Office of the Provost

Members attending: Peter Stearns (Chair), Linda Schwartzstein (Provost Office), Peter Becker (SCS), Deborah Boehm-Davis (CAS), Meg Brindle (CVPA), Druckman, ICAR), Andres Fortino (SOM), Mark Goor (GSE), Dee Ann Holisky (CAS), Joan Isenberg (GSE), Stephen Nash (IT&E), Jeff Offutt (IT&E).

Special Attendees: Claudio Cioffi, Director, Center for Social Complexity; Beverly Davis, Director, Graduate Admissions.

I. Call to order

Peter Stearns called the meeting to order at 12:01 p.m.

II. Old Business

Proposals from the Office of the Provost Computational Social Science


New Program (Action Item): Approved
Ph.D. in Computational Social Science, Revised

New Courses (Action Item): Approved
CSS 605 Object-Oriented modeling in Social Science
CSS 625 Complexity Theory in the Social Sciences
CSS 630 Comparative Computational Social Science
CSS 635 Cognitive Foundations of Computational Social Science
CSS 640 Human and Social Evolutionary Complexity
CSS 650 Physics Methods for Analyzing Social Complexity
CSS 655 Social System Dynamics
CSS 660 Computational Social Science of Spacefaring Civilization
CSS 692 Social Network Analysis

Council members approved the revised program proposal with the understanding among the units involved that (1) each unit will have a member on the steering committee; (2) there will be one high potential GRA; (3) there will be admissions uniformity; and (4) the program is being done jointly between units.

III. Adjournment at 12:28 p.m.