Minutes: February 26, 2026

Attendees: Shifa Ahmed, Katie Birger, Mia Blackston, Chesne Coombs, Erik Crowe, Elizabeth Feeser, Gavin Gilliland, Cody Goolsby-Cole, Laszlo Korossy, Quareebat Okanlawon, Richard Sponaugle, Susanne Sutton, Jennifer Volpe, Gary Williams, Fan 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 Course Request

  • AMST – 411 – Sound and American Culture
  • AMST – ASIA – 377 – Pacific
  • CMSC – 489 – Active Cyber Defense
  • GLBL ASIA – 320 – Asian Pop Culture Goes Global
  • MATH – 470 – Introduction to Mathematics of Financial Markets
  • PHIL – 374 – Philosophy of Social Science
  • PSYC – 395 – Psychology Writing Fellows Program
  • PSYC – 396 – Psychology Peer Mentor Program

Course Change Request

  • AMST – 324 – The Road Movie in America and Abroad
  • AMST – 365 – South Asian American Studies
  • BIOL – 415 – Systems Biology
  • BIOL – 416 – Bioinformatics
  • ENGL – 334 – Medieval Literature
  • ENGL – 336 – Medieval and Early Modern Drama
  • ENGL – 339 – Early Modern Literature
  • ENGL – 351 – Studies in Shakespeare
  • ENGL – 464 – Advanced Topics in Women and Literature
  • ENME – 301 – The Structure and Properties of Engineering Materials
  • FREN – 310 – Interconnections: Language
  • FREN – 319 – French Translation
  • FREN – 320 – Interconnections: Trade, Technology, and Globalization
  • FREN – 330 – Interconnections: Ideas, Literature and the Arts
  • FREN – 339 – Exploration in Ideas, Literature and the Arts
  • FREN – 340 – Interconnections: Social and Historical Confluences
  • LING – 310 – Phonetics and Phonology
  • LING – 320 – Morphology and Syntax
  • LING – 330 – Applied Semantics
  • MATH – 221 – Introduction to Linear Algebra
  • PBHL – 300 – Research Methods in Health

Program Change Request

  • Asian Studies, B.A.
  • Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Minor
  • Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, B.S.
  • Computer Science, B.S.
  • Financial Economics, B.S.
  • Mathematics Minor
  • Mathematic, B.A.
  • Mathematics, B.S.
  • Media and Communication Studies, B.A.
  • Public Health, B.A.
  • Statistics Minor
  • Statistics, B.S.

Course Inactivation

  • FREN – 301 – Advanced French I
  • FREN – 302 – Advanced French II

Sent Back

  • CMSC – 486 – Cloud Computing
  • MATH – 450 – Quantum Computing Algorithms and Applications