-15-13.pdf
(1A) Associate Program:
Physics/Earth & Planetary Sciences
-Joint Major in Physics & Geophysics ac-15-14.pdf
(2) Computer Science
-COMP 551/Applied Machine Learning /4 credits ac-15-18_combined.pdf
SECTION B: COURSE REVISIONS
(1) Physics
-PHYS 434/Optics/Change in description/3 credits ac-15-15.pdf
(2) Computer Science
-COMP 303/Software design/Changes: title, description/3 credits ac-15-16.pdf
-COMP 350/Numerical Computing/Restriction added/3 credits ac-15-17_combined.pdf
(3) Mathematics & Statistics
-MATH 317/Numerical Analysis/Restriction added/3 credits ac-15-17a.pdf
SECTION C: PROGRAM CHANGES:
McGill School of Environment
- Major in Environment, Ecological Determinants of Health (Cellular) ac-15-20_combined.pdf
- Major in Environment, Ecological Determinants of Health (Population) ac-15-21_combined.pdf
SECTION D: OTHER (For Information only)
(1) McGill School of Environment
Program Changes:
-B.A. Faculty Program in Environment, Ecological Determinants of Health in Society
-B.Sc. (AgEnvSc) Major in Environment, Ecological Determinants of Health (Cellular)
-B.Sc. (AgEnvSc) Major in Environment, Ecological Determinants of Health (Population)
(2) Mathematics & Statistics
- B.A. Minor concentration in Statistics (Deletion of Complementary Course)
(3) Chemistry Minor Course Changes ac-15-22_combined.pdf
(4) Courses on Dean's Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research List (DMURL) ac-15-12.pdf
Next Meeting: 8 December 2015