University Curriculum Committee - October 20, 2020
The UCC will meet on Tuesday, October 20, 2020 from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. via ZOOM.
ZOOM link to follow.
Welcome
1. Approval of minutes of the September 15, 2020 meeting. | Dr. Lindner
2. Update from the Faculty Senate. | Dr. Haddad
Programs
3. Proposed changes to Juris Doctor degree, effective Summer 2021. | Dr. Vallandingham
4. Proposed changes to NWSA composition Specialization curriculum, Summer 2021. | Dr. Setlow
5. Proposed specialization in Wealth Management for B.A in Business Administration, Summer 2021. | Dr. Sevilla
Academic Assessment Committee
6. Notice of items from the Academic Assessment Committee (information only).
- Microsystem Technology Graduate Certificate – review of revised assessment —recycled
- Hardware & Systems Security Graduate Certificate – review revised assessment —conditionally approved
- Biomedical Engineering (BSBME ) request to update annual reports —recycled
- Master of International Construction Management Assessment Plan Update —approved
- Forest Health and Resilience Graduate Certificate – New Academic Assessment Plan —approved
- Transportation Operations and Planning Graduate Certificate – New Academic Assessment Plan —recycled
Graduate School
7. Notice of items from the Graduate School (information only).
- New graduate concentration in Business Analytics for the Master of Science in Information Systems and Operations Management degree with a major in Information Systems and Operations Management. (14900)
- New graduate concentration in Data Science for the Master of Science in Information Systems and Operations Management degree with a major in Information Systems and Operations Management. (14901)
- New graduate concentration in Supply Chain Management for the Master of Science in Information Systems and Operations Management degree with a Major in Information Systems and Operations Management. (14902)
- New graduate concentration in Information Technology for the Master of Science in Information Systems and Operations Management degree with a Major in Information Systems and Operations Management. (14903)
- New graduate concentration in Human Resources for the Master of International Business degree with a major in Management and for the Master of Science degree with a major in Management. (14953)
- Closed the graduate concentration in Toxicology for the PhD degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences. (14974)
- Approved name change from The School of Forest Resources and Conservation (SFRC) to School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geospatial Sciences. (14612)
Certificates
Graduate
8. Notice of new graduate certificates (information only).
- Audience Analytics, College of Journalism and Communications. (14614)
9. Notice of changes to graduate certificates (information only).
- Reduced the amount of credit from 12 semester hours to 10 semester hours for the graduate certificate in Plant Pest Risk Assessment and Management. (13830)
Undergraduate
10. Proposed new undergraduate certificates.
- Biosecurity and Biological Invasions | Dr. Brendemuhl
11. Proposed changes to undergraduate certificates.
- None
Professional
12. Proposed new professional certificates.
- None
13. Proposed changes to professional certificates.
- None
Courses
Undergraduate
14. Proposed new undergraduate courses.
Agricultural and Life Sciences
- FYC 4XXX Children: Trauma and Resiliency
- MCB 4XXX Applications and Technologies of Synthetic Biology
- ORH 4804C Annual and Perennial Gardening
- WIS 4XXX The Ecology of Climate Change
Engineering
- CAP 4XXX Natural Language Processing Course in CISE
- EEL 3XXX Data Science of ECE
- EGN 3XXX Artificial Intelligence Fundamentals
Liberal Arts and Sciences
15. Proposed changes to undergraduate courses.
Agricultural and Life Sciences
Engineering
- BME 3012 Clinically-Inspired Engineering Design
- BME 4883 Senior Design, Professionalism and Ethics 2
- EEE 4260C Bioelectrical Systems
- ECH 4948 Internship Work Experience
- ECH 4949 Co-op Work Experience
- EML 3310C Mechanics of Materials Lab
Medicine
Professional
16. Proposed new professional courses.
- None
17. Proposed changes to professional courses.
- None
Joint
18. Proposed new joint courses.
Agricultural and Life Sciences
19. Proposed changes to joint courses.
- None
5000-Level
20. Proposed new 5000 level courses.
- None
21. Proposed changes to 5000 level courses.
- None
Graduate
22. Notice of new graduate courses (information only).
- AEC 6XXX Developing and Conducting Needs Assessments in Extension Settings (14817)
- AGR 6XXX Supervised Extension-Agronomy (14556)
- AGR 6XXX Plant Chromosomes and Genomes (14511)
- ANG 6XXX Anthropology of Pregnancy, Birth, and Early Childhood Development (14660)
- EEX 6XXX Single Subject Research Design Methods in Education (14588)
- EGN 5XXX Applied Machine Learning (14949)
- EGN 6XXX Applied Machine Learning II (14950)
- CJJ 6XXX Juvenile Justice (14750)
- CCJ 6942 Applied CJ Research Project (14462)
- GMS 6XXX Advanced Respiration Physiology 1 (14384)
- GMS 6XXX Advanced Respiration Physiology 2 (14386)
- GMS 6XXX Clinical Decision Support (15268)
- LEI 6931 Revenue Management in Hospitality Business (14512)
- PHA 6XXX Drug Design II (14828)
- PHC6XXX Bayesian Biostatistical Methods (15284)
- PHC 6XXX Community-Based Participatory Research (14728)
- PHC 6XXX Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology (14935)
- SPM 5XXX Sport Mass Media (14752)
- SWS 6XXX Professional Development in Soil, Water, and Ecosystem Sciences (15265)
- WIS 6XXX Professional Communication in Wildlife Forensic Sciences (14300)
23. Notice of changes to graduate courses (information only).
- GMS 6805 Information Modeling in Biomedicine (14502)
- QMB 6XXX Artificial Intelligence Methods in Business (14821)
