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From the Chair of the Senate Curriculum Committee

Advanced to the Interim President
The following has been approved by the Senate Curriculum Committee and forwarded to the interim president for review and approval:

Course Revision:
BIO 498 Honors Research

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Advanced to the Curriculum Committee
The following have been received in the College Senate Office and forwarded to the Senate Curriculum Committee for review and approval:

New Courses:
PSM 610 Continuous Foundations of Applied Mathematics from a Problem-Solving Perspective.Prerequisite: Admission to program or instructor permission. Problem solving and applications of continuous mathematics, including real analysis, single and multivariable calculus, differential equations, optimization, and Fourier analysis. Emphasis on team building and group management through problem-solving activities.

PSM 611 Discrete Foundations of Applied Mathematics from a Problem-Solving Perspective.Prerequisite: Admission to program or instructor permission. Problem solving and applications of discrete mathematics, including combinatorics, graph theory, logic, linear algebra, number theory, and set theory. Emphasis on team building and group management through problem-solving activities.

PSM 612 Computational Foundations of Applied Mathematics from a Problem-Solving Perspective.Prerequisite: Admission to program or instructor permission. Introduction to algorithm design to implement mathematical models, procedural, and functional programming, programming paradigms, higher-level languages; statistical and visualization software, typesetting software for science and mathematics.

PSM 620 Optimization of Discrete Models.Prerequisite: Admission to the program or instructor permission. Mathematical analysis and solution of real-world problems that optimize linear objective functions subject to systems of linear inequalities; the two-phase revised simplex method; applications in diverse areas such as business management, industry, economics, finance, and game theory.

PSM 621 Empirical Model Building. Prerequisite:Admission to program or instructor permission.Exploratory data analysis, polynomial interpolation, curve fitting, least squares, cubic splines, minimax polynomial, Taylor and Chebyshev series, applications to fitting experimental data.

PSM 622 Modeling Change with Dynamical Systems. Prerequisite: Admission to program or instructor permission. Difference equations, systems of differential equations, Euler and Runge-Kutta methods, error analyses, logistic models; applications to ecology, finance, conflicts, natural and social sciences.

PSM 630 Numerical Linear Algebra. Prerequisite: Admission to program or instructor permission.Numerical algorithms for linear algebra problems, matrix operations, matrix decompositions, solving systems of linear equations, selected problems from applied settings.

PSM 631 Eigenvalue Problems. Prerequisite: Admission to program or instructor permission.Numerical algorithms for eigenvalue problems, matrix factorization, matrices, vectors, eigenvalues, eigenvectors, eigenspaces, eigenvalue algorithms, selected problems from applied settings.

PSM 632 Numerical Calculus. Prerequisite: Admission to program or instructor permission. Numerical methods and algorithms for finding roots of nonlinear equations, numerical integrals, Fourier series, and Laplace transform; selected problems from applied settings.

PSM 640 Linear Regression and Correlation.Prerequisite: Admission to program or instructor permission. Simple linear regression and correlation, multiple linear regression, multicollinearity, multiple and partial correlations, confounding and interaction, sequential methods of model selection.

PSM 641 Design and Analysis of Experiments.Prerequisite: Admission to program or instructor permission. Design of experiments (one, two, and three factors), multiple comparisons, randomized complete block designs, Latin square design.

PSM 642 Nonparametric Statistics. Prerequisite: Admission to program or instructor permission.Introduction to nonparametric tests such as sign test, signed rank test, rank sum test, two-way analysis of variance by ranks, tests of randomness, rank correlation coefficient.

PSM 650 Random Walks and Brownian Motion.Prerequisite: Admission to program or instructor permission. Symmetric random walks, ballot theorem, returns to origin and arcsine laws, gambler’s ruin, Brownian motion, conditional distributions, hitting times, and maxima.

PSM 651 Markov Chains. Prerequisite: Admission to program or instructor permission. Transition matrices, classification of states, limiting probabilities, applications.

PSM 652 Continuous-Time Stochastic Processes.Prerequisite: Admission to program or instructor permission. Exponential distribution, Poisson, Yule, pure birth, birth and death processes, applications.

PSM 660 Logistic Regression. Prerequisite: PSM 640 or instructor permission. Comparison of linear and logistic regression, multiple logistic regression, regression diagnostics, indicator variables, multicollinearity, confounding and interaction, model selection, maximum likelihood techniques, polychotomous logistic regression.

PSM 661 Survival Analysis. Prerequisite: PSM 640 or instructor permission. Survival and hazard functions, life tables, Kaplan-Meier survival analysis, Cox regression proportional hazards model, and Cox regression with time-dependent variables; comparison with logistic regression approaches.

PSM 662 Time Series Analysis and Forecasting.Prerequisite: PSM 640 or instructor permission. Time and frequency domain techniques including autocorrelation, spectral analysis, autoregressive moving average and integrated moving average models, Box-Jenkins methodology, fitting, forecasting, and seasonal adjustments.