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University Course and Programs Committee

Minutes

March 27, 2009

MEMBERS PRESENT:

Voting: Chuck Adams, Juan Balda, Cathy Chick, Bill Curington, Judy Ganson, Donna Graham, Tim Killian, Patricia Koski, Stephen Langsner, Terry Martin

Non-Voting: Karen Vestal and William Warnock

MEMBERS ABSENT:

Voting: Neil Allison, Sarah Busch, Bob Brady, Dawn Farver, Joel Freund, Judy Ganson, Andrew Horowitz, Terry Martin, Suzanne McCray, Betsy Orr, Chuck Rotolo

Non-Voting: Lisa Kulczak, Gary McHenry

GUESTS: None

Stephen Langsner called the meeting to order at 2:39 P.M.

  1. The minutes for the February 27, 2009 meeting were approved.
  2. Course Change Proposals:
    1. Undergraduate and School of Law course change proposals (Tables A & C) were approved without opposition and forwarded for the April 2009 Faculty Senate meeting.
    2. Graduate course change proposals (Table B) were approved without opposition and forwarded for the April 2009 Graduate Council meeting.
  3. Old Business: None
  4. New Business:
    1. Proposed undergraduate program change for the Bumper College of Agricultural, Food & Life Sciences – Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences – PMGT-M – Pest Management Minor (Table One, Attachment 1A) was presented by Donna Graham. The program change requested to change several course requirements. The proposal was approved without opposition and will be forwarded for the April 2009 Faculty Senate meeting.
    2. Proposed undergraduate program change for the Bumper College of Agricultural, Food & Life Sciences – Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Science – WLHA-M – Minor in Wildlife Habitat (Table One, Attachment 1B) was presented by Donna Graham. The program change requested to replace BIOL 480V with BIOL 4734 and increase the total hours required for the minor. The proposal was approved without opposition and will be forwarded for the April 2009 Faculty Senate meeting.
    3. Proposed undergraduate program change for the Bumper College of Agricultural, Food & Life Sciences – Department of Plant Science – PLPA-M– Minor in Plant Pathology (Table One, Attachment 1C) was presented by Donna Graham. The program change requested to add two courses, PLPA 4304 and PLPA 4333, to the minor and several other changes to the required course listing and optional course listings. The proposal was approved without opposition and will be forwarded for the April 2009 Faculty Senate meeting.
    4. Proposed undergraduate program change for the Walton College of Business – Department of Management – GBUSBS – BSBA, General Business (Table Two, Attachment 2A) was presented by Bill Curington. The program change requested to change several course requirements in the areas of Information
      Systems and Accounting. The proposal was approved without opposition and will be forwarded for the April 2009 Faculty Senate meeting.
    5. Proposed undergraduate program change for the Walton College of Business – Department of Management – MGMTBS – BSBA, Management (Table Two, Attachment 2B) was presented by Bill Curington. The program change requested to change several course requirements in the areas of Information
      Systems and Accounting. The proposal was approved without opposition and will be forwarded for the April 2009 Faculty Senate meeting.
    6. Proposed undergraduate program change for the Walton College of Business – Department of Marketing and Logistics – TRNSBS – BSBA, Transportation (Table Two, Attachment 2C) was presented by Bill Curington. The program change requested to change several course requirements in the areas of Information Systems and Accounting. The proposal was approved without opposition and will be forwarded for the April 2009 Faculty Senate meeting.
    7. Proposed graduate program change for the Department of Health Science, Kinesiology, Recreation and Dance – KINSMS – MS, Kinesiology (Table Three, Attachment 3A, Attachment 3B and Attachment 3C) was presented by Steve Langsner. The program change requested to add a new Masters of Athletic Training in order to meet accreditation requirements.  After considerable discussion the program change was tabled until the April UCPC meeting. The main concern was that the committee could not determine what degree was being requested and how the transition from a concentration to the new degree would affect the current students.
    8. Proposed program change for the School of Law – AGLWLM – LLM, Agricultural Law (Table Four, Attachment 4A and Attachment 4B) was presented by Cathy Chick. The program change requested to change the degree name from “Agricultural Law” to Agricultural and Food Law”. The proposal was approved without opposition and will be forwarded for the April 2009 Faculty Senate meeting.
  5. Other Business:

    Steve Langsner announced that a new committee chair would need to be elected at the April UCPC meeting. The new chair’s tenure would begin July 1, 2009.

Meeting was adjourned at 2:54 PM.

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