Meeting date: 02/26/2026
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 in to Curriculog to view course descriptions.
New Course Requests
- 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
Program Change Requests
- 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 Change Requests
- 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
Other Changes Requests
- Course Inactivation: FREN 301 – Advanced French I
- Course Inactivation: FREN 302 – Advanced French II
Sent Back
- CMSC 486 – Cloud Computing
- MATH 450 – Quantum Computing Algorithms and Applications