Minutes: February 1, 2024

UGC Meeting Minutes

February 1, 2024

Attendees: Eric Abele, Katie Birger, Mia Blackston, Carmen Cain, Lili Cui, Zak Faith, Elizabeth Feeser, Cynthia Hody, Amanda Knapp, Laszlo Korossy, Emily Passera, Nicole Seabolt D’Augustine, Laila Shishineh, Richard Sponaugle, John Stolle-Mcallister, Jennifer Volpe, Gary Williams, Kelley Yang

Approved Course and Program Proposals

The Undergraduate Council has approved the course and program changes listed below. Log into Curriculog to view course descriptions.

New Minor Request

  • Acting Minor
  • Theatre Design and Production Minor

Other Changes Request

  • Jazz Studies, Music Composition, Music Education, Music Performance, Music Technology

Program Change Request

  • Literature & Culture Minor
  • Theatre Arts Minor

New Course Request

  • CMSC – 463 – Data Privacy
  • EHS – 300 – Special Topics in Emergency and Disaster Health
  • GWST – 440 – Imperial Entanglements: Race, Gender, Sexuality
  • NSCI – 301L – The mechanisms of drug-induced responses in C. elegans
  • UNIV – 201 – Second-Year Seminar

Course Change Request

  • BIOL – 375 – General Microbiology
  • BTEC – 395 – Translational Bioinformatics
  • ENGL – 271 – Introduction to Creative Writing – Fiction
  • ENGL – 273 – Introduction to Creative Writing – Poetry
  • ENGL – 371 – Creative Writing – Fiction
  • ENGL – 373 – Creative Writing – Poetry
  • ENGL – 471 – Advanced Creative Writing – Fiction
  • ENGL – 473 – Advanced Creative Writing – Poetry
  • MUSC – 191 – Recital Preparation
  • MUSC – 311 – Free Composition
  • UNIV – 102 – Academic Success Seminar

Sent Back

  • Aging Studies Minor
  • COMP – 101 – Computational Thinking and Design
  • ENGL – 475 – Special Studies in Creative Writing
  • FREN 304 – Advanced French: Introduction to Studies in French
  • Jazz Studies, B.A. – Program Change

Tabled

  • MUSC – 210 – Musicianship Laboratory III
  • Management of Aging Services Minor