April 21, 2025
Agenda and Curriculum Proposals
Time: 10 am to noon
Location: SU 132 and via Zoom
1. Call to Order
2. Approval of Minutes from the March 24, 2025 Meeting/Announcements
3. Discussion: Meeting dates for Academic Year 2025-2026: Mondays, 10 am. to noon, on 9/8, 10/6, 11/3, 12/1, 1/26, 2/23, 3/30, 4/27
4. New Business
| Course/Program | Title | Department | Credits | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| University-Wide | ||||
| Policy Change | Baccalaureate Degrees of Distinction | Undergraduate Studies | Add clarifying language regarding eligibility and GPA used | |
| Policy Change | Returning After Dismissal | Undergraduate Studies | Add clarifying language to confirm this policy is only for undergraduates and how a second reinstatement may be considered | |
| Admissions | ||||
| Arts and Letters | ||||
|
ANT 2100
Core Curriculum Committee Approval |
Introduction to Archaeology | Anthropology | 3 | New and add to General Education for fall 2026 |
| ARC 4005 | Mentoring Future Professionals (Recommended new title: Mentorships in Architecture) | Architecture | 3 | New |
| Research and the Writing Process | English | 3 | New, Writing Across Curriculum, and add to General Education for fall 2026 | |
| Program Change | Bachelor of Public Safety Administration | Public Administration | Reduce required upper-division free elective credits by 3 to total 12 credits | |
|
SYG 2430 to SYO 2101
Core Curriculum Committee Approval |
Intro. to Marriage and Families (New title: Families in the United States) | Sociology | 3 | Change course prefix, number, title and description; add to General Education for fall 2026 |
|
GRA 4521C
RI Approval |
Interactive Design Lab 1 (New title: RI: Interactive Design Lab 1) | Visual Arts and Art History | 3 | Add research-intensive component (RI); update title and description |
| Business | ||||
| Education | ||||
| Program Change | Academic for Community Inclusion - Certificate in Community Access | Special Education | Move an existing course from the list of elective choices to the list of requirements, replacing an existing requirement | |
| Engineering and Computer Science | ||||
|
CAI 4223
Support |
Intro to Large Language Models | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | 3 | New |
|
CAI 4304
Support |
Intro to Natural Language Processing | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | 3 | New |
| CDA 4321 | Intro to Cryptographic Engineering | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | 3 | Change prerequisite |
| COP 3275C | Systems Programming with C++ | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | 3 | Change prerequisites and corequisites |
| EEL 3111 | Circuits 1 | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | 3 | Change prerequisites and corequisites |
| EEL 4652C | Control Systems 1 | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | 3 | Change prerequisites |
| Honors College | ||||
|
ANT 2100C
Core Curriculum Committee Approval Honors Approval |
Honors Introduction to Archaeology | 3 | New and add to General Education for fall 2026 | |
|
POS 2692 to CCJ 2002
Support
|
Honors Punishment (New title: Honors Law, Crime, and the Criminal Justice System) | 3 | Change course prefix, number, title and description; add to General Education for fall 2025 | |
|
POT 2002
Core Curriculum Committee Approval Honors Approval Support |
Honors Introduction to Political Theory | 3 | New and add to General Education for fall 2026 | |
| Library | ||||
| Nursing | ||||
| Science | ||||
| Program Change | BS in Chemistry (New concentration: Medicinal Chemistry | Chemistry and Biochemistry | New | |
| GLY 4324 | Physical Volcanology | Geosciences | 3 | New |
| Program Change | BA in Geosciences: Geography and Geology concentrations | Geosciences | Add new GLY course as an elective in the two concentrations | |
| Program Change | BS in Geosciences: Climate Change, Geography and Geology concentrations | Geosciences | Make a course change and add new GLY course in Climate Change concentration; add new GLY course in the other two concentrations | |
| IDS 3940 | Medical Shadowing Internship | Interdisciplinary Studies - Science | 1 to 1-3 | Change credits |
| ISC 1430 to 3432 | Current Issues in Biomedicine | Interdisciplinary Studies - Science | 1 | Change course number to 3000 level and description |
| Social Work and Criminal Justice | ||||
5. Next Meeting and Adjournment
The UUPC's next meeting is tentatively scheduled for Monday, September 8, from 10 am to noon, in SU 132 and via Zoom. Reminders will be sent.
New programs and program changes approved at today's meeting will be considered by the Faculty Steering Committee and Faculty Senate on the dates noted below. Please have a college representative present for those meetings. If any new courses/course revisions seem controversial, please have a representative present for those courses as well. Reminders will be sent.
Faculty Steering Meeting: Tentatively on Thursday, August 28, 2 to 4 pm, Board of Trustees Room, https://www.fau.edu/ufsgov/steering-committee/
University Faculty Senate Meeting: Tentatively on Monday, September 8, 1 to 3 pm, EE 106, https://www.fau.edu/ufsgov/calendar/