Karren,

Here is supporting documentation for our revised BS proposal in
Psychology, which should be under review by a Senate committee.  The
revision concerns BISC courses, and I think I needed to get a letter of
support from Dan Carson endorsing the changes.  Dan Carson is Chair of
Biology.  Here is the letter of support.

Brian Ackerman
Psychology

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Carson [mailto:dcarson@UDel.Edu]
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 4:33 PM
To: Brian P. Ackerman
Subject: Re:

This is acceptable.

Dan

Brian P. Ackerman wrote:

> Dan,
>
             Dave Usher asked me to communicate our solution to the
> 207/208 problem for our BS degree.  If you recall (I'm writing this
note for Committee audiences), University committees reviewing our BS
> proposal wanted the students in the program to take BISC 207 and 208
> instead of the less demanding BISC 104 and BISC 105 in  the original
> proposal.  When we talked about the substitution last year in
preparing the original BS proposal, we ran into the problem that there were no
> seats in BISC 207 that could be allocated to the Psych BS students.

The solution Dave and I just worked out is to stagger the semesters so
that our students take BISC 207 in the Spring semester and then BISC 208 in
> the following Fall semester.  There is less demand on BISC 207 in the
> Spring and hence room for our students.  Accordingly, in the new
> proposal revision under committee review we have stipulated that BS
> majors should take BISC 207 in the Spring semester.  The stipulation
> only concerns students who come into the BS without having taken BISC
> courses.  It is likely that most of these students will have already
> taken BISC 207 in a previous guise as Biology majors or through the
> Neuroscience program.
>
>
>
>             Please let me know if this solution is acceptable.  I will

> then forward the e-mail to Karren Helsel, who is the Administrative
> Assistant to the Faculty Senate.
>
> 
>
>             Thanks,
>
> 
>
>             Brian
>
> 
>
>           
>

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Trustees Distinguished Professor
   & Chairman
Dept. Biological Sciences
University of Delaware
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