From: David C. Usher
[mailto:dusher@UDel.Edu]
Sent:
To: Kniel, Kali
Cc: Randall Duncan; 'dwsmith@udel.edu'
Subject: RE: Proposed changes to ANFS
Kali,
I don’t recall getting this from Dave.
However, as a letter of support must come from the Chair, he may have forwarded
on to him. I see one problem, which you could not have been aware. In the
fall we making changes to BISC207. We will no longer accept as a co-requisite
CHEM101; it will only be CHEM103. Also we plan to create a new one semester
Introductory Biology course, BISC205, specifically designed for Nursing
students. This course will be an acceptable prerequisite for BISC276 and
BISC300, but its corequisite will be either CHEM101, CHEM105, or CHEM103. Thus
if you leave your course requirements as they are now, next year when and if
our course changes are approved, you will have put through changes again.
Both Dave Smith and I have reviewed the changes you
have made and they are acceptable to the Biology Department. I’m advising our
Chair to write you a letter of support.
--Dave
From: Kniel, Kali [mailto:kniel@UDel.Edu]
Sent:
To: dusher@udel.edu
Subject: FW: Proposed changes to ANFS
Good afternoon David,
I believe you received the proposed change sto the Animal and
Food Sciences curriculum from Dave Smith in January. Could you please let me
know if you will approve these changes. I don’t believe we will be sending many
more students your way. The majority of students within our department
currently take BISC 300. While many students will opt to take one of the ANFS
physiology course or BISC 306, which was already in the curriculum having BISC
276 and BISC 300 as options are really valuable courses for our students.
Thank you so much for your consideration of this request. I look
forward to hearing back from you.
Kali
Kalmia E. Kniel, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Microbial Food Safety
Assistant Chair, Department of Animal and Food Sciences
College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
University of Delaware
531 S College Ave, 044 Townsend Hall
Newark, DE 19716
302-831-6513
From: David W. Smith [mailto:dwsmith@UDel.Edu]
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 4:21 PM
To: Kniel, Kali
Cc: 'Fred Hofstetter'
Subject: RE: Proposed changes to ANFS
Kali,
I am passing your message along to Dr. David Usher, who is the
Associate Chair in Biology. This is the sort of question, namely
committing spaces for students in other majors, that follows under his
responsibility.
Dave
Dr. David
W. Smith
Undergraduate
Program Director
Department
of Biological Sciences
University
of Delaware
From: Kniel, Kali [mailto:kniel@UDel.Edu]
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 4:11 PM
To: dwsmith@udel.edu
Cc: Kniel, Kali; Fred Hofstetter (fth@UDel.Edu)
Subject: Proposed changes to ANFS
Good
afternoon Dave,
As the
undergraduate coordinator for the Department of Animal and Food Sciences I
would like to propose some changes to our major in Animal and Food Sciences
(ANFS). I don’t believe this will effect a lot of students, and will not change
our numbers in your BISC courses, but I need to check with you anyway.
The proposed changes to the Animal and Food Sciences major will allow greater
flexibility of this major so that some students interested in Food Science can
be an ANFS major to allow some flexibility in their scheduling. One change is
that currently the ANFS major does not require BISC 300 while all of our Food
Science major (FOSC) students already take this course. I don’t think this will
increase the number of students that take this course, just the same number taking
it spread over two majors now. An additional change we would like to make
to the ANFS major is to add that BISC 276 may be taken as an optional course in
what we call a “physiology area”. This is a great course already taken as an
elective by many Pre-Veterinary and Animal Biosciences major (PVAB) students.
Again we don’t believe this will be additional students, just spread over
different majors.
Please
see the two attachments for additional information or I would be happy to talk
to you any time.
Thank you
for your consideration of this matter. Your time and effort are certainly
appreciated.
Kali
Kalmia E.
Kniel, Ph.D.
Associate
Professor, Microbial Food Safety
Assistant
Chair, Department of Animal and Food Sciences
302-831-6513