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Response by D Andereck March 2007:

Why split the hours between 885 and 999?  Why not just 999 all thr way through? 999 has no limit on hours

Statement of justification from C Jekeli 2/28/07:

Typical research projects are funded by external sources over multiples years (usually 3).  Typical research efforts by graduate students workign on a PhD degree is 4 years.  During 2-3 years of this time a student will not be taking classroom courses, but mainly devote time to research.  We may anticipate 7 quarters of exclusive research at a minimum.  With an average credit hour load of 16 cr/qtr that amounts to 112 credits.  Singe the GRA appointment is a 50% appt, about half of these credits should be assigned to GeolSci885, while the other half would be assigned to GeolSci999.  Repeatability of this course up to maximum number of 60 credits is therefore a reasonable limit.  (M.S. students would not usually attain this upper limit).

MAPS CC approved with contingencies 2/28/07-

• Question of what 699s are for – any student who wants to do research, it’s a way to provide credit for and keep track of students who are actively doing research
• Question of why the course can be repeated to 60 hours – precedence for other courses is 10-12; suggested that the number of quarters a student might be doing such research should guide the maximum number
• Contingency - Committee would like to see a short statement of justification for the maximum of 60 hours or a change in hours