The UCC will meet on Tuesday, October 15, 2024 at 1:00p.m. in the Reitz Union Senate Chambers.

October 2024 Review Document

Welcome

Approval of September Minutes

Updates | Dr. Vandana Baweja

• Vote on nominating UCC Faculty Senate Co-Chair at the End of the Year
• UCC Handbook - Edits and Updates

Faculty Senate Updates 

• No Updates

Information Item - Academic Assessment Committee Update - Lissette Tolentino

• BS-Construction Management ALC update(20239) – Approved.
• BS-Construction Management AAP update(20598) – Approved.
• Sport and Entertainment and Law and Risk Management Certificate AAP(20338) – Conditionally approved.
• Curriculum Map upload for Landscape Architecture(20594) – Approved.
• JOU Academic Assessment Plan(20211) – Conditionally approved.
• Graduate program goals and SLOs(20487) – Recycled.
• ALC update for Department of Landscape Architecture – BLA(20498) – Approved.

Programs:

Design, Construction and Planning

• Construction Management Curriculum Change
• Construction Management Reduction to 120 cr. hrs.

Education

• Disability in Society Minor (DIS) UFO 
• Early Childhood Studies Minor UFO

Certificates: 

New Undergraduate Certificates 

• None

Changes to Existing Certificates 

• Modification of the requirements for the Undergraduate Certificate in Latin American Studies

Proposed New Undergraduate Courses: 

Journalism and Communications

• RTV 3XXX – Reality TV and Influencer Media

Design, Construction and Planning 

• ARC 1XXX - What is a City? (Q1 Perm)
• BCN 1XXX - Human Shelter Development (Q1 Perm)
• BCN 2XXX - Foundations, Principles and Applications of Sustainable Development (Q2 Perm)
• DCP 4XXX Community Resilience: Assessment, Planning, & Action in the Game of Life 
• IND 1XXX - Design for Humanity: Intention, Consequence and Change (Q1 Perm)
• LAA 1XXX - Urban Nature and Society (Q1 Perm)
• URP1XXX - This Must Be the Place (Q1 Perm)

Education

• EME 2XXX: Creating Enabling Technologies for Differently Abled People (Q2 Perm)
• EME 2XXX: Making Sense: Understanding the World with Data and AI (Q2 Perm)

Hamilton Center

• AMS 1XXX: The American Idea (Q1 Perm.)
• AMS 1XXX: What is America For? (Q1 Perm.)
• AMS 2XXX - America: Great Debates - (Q2 Permanent)ISS 2XXX - Political Violence and Power (Q2 Permanent)
• ISS 1XXX - Ancients and Moderns (Q1 Permanent)
• ISS 1XXX: Capitalism and its Critics (Q1 Perm.)
• ISS 1XXX: Comedy and Citizenship (Q1 Perm.)
• ISS 1XXX:  Conflict and Character: Great Books in the Ancient World (Q1 Perm.)
• ISS 1XXX - Faith and Reason in Jewish Thought - (Q1 Permanent)
• ISS 1XXX: Freedom and Equality (Q1 Perm.)
• ISS 1XXX: God and Science (Q1 Perm.)
• ISS 1XXX: Immortality (Q1 Perm.)
• ISS 1XXX: Just War (Q1 Perm.)
• ISS 1XXX: Life, Liberty, and Happiness (Q1 Perm.)
• ISS 1XXX: Religion, Revolution, and the Person (Q1 Perm.)
• ISS 1XXX: Religious Freedom in Historical Perspective (Q1 Perm.)
• ISS 1XXX: Rhetoric and Leadership (Q1 Perm.)
• ISS 1XXX: Romanticism: The Storm of Feeling (Q1 Perm.)
• ISS 1XXX - The Art of War - (Q1 Permanent)
• ISS 1XXX: The Crisis of Liberalism (Q1 Perm.)
• ISS 1XXX: The End of Empires: Imperialism to Decolonization (Q1 Perm.)
• ISS 1XXX: The Politics of Nature (Q1 Perm.)
• ISS 1XXX: The Search for Meaning in a Secular Age (Q1 Perm.)
• ISS 1XXX: Utopias and Dystopias (Q1 Perm.)
• ISS 1XXX: War and the Human Condition (Q1 Perm.)
• ISS 1XXX:  What is Democracy? (Q1 Perm.)
• ISS 1XXX: What is the Common Good? (Q1 Perm.)
• ISS 1XXX: Who Am I? The Self from Antiquity to 1700 (Q1 Perm.)
• ISS 1XXX: Why Fight? (Q1 Perm.)
• ISS 1XXX: Why Spy? (Q1. Perm)
• ISS 2XXX: Political Violence and Power (Q2 Permanent)
• ISS 2XXX - The Rule of Law - (Q2 Permanent)
• ISS 2XXX - What is Statecraft? - Q2 Permanent

Changes to Undergraduate Courses: 

Design, Construction and Planning 

• BCN 3521C Electrical Systems
• BCN 4423C Temporary Structures
• Change prerequisite for URP 3001

Public Health and Health Professions

• CLP4420 Introduction to Neuropsychology
• HSC3057 Research Methods and Issues in Health Science Course Modification
• HSC3502 Survey of Diseases and Disability Course Modification
• HSC3661 Therapeutic Communication Skills with Patients, Families and the Health Care Team Course Modification
• HSC4557 Medical Pharmacology in Clinical Care Course Modification
• HSC4608 Clinical Diagnosis and Decision Making Course Modification
• OTH3416 Pathophysiology
• PHC4796C Artificial Intelligence in Psychological and Brain Sciences Course Modification

Proposed New Joint Courses:

• None

Changes to Joint Courses:

• None

Proposed New 5000 Level Courses: 

• None

Changes to 5000 Level Courses: 

• None

Updates from the Graduate School:

• No Updates