Minutes: September 25, 2025

Meeting date: 09/25/2025

Attendees: Katie Birger, Mia Blackston, Chesne Coombs, Erik Crowe, Elizabeth Feeser, Gavin Gilliland, Cody Goolsby-Cole, Chizzy Ibe, Lydia Jackson-Fryer, Richard Sponaugle, Susanne Sutton, Gary Williams, Jae 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

  • 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
  • ENGL 363 – Literature of the Harlem Renaissance
  • GLBL ASIA 304 – Global Research in East Asia
  • HONR 315 – Justice, Agency, and Culture in Kenya
  • PHIL 324 – 20th Century Continental Philosophy
  • PHIL 337 – Korean Philosophy
  • VPA 410 – Literacy in the Arts 1
  • MCS 303 – Producing Digital Narratives

Program Change Requests

  • Modern Languages and Linguistics, B.A.
  • Public Health, B.A.
  • Visual Arts, B.A.

Course Change Requests

  • GES 436 – Global Environmental Change
  • GLBL 210 – Business Without Borders
  • MUSC 305 – UMBC Symphony Orchestra
  • MUSC 305H – UMBC Symphony Orchestra
  • MUSC 308 – UMBC Wind Ensemble

Other Changes Requests

  • Course Inactivation: SOWK 371 – Social Work Practice in Aging
  • Course Inactivation: SPCH 210E – Interpersonal Communication for ESL Students

Tabled Requests

  • Translational Life Science Technology, B.S.

Sent Back

  • BIOL 251 – Human Anatomy and Physiology I
  • BIOL 302 – Molecular and General Genetics