Undergraduate Council

February 11, 2014 3:30-5:00 pm; 387 Ralph Anderson Building

Members Present: / Members Absent: / Guests Present:
Karen Badger (Acting Chair) / Anne Marie Kirk / Dennis Bender / Chris Thuringer
Ruth Beattie / Kevin Real / Gia Mudd
Alberto Corso / Randa Remer (Ex-Officio) / David Timoney (Ex-Officio)
Hans Gesund / Jerzy Rozenberg
Michael Goodin / Eric Skipworth
Nancy Johnson / Amy Spriggs
  1. Approval of minutes from 1/28 meeting

Approved, with revisions to attendance record – Anne Marie Kirk, Alberto Corso, Michael Goodin were present; remove Mark O’Bryan from Absent column.

  1. Proposal reviews

HMT 480-change – approved-pending: add midterm grading statement, revise learning outcomes and absence policy

HMT 488-change – approved-pending: add midterm grading statement, remove ‘D’ from graduate student grading scale

TA 236-change – approved-pending: add midterm grading statement, revise learning outcomes and absence policy

TA 271-drop – approved

TA 274-drop – approved

TAD 141-change – approved-pending: change ‘F’ on grading scale to ‘E’, remove sentence in syllabus regarding instructional touch

TAD 142-change – approved-pending: change ‘F’ on grading scale to ‘E’, remove sentence in syllabus regarding instructional touch

TAD 143-change – approved-pending: change ‘F’ on grading scale to ‘E’, remove sentence in syllabus regarding instructional touch

TAD 147-change – approved-pending: change ‘F’ on grading scale to ‘E’, remove sentence in syllabus regarding instructional touch

TAD 241-change – approved-pending: change ‘F’ on grading scale to ‘E’, remove sentence in syllabus regarding instructional touch

TAD 242-change – approved-pending: change ‘F’ on grading scale to ‘E’, remove sentence in syllabus regarding instructional touch

TAD 243-change – approved-pending: change ‘F’ on grading scale to ‘E’, remove sentence in syllabus regarding instructional touch

TAD 347-change – approved-pending: change ‘F’ on grading scale to ‘E’, remove sentence in syllabus regarding instructional touch

TAD 447-change – approved-pending: change ‘F’ on grading scale to ‘E’, remove sentence in syllabus regarding instructional touch

Statistics Minor – change – approved-pending: correct two misspellings of “student”

CHE 412G – change – approved-pending: add prerequisites and credit hours to syllabus, add midterm grading statement, table on page 11 regarding reports and experiments needs clarification

CHE 441G – change – HOLD: revise prerequisites on course change form and syllabus so that they match, expand learning outcomes and course description, add midterm grading statement, remove any language from syllabus regarding graduate students, add excused absences and make-up policy, request to see laboratory manual as it is listed as being part of the syllabus

CHE 522 – change – HOLD: add prerequisites and credit hours to syllabus, expand learning outcomes and course description, add midterm grading statement, clarify grading scale (grading policy is in percentages, scale is in points), revise excused absence policy, add make-up policy

Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures and Cultures BA-new – HOLD: Hebrew courses are missing – is this track being eliminated? If so, what is happening to those language courses?

Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures and Cultures Minor-new – approved

MCL 375-new – approved

MCL 376-new – approved

MCL 390-new – approved

MCL 495-new – approved

MCL 592-new – HOLD: since it is pass/fail assignments for undergraduates/graduate students need to be differentiated, clarify what will constitute a passing grade

MCL 597-new – approved

MCL 598-new – approved

CPH 320-new – approved-pending: revision request sent to CPH already regarding grading scale and absence policy

CPH 351-new – approved

CPH 551DL-new – approved

Innovation and Entrepreneurial Thinking UG Certificate-new (Held, 4/2/13) – approved

EXP 455-new – approved

  1. Health, Society and Populations BA (formerly Population Health BA)

Proposers will be attending the UGC meeting on 2/25. UGC members should review the revised proposal and send any comments or questions to Karen Badger prior to the next meeting.

  1. Meeting adjourned at 5:05pm.

Prepared by Joanie Ett-Mims on February 12, 2014