The UCC will meet on Tuesday, May 13th, 2025 at 1:00p.m. via Zoom.

May 2025 Review Document 

Welcome

Approval of April 8th and April 15th Minutes

Updates

• Faculty Senate Co-chair Vote.
• There will be no August 2025, UCC Meeting. The first UCC meeting of the 2025-2026 AY will be in September. 
• Syllabus Policy Updates from APC - Dr. van Oostrom.

Information Items

• Faculty Senate Updates - Dr. Baweja
  • BA in Hebrew - Approved
  • Bachelor of Urban Sciences and Planning - Approved
  • BA in American Government, History, Literature and Law (AGHLL) - Approved
  • BA in War, Statecraft and Strategy (WSS) - Approved
• Updates from Academic Assessment Committee - Dr. Lissette Tolentino
• Updates from the Graduate School:

Programs:

Arts

1. BA Stage Management

2. Music Composition

3. Music Education - Instrumental

4. Music Performance - Vocal

Public Health and Health Performance 

5. BPH-MPH Combination Degree Modification

Certificates:

New Undergraduate Certificates:

• None

Changes to Existing Certificates

• None

Proposed New Undergraduate Courses:

Agricultural and Life Sciences

6. FNR 2XXX: Can Big Data Save the Earth? (Q2 Perm.)

7. FYC 2XXX: An Ounce of Prevention: Building Resilience in Communities (Q2 Perm.)

8. ORH 2XXX: Ethnohorticulture - A Coevolution of Plants and People

Engineering

9. Course request EOC 4XXX Coastal Dynamics and Engineering Applications

10. Course request EOC 4XXX Coastal Resilience and Engineering with Nature

11. ECH 4XXX -- Bioprocess Engineering and Bioseparations

12. ECH 4XXX -- Pharmaceutical Bioengineering

Liberal Arts & Sciences

13. KOT 3500 Intro to Korean Culture

14. KOR 4930  Special Topics in Korean Studies

Proposed Changes to Undergraduate Courses

Agricultural and Life Sciences

15. AEB2935 Food and Resource Economics Seminar

Business

16. GEB 4932 - Professional Dev Module

Engineering

17. (BS - ISE) Prerequisite Update (ESI4356 Spreadsheet Based Decision Support Systems - 4 Credits)

18. (BS - ISE) Prerequisite Update (ESI4610)

19. BME4503-Biomedical Instrumentation

20. COT3502 - Computer Model Formulation: minimum grade requirement for a pre-req

21. ENU 4134 Prerequisite Change

22. ESI 4523 Prerequisite Update

23. Title and description change for ENV 3930

Liberal Arts and Sciences

24. Internship in Criminology

25. Internship in Sociology updates

26. MHF 3202 — Sets and Logic

27. Modify Prerequisite for POT 3302

28. Modify Prerequisite for POT 4013

29. Modify Prerequisite for POT 4053

30. POT 3503

31. SPN1320 - change prerequisite

Proposed New Joint Courses

32. FAS 6XXXC Fish & Limnology *(JOINT)