The University of Texas at Arlington

Undergraduate Assembly

Minutes

 

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

 

Attendance. 

Present

Excused

Absent

Robert E. Witt

Jeanne Gerlach

Dan Himarios

George C. Wright

Don McConnell

Farhad Kamangar

Carolyn Barros

Chris Morris

Tom Chrzanowski

Sue Beckham

Elizabeth Poster

Kate Gadbury

Khosrow Behbehani

Jamie Rogers

 

Shane Burke

Chris Shook

 

Bill Carroll

Debra Woody

 

Paul Chippindale

Guisette Salazar

 

Richard Cole

 

 

William Dillon

 

 

Greg Frazier

 

 

Bernard Frye

 

 

Kevin Gustafson

 

 

Larry Heath

 

 

Jay Henry

 

 

Santos Hernandez

 

 

Martha LaGess

 

 

Suzanne Miles

 

 

Michael Moore

 

 

Merlynd Nestell

 

 

Pablo Pastrana-Perez

 

 

Karl Petruso

 

 

Becky Pierce

 

 

Zack Prince

 

 

Syed R. Qasim

 

 

Tom Ryan

 

 

Craig Slinkman

 

 

Neal Smatresk

 

 

Patricia Turpin

 

 

Kimberly van Noort

 

 

Lorraine van Waasbergen

 

 

Tom Watts

 

 

Tom Wilding

 

 

Kai Yeung

 

 

Approval of Minutes.  The minutes of the October 9 meeting were approved as distributed. 

 

Report of the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee.  Committee Chair Lynn Peterson presented the following proposals:

 

(1)         The Accounting Department proposed a modification to the Professional Program In Accounting (PPIA).  This would allow more flexibility for students to earn a BS-Accounting degree rather than a BBA-Accounting degree, while still required to complete 152-hours of study.  The Assembly approved this proposal.

 

(2)         Civil and Environmental Engineering proposed to change CE 2312, Statics and Dynamics, which was approved by the Assembly.

 

(3)         College of Liberal Arts proposed a new dual language degree program, Bachelor of Arts in Modern Languages, which would allow students to earn a degree in two languages.  This new program was approved.

 

The following additions and changes were also approved for the College of Liberal Arts:

Art and Art History

Change in catalog text to include information about a teacher certification option.

ADD: ART 3322  Presentation Design

     ART 3359  Media methods

     ART 4365  Planning for Multimedia

 

Communication

ADD: COMM 4395 Professional Internship

 

Criminology and Criminal Justice

Change in catalog text to correct current catalog errors.

 

English

ADD: ENGL 4366 Young Adult Literature

CHANGE:   ENGL 3375 Creative Writing

          ENGL 4330 Advanced Creative Writing

 

Modern Languages

ADD: FREN 4325 Topics in 18th Century French Studies

     FREN 4393 Internship

     GERM 4393 Internship

     RUSS 4393 Internship

     SPAN 4393 Internship

 

Sociology and Anthropology

CHANGE:   ANTH 4358 Topics in Archaeology

(4)         The following Honors College proposals were approved by the Assembly:

Change catalog text to clarify further how credit hours earned in the Honors American Studies sequence fulfill core requirements.

ADD: HONR 3103/3203/3303 Independent Study

 

(5)         The College of Science proposal to add the following courses was approved.

Chemistry

1441    General Chemistry I

1442    General Chemistry II

3311    Teaching Chemical Concepts I

3312    Teaching Chemical Concepts II

3313    Teaching Chemical Concepts III

3314    Teaching Chemical Concepts IV

 

Geology

4370    Earth Systems I

4371    Earth Systems II

4372    Earth Resources and the Environment

4373    Earth Science Field Methods

4375         Lab Methods and Techniques

 

Psychology

4354    Adolescent Development and Behavior

4357    Social Behavior and Personality

4358    Basic Cognitive Processes

4360 Experimental Psychology: Research Methodology

 

     Science

3301    Integrated Physics and Chemistry: Physics

3302    Integrated Physics and Chemistry: Chemistry

3303    Geology, Meteorology & Oceanography

3304    Astronomy

3305    Environmental Systems

4192, 4292, 4392   Selected Topics in Science

 

Report of the Academic Standards Committee.  Committee Chair David Gray presented a proposal to revise the admission requirement for undergraduate transfer students to the following wording:  “Applicants who have completed 30 or more hours of transferable credit must have at least a 2.0 cumulative grade point average or a 2.0 grade point average on the most recently completed 30 semester hours (including all grades in the semester containing the 30th SCH).”  After discussion confirming that probationary students who obtain transfer hours will remain on probation, the Assembly approved this revision.

 

Remarks by the President.  President Witt stated that we are near finalizing the scope of our construction activity.  As publicized, we have received $16.6 million in tuition revenue bonds and $13 million in PUF funding authority.  We are in the process of determining the extent to which we will issue our own revenue bonds.  What this pool of resources, we will be going forward with the new Science building, the annex to accommodate several of the fine arts programs, a major renovation of space left by these fine arts programs, and possibly some renovation work in at least one of the old science buildings.   The President also explained that we are planning with an agency to coordinate our advertising efforts, which would substantially reduce our advertising costs as well as bring our promotion materials to a higher level.  We will continue to advertise in U.S. News and World Report, Time and Newsweek for the coming year.  We will develop a communications plan that will allow us to increase efficiency and effectiveness. 

  

Adjournment.  The meeting adjourned at 2:35 p.m.

 

 

 

Zack Prince

Secretary

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