The UCC will meet on Tuesday, October 21st, 2025 at 1:00p.m. in the Reitz Union Senate Chambers.

 

October 2025 Review Document 

 

Updates

• Welcome from Dr. Hans van Oostrom

 

Information Items

• Updates from Faculty Senate - Dr. Vandana Baweja

 

• Updates from Academic Assessment Committee - Dr. Jeanna Mastrodicasa
  • Assessment Conference - Save the Date: April 6-7, 2026 

 

• Updates from the Graduate School - Stacy Wallace

 

1. Approval of September 16, 2025 Minutes

 

Programs

Agricultural and Life Sciences

2. Minor in Agricultural and Rural Entrepreneurship                    

3. B.S. in Microbiology and Cell Science/Pharm.D. Combination Degree Program CALS              

 

Hamilton Center

4. New Minor - American Government, History, Literature, and Law – AGHLL                   

5. New Minor: Christian Thought and Culture            

6. New Minor - War, Statecraft and Strategy

 

Design, Construction and Planning                  

7. Landscape Architecture Minor Revision                                           

8. LEVEL - PROGRAM NAME (BS EMERGENCY SERVICES)

 

Public Health and Health Professions                          

9. Bachelor of Public Health Curriculum Modification                

10. DHS Minor Modification                     

 

Certificates

New Undergraduate Certificates:          

• None

 

Changes to Existing Certificates:

Arts

11. Add DAN2390 as an option for Dance in Medicine Certificate

 

Liberal Arts and Sciences    

12. UGrad_MEDGEO_Cert update course numbers and names       

 

Courses

Proposed New Undergraduate Courses:

 

Agricultural and Life Sciences

13. EVS49XX Supervised Teaching Experience in Environmental Science  

 

Center for Latin American Studies

14. Social Movements and Gender: A View from Latin America                      

15. LASXXX-Reproduction and Reproductive Justice in the Americas          

 

Hamilton Center 

Quest Courses:           

16. ISS 1XXX - Love Conquers All (Q1 Permanent)

17. ISS 1XXX - The Family in Modern Political Thought (Q1 Permanent)    

18. ISS 1XXX - What is Virtue? (Q1 Permanent)

19. ISS 1XXX - Tyranny and Resistance (Q1 Permanent)        

20. ISS 1XXX - Plague, War, Apocalypse (Q1 Permanent)

21. ISS 2XXX - Why Explore? (Q2 Permanent)

Non-Quest Courses:            

22. ISS 2XXX - Christian Thought and Culture I

23. ISS 2XXX - Christian Thought and Culture II                 

 

Liberal Arts & Sciences  

Quest Courses:

24. IDS2XXX - Our Home in the Gulf                         

25. WST1XXX: What is a Man?              

Non-Quest Courses:               

26. CLA 3XXX: Ancient War Commemorations                  

27. IDS4XXX: Capstone in Interdisciplinary Studies

 

Pharmacy                    

28. PTN2XXX-Introduction to Pharmacology and Precision Medicine

                     

Proposed Changes to Undergraduate Courses:

 

Education

29. EDE 3941 Variable Credit change    

30. SMT3664 Project-Based Instruction in Math and Science Education             

31. SMT3301C Classroom Interactions in Mathematics and Science Education     

 

Innovation Academy 

32. IDS4941 - Innovation Academy Internship

    

Liberal Arts and Sciences

33. Simplifying and making uniform prerequisites for 3000-level philosophy courses                

34. Adjust prerequiste for PHI3681    

35. CHM4034 - Advanced Biochemistry and Chemical Biology - Modify Course                

36. Change from S/U to letter grades and update catalog description      

 

Joint Courses 

Proposed New Joint Courses:

 

Agricultural and Life Sciences

37. AEB 4XXX Agribusiness Enterprise Development                                  

38. AEB 4XXX Agricultural and Rural Entrepreneurship

 

Center for Latin American Studies       

39. LAS4XXX & LAS6XXX - Consumption and social change     

 

Proposed Changes to Joint Courses: 

• None.