UUCC
Committee Minutes 1-28-19
Wayne A. Reaud Building Room 202
Attending: Michael Saar, Library Services; Judy Smith, Nursing; Stefan Andrei, CID representative; Janes Armacost, Biology; Kami Makki, Computer Science; Barbara Hernandez, Kinesiology; Communications and Kinesiology; Qin Qian, Engineering; Alberto Marquez, Engineering; Larry Osborne, College of Arts & Sciences; Garrick Harden, Faculty Senate Representative; Serdar Ilban, Fine Arts and Communications; Mamta Singh, Teacher Education; John McCollough, Business; Zanthia Smith, DSDE; Millicent Musyoka, Fine Arts and Communications
Via Proxy: Ken Aung, Engineering;
Absent:Ex-Officio: Joe Nordgren, Acting Associate Provost; Theresa Hefner-Babb, Exec. Dir. OPA; Craig Escamilla, Acting Exec Dir Student Achievement & Retention, David Short, Registrar
Guests: James Sanderson, English & MOOL; Timothy Roden, CAS;
Presiding: Michael Saar
Call to Order: 3:35 pm
Approval of Minutes: 12-3-18
- Motion made to approve with revisions Serdar; Seconded by Zanthia. Minutes approved as written.
Business: SOCI 3320 Gender and Islam
- Judy made a motion to table approval due to lack of action by the department in making prior changes requested; James seconded the motion; motion was unanimously approved.
ENGL 4332 Special Topics Nontraditional Literature
- Corrections and clarifications from last meeting reviewed
- Motion to approve the syllabus Judy; Seconded by Stefan; Motion approved unanimously.
ENGL 4351 Studies in Literature before 1800
- Corrections and clarifications from last meeting reviewed
- Motion to approve Stefan; Seconded Barbara. Motion approved unanimously.
ELEN 3441 Fundamentals of Power Engineering
- Pre-requisites and Co requisites on the face sheet and the syllabus do not match.
- Need clarification on the max repeat hours
- Motion to return to the department for clarifications Judy; Barbara seconded. Motion unanimously approved
ELEN 2411 Circuits I
- Pre-requisites on the face sheet states MATH2414, PHYS 2426, ELEN 1301 or equivalent. Syllabus does not address the: or equivalent part of the statement.
- Motion to approve with the friendly amendment by Judy; Seconded by Barbara; Motion approved unanimously.
CVEN 2370 Intro to CAD and Surveying
- A change in pre-requisite from CVEN 1101 to MATH 2413 was made to promote better flexibility in the degree plan and to help with retention
- Judy motioned to approve the above change; Barbara seconded; approved unanimously.
CVEN 3390 Geo-Technical Engineering
- Pre-requisites changed from CVEN 2372 and MEEN 2302 to just include only CVEN 2372 to improve retention rates; Also MEEN is not a requirement for taking CVEN 3390.
- Missing Max repeat hours on the face sheet
- Zanthia motioned to approve pending the clarification on the max repeat hours; Stefan seconded; approved unanimously.
CVEN 4313 Civil Eng Sys Des Proj II
- Missing max repeat hours; should be zero
- Motion to approve pending the friendly amendment by Kami; Seconded by Barbara; unanimously approved with clarification.
CVEN 4365 Introduction to Transportation Engineering
- Millicent made a motion to approve as written; Serdar seconded; motion approved.
COSC 2375 Discrete Structures
- Motion made to approve as written by Judy; Barbara seconded and motion approved unanimously.
COSC 4301 Special Topics
- Maximum Repeat Hours corrected to 15 per departmental representative
- Motion to approve with the amended max repeat hours by Millicent; Seconded by Barbara; Approved unanimously.
COSC 3304 Algorithms Design and Analysis
- Changed pre-requisites from COSC 2336 and MATH 2305 to COSC 2336 and COSC 2375
- Motion to approve changes in pre-requisites Barbara; Seconded by Serdar; Approved unanimously.
PSYC 3301 Advanced Statistics
- Pre-requisite listed on cover sheet as PSYC 2317 but in the syllabus it still lists PSYC 2471 which is no longer being taught
- Motion to approve with the removal of PSYC 2471 on the Syllabus by Judy; Barbara seconded; unanimously approved.
GEOL 1404 Geology II Historical Geology
- Pre-requisites were dropped to make the course more accessible to more students.
- On the face sheet the word prerequisite is misspelled as perquisite and an e is missing in the same area from the word none.
- Lecture and Lab hours were the correct ratio.
- Motion made by Barbara to approve the syllabus with the above spelling corrections by Barbara; Qin seconded; motion approved
MATH 2318 Linear Algebra
- Updated pre-requisite because of prior typographical error
- Motion to approve with the change in pre-requisite by Serdar; Stefan Seconded; unanimously approved
- Next meeting will be held Monday February 18, 2019 at 3:30 pm in Room 202 of the Reaud Building.
- Motion to Adjourn at 4:55 pm by Barbara; Seconded by Stefan and was unanimously approved.
Respectfully submitted:
Dr. Judy Smith, Secretary University Undergraduate Committee.