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IT Curriculum Committee Minutes

Meeting was 2:30 on Tuesday 2010-4-20 in 4-192/4-178 EE/Csci


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Catalog Abbreviations


Attendance (PDF)

Handouts:

The following will be available as hardcopy at the meeting:

Other Agenda Items

Items Requiring Committee Action and Department Representative Presence

Course Title Changes Actions
CE 5511 Urban Hydrology and Land Development CE 5511 -- New Course Approved
completed
2010-4-8
GEO 1012 Natural Hazards and Disasters GEO 1012 -- New Course (also see handout above) Approved
completed
2010-3-8
GEO 3425 Atmospheric Composition and Chemistry GEO 3425 -- New Course Approved
completed
2010-4-1
MATH 4603 Advanced Calculus I MATH 4603 -- New Course Provisional Approval -- Tabled
completed
2010-3-26
MATH 4604 Advanced Calculus II MATH 4604 -- New Course Tabled

Items for Approval without Objection

Course Title Changes Actions
BBE 4523 Ecological Engineering Design Removing lab component: BBE 4523 -- Changes completed
2010-3-29
BBE 5523 Ecological Engineering Design Removing lab component: BBE 5523 -- Changes completed
2010-3-29
CHEM 2301 Organic Chemistry I
Effective Term: New:  1109 - Fall 2010
Old:  1089 - Fall 2008
Course
Prerequisites
for Catalog:
New:  Grade of at least C- in [1022 or 1032H or equiv] or [Grade of at least B in 1031H and Concurrent registration in 1032H is required]
Old:  Grade of at least C- in [1022 or 1032H] or equiv
completed
2010-3-17
CHEM 4101 Intermediate Analytical Chemistry Lecture
Effective Term: New:  1109 - Fall 2010
Old:  1089 - Fall 2008
Course Title Short: New:  Modn Instr Methods of ChemAnal
Old:  Inter Anal Chem
Course Title Long: New:  Modern Instrumental Methods of Chemical Analysis Lecture
Old:  Intermediate Analytical Chemistry Lecture
completed
2010-3-17
CHEM 4111W Intermediate Analytical Chemistry Lab
Effective Term: New:  1109 - Fall 2010
Old:  1089 - Fall 2008
Course Title Short: New:  Modn Instr Me of Chem Anal Lab
Old:  Inter Anal Chem Lab
Course Title Long: New:  Modern Instrumental Methods of Chemical Analysis Lab
Old:  Intermediate Analytical Chemistry Lab
completed
2010-3-17
CSCI 1107 Introduction to FORTRAN Programming for Scientists and Engineers Change to transfer credit only: CSCI 1107 -- Changes completed
2010-4-20
CSCI 1121 Introduction to the Internet 1 Deactivate course completed
2010-4-19
CSCI 5116 GUI Toolkits and Their Implementation Deactivate course (to be replaced by new course) completed
2010-4-20
CSCI 5541 Natural Language Processing Deactivate course completed
2010-4-19
EE 4341 Microprocessor and Microcontroller System Design
Effective Term: New:  1109 - Fall 2010
Old:  1103 - Spring 2010
Course Title Short: New:  Embedded System Design
Old:  Microproc Sys Dsgn
Course Title Long: New:  Embedded System Design
Old:  Microprocessor and Microcontroller System Design
Catalog
Description:
New:  Microcontroller interfacing for embedded system design. Exception handling/interrupts. Memory Interfacing. Parallel/serial input/output methods. System Buses and protocols. Serial Buses and component interfaces. Microcontroller Networks. Real-Time Operating Systems. Integral lab.
Old:  Microprocessor interfacing. Memory design. Exception handling/interrupts. Parallel/serial input/output. Bus arbitration control. Multiprocessor systems. Direct memory access (DMA). Designing dynamic RAM memory systems. Special DRAM modes. Interleaved memory. Advanced bus structures. Integral lab.
Proposal Changes: New:  Change of title and description that better describes the current version of the course as it is taught.
Old:  Our graduate policy changed a little while ago so this message regarding no grad credit is no longer in effect.  Simply need to remove it from the catalog since it is now erroneous.  Nature of course is not changing.
completed
2010-4-8
EE 5164 Semiconductor Properties and Devices II
Effective Term: New:  1109 - Fall 2010
Old:  1089 - Fall 2008
Course
Prerequisites
for Catalog:
New:  5163 or #
Old:  [5163, IT grad student] or %
Enforced
Prerequisites:
(course-based or
non-course-based)
New:  EE 5163
Old:  000356 - IT grad student
completed
2010-4-8
HSCI 3333W Issues in American Science and Technology in the Past Century HSCI 3333W -- New Course but is same as HSCI 3333V without Honors completed
2010-3-2

Items For Information Only

Course Title Changes Actions
AEM 4202 Aerodynamics
Effective Term: New:  1105 - Summer 2010
Old:  1089 - Fall 2008
Term(s) most
frequently offered:
New:  Spring
Old:  Fall, Spring
completed
2010-4-14
AEM 4203 Aerospace Propulsion
Effective Term: New:  1105 - Summer 2010
Old:  1089 - Fall 2008
Years most
frequently offered:
New:  Every academic year
Old:   Other frequency
Term(s) most
frequently offered:
New:  Spring
Old:  Fall, Spring
completed
2010-4-14
AEM 4303W Flight Dynamics and Control
Effective Term: New:  1105 - Summer 2010
Old:  1089 - Fall 2008
Course
Prerequisites
for Catalog:
New:  [2012, 2301, [ENGC 1011 or equiv], [IT upper div or grad student]] or #
Old:  [2301, [ENGC 1011 or equiv], [IT upper div or grad student]] or #
Enforced
Prerequisites:
(course-based or
non-course-based)
New:  AEM 2012, AEM 2301, EngC 1011 or equiv, IT Upper division or grad student
Old:  002618 - AEM 2301, EngC 1011 or equiv, IT upper div or grad student
Editor Comments: New:  adding 2012 as explicit prerequisite, IT Upper division used to imply this for BAEM students.
Old:  changed to writing class
completed
2010-4-14
AEM 4502 Computational Structural Analysis
Effective Term: New:  1105 - Summer 2010
Old:  1089 - Fall 2008
Years most
frequently offered:
New:  Every academic year
Old:   Other frequency
completed
2010-4-14
AEM 4601 Instrumentation Lab
Effective Term: New:  1105 - Summer 2010
Old:  1089 - Fall 2008
Years most
frequently offered:
New:  Every academic year
Old:   Other frequency
Term(s) most
frequently offered:
New:  Spring
Old:  Fall, Spring
completed
2010-4-14
AEM 4602W Aeromechanics Lab
Effective Term: New:  1105 - Summer 2010
Old:  1089 - Fall 2008
Term(s) most
frequently offered:
New:  Fall
Old:  Fall, Spring
completed
2010-4-14
BBE 1906W Freshman Seminar Add fall 2010 topic: Sustainable Housing: Community, Technology and Env completed
2010-2-3
BBE 1906W Freshman Seminar Added Topic: Technology & Business of Bioenergy & Biocomposites completed
2010-3-29
BBE 5535 Assessment and Diagnosis of Impaired Waters
Career: New:  GRAD
Old:  UGRD
Consent
Requirement:
New:   No required consent
Old:   Instructor
Editor Comments: New:  Change career to graduate and remove instructor consent.
Old:  Change course number to BBE 5535 from BBE 5533.
Add equivalency BBE 4535 and BBE 5533.
Proposal Changes: New:  Change career to graduate and remove instructor consent.
Old:  Change course number to BBE 5535 from BBE 5533.
Add equivalency BBE 4535 and BBE 5533.
completed
2010-4-16
BBE 4013 Transport in Biological Systems
Effective Term: New:  1105 - Summer 2010
Old:  1113 - Spring 2011
Editor Comments: New:  Change effective term to Summer 2010 from Spring 2011.
Old:  Change to 3 credits from 4 credits.  The lap component is being dropped from the course.
completed
2010-2-17
CE 3102 Uncertainty and Decision Analysis in Civil Engineering
Effective Term: New:  1109 - Fall 2010
Old:  1103 - Spring 2010
Component 2: New:  DIS (no final exam)
Old:  
completed
2010-4-8
CE 3402 Civil Engineering Materials WI certification: CE 3402 -- Changes completed
2010-4-8
CE 4101W Project Management
Effective Term: New:  1109 - Fall 2010
Old:  1089 - Fall 2008
Course
Prerequisites
for Catalog:
New:  Course is restricted to Civil Engineering or construction management students only for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Old:  Upper div IT or construction management
Enforced
Prerequisites:
(course-based or
non-course-based)
New:  CE or GeoE upper division and construction management majors only.
Old:  001095 - IT student, jr or sr or CMGT
Editor Comments: New:  This is a copy of CE 4101: Project Management. Changes are for 2010-2011 academic year. We are transitioning CE 4101W to a non-writing-intensive course. We can only provide a limited number of seats; we can only accommodate majors for which this course is a requirement.
Old:  This is a copy of CE 4101: Project Management
completed
2010-4-8
CE 4502 Water and Wastewater Treatment LE Theme: Tech and Society CE 4502 -- Changes completed
2010-3-2
CE 5304 Computational Aspects of Matrix Theory
Effective Term: New:  1109 - Fall 2010
Old:  1089 - Fall 2008
Course
Prerequisites
for Catalog:
New:  2031 or 2033 or #
Old:  2031 or #
History Information: New:
Mar 2010-add 2033 to prereqs.
Old:
<no text provided>
Faculty
Sponsor E-mail Address:
New:  saad@cs.umn.edu
Old:  
completed
2010-4-8
CHEN 4223W Polymer Laboratory
Effective Term: New:  1103 - Spring 2010
Old:  1093 - Spring 2009
Course
Prerequisites
for Catalog:
New:  Chem 4221 or Chem 4214 or ChEn 4214 or MATS 4214 or #
Old:  4214 or &4214 or CHEM 4214 or &CHEM 4214 or MATS 4214 or &MATS 4214 or #
completed
2010-3-8
CHEM 4601 Green Chemistry LE Environment Theme certification: CHEM 4601 -- Changes completed
2010-2-19
CHEM 4601 Green Chemistry ENV Theme certification: CHEM 4601 -- Changes completed
2010-4-12
CSCI 3921W Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues in Computing Writing Intensive Certification changes: CSCI 3921w -- Changes completed
2010-3-5
CSCI 5302 Analysis of Numerical Algorithms
Effective Term: New:  1109 - Fall 2010
Old:  1089 - Fall 2008
Course
Prerequisites
for Catalog:
New:  2031 or 2033 or #
Old:  2031 or #
History Information: New:
Drop 5301 as a prereq for this course since we no longer offer 5301.
Oct 2006 - Minor modification to description to accurately reflect course content.
Mar 2010-add 2033 to prereqs.
Old:
Drop 5301 as a prereq for this course since we no longer offer 5301.
Oct 2006 - Minor modification to description to accurately reflect course content.
Faculty
Sponsor E-mail Address:
New:  boley@cs.umn.edu
Old:  
completed
2010-4-8
CSCI 5521 Pattern Recognition
Effective Term: New:  1109 - Fall 2010
Old:  1089 - Fall 2008
Course
Prerequisites
for Catalog:
New:  [[2031 or 2033], STAT 3021] or #
Old:  [2031, Stat 3021] or #
History Information: New:
5301 has been dropped so we are changing the prereq to current course 2031.
Mar 2010-add 2033 to prereqs.
Old:
5301 has been dropped so we are changing the prereq to current course 2031.
Faculty
Sponsor Name:
New:  Dan Boley
Old:  
Faculty
Sponsor E-mail Address:
New:  boley@cs.umn.edu
Old:  
completed
2010-4-8
CSCI 5551 Introduction to Intelligent Robotic Systems
Effective Term: New:  1109 - Fall 2010
Old:  1089 - Fall 2008
Course
Prerequisites
for Catalog:
New:  2031 or 2033 or #
Old:  2031 or #
History Information: New:
Nov 06-changing prereq from CSci 5511 to CSci 2031.
Mar 2010-add 2033 to prereqs.
Old:
Nov 06-changing prereq from CSci 5511 to CSci 2031
Faculty
Sponsor E-mail Address:
New:  stergios@cs.umn.edu
Old:  
completed
2010-4-8
CSCI 5980 Special Topics in Computer Science Added Topic: Computational Geo-Informatics (fall 2010) completed
2010-4-9
EE 4541 Digital Signal Processing
Effective Term: New:  1109 - Fall 2010
Old:  1089 - Fall 2008
Term(s) most
frequently offered:
New:  Fall, Summer
Old:  Fall, Spring, Summer
Proposal Changes: New:  Simply removing Spring course offering check mark as the course is no longer offered each spring.
Old:  <no text provided>
completed
2010-4-19
EE 5561 Image Processing and Applications
Effective Term: New:  1109 - Fall 2010
Old:  1089 - Fall 2008
Consent
Requirement:
New:   No required consent
Old:   Instructor
completed
2010-4-20
GEO 1901 Freshman Seminar Environment Add Topic Fall 2010: Geology of Minnesota completed
2010-4-19
GEO 1901 Freshman Seminar Environment Add Topic Fall 2010: Polar Environments: Rocks, Ice, and Human Impact completed
2010-4-19
GEO 1905 Freshman Seminar Add Topic Fall 2010: History in a Grain of Sand completed
2010-4-19
GEO 1905 Freshman Seminar Add Topic Fall 2010: Tsunamis: An Underrated Hazard completed
2010-4-19
GEO 3303W Geochemical Principles Effective date of renumbering from 2303W moved from Fall 2011 to Fall 2010 Completed
2010-4-5
GEO 4971w Field Hydrogeology
Effective Term: New:  1105 - Summer 2010
Old:  1089 - Fall 2008
Years most
frequently offered:
New:  Every academic year
Old:   Other frequency
completed
2010-2-8
HSCI 1715 Technology and Civilization: Waterwheels to the Web
Max-Min Credits
for Course:
New:  4.0 to 3.0 credit(s)
Old:  4.0 to 4.0 credit(s)
Academic
Progress Units:
New:  Not allowed to bypass limits.
3.0 credit(s)
Old:  Not allowed to bypass limits.
4.0 credit(s)
Financial Aid
Progress Units:
New:  Not allowed to bypass limits.
3.0 credit(s)
Old:  Not allowed to bypass limits.
4.0 credit(s)
Proposal Changes: New:  LE proposal for Fall 2010:
 CORE: Historical Perspectives
 THEME: Technology and Society

Adding clarification for theme of Technology and Society
 Submitted revised syllabus
 #3 under on criteria for theme courses was changed

Change to variable credit course
Old:  LE proposal for Fall 2010:
 CORE: Historical Perspectives
 THEME: Technology and Society

Adding clarification for theme of Technology and Society
 Submitted revised syllabus
 #3 under on criteria for theme courses was changed
completed
2010-2-11
HSCI 3715 Technology and Civilization: Waterwheels to the Web
Max-Min Credits
for Course:
New:  4.0 to 3.0 credit(s)
Old:  4.0 to 4.0 credit(s)
Academic
Progress Units:
New:  Not allowed to bypass limits.
3.0 credit(s)
Old:  Not allowed to bypass limits.
4.0 credit(s)
Financial Aid
Progress Units:
New:  Not allowed to bypass limits.
3.0 credit(s)
Old:  Not allowed to bypass limits.
4.0 credit(s)
Proposal Changes: New:  LE proposal for Fall 2010:
CORE: Historical Perspectives
THEME: Technology and Society

Adding clarification for theme of Technology and Society
 Submitted revised syllabus
 #3 under on criteria for theme courses was changed       

Change to variable credit course
Old:  LE proposal for Fall 2010:
CORE: Historical Perspectives
THEME: Technology and Society

Adding clarification for theme of Technology and Society
 Submitted revised syllabus
 #3 under on criteria for theme courses was changed       
completed
2010-1-11
MATH 1001 Excursions in Mathematics CLE recertification: MATH 1001 -- Changes completed
2010-3-26
MATH 1031 College Algebra and Probability CLE recertification: MATH 1031 -- Changes completed
2010-3-31
MATH 1051 Precalculus I CLE recertification: MATH 1051 -- Changes completed
2010-3-26
MATH 1151 Precalculus II CLE recertification: MATH 1151 -- Changes completed
2010-3-26
MATH 1155 Intensive Precalculus CLE recertification: MATH 1155 -- Changes completed
2010-3-31
MATS 4223W Polymer Laboratory
Effective Term: New:  1103 - Spring 2010
Old:  1093 - Spring 2009
Course
Prerequisites
for Catalog:
New:  Chem 4221 or Chem 4214 or ChEn 4214 or MATS 4214 or #
Old:  4214 or &4214 or CHEM 4214 or &CHEM 4214 or MATS 4214 or &MATS 4214 or #
completed
2010-3-8
PHYS 1001W Energy and the Environment Recertification: PHYS 1001w -- Changes completed
2010-4-8
PHYS 1905 Freshman Seminar Added Topic: Quantum Physics for Everyone (fall 2010) completed
2010-4-9
PHYS 1910W Freshman Seminar: Writing Intensive Added Topic: Evolution, A Physicist's Point of View (fall 2010) completed
2010-4-9

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