Course cordinators, lab managers, and changes in Physics pre-requirements

1) The coordinator position is given some weight when school committee assignments are made. However, the Dean's office assumes that the coordinator will keep the responsibility for the entire academic year. Based on this years list, we would also get credit for a coordinator for a sequence (we could group 1111 & 2211 instead of 1111 & 1112). We should discuss if this is how we want to do this.

2) If the Lab position is on the committee list again next year, then this will also be a academic year commitment. I would therefore make sense to me that whomever is the lab person for our 3 rooms (A1280, H1140, & H1139) make a commitment to teach at lease one course in that room both terms (PHYS 1111/2211, PHYS 1112/2212, and PSCI 1101 respectively).

3) The coordinator of classes with part-time faculty will need to interface with these individuals on a regular basis. It therefore makes sense that the coordinator is assigned as the part-time persons mentor for the term/year. I would like to request this happen when we submit the list of coordinators. This will be of particular importance for PSCI 1101 & 1102 (if we have adjuncts teaching physics themes), and ISCI 2002 (unless chemistry takes this class).

On another note, I also have additional news on our prerequisite change for 2212. As I somewhat expected, we may have some students in PHYS 2212 in the Fall who do not have Calculus II and are planning on graduating in December. I have copied a message from a biology faculty to students (after the faculty member discuss the situation with the Dean) below.

In the fall, Biology majors will be required to take algebra based physics, Phys 1111 and 1112. They will still be required to take Calculus. Most Biology majors in progress who have not initiated the physics series need to switch to the new catalog and proceed with the Phys1111 and 1112 series. (Biochemistry track students must take Calc II and Phys2211 and 2212.)

But students who will graduate in December and planned to take Phys2212 in the fall have several options:

• Switch to the new catalog and take Phys1112. (For some this switch will entail taking 3 credits of PE, depending on the catalog you started under. But this might be a suitable option if you already have the PEs).
• Take Physics 2212 this summer.(For students who have already made summer plans, this option is not suitable.)
• Take Calc II and then take Physics 2212 and hang at GGC until Spring 2013.
• Dr. Mundie has talked with the physics faculty and they are aware that some continuing students will need to take Physics 2212 in the fall without having Calc II. Students should proceed with enrolling in Phys2212 and identify themselves to their instructor as not having CalcII. Physics faculty are prepared to accommodate these students. Depending on when Banner is updated, you may need a prerequisite override to enroll in Phys2212, be prepared to ask for this override.

This exemption should only effect a few students, and only occur in Fall. The people teaching 2212 in the fall will need to take this into account.