UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND
The Graduate School
CURRICULAR REPORT FROM THE GRADUATE
COUNCIL TO THE FACULTY SENATE:
REPORT NO. 2001-2002-1
At meeting No. 372 held September 7, 2001, the Graduate Council
considered and approved the following curricular matters which are
now submitted to the Faculty Senate for information or confirmation
as indicated.
I. Matters of
Information
A. College of Arts and Science
1. Department of Biological Sciences
a. Temporary Course:
BIO 513X Functional Morphology of Animals (3) Advanced study of
the biological role of animal design with critical evaluation of
recent research in functional morphology. (Lec. 3) Pre: Graduate
standing.
B. College of Nursing
1. Temporary Course:
NUR 540X Designing and Evaluating Evidence-Based Health Care
Programs (3) Prepares health care professional to use evidence-based
methods for developing and evaluating programs in health care
organizations. (Seminar) Pre: 505, its equivalent or permission of
instructor.
C. College of Human Science and Services
1. School of Education
a. Change in Temporary Course:
EDC 568X Differentiation of Instruction for Adolescents &endash;
change title to read:
EDC 568X Addressing the Needs of Diverse Learners in a
Standards-Based Classroom
II. Matters
Requiring Confirmation by Faculty Senate
A. College of Arts and Sciences
1. Department of Languages
a. New Course:
SPA 511 The Spanish of the Americas (3) Examines linguistic
dialect variation within Spanish and the factors that determine it.
Individual and social bilingualism and its educational implications
are also discussed. (Seminar) Pre: Graduate standing or permission
of instructor.
B. College of Environmental and Life Sciences
1. Departments of Geosciences, Natural Resource
Science and Environmental Sciences
a. New (Permanent) Courses:
GEO 582 (or NRS 582 or EVS 582) Innovative Subsurface Remediation
Technologies (4) Innovative remediation technologies for treating
contaminated groundwater and sediments: theory, applications, and
limitations of selected methods. Discussion of case studies.
Offered alternate years. (Lec. 4) Pre: Permission of instructor
GEO 584 (or NRS 584 or EVS 584) Environmental Hydrogeology (4)
Develop an understanding of the physico-chemical principles and
fundamental relationships that describe the fate and transport of
contaminants in the hydrologic system. (Lec. 3, Lab. 2) Pre: 483,
CVE 588, NRS 510, or permission of instructor.
GEO 601 (or EVS 601) Environmental Sciences Seminar (1) Guest
speakers present the results of research in the field of
environmental sciences with special focus on hydrologic environments.
(Seminar)
2. Department of Natural Resource
Science
a. Change:
NRS 591, 592 Special Problems &endash; change description to
read:
Advanced independent research projects supervised by members of
the research staff and unrelated to Master's or Doctoral research.
Projects developed to meet individual needs.
b. Delete:
NRS 599 Master's Thesis Research
NRS 699 Doctoral Dissertation Research
3. Department of Fisheries, Animal and
Veterinary Science
a. Change:
Change all ASP, FST and MRD course codes to AFS (Aquaculture and
Fisheries Science)
b. Delete:
FST 591, 592 Special Problems
C. College of Human Science and Services
1. School of Education
a. Changes:
EDC 569 Middle School Reform: Implications for Best Practices
&endash; change title to read:
EDC 569 Best Practices in the Middle Level Classroom
D. College of Pharmacy
1. Department of Applied Pharmaceutical Sciences
a. Change:
Change list of available electives in the pharmaceutical
formulation track to remove FSN/CHE 447 and add NFS 502