GRADUATE COUNCIL MEETING AGENDA
for the
April, 2006
Meeting

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Graduate Council meetings are held monthly, August through May, in Mason Hall Room D5, from 1:30-3:00. See schedule for exact dates. All meetings are open to the general George Mason University community.

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I. Call to Order

II. Approval of March Minutes

III. Announcements

IV. Discussion Items

A. Dual/Joint Ph.D. Degrees (Continued) (Peter Becker)

B. Discussion of 1 Credit Course for Doctoral Students:
Responsible Conduct of Research (Matt Kluger)

C. Procedure for Withdrawing From A Program (Jamie Cooper)

V. Old Business

VI. New Business

Proposal from the College of Education and Human Development
Contact Person: Joan Isenberg, 3-2037,Jisenber@gmu.edu

New Courses (Action Item):
EDUC 875 Contemporary and Emerging Issues in Education Policy

Modified Courses (Announcement):
EDIT 504 Introduction to Educational Technology

Proposal from the College of Arts and Sciences
Contact Person: Hugh Sockett, 3-8310,hsockett@gmu.edu

New Program (Action Item):
PhD in Linguistics

Deleted Courses (Announcement):
GERM 518 Studies in 18th and Early 19th Century Literature
GERM 525 Studies in Modern Literature
GERM 550 Special Topics
GERM 560 History of the German Language
GERM 580 Contemporary Germany
GERM 798 Directed Reading and Research
PHIL 645 Administration of Justice Ethics
PHIL 656 Happiness and the Quality of Life

Modified Courses (Announcement):
PSYC 792 Practicum in Developmental Psychology, Biopsychology, and School Psychology

New Concentration (Action Item):
International Relations and Conflict Studies (Pending CAS approval)

Proposal from the School of Management
Contact Person: JP Auffret, 3-3723,jauffret@gmu.edu

New Courses (Action Item):
MBA 718 International Marketing

Proposal from the School of Public Policy
Contact Person: Catherine Rudder, 3-4996, arudder@gmu.edu

New Courses (Action Item):
PUBP 784 Entrepreneurship, Economics and Public Policy
PUBP 781 Entrepreneurship and Economic Development
PUBP 835 Entrepreneurship, Creativity and Innovation
PUBP 834 Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy

Modified Courses (Announcement):
PUBP 601 Theory and Practice of Regional Economic Development

Proposal from the School of Computational Sciences
Contact Person: Peter Becker,3-3619, pbecker@gmu.edu

New Courses (Action Item):
CLIM 796 Directed Reading and Research
CLIM 996 Doctoral Reading and Research
CLIM 991 Climate Dynamics Seminar

Modified Courses (Announcement):
CSI 853 Atmospheric Transport and Dispersion
CSS 605 Object-Oriented Modeling in Social Science
CSS 630 Comparative Computational Social Sciences
CSS 635 Cognitive Foundations of Computational Social Science
CSS 640 The Human and Social Evolutionary Complexity
CSS 645 Spatial Agent-Based Models of Human-Environment Interactions
CSS 650 Physics Methods for Analyzing Social Complexity
CSS 660 Computational Social Science of Spacefaring Civilization
CSS 692 Social Network Analysis
CSS 898 Research Colloquium in Computational Social Science
CSS 899 Colloquium in Computational Social Sciences
EOS 758 Quantitative Methods in Remote Sensing

Modified Program (Announcement):
Ph.D. in Earth Systems and GeoInformation Sciences

VII. Adjournment