Undergraduate Academic Council Minutes
Meeting: Wednesday, September 11 th , 2013 from 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm
Room: LC 3c
Present: Jeanette Altarriba, George Berg, Dave Casey, Tony DeBlasi, , Rick Fogarty, Sue Freed, Leslie
Halpern, Anne Hildreth, Janell Hobson, Trudi Jacobson, Linda Krzykowski, JoAnne Malatesta, Caro-Beth
Stewart, Kathie Winchester, Jim Zetka
Chair’s Report
Announcements:
There will be no meetings for the next two weeks. Next meeting will be October 2.
Committee assignments are pending.
The Chair reports out that over the summer two program proposals that came very late in the academic year from CAS were approved upon his review with the Undergraduate Education representative and the Chair of the Curriculum and Honors Committee. The first was for the requirements for the Lesbian,
Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Studies minor. The changes basically shifted required courses to ones that were actually offered and they added some additional choices for electives. The second was for requirements for the English major that called for students to take two among five 200 level survey courses opposed to any 200 level course. In both cases, changes enhanced student choices, and so fall 2013 implementation was judicious.
The General Education Committee has news:
It has approved Writing & Critical Inquiry (WCI) as a General Education category.
AENG110 has been approved as a WCI UUNI110 equivalent
The Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education and the Director of WCI are preparing learning objectives for WCI equivalent courses for competencies in oral discourse, writing, and information literacy to bring to UAC for approval.
Upcoming business, in addition to what was reported at the 9/3 meeting, is a proposal from the
Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences changing the Climate concentration in the
Environmental Science major. There is also a proposal for a new international internship course under the Globalization Program. Both proposals were received too late in the past academic year for consideration by the Curriculum and Honors Committee.
New Business
The Senate charged UAC with reviewing the description for International Perspectives General
Education category as defined in the May 2012 legislation. The General Education Committee has restructured the description and made changes to the learning objectives. One of three specific components may satisfy the International Perspectives category: a course in a foreign language beyond the elementary level; a credit-bearing study abroad experience; or a course approved by the General

Education Committee for the International Perspectives category. UAC discussed the new descriptions at length. Rewritten content regarding the requirement will be presented and voted on at the next UAC meeting.
The policy on page 43 of the current Undergraduate Bulletin regarding that students “must” have officially declared their major or applied to a restricted major by the time they have accumulated 42 credits is not being enforced. Financial Aid has its own conditions involving majors needing to be declared by the completion of 56 credits. The policy regarding a minimum of 24 credits being completed prior to declaring a major is enforced. A revision of the statement will be discussed at the next UAC meeting.
Next meeting scheduled for October 2nd.
Meeting adjourned at 4:00 pm.