Minutes: February 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 into Curriculog to view course descriptions.

New Course Request

  • 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 Request

  • 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 Request

  • 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

Course Inactivation Request

  • AMST – 378 – Poverty in American Culture

Tabled

  • Computer Science, B.S.