BSc Programs Committee Meeting

Division of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Room 444 Health Sciences Building

1:00 - 2:00 pm

MINUTES

Present

Dr. Nick Ovsenek (Chair), Dr. K. Schneider, Dr. C. Havele, Dr. S. Laferte, Dr. W. Walz, Dr. H. Wang, Dr. W. Kulyk, Dr. K. Desai, M. Webster and M. Pfeifer

Regrets

Dr. W. Albritton, Dr. J. Tuchek, Dr. P. Krone

 

Dr. Ovsenek presented a proposal to distribute the BMSC courses among the five Basic Science Departments within the Division.

The issues that were taken into account in this proposal include:

- Faculty complements and expertise

- The capacity of each department to deliver BMSC courses and

- The need/benefit of each department to contribute to course coordination.

The attached document provides details of how the relative teaching role could be distributed among departments. The proposed assignment of courses is as follows:

BMSC 210.3 (Microbiology) - Department of Microbiology & Immunology

BMSC 220.3 (Eukaryotic Cell Biology) - Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology (The Department of Biology will continue to provide lectures in Mitochondria/plastid and Cytoskelton components - 6 hours).

BMSC/BIOL 224.3 (Animal Body Systems) - Department of Physiology (20 hours with 20 hours from Biology)

BMSC 230.3 (Metabolism) - Department of Biochemistry

It was proposed that Pharmacology would coordinate Biomolecules (BMSC 200.3) and would deliver the Introduction, Carbohydrate, Lipid and Membrane components of this class (20 hours). Biochemistry would deliver the Proteins and Enzymes component (10 hours) and ACB would delver the Nucleic Acids component (9 hours).

Each department will coordinate one of the BMSC courses. The Lab Techniques course (BMSC 240) will be administered by the Division as a whole but the proposal was for the lecture component of this course to be delivered by a Lecturer possibly in an ASPA position. The Committee will consider options and proposals for teaching and delivering that course.

Dr. Walz noted that the proposed distributed courses will create an increase of the relative teaching load for the Department of Physiology. This was brought to the Committee's attention.

The next meeting will be held in two weeks.