September 8, 2025
Agenda and Curriculum Proposals
Time: 10 am to noon
Location: SU 132 and via Zoom
1. Call to Order and Vote for UUPC Chair 2025-2026
2. Approval of Minutes from April 21, 2025 Meeting/Announcements
3. New Business
| Course/Program | Title | Department | Credits | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| University-Wide | ||||
| Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Research | Undergraduate Studies | 0 | New | |
| Program Change | Bachelor of Professional Studies | Add clarifying language regarding admissions and degree requirements, notes about internships, and an advising statement for online and honors options | ||
| General Education Curriculum | Updating catalog language, adding communication to additional enrichment area, and removing SPC 2608 as a Group B course, clarifying that it is not a substitute for ENC 1102 | |||
| Incomplete Grades Policy | Clarifying policy and updating the definition of "incomplete" | |||
| Orientation, Advisement and Registration for Entering Degree-Seeking Students | Simplifying language on orientation and advisement and removing outdated language on specified academic advising | |||
| University Honors Program | University Honors Program | Updating General Education Curriculum language and clarifying language on the requirements for maintaining University Honors standing | ||
| Admissions | ||||
| Arts and Letters | ||||
| MUE 4475 | Advanced Percussion Literature and Pedagogy | Music | 3 | New |
| MUL 4550 | Wind Instrument Literature (New title: Survey of Symphonic Wind and Percussion Literature) | Music | 3 | Change title and course description |
| MUL 4561 | Chamber Music Literature 1 (New title: Chamber Music Literature: Renaissance - Romantic) | Music | 3 | Change title and course description; remove prerequisites |
| MUL 4562 | Chamber Music Literature 2 (New title: Chamber Music Literature: Romantic - 21st Century) | Music | 3 | Change title and course description; remove prerequisites |
| MUO 4503 | Opera Workshop | Music | 2 to 1 | Change credits, course description, prerequisites, and registration controls |
| MUS 3254 | Italian and French Lyric Diction | Music | 1 | New |
| MUS 3255 | German and English Lyric Diction | Music | 1 | New |
| MUS 4611 | Methods Musical Practice and Performance | Music | 3 | New |
| Program Change | Bachelor of Music in Commercial Music, Commercial Music Composition Concentration | Music | Including two Gen Ed courses, updating music core courses, aligning degree-specific coursework with competencies, and reducing total credits to 120 | |
| Program Change | Bachelor of Music in Commercial Music, Music Business Concentration | Music | Including two Gen Ed courses, updating music core courses, aligning degree-specific coursework with competencies, and reducing total credits to 120 | |
| Program Change | Bachelor of Music in Commercial Music Technology Concentration | Music | Including two Gen Ed courses, updating music core courses, aligning degree-specific coursework with competencies, and reducing total credits to 120 | |
| Program Change | Bachelor of Music in Music, Performance Concentration, Classical Guitar Option | Music | Including two General Education courses as required, updating music core courses, aligning degree-specific coursework with competencies, and increasing flexibility | |
| Program Change | Bachelor of Music in Music, Performance Concentration, Percussion Option | Music | Including two General Education courses as required, updating music core courses, aligning degree-specific coursework with competencies, and increasing flexibility | |
| Program Change | Bachelor of Music in Music, Performance Concentration, Piano (pedagogy) Option | Music | Including two General Education courses as required, updating music core courses, aligning degree-specific coursework with competencies, and increasing flexibility | |
| Program Change | Bachelor of Music in Music, Performance Concentration, Strings Option | Music | Including two General Education courses as required, updating music core courses, aligning degree-specific coursework with competencies, and increasing flexibility | |
| Program Change | Bachelor of Music in Music, Performance Concentration, Voice Option | Music | Including two General Education courses as required, updating music core courses, aligning degree-specific coursework with competencies, and increasing flexibility | |
| Program Change | Bachelor of Music in Music, Performance Concentration, Winds and Brass Option | Music | Including two General Education courses as required, updating music core courses, aligning degree-specific coursework with competencies, and increasing flexibility | |
|
CPO 3003 to CPO 2002
(Approved but held until October meeting.) |
Comparative Politics (New title: Introduction to Comparative Politics) | Political Science | 3 | Change level, number and description |
| DAA 3020 | Introduction to Dance | Theatre and Dance | 1 | New |
| THE 2002 | Theatre Foundations | Theatre and Dance | 1 | New |
| Introduction to Playwriting | Theatre and Dance | 3 | New | |
| Early Theatre History | Theatre and Dance | 3 | New | |
| 20th and 21st Century Theatre and Literature | Theatre and Dance | 3 | New | |
| THE 4335 | Shakespeare Stage and Screen | Theatre and Dance | 3 | Terminate |
| THE 4371 | 20th Century World Drama | Theatre and Dance | 3 | Terminate |
| THE 4680 | Introduction to Dramaturgy | Theatre and Dance | 3 | New |
| TPA 2204L | Production Foundations | Theatre and Dance | 1 | New |
| TPA 4923L | Portfolio Development | Theatre and Dance | 1 | New |
| TPP 2714C | Music Theatre Applied Studio/Voice 1 | Theatre and Dance | 1-2 | Terminate |
| TPP 2740C | Music Theatre Craft (New title: Music Theatre Vocal Craft 1) | Theatre and Dance | 1-2 to 2 | Change title, credits and prerequisite |
| TPP 2741C | Music Theatre Applied Studio/Voice | Theatre and Dance | 1-2 | Terminate |
| TPP 3745C | Music Theatre Applied Studio Voice 3 | Theatre and Dance | 1-2 | Terminate |
| TPP 3747C | Music Theatre Applied Studio/Voice 4 | Theatre and Dance | 1-2 | Terminate |
| TPP 4140 | Acting 4 | Theatre and Dance | 3 | Change prerequisite |
| TPP 4224 | Audition and Career Forum | Theatre and Dance | 3 to 2 | Change credits |
| TPP 4265 | Acting 5 | Theatre and Dance | 3 | Change prerequisites |
| TPP 4271C | Music Theatre Performance (New title: Music Theatre Vocal Craft 2) | Theatre and Dance | 1-2 to 2 | Change title, credits, prerequisites, and description |
| TPP 4748C | Music Theatre Applied Studio/Voice 5 | Theatre and Dance | 1-2 | Terminate |
| TPP 4749C | Music Theatre applied Studio/Voice 6 (New title: Applied/Studio Music Theatre Voice) | Theatre and Dance | 1-2 | Change title, description and prerequisites |
| Program Change | All BA, BFA and Minors in Theatre | Theatre and Dance | Clarifying catalog language, adding several courses and restoring the BA Technical Production track | |
| Business | ||||
| Business Law Minor | Accounting | Clarifying language for accounting majors obtaining the minor and adding a course | ||
| Health Administration Major | Management Programs | Adding a course to the list of electives | ||
| Hospitality and Tourism Management Program |
Marketing | Adding a BA degree offering for this major; making adjustments in the BBA and BS offerings | ||
| General Business BA | Student Academic Services | Adding admissions GPA | ||
| Education | ||||
| Engineering and Computer Science | ||||
| BME 4241C | Applied Biorobotics | Biomedical Engineering | 3 | New |
| BME 4323 | Stem Cell Engineering: Research and Clinical Application | Biomedical Engineering | 3 | New |
| BME 4332 | Tissue Engineering: Basic Concepts | Biomedical Engineering | 3 | New |
| BME 4404 | Biomedical Engineering: Cell Biology and Physiology | Biomedical Engineering | 3 | New |
| BME 4740 | Control for Biomedical Systems | Biomedical Engineering | 3 | New |
| Program Change | Geomatics Engineering Program | Civil, Environmental and Geomatics Engineering | Updating several SUR courses to include the lecture and the lab as one course and increasing the credits for each course from 2 to 3 | |
| SUR 3103 to SUR 3103C | Geomatics | Civil, Environmental and Geomatics Engineering | 2 to 3 | Adding lab component to course and increasing credits from 2 to 3 |
| SUR 3103L | Geomatics Lab | Civil, Environmental and Geomatics Engineering | 1 | Terminate |
| SUR 3141 to SUR 3141C | Automated Surveying and Mapping | Civil, Environmental and Geomatics Engineering | 2 to 3 | Adding lab component to course and increasing credits from 2 to 3 |
| SUR 3141L | Automated Surveying and Mapping | Civil, Environmental and Geomatics Engineering | 1 | Terminate |
| SUR 3205 to SUR 3205C | Engineering Construction and Surveying | Civil, Environmental and Geomatics Engineering | 2 to 3 | Adding lab component to course and increasing credits from 2 to 3 |
| SUR 3205L | Engineering Construction and Surveying Lab | Civil, Environmental and Geomatics Engineering | 1 | Terminate |
| SUR 4530 to SUR 4530C | Geodesy and Geodetic Positioning | Civil, Environmental and Geomatics Engineering | 2 to 3 | Adding lab component to course and increasing credits from 2 to 3 |
| SUR 4530L | Geodesy and Geodetic Positioning | Civil, Environmental and Geomatics Engineering | 1 | Terminate |
| Honors College | ||||
| Honors Neurobiology of Mental Illness | 3 | New | ||
| Honors Public Policy Process | 3 | New | ||
| Concentration in Marine Biology | Adding two honors chemistry courses to the list of electives | |||
| Neuroscience Concentration | Adding new PSB course to the Cellular Track and Cognition and Behavior Track | |||
| Psychology Concentration | Adding new PSB course to the Seminars and Advanced Coursework in Psychology concentration list of courses | |||
| Library | ||||
| Nursing | ||||
| Science | ||||
| URP 4023 | Introduction to Urban Design Technology | Urban and Regional Planning | 3 | New |
| Bachelor of Science in Mathematics | Mathematics and Statistics | Replacing three courses in two of the Math concentrations | ||
| Social Work and Criminal Justice | ||||
| CCJ 2094 | Criminal Justice Careers and Professional Development | Criminology and Criminal Justice | 3 | New |
4. Next Meeting and Adjournment
The UUPC's next meeting is Monday, October 6, from 10 am to noon, in SU 132 and via Zoom.
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.
Faculty Steering Meeting: Thursday, September 25, 2 to 4 pm, Board of Trustees Room, https://www.fau.edu/ufsgov/steering-committee/
University Faculty Senate Meeting: Monday, October 6, 1 to 3 pm, EE 106, https://www.fau.edu/ufsgov/calendar/