Minutes: September 11, 2025

UGC Meeting Minutes

September 11, 2025

Attendees: Katie Birger, Mia Blackston, Chesne Coombs, Erik Crowe, Elizabeth Feeser, Gavin Gilliand, Cody Goolsby-Cole, Lydia Jackson-Fryer, Carlos Jensen, Laszlo Korossy, Richard Sponaugle, Susanne Sutton, Jennifer Volpe, Crystal Williams, Gary Williams, Jae 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

  • EDUC – 413 – Analysis of Teaching and Learning Music
  • PHYS – 434 – Advanced Quantum Mechanics
  • POLI – 291 – Introduction to Cybersecurity & Digital Affairs
  • POLI- 389 – Alliances & Alignments in International Relations
  • POLI – 491 – Cyber Conflict in World Affairs

Course Change Request

  • BTEC – 300 – Translational Life Science Technology Survey
  • BTEC – 310 – Instrumentation & Methods for the Biotechnology Laboratory
  • CMPE – 212 – Principles of Digital Design
  • CMPE – 306 – Introductory Circuit Theory
  • EDUC – 467 – Teaching and Learning in and with Baltimore Communities
  • ENGL – 303 – The Art of the Essay
  • ENGL – 375 – Topics in Creative Writing
  • POLI – 427 – African American Politics
  • POLI – 438 – Legal Internship
  • POLI 448 – Internship in Policy, Politics, and Administration

Course Inactivation Request

  • ENGL – 498 – Senior Honors Seminar
  • ENME – 410 – Operations Research I
  • ENME – 425 – Internal Combustion Engines
  • ENME – 461 – Dynamics II
  • ENME – 462 – Introduction to Engineering Acoustics
  • ENME – 463 – Mechanical Engineering Analysis
  • ENME – 473 – Mechanical Design of Electronic Systems
  • ENME – 480 – Engineering Experimentation
  • GLBL – 210 – Business Without Borders
  • SOWK – 371 – Social Work Practice Aging
  • SPCH – 210E – Interpersonal Communication for ESL Students

Sent Back

  • POLI – 396 – Terrorism & Insurgency
  • ANCS – 357 – Late Antiquity and the Fall of Rome
  • ANCS – 358 – Perilous Frontiers of Ancient China and Rome
  • ANCS – 359 – The Early Middle Ages
  • ANCS – 385 – The Ancient Greek Novel