Summary of CHAS UCC Undergraduate-Level Curriculum Proposals - 2016 Curriculum
On September 16th and 23rd, the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (UCC) reviewed the
CHAS - Science portion of the CHAS Undergraduate Curriculum Packet.
The CHAS-sciences packet was approved (pending any changes noted in the UCC minutes) by
the UCC.
Summary of Changes for CHAS – Sciences
1) Biology
a. 7 automatic course drops ; 3 courses dropped due to dropped minor;
b. Adding 3 courses (BIOL 1070, 3118, 3118) each of which have been taught at
least once as experimental
c. Edits to 8 existing courses (BIOL 1033, 3100, 3140, 3179, 4116, 4127, 4153,
4157)
d. Edits (restatements) made to many programs in biology due to adding electives or
removing dropped courses (BA-BIOECOEVO, BA-BIOLOGY, BS-BIOLOGY,
BA-BIOMED, BA-BIOTCHG)
2) Chemistry and Biochemistry
a. 1 course being added (CHEM 4505); offered previously 3 times
b. Edits to 2 courses (CHEM 4110, 4310)
c. Edits (restatements) made to BS-BIOCHEM and CHEM-MINOR by including
several courses as electives
3) Computer Sciences
a. 2 courses being dropped
b. Adding 2 courses (CS 3110, 4420)
c. Edits to 6 courses (CS 1520, 2420, 2530, 3120, 3179, 3730)
d. Edits (restatements) made to BA-COMPSCI, BS-COMPSCI, COMPSCI-CERT,
BS-NETSYSADM due to new course additions, additional elective options
4) Earth Sciences
a. Dropping 6 courses due to automatic course drop or due to loss of previously
offered major
b. Adding 4 courses (EARTHSCI 1400, 3150, 3322, 4150) that will each add to new
minor proposals except for EARTHSCI 3150 which is being offered as upper
level elective after previously being offered
c. Edits to 7 courses (EARTHSCI 3130, 3140,3210,3220,3230,3240,3250)
d. Addition of 4 minors (Air Quality, Astronomy, EnvSci, Geology)
5) Mathematics
a. 5 automatic dropped courses
b. 1 added course (STATS 4773)
c. Edits to 2 courses (MATH 3304, STAT 4772)
d. Edits (restatements) made to BA-MATHSTATACTSCI and MATH-MINOR due
to drop of electives; edits to BA-MATHTCHG and MATHTCHG-MINOR due to
changes in course and gpa requirements
e. Offering new CERT-STATISTICALCOMP
6) Physics
a. 1 automatically dropped course
b. Edits to 2 courses (PHYSICS 3000, 4310)
c. Offering a new CERT-PHYSICTHCG – 16-18 hours
7) Science Education
a. 1 dropped course
b. Edits to 2 courses (SCI ED 3100, 3500)
c. Edits made to BA-ALLSCITCHG major with new name and edits to BAMIDJURHGSCITCHG
8) Technology
a. 2 automatically dropped courses
b. Edits to 15 courses (TECH 1010, 1024, 2024,3113, 3127, 3129, 3142, 3143,
3147, 3148, 3149, 4100, 4104, 4110, 4162); most of the courses contained
editorial changes such as adding junior standing, description change, term offered
c. Edits to BS-EET, BA-GRAPHTECH and BS-MFGTECH; edits reflect dropped
and elective courses
On Sept 23rd and 30th, the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (UCC) reviewed the
Humanities and Fines Arts (HFA) portion of the CHAS Undergraduate Curriculum Packet.
The CHAS-HFA packet was approved (pending any changes noted in the UCC minutes) by the
UCC.
Summary of Changes for CHAS – Humanities and Fine Arts
1) Art
a. 7 automatically dropped courses
b. Edits made to 13 courses (ART 1011, 1022, 2050, 2070, 3001,3050,3055,
3070,3077, ARTED 2500, 2600, 3505,4500); many of the edits included course
description changes
c. Restatements to BA-ARTHIST and ARTHIST-MINOR to reflect dropped classes
2) Communications Sciences and Disorders
a. 1 course added (CSD 3196)
b. Edits to 3 courses (CSD 3190, 3195, 4150)
c. BA-COMDIS major restatement to include new description
3) Communication Studies
a. 9 courses dropped
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b. Edits to 32 courses that were changed from COMM EM to COMM DM to
indicate name change to program; additional edits made to 5 COMM courses
primarily name/description changes
c. 8 courses were added
d. BA-COMM, BA-COMMEM, COMMJOUR-MINOR, BA-COMMPR,
COMMPR-MINOR, BA-COMMTHEATCHG, COMMTHEATCHG-MINOR,
BA-INTDIGITAL, INTDIGITAL-MINOR, BA-POLCOMM programs were all
edited to reflect dropped/added classes and new course numbers for existing
courses.
Languages and Literatures
a. 51 automatically dropped courses
b. Edits to 5 courses (ENGLISH 4785, SPAN 3000, 3012, 3018, 4091)
c. 1 courses added (ENGLISH 4160)
d. 3 programs were deactivated (HISPORT-CERT, PORT-CERT, RUSSLANGCERT)
e. Several programs were edited to include added/dropped courses: ENGLISHMINOR, BA-ENGTCHG, FRENCH-MINOR, GERMLANG-CERT, POSTCOLCERT, BA-SPANISH, SPANLANG-CERT, BA-SPANTCHG, SPANTCHGMINOR, BA-TESOLMODLANG, WRITING-MINOR
Music
a. 5 automatically dropped courses
b. Added 3 courses (MUS ED 3660, 3670, 3680)
c. Edits made to 2 courses (MUS THEO 3220, 3230)
d. BA-MUSIC, BM-COMPTHEO, BM-MUSED majors restated after reflecting
added/edited courses
Philosophy and World Religions
a. 2 automatically dropped courses
b. ETHICS-MINOR was restated after addition of elective options
c. BA-REL major edits show dropped course
Theatre
a. 2 automatically dropped courses
b. 1 course added (THEATRE 1005)
c. Edits to 24 courses; changes are primarily editorial in nature in decreasing
prerequisites for classes to make courses more accessible to students
d. BA-THEATRE major was restated to reflect addition of youth drama requirement