The University of Texas at Arlington

Undergraduate Assembly

Minutes

 

 

The Undergraduate Assembly met in regular session on Tuesday, February 27, 2001, at 2:15 p.m. in the University Center Concho Room.  President Robert E. Witt presided.

 

Attendance.  Provost George C. Wright, Dean Jeanne Gerlach, Professors Rasika Dias, Fred MacDonnell, and Jaime Rogers were excused.  Deans Santos Hernandez, Elizabeth Poster, Professors Tom Chrzanowski, Chris Morris, Craig Slinkman, Director Tom Wilding, and Student Representative Sharon Smith were absent.

 

Approval of Minutes.  The minutes of the December 5, 2000 meeting were approved as distributed.

 

Report of the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee.  Committee Chair Peggy Quinn presented the following proposals.

 

SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK (approved by Assembly)

 

Catalog Text Changes

 

Change       SOCW 3301

              SOCW 3302

 

Add        SOCW 3305

              SOCW 4310

              SOCW 4350 (reinstatement)

 

 

SCHOOL OF NURSING (approved by Assembly)

 

Change       NURS 4381

 

COLLECE OF SCIENCE (approved by Assembly)

 

Add        SCIE 4302

 

Department of Chemistry

 

Add        CHEM 1463

              CHEM 4180

 

Change       CHEM 1284

              CHEM 2321

              CHEM 2322

              CHEM 3317

              CHEM 4311

              CHEM 4314

              CHEM 4318

 

Department of Math

 

Add        MATH 4180

 

Change       MATH 1313

 

Department of Psychology

 

Five-year BS/MS Program in Health Care Administration

 

Departments of Biology and Biochemistry

 

 Addition of Honors Pre-Med Option – 7-year Dual BS/DO Degree, 4-year BS Biology and 4-year BS Biochemistry options.

 

 

COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS

 

Six-Year BA-JD Degree Program proposal for a six-year coordinated program with Texas Wesleyan University School of law.  There were several questions about this proposal and it was decided to table it until further information could be obtained.

 

Department of Political Science (approved by Assembly)

 

Pull deletion of POLS 4331

 

Department of History (approved by Assembly)

 

Catalog Text Changes

 

Department of Foreign Languages (approved by Assembly)

 

Change department name to Department of Modern Languages.

 

Catalog Text Changes

 

Change course prefixes:       FORL to MODL

              FORL 1441       to       MODL 1441

              FORL 1442       to       MODL 1442

              FORL 2313       to       MODL 2313

              FORL 2314       to       MODL 2314

              FORL 3301       to       MODL 3301

 

 

COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (approved by Assembly)

 

Addition of Business Foundation Program (BFP) for non-business majors wanting a solid foundation in business concepts (6 courses).  This program will lead to a certificate.

 

Department of Information Systems and Management Sciences

 

Change department name to Department of Information Systems and Operations Management.

Catalog Text Changes

 

Add        OPMA 3310

              OPMA 4309

              BUSA 3330

               INSY 3307

               INSY 4315

 

Change       BUSA 3306       to       OPMA 3306

              POMA 3308       to       OPMA 3308

              POMA 4301       to       OPMA 4301

              POMA 4302       to       OPMA 4302

              POMA 4307       to       OPMA 4307

               INSY 3302

               INSY 3305

               INSY 3308

               INSY 4302

               INSY 4304

               INSY 4306

               INSY 4308

               INSY 4309

               INSY 4310

               INSY 4325

 

Delete       POMA 3309

              POMA 4304

              POMA 4305

              POMA 4308

 

Department of Management

 

Add        MANA 3318

              MANA 4330

              MANA 4326

 

Change       BUSA 3301       to       BUSA 2302

              MANA 4324 to       MANA 4325

 

Delete       BUSA 2301

 

Department of Marketing

 

Change       MARK 3300       to       3325

              MARK 4303

 

Department of Accounting

 

Revision of BS – Accounting degree requirements

 

 

SCHOOL OF EDUCATION (approved by Assembly)

 

Add        EDUC 1302

 

Delete       HEED 1302

 

 

HONORS COLLEGE (approved by Assembly)

 

Catalog Text Changes

 

Change       HONR 2301

              HONR 3374

               SCIE 2301

 

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING (approved by Assembly)

 

Addition of BS in Computer Science

Addition of BS in Software Engineering

Addition of combined BS(Biology)/MS(Biomedical Engineering)

 

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

 

Catalog Text Changes

Change in social/cultural elective

Change CE 4348 from required to elective

 

Change   CE 1348      

               CE 2331

               CE 3302

               CE 3331

               CE 4331

               CE 4352

               CE 4383

 

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

 

Catalog Text Changes

Honors program moved to Honors College

 

Add        CSE 1312

               CSE 2340

               CSE 4291

               CSE 4319

               CSE 4321

               CSE 4326

               CSE 4327

               CSE 4331

 

Change   CSE 1301

               CSE 1310

               CSE 1320

               CSE 1325

               CSE 2315

               CSE 2441

               CSE 3310

               CSE 3320

               CSE 3322

               CSE 3442

               CSE 4191

               CSE 4303

               CSE 4305

               CSE 4311

               CSE 4316

               CSE 4317

               CSE 4320

               CSE 4344

               CSE 4346

               CSE 4351

               CSE 4353

               CSE 4356

               CSE 4360

               CSE 4391

 

Delete     CSE 3112

               CSE 4325

               CSE 4330

 

Department of Electrical Engineering

 

Reorganization of capstone course sequence

 

Change   EE 1245

               EE 1347

               EE 2440

               EE 2446

               EE 3302

               EE 3317

               EE 3318

               EE 3444

               EE 4331

 

Delete     EE 3191

               EE 3305

               EE 3306

               EE 4441

               EE 4442

               EE 4443

               EE 4444

               EE 4446

               EE 4447

               EE 4448

 

Add        EE 3307

               EE 3308

              EE3340

               EE 4341

               EE 4342

               EE 4343

               EE 4344

              EE 4345

               EE 4346

               EE 4347

               EE 4348

 

Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering

 

Catalog Text Changes

 

Change   IE 1231

               IE 3343

               IE 4302

               IE 4308

               IE 4315

               IE 4318

               IE 4322

               IE 4325

               IE 4339

               IE 4343

               IE 4344

               IE 4349

 

Delete     IE 3313

              

Add        IE 4304

               IE 4345

               IE 4350

 

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

 

Catalog Text Changes

 

Change   MAE 2360

               MAE 2412

               MAE 3302

               MAE 3310

               MAE 3311

               MAE 3314

               MAE 3315

               MAE 3316

               MAE 3317

               MAE 3319

               MAE 3342

               MAE 4314

               MAE 4330

               MAE 4350

               MAE 4351

 

Delete     MAE 3320

               MAE 4188

 

Add        MAE 1231

               MAE 3344

               MAE 3360

               MAE 4288

               MAE 4340

 

Biomedical Engineering Program

 

Change   BME 4325

               BME 1225

 

Other Engineering subject Areas

 

Change       ENGR 2100

              ENGR 3100

              ENGR 4100

 

Report of the Commencement Committee.  Committee chair Ed Morton presented a proposal to print a generic commencement program with a single page addendum listing the academic unit and order of the ceremony.  This would result in an estimated annual savings of $4,500, which would allow the graduation fee to remain the same.  Reducing the total number of graduation events per year was discussed, but the negative effects of this are too numerous to do this.  The proposal for a generic program was approved by the Assembly.

 

Report of the Academic Standards Committee.  Lon Johnston presented several proposals to the Assembly.  The first was a change in the policy for graduation with Honors.  The current policy requires at least 60 hours of undergraduate coursework earned at UTA with a particular GPA to graduate with honors; however, some students in combined degree programs will not obtain 60 hours of undergraduate coursework at UTA because graduate courses will be substituted for the normal undergraduate requirements.  The committee proposed this addition to the catalog text for this section:  “A student in an approved combined bachelor/masters degree program is required to count the graduate coursework used for the bachelor degree in the grade point calculation.  (Other graduate coursework will not be counted.)”  This revision was approved by the Assembly.

 

The second proposal from this committee was for the following catalog revisions:

1.        The AFP program will cease to exist

2.        Major classifications will be

a.          Undeclared

b.         Pre-major

c.         Major

3.        45/75 rule will continue

4.        30/30 and 40/12 rules will disappear

This proposal was approved.

 

The third proposal was for changes in the Honors College section of the catalog.  Honors College Dean Carolyn Barros explained that now because of the number of students in the Honors College, the admission requirements need to be increased.  The proposed requirements are in line with the National Honors Council across the United States with the exception of the required honors thesis.  This proposal was approved by the Assembly.

 

The fourth proposal was for changes in the admission and graduation policy of the College of Business Administration.  Linda Wilson, COBA Undergraduate Advisor, described the proposed changes.  The College would have a direct admission policy depending on the SAT/ACT and high school rank.  For applicants who do not meet criteria for direct admission, they will be admitted as pre-business majors with requirements to be met after 12 hours of UTA coursework.  After 18 hours of coursework, if students do not meet requirements for declaring a business major, they are suspended from COBA and must choose another major.  Students will not be allowed to earn D’s in business coursework.  These changes will affect only students under the new catalog.  There was lengthy discussion of these proposed changes.  The Assembly did approve this proposal with one vote against.

 

The last proposal from the committee was a proposed admission policy  for the College of Engineering, which was approved by the Assembly.

 

Other Business.  There was no other business.

 

Remarks by the President.  President Witt commented that the semester is off to another positive start in terms of enrollment, which is up over 7.5%.  We have received approval on a new apartment complex from the Board of Regents, and intend to start work on it this summer.  Our reports from campus recruiters is that the presence of Arlington Hall is a major recruiting plus.  While the provisional program with UT Austin is being subjected to an amount of pressure for defeat, President Witt is optimistic that the program will go forward and will give us a pool of very able students.  In the legislative session, most of the issues important to the University are moving along well.  However, there are a couple of bills with negative impact on UTA.  Senate Bill 737 which lists criteria for qualification to flagship status, and House Bill 1839.  The President feels the bills will be amended to treat everyone equally.      

 

Adjournment.  The meeting adjourned at 3:30 p.m.

 

 

 

 

                                                                                               Zack Prince

                                                                                               Secretary

 

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