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CONTACT PERSON FOR THE FOLLOWING COURSE INFORMATION:
Dee Holisky, College of Arts and Sciences, 3-8721, dholisky@gmu.edu

New Courses for Approval

Philosophy and Religious Studies. New. PHIL 602. Plato: Selected Dialgues (3:3:0). Description: A study of the central issues in the philosophy of Plato through a close reading of selected dialogues. Issues investigated will include the questions of the possibility of knowledge, the nature of being, and of the good.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing.

Philosophy and Religious Studies. New. PHIL 604. Augustine and Aquinas (3:3:0). Description: A critical examination of the philosophies of Augustine and Aquinas with special attention to the mode of argument of each.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing.

Philosophy and Religious Studies. New. PHIL 605. Mind-Body Problem in Early Modern Philosophy (3:3:0)
Description: An examination of the views of major early modern philosophers on issues such as mind/body interaction, personal identity, and freedom of the will, as well as of interpretations of these philosophers by historians of philosophy. Prerequisites: Graduate standing.

Philosophy and Religious Studies. New. PHIL 608. Hegel’s Phenomenology of the Spirit (3:3:0).
Description: A study of the philosophy of Hegel through a reading of the text that presents an introduction to his system. Special attention is paid to Hegel’s background in the work of Kant and the German Idealists.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing.

Philosophy and Religious Studies. New. PHIL 616. Phenomenology (3:3:0).
Description: This major approach in philosophy is studies in regard to its basic features, the tasks to which it has been set by major contributors, certain findings of phenomenology in practice, as well as crucial problems that develop as phenomenology proceeds and how they are addressed by phenomenologists.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing.

Philosophy and Religious Studies. New PHIL 617. Movements and Issues in the History of Political Philosophy. (3:3:0)
Description: An exploration of themes, movements and periods in the history of political theory. Prerequisites: Graduate standing.

Philosophy and Religious Studies. New. PHIL 618. Contemporary French Feminism (3:3:0). Description: This course examines the philosophical contexts of existential-phenomenological and psychoanalytic French Feminist. It explores the ways in which French feminist thought has influenced continental philosophical thinking and international feminist theory. Prerequisites: Graduate standing.

Philosophy and Religious Studies. New. PHIL 621. Philosophy of Science (3:3:0). Description: An exploration of whether and how scientific advances can be achieved. Special attention is paid to relativism/rationalism debates and to the role of technology in science. Prerequisites: Graduate standing.

Philosophy and Religious Studies. New. PHIL 640. History of Ethical Theory (3:3:0). Description: An examination of the history of Western ethical theory from ancient Greece to the present day, including virtue theory, consequentalism, deontological theory and contemporary feminism. Prerequisites: Graduate standing.

Philosophy and Religious Studies. New. PHIL 641. Ethics and the Professions (3:3:0).
Description: A philosophical analysis of the concept of profession as a category of the world of work. Professional codes of ethics are examined to determine their effectiveness as guides for professional conduct. Prerequisites: Graduate standing or permission of instructor.

Philosophy and Religious Studies. New PHIL 642. Biomedical Ethics (3:3:0).
Description: This course explores the application of ethical theories and principles to issues in contemporary healthcare. Cases central to the development of the field will be examined. Prerequisites: Graduate standing or permission of instructor.

Philosophy and Religious Studies. New. Phil 643. Environmental Ethics (3:3:0). Description: An examination of human interactions with the natural environment from an ethical perspective. Emphasis will be placed on the strengths and weakenesses of various ethical theories and the different conceptions of the proper relationship between humans and their environment.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing.

Philosophy and Religious Studies. New. Phil 720. Nietzsche and his Readers (3:3:0).
Description: A reading of the major texts of Nietzsche and of some of his most influential interpreters and critics.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing.

Philosophy and Religious Studies. New. Phil 733. Current Issues in Cognitive Science (3:3:0).
Description: An examination of some current areas of investigation in cognitive science and the philosophy of mind, such as the nature of consciousness, the representational theory of mind and connectionist theories of mind.
Prerequisites: Admission to Masters Program in Philosophy or Permission of Instructor.

New Program Proposal for Approval

Philosophy and Religious Studies. New. Proposal for Graduate Certificate in Professional Ethics
Description: The graduate certificate in Professional Ethics is designed to meet the needs of those students who wish to combine the formal study of ethics and the analysis of social and public policy in a variety of career settings. The certificate program provides cognate support to those students associated with the School of Public Policy, the Center for Health Policy, and the program in Environmental Studies and Public Policy. In addition students form many other fields, including business, education, engineering, nursing, and public administration may wish to take advantage of the opportunity to pursue advanced study in ethics as it relates to their career interests.

Policy Changes for Approval

Proposed change in policy for 998 registration

Current Policy (02-03 catalog):

Dissertation Registration (998, 999) Students working on dissertation proposal (998) or research
(999) must register for a minimum of 3 credits of 998 or 999 per semester (excluding summers), until only three credits
of dissertation remain (as given on the program of study). Once students have 3 or fewer credits remaining, they may
register for 1 credit of 998 or 999. Students enrolled in 1 credit may be considered full-time as long as their advisors
and department chairs certify each semester that they are working full time on the proposal or dissertation.

Proposed change:

Dissertation Registration (998, 999) Students working on dissertation research (999) must register for a minimum of 3 credits of 999 per semester (excluding summers), until only three credits of dissertation (as specified on the program of study) remain. Once students have 3 or fewer credits remaining, they may register for 1 credit of 999. Students enrolled in 1 credit may be considered full-time as long as their advisors and department chairs certify each semester that they are
working full time on the proposal or dissertation.

Reason: The proposed change reflects the current practice of doctoral programs that do not require their students to
register for a minimum 3 credits of 998.

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CONTACT PERSON FOR THE FOLLOWING COURSE INFORMATION:
Ellen Dawnson, College of Nursing and Health Science, 3-1731, edawson@gmu.edu

New Programs for Approval

Certificate Program in Health Information Systems. This certificate is
a fifteen-credit program. All courses are currently being taught in the
CNHS and are in our inventory. The courses are:
HSCI 720: Health Data Integration
HSCI 722: Electronic Commerce and Online Marketing for Health Services
HSCI 708: Operation Management and Quality Improvement of Health Services
HSCI 709: Health Informatics
HSCI 740: Introduction to Health Care Information Systems

Graduate Certificate in Assisted Living Administration. This is a 15 credit hour
Certificate being offered as part of the overall Program in Assisted Living
Administration within the College of Nursing and Health Science. The
Certificate will provide multidisciplinary education in the areas of assisted
living/senior housing management & marketing, gerontology, and health
science. Courses will allow students to evaluate, analyze, and synthesize
information relative to the aging population, the evolution of assisted
living/senior housing services within the U.S. Health System, the
application of business practices to these services, and current regulatory
and policy issues. Additional focus will be placed on biological,
psychological, and social aspects of aging, including Alzheimer's
disease and related dementias. Required courses for achievement
of the Certificate include*:

HSCI 650 (New): Assisted Living Management & Operations
HSCI 651 (New): Assisted Living Sales & Marketing
HSCI 659 (Existing): Healthcare of Aging Persons with Chronic Illness
HSCI 585 (Existing): Care and Management of Persons with Alzheimer's
Disease and Related Disorders.
HSCI 678 (Existing): Introduction to the U.S. Health System Certificate
in Assisted Living.

New Courses for Approval

HSCI 650: Assisted Living Management & Operations (3:3:0) Issues, trends,
and practices related to the administration of assisted living/senior housing
communities. Emphasis on budgeting, staffing, hospitality services, resident
care and risk management indicators. Evaluation of demographic, cultural,
and regulatory environments affecting industry.

HSCI 651: Assisted Living Sales & Marketing (3:3:0) Practices and application
of selling and marketing techniques within the Assisted Living/Senior Housing
industry. Evaluation of issues and ethics relative to the senior consumer, with
an emphasis on lead generation, closing, and move-in coordination.

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CONTACT PERSON FOR THE FOLLOWING COURSE INFORMATION:
Mark Goor, Graduate School of Education, 3-2080, mgoor@gmu.edu

Modified Program for Approval

Instructional Technology Program Program Change

In the graduate certificate program, Integration of Technology in Schools (ITSC – 15 credits), replace EDCI 716 Principles of Integration with EDCI 714 Methods of Integration.

Rationale: EDCI 714 is a more appropriate course to serve as a capstone for this certificate program. EDCI 714 is designed for K-12 teachers and focuses on integration of technology through the use of national technology standards. EDCI 716 is designed for technology coordinators or those responsible for professional development and focuses on leadership issues. Most students enrolled in the ITSC are classroom teachers interested in technology integration, not leadership.

Advanced Studies in Teaching and Learning Program
Rationale: These four new courses are the first in a series that will be offered as an add-on endorsement for teachers of gifted/talented PK-12 students.

New Courses for Approval

EDCI 621 Introduction to Gifted and Talented Learners (3)

This course is designed to examine the nature and needs of gifted
and talented learners. Participants will become knowledgeable about the
characteristics of gifted and talented students. In addition, participants will
examine the role of culture in the manifestation of gifts and talents as well as
gifted behaviors in special populations.

EDCI 622 Curriculum Differentiation for Diverse Learners (3)

Participants will develop a personal and professional rationale for differentiating
instruction in mixed-ability classrooms and acquire skills and knowledge of strategies
designed to help a teacher utilize pre-assessment data, plan for, and implement
differentiated instruction.

EDCI 623 Models and Strategies for Teaching Gifted Learners (3)

This course provides a framework for examining and applying curriculum
models and instructional strategies currently advocated for use with gifted
students according to national and state criteria that reflect best practices in
gifted education.

EDCI 624 Assessment and Identification of Gifted Learners (3)

This course is designed to examine broad understandings of intelligence and
assessment; to develop specific understandings of assessment techniques, both
formal and informal; and to identify gifted students. Furthermore this course is
designed to make students aware of the influences of language, culture, ethnicity,
gender and exceptionality on the recognition and subsequent identification of giftedness.

Special Education Program

New Courses for Approval

EDSE 558 Physical and Sensory Disabilities: Developmental, Educational, and Medical
Aspects (3)

This course will focus on physical, sensory, and medical and health aspects of child development, including etiology and symptomatology of developmental disabilities affecting physical development. Emphasizes positioning, handling, adaptive
strategies and understanding of assistive technology devices. Focuses on the
understanding of roles of related disciplines in collaborative planning and
service delivery. Prerequisite: Admission to a Graduate School at George
Mason University. Field experience is required.

EDSE 633 Policy Perspectives Affecting Diverse Young Learners and Their
Families (3)

Provides students with an understanding of historical and current trends and
issues involving legislation and policy in early childhood education, bilingual
education, early childhood special education, and multicultural education.
Focuses on the historical role of social advocacy, the development of advocacy
skills, and collaboration and consultation with other professionals and staff.
Addresses the continuum of services and the context of service delivery.
Field experience is required.

EDSE 667 Cognitive Development of Diverse Young Children (3)

Explores conflicting views about how young children think and learn.
Addresses cognitive theoretical approaches such as Piaget, Bruner, Vygotsky
and other leading researchers and emphasizes their relevance to educational
practice. Addresses the characteristics of children with cognitive disabilities,
children from multilingual and multicultural backgrounds and those living
in poverty, along with the educational implications of those characteristics.
Field experience is required.

HFRR Tour 540 Sustainable Tourism (3)

Examines the components and inter-relationships within tourism systems and assesses the potential economic, socio-cultural and environmental impacts associated with this sector. Considers managerial strategies that minimize the negative impacts and maximize the positive impacts, thereby attaining the objective of sustaiable tourism.

Modified Courses for Approval

EDSE 792 Internship in Special Education: Final Portfolio (1)

Change from N (cannot be repeated for credit) to D (can be repeated for credit,
not within same term) up to 2 credits. This will allow students who are completing
a master’s and a Graduate Certificate at different times to meet the NCATE-required
end-point assessment.

EDSE 557 Language Development and Emergent Literacy for Diverse Learners (3)
Change course abbreviation and catalog description to add information on
characteristics and etiology which is required for state licensure.

Five New Graduate Certificates:
Early Childhood Special Education Licensure Certificate (ECLC)
Emotional Disturbance/Learning Disabilities Licensure Certificate (ELLC)
Mental Retardation Licensure Certificate (MRLC)
Severe Disabilities Licensure Certificate (SDLC)
LD/ED/MR Licensure Certificate (LEMC)

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CONTACT PERSON FOR THE FOLLOWING COURSE INFORMATION:
Stephen Nash, School of Information Technology & Engineering, 3-1654, snash@gmu.edu

New Courses for Approval

Information and Software Engineering. New. SWE 781. Secure
Software Design and Programming (3:3:0)
Description: The course covers theory and practice of software
security, focusing in particular on some common software security risks,
including buffer overflows, race conditions and random number
generation, and on the identification of potential threats and
vulnerabilities early in the design cycle. The emphasis is on
methodologies and tools for identifying and eliminating security
vulnerabilities, techniques to prove the absence of vulnerabilities, and
ways to avoid security holes in new software and on essential guidelines
for building secure software: how to design software with security in
mind from the ground up and to integrate analysis and risk management
throughout the software lifecycle.
Prerequisites: INFS 762 and SWE 619 or permission of instructor.

Information and Software Engineering. New. INFS 780. Theoretical
Foundations of System Security (3:3:0).
Description: The objective of this course is to discuss the formal
theories supporting information security. The course is self-contained
as it provides the needed background in logic and calculi, formal
languages, automata, computability and complexity beyond the material in
the Foundation courses. Topics include: decidability and complexity
results for access control and safety models, delegation and release
control models, formal analysis of security protocols, language-based
security, models of information flow and verification of security
properties.
Prerequisites: INFS 762 and INFS 766.

Information and Software Engineering. New. INFS 774. Intrusion
Detection (3:3:0).
Description: The study of methodologies, techniques and tools for the
monitoring of events in a computer system or a network, with the
objective of preventing and detecting unwanted process activity and of
recovering from malicious behavior.
Prerequisites: INFS 762 and INFS 766 or permission of instructor.

Information and Software Engineering. New. SWE 645.
Component-based Software Development (3:3:0).
Description: Introduction to the concepts and foundations of software
component and component-based software. Detailed study of the
engineering principles of modeling, designing, implementing, testing and
deploying component-based software. State-of-the-art component
technologies will also be explored in the course.
Prerequisites: SWE 619 or CS 540 and CS 571 or permission of
instructor.

Information and Software Engineering. New. SWE 723. Precise
Modeline (3:3:0).
Description: The objective of this course is to discuss on-going
advances in modeling techniques for software design, including but not
limited to introducing precision performance, security and safety
aspects. UML, its meta-models and proposed enhancements such as Object
Security Constraint Language, Object Temporal Constraint Language, QoS
profiles and the theory behind them and their implementations will be
discussed.
Prerequisites: SWE 621 or permission of instructor.

Telecommunications. New. TCOM 514. Basic Switching: Lecture and
Laboratory Course (3.0:1.5:1.5).
Description: Basic switching techniques and protocols for low and high
speed digital packet networks (e.g. Ethernet, Frame Relay, ATM, X.25)
are taught within a half semester lecture series, which is followed by a
hands on laboratory for the remainder of the semester. Real life
scenarios are taught in the laboratory element through exercises that
involve configuring switches and routers.
Prerequisites: TCOM 501 and TCOM 502.

Telecommunications. New. TCOM 607. Satellite Communications
(3.0:3.0:0).
Description: Topics include: Introduction to satellite communications
systems; historical aspects; orbital mechanics and launchers; satellite
components (payload, orbital maneuvering systems, cooling systems,
antennas, payload, etc.); look angle predictions; link budget; overall
link design; multiple access (TDMA, CDMA, ALOHA, TDMA, MF-TDMA), etc.,
error control for digital satellite links, propagation effects on
satellite links, elements of VSAT systems, non-geostationary satellite
systems, and Direct Broadcast satellite services.
Prerequisites: TCOM 551

New Program for Approval

Information and Software Engineering. New. Proposal for Graduate
M.S. in Information Security & Assurance.
Description: The Master of Science degree program in Information
Security and Assurance (MISA) is designed to prepare graduates to fill
the current and future need for information security and assurance
professionals to work in a wide variety of capacities to “protect” the
secrecy, integrity, availability and legitimate use of information of
different types of organizations and to support the nation’s information
infrastructure. Graduates of the program will be actively recruited by
government and the private sector. The need for information security and
assurance professionals is particularly high in the Northern Virginia
and Washington D.C area.

Modified Certificate for Approval

Telecommunications. Modified. Proposal to amend the Certificate in
Network Technologies and applications and the Certificate in Wireless
Communications.
Description:
When the original certificates were approved, the MS in
Telecommunications program did not have the variety of courses that it
now has. In addition, in the case of the Wireless Certificate, a course
has changed from a 500 level course to a 600 level course, thus
requiring a change to the approved certificate. The proposed changes
will allow students to have more flexibility with their certificate
course selection and to change the level of the satellite communications
course in the Wireless Communications certificate. Below are given the
original certificates, as approved, followed by the proposed amendments.

Electrical and Computer Engineering. Request for re-approval of
select courses.
Description: Following the approval by SCHEV of the ECE PhD. Program
(starting Fall 2002) the ECE Department has made some changes to the
numbering of ECE graduate courses, and most of these changes were
approved by the Graduate Council. However, we discovered that five
attempted actions were not completed. Although the proposed numbers
appear already in the GMU catalog, they are not in the GMU’s registrar
computer system. Perhaps these crosslistings were never listed among
the approval actions of the GMU Graduate Council, or perhaps some other
lack of communication has occurred. We would like to get an approval
for the following crosslisted numbers, without any change of title,
prerequisites, and credit hours, so that Registrar can open these ECE
sections in the subsequent semesters.

Existing course number Proposed additional/cross-listed course number

IT 841 ECE 722
IT 885 ECE 752
IT 888 ECE 753
IT 837 ECE 754
IT 937 ECE 755

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