Minutes: February 12, 2026

Meeting date: 02/12/2026

Attendees: Eric Abele, Shifa Ahmed, Katie Birger, Mia Blackston, Chesne Coombs, Erik Crowe, Elizabeth Feeser, Gavin Gilliand, Cody Goolsby-Cole, Devin Hagerty, Carlos Jensen, Bernie Lohr, Quareebat Okanlawon, Susanne Sutton, Jennifer Volpe

Approved Course and Program Proposals

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

New Course Requests

  • BIOL 380L – Animal Communication
  • ENGL 201 – Introduction to Rhetoric
  • GLBL 494 – Global Experience: Prior Learning
  • MBIO 462 – Marine Disease Ecology
  • PBHL 220 – Introduction to Epidemiology

Program Change Requests

  • Acting, B.F.A.
  • Astrophysics Minor
  • Literature & Culture Minor
  • Modern Languages Linguistics, B.A.
  • Music Teaching and Learning, B.A.
  • Physics Education, B.A.
  • Physics Minor
  • Physics, B.S.
  • Public Health Minor
  • Social Dimensions of Health Certificate
  • Theatre Design and Production Minor
  • Theatre, B.A.

Course Change Requests

  • CHEM 406 – Bioinorganic Chemistry
  • CHIN 330 – Advanced Mandarin Chinese for Current Events – UGC Approval Not Required
  • ENGL 302 – Literary Methodologies and Research
  • ENGL 451 – Seminar in Major Writers
  • HIST 110 – Europe in the World to 1700
  • HIST 311 – American Entrepreneurs: From Pirates to Tech
  • PBHL 354 – Health Disparities and Social Determinants
  • SOCY 451 – Social Dimensions of Health and Illness
  • SPAN 401 – Studies in Spanish Language
  • SPAN Seminar in Hispanic Cultural Studies
  • SPAN Topics in Latin American Society

Other Changes Requests

  • Course Inactivation Request: AMST 378 – Poverty in American Culture

Tabled Requests

  • Computer Science, B.S