September 8, 2026 – Academic Program and Curriculum Committee – Agenda

Time: Tuesday at 8:00 a.m.
Location: Lubar N116

I. Call to order

II. Announcements

1. Committee Reports

2. GER Subcommittee

3. Undergraduate program review schedule (PDF)

4. APCC 2025-2026 Annual Report (PDF)

1. Approval of the meeting minutes from May 12, 2026 (PDF).

2. Curricular changes – Review in CourseLeaf

a. New Courses (▪ Requesting GER; * Lab Designation)

  • ▪ BUS ADM 220            AI for Everyone: Thinking and Working with Artificial Intelligence
  • COMPSCI 309               Network and Web Security
  • INFOST 581                     Software Engineering Principles

b. Changed Courses (▪ Requesting GER; * Lab Designation)

  • ▪ JAPAN 110                    Japanese Popular Culture
  • ▪ LINGUIS 105               Linguistic Approaches to AI Literacy              

c. Items Approved Over the Summer

i. Courses
  • ACTSCI 567                     Actuarial Statistics II
  • ARCH 326                        Energy Design Fundamentals
  • ARCH 380                        Drawing in Architecture
  • ARCH 521                        Environmental Systems: Resources-Fluid Distribution Systems
  • ARCH 522                        Environmental Systems: Lighting and Acoustical Design
  • ARCH 534                        Field Study: (subtitle)
  • ARCH 550                        Seminar in Building Types and Settings
  • ARCH 551                        American Vernacular Architecture
  • ARCH 553                        Vernacular Buildings and Groupings
  • ARCH 580                        Graphic Techniques for Architects
  • ARCH 583                        Emerging Digital Technology: (subtitle)
  • ARCH 584                        Urban Landscape Architecture
  • ARCH 587                        Post-Occupancy Evaluation of Built Environments
  • ATRAIN 212                     Athletic Training Clinical Observation
  • COMPLIT 192                 First-Year Seminar: (subtitle)
  • COMPLIT 293                 Literature and Science: (subtitle)
  • COMPLIT 320                 Mediaeval Literature and Culture: (subtitle)
  • COMPLIT 321                 Renaissance Literature and Culture: (subtitle)
  • COMPLIT 363/
  •      CHINESE 363           Chinese Literature in the Global Context: (subtitle)
  • COMPLIT 449                 Modern and Contemporary Drama
  • COMPLIT 463                 Literary Criticism: Major Authors
  • COMPLIT 464                 Seminar in Comparative Literary Criticism: (subtitle)
  • COMPLIT 504                 Seminar in the Novel: (subtitle)
  • FRENCH 450                  Institutions and Culture of Contemporary France
  • FRENCH 510                  Seminar on Masterpieces of Literature in Written French: (subtitle)
  • HEBREW 301                 Fifth Semester Hebrew
  • HEBREW 302                 Sixth Semester Hebrew
  • MUSIC 457                      Opera Theatre
  • MUSIC 465                      Steel Band
  • NURS 431                        Health and Illness Concepts 3 – Lifespan: Maternal-Infant & Pediatric Nursing
  • NURS 477                        Health and Illness Concepts 4 – Complex Care
  • PORTUGS 110               Accelerated Portuguese I
ii. Programs
  • Asian Studies, Undergraduate Certificate
  • Committee Interdisciplinary Major, BA/BS (Inactivation)
  • Criminal Justice and Criminology, BS
  • Enterprise Resource Planning, Undergraduate Certificate
  • Nursing, BS
  • Nursing, RN to BS Program

IV. New Business

1. Elect Co-Chair

2. Human Resources Management and Analytics, Graduate Certificate (PDF)

3. Revise GER Implementation Document

4. Addendum to GER Language in Catalog

General Education

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has implemented the new General Education Requirements below effective Fall 2026. Continuing students completing General Education Requirements as effective prior to Fall 2026 may satisfy the OWC-A through three earned credits in English 102 or through other means previously published; a grade of C or higher is no longer required.

5. Undergraduate Program Review – Urban Studies (PDF)

6. Elementary and Middle Education, BS – Reduced Credit (PDF)

V. Adjournment