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

2. Course Description Guidance - vote to adopt

 

Programs

Agricultural and Life Sciences

3. Minor in Agricultural and Rural Entrepreneurship                    

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

 

Hamilton School

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

6. New Minor: Christian Thought and Culture            

7. New Minor - War, Statecraft and Strategy

 

Design, Construction and Planning                  

8. Landscape Architecture Minor Revision                                           

9. BS EMERGENCY SERVICES Program Name Change

 

Public Health and Health Professions                          

10. Bachelor of Public Health Curriculum Modification                

11. DHS Minor Modification                     

 

Certificates

New Undergraduate Certificates:          

• None

 

Changes to Existing Certificates:

Arts

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

 

Liberal Arts and Sciences    

13. UGrad_MEDGEO_Cert update course numbers and names       

 

Courses

Proposed New Undergraduate Courses:

 

Agricultural and Life Sciences

14. EVS49XX Supervised Teaching Experience in Environmental Science  

 

Center for Latin American Studies

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

16. LASXXX-Reproduction and Reproductive Justice in the Americas          

 

Hamilton School  

Quest Courses:           

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

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

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

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

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

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

Non-Quest Courses:            

23. ISS 2XXX - Christian Thought and Culture I

24. ISS 2XXX - Christian Thought and Culture II                 

 

Liberal Arts & Sciences  

Quest Courses:

25. IDS2XXX - Our Home in the Gulf                         

26. WST1XXX: What is a Man?              

Non-Quest Courses:               

27. CLA 3XXX: Ancient War Commemorations                  

28. IDS4XXX: Capstone in Interdisciplinary Studies

 

Pharmacy                    

29. PTN2XXX-Introduction to Pharmacology and Precision Medicine

                     

Proposed Changes to Undergraduate Courses:

 

Education

30. EDE 3941 Variable Credit change    

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

32. SMT3301C Classroom Interactions in Mathematics and Science Education     

 

Innovation Academy 

33. IDS4941 - Innovation Academy Internship

    

Liberal Arts and Sciences

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

35. Adjust prerequiste for PHI3681    

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

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

 

Joint Courses 

Proposed New Joint Courses:

 

Agricultural and Life Sciences

38. AEB 4XXX Agricultural and Rural Entrepreneurship

39. AEB 4XXX Agribusiness Enterprise Development                                  

 

 

Center for Latin American Studies       

40. LAS4XXX & LAS6XXX - Consumption and social change     

 

Proposed Changes to Joint Courses: 

• None.