Undergraduate Curriculum Committee

Minutes for 1/13/04

Meeting Attendees:

Joe Fadyn, MATH Al Churella, SIS

Daren Wilcox, ECET Jack Duff for M. Beach, BCD

Mary McShane Vaughn, IET Dave Pierce, CNST

Ron Schroeder, CSE Barbara Bernal Thomas, SWE

Tom Wiseman, HTC

Ex-officio:

Alan Gabriella, A&S Dave Cline, Registrar’s Office

This was a special called meeting to discuss the UCC P&P.

Agenda Item 1. P&P203.03 was discussed, changed, and voted. Passed

Southern Polytechnic State University P & P No.: 203.03

Policy and Procedure Manual Date: November1987

Revised: January 2004

Undergraduate Curriculum Committee

This section describes the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (UCC), as set forth in the statutes (VI.A.2.a). The Undergraduate Curriculum Committee is one of the standing committees of the faculty.

Composition of the Committee

The Undergraduate Curriculum Committee shall consist of one Faculty member elected by each academic department prior to the end of spring quarter. Members shall serve a two-year term with one-half of the members' terms expiring each year. The Deans of schools, the Registrar, and the Director of the Library are non-voting, ex-officio members. The chairperson is elected by the committee. He or she calls meetings as needed, but no less than once per academic semester.

Responsibility of the Committee

The Undergraduate Curriculum Committee receives, reviews, and makes recommendations to the faculty, on requests for curriculum modifications to existing undergraduate programs or curricula for new undergraduate programs. The committee also receives petitions from undergraduate students seeking exceptions to the curriculum requirements for graduation. Recommendations of the committee are subject to the approval of the Faculty.

Information Flow to and from the Committee

A. Requests Concerning Curriculum

1. Department Chairs submit requests for changes to existing courses or programs or proposals for new courses to the Dean of their school, following the guidelines established by the UCC. The request form can be found at http://X(to be determined).

2. The Dean will forward the request to the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee with his or her recommendation.

3. The UCC Chair or Secretary receives the request and forwards individual copies of the request to the UCC members, Deans, Department Chairs, and Administrators prior to the UCC meeting.

4. The committee may consider the matter during its regularly scheduled meeting each semester or call a special meeting to address the request.

5. The secretary of the committee issues minutes describing its recommendations, which are reviewed by the Vice President for Academic Affairs.

B. Student Petitions

1. Students use a form which they obtain from the Registrar's Office to petition a change or exception in curriculum requirements.

2. The form must be signed by the department chair in the student's major.

3. Recommendations concerning student petitions are included in the school committee's minutes which are approved by the faculty.

4. The student receives one copy of the form indicating the committee's recommendation, and another copy is sent to the student's major department for placement in his or her file.

Agenda Item 2. Change prerequisite for Organic I from Biology, Chem, & Physics Passed

Agenda Item 3. A revised 2 page UCC submission form was discussed and adopted.

Respectfully submitted,

Barbara Bernal Thomas

SWE Dept./ UCC Secretary