Undergraduate Studies Committee

Tuesday, November 9, 2021

12:45 p.m.  In-Person (PS 129) and On-line via Zoom Platform

Meeting Minutes

Voting Members Attending In-Person: J. Twombly (SSB), F. Weening (AMAT), R. Trygstad (ITM), Y. Lin (BIOL), K. Kawagi (BME, for Papivasiliou).

Voting Members Attending via Zoom:  C. Wetzel (ARCH), B. Glavic (CS), E. Oruklu (ECE), M. Vural (MMAE), V. Perez-Luna (CHBE), N. Legate (PSYC), D. Gidalevitz (PHYS), E. Hazard (HUM), K. Leight (CHEM), S. Kleps (CAEE), K. Krishnamurthy (FDSN), R. Klaszky (ROTC).

Also Attending In-Person: S. Okhai (LCSL), G. Pulliam (CAC).

Also Attending via Zoom:  M. Haynes (UGAA), K. Hawkins (AMP), Z. Robinson (Academic Success), K. Cassel (ACE), P. Houser (INTM), J. Gorzkowski (UGAA), N. Menhart (BIOL/VP Accreditation), N. Novak (Libraries), C. Himes (LCSL).

Departments with absent voting members: SSCI, SGA.

Documents for this meeting are available at: <https://www5.iit.edu/~ugsc/documents/2021-2022/>.

Meeting chaired by Kathryn Spink.

Minutes recorded by Greg Pulliam.

Quorum declared at 12:49 p.m. 

Adjourn at: 1:33 p.m.

1. Approval of the minutes for October 26:  The minutes were approved by unanimous consent.

2.  Dual Degree Proposal: BS CIS/BS BA and Sample Curriculum. [Glavic/Twombly] This item will be voted on 11/23.

3.  Update to core learning objectives and assessment plans for Spring 2022 [CCAC/Menhart]. The UGSC amended Social Science (S) learning objective #3, and Natural Science objective #2, in each case replacing “Students will be able to think critically” with “Students will demonstrate critical thinking”. Approved as amended by unanimous consent.

4.  MMAE curriculum changes [Vural]. Accepted as information item.

5.  Changes to Digital Humanities curriculum [Pulliam]. UGSC approved the changes as significant change by unanimous consent. This means UFC will post the changes for faculty comment for 30 days.

6.  Changes to BME curriculum [Kawaji]. The BME department rescinded its changes to the Cell & Tissue Track due to the MMAE changes which came through at this meeting. The department will reconsider and revise those changes and bring them back to the UGSC at a later date. The other changes were accepted as an information item.

7.  Proposed form for periodic review of academic programs [Spink]. The UGSC discussed the form, and will continue to discuss and get feedback on the form before finalizing it.

Adjourn.