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TAMU Faculty Senate Meeting Agenda

June 9, 2025

3:00pm, in 601 Rudder and via Zoom (link sent directly to Senators)

https://facultysenate.tamu.edu

Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/@tamufacultysenate4044/streams

CALL TO ORDER

SPEAKER COMMENTS

GUEST SPEAKER

Dr. Claire Katz, Associate Provost for Faculty Advocacy

Ed Pierson, Chief Information Officer and Vice President for Technology Services-Enterprise Application Service

Dr. Juan E. Garza, Associate Vice President of Technology Services -Enterprise Application Service

MINUTES

May 12, 2025 – Minutes – Attachment A

CONSENT AGENDA

Graduate Council –

New Courses

B 1. BMEN 645: Advanced Medical Device Manufacturing

B 2. FSTC 639: Strategic Messaging and Stakeholder Engagement in the Food Industry

B 3. SCSC 612: Professional Development in Agronomy

B 4. TCMT 637: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Technical Managers and Leaders

Change in Courses –

B 5.CSCE 635: AI Robotics

B 6. ECEN 681: Seminar

B 7. FSTC 605: Chemistry of Foods

B 8. VIBS 601: Anatomy

B 9. VTPB 626: Disease Detection, Surveillance and Risk Assessment

New Programs Proposal

None

Change in Programs

College of Engineering

Department of Ocean Engineering

B 10. PHD-OCEN: Doctor of Philosophy in Ocean Engineering

Miscellaneous Program Change Request

Undergraduate Curriculum Committee

New Courses –

B 11. ASCC 105: First Semester Academic Success

B 12. ECON 453: International Macroeconomics

B 13. FSTC 329: Electron Beam and Ionizing Technologies

B 14. HORT 412: Sustainable Organic Horticulture

B 15. ISTM 474: Legal Issues in Supply Chain and IT

B 16. PHIL 420: Comparative Philosophy

Change in Courses –

B 17. ANTH 401: Ice Age Humans in the Americas

B 18. ANTH 436: Ancient Egypt I - The Rise of Egypt

B 19. ANTH 438: Ancient Egypt II - Egypt in Decline

B 20. HMGT 382: Sustainability and Place Management

B 21. MARE 424: Gas Turbine Power Generation

B 22. MKTG 448: Marketing Strategy

B 23. MTDE 380: Seminar Series in Engineering Project Management

B 24. STAT 315: Computational Data Science

Change in Programs

College of Agricultural & Life Sciences

Department of Agricultural Economics

B 25. MINOR-AGBE: Agribusiness Entrepreneurship - Minor

W&C Courses

Courses with C – Certification

None

Courses with C – Recertification

B 26. COSC 441-C: Residential Capstone

B 27. COSC 443-C: Industrial Capstone

B 28. MARS 460-C: Capstone Undergraduate Research Experience I

Courses with W – Certification

None

Courses with W – Recertification

B 29. AGCJ 314-W: Media Writing in Agriculture and Life Sciences II

B 30. AGEC 429-W: Agricultural Policy

B 31. BAEN 480-W: Biological and Agricultural Engineering Design II

B 32. ECON 414-W: Health Economics

B 33. ECON 470-W: Data Science for Economic and Social Issues

B 34. ECON 491-W: Research

B 35. ENGL 303-W: Approaches to English Studies

B 36. ENTO 481-W: Seminar

37. FREN 300-W: Written Communication in the French-Speaking World

B 38. GEOG 476-W: GIS Practicum

B 39. GERM 315-W: Literary Investigations: German Short Fiction

B 40. KINE 435-W: Physiology of Exercise Lab

B 41. PBSI 475-W: Communicating Neuroscience Concepts

B 42. POSC 406-W: Poultry Further Processing

B 43. SPAN 320-W: Introduction to Hispanic Literature

B 44. VIST 339-W: Research Techniques in Visualization

End of Consent Agenda_____________________________

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

COMMITTEE REPORTS

Core Curriculum Council May Report – Attachment C

The Council approved the following courses for core curriculum recertification. We recommend approval of these courses by the Faculty Senate.

The Council approved the following courses for core curriculum recertification. We recommend approval of this course by the Faculty Senate.

Creative Arts

B 45. KINE 210-GE: The Art of Movement

Language, Philosophy, and Culture

B 46. ANTH 205-GE: Peoples and Cultures of the World

B 47. ENGL 202-GE: Environmental Literature

B 48. ENGL 227-GE: American Literature: The Beginnings to Civil War

B 49.ENGL 262-GE: Introduction to Latinx Literary Studies

Life and Physical Sciences

B 50. BIOL 111-GE: Introductory Biology I

B 51. GEOG 213-GE: Planet Earth Lab

Social and Behavioral Sciences

B 52. ARCH 212-GE: Social and Behavioral Factors in Design

B 53. URPN 202-GE: Building Better Cities

The Council approved the following courses for new core curriculum certification. We recommend approval of this course by the Faculty Senate.

Social and Behavioral Sciences

B 54. ATMO 215-GE: Climate risk in the 21st century

B 55. URPN 204-GE: Introduction to U.S. Health System

The Council approved the following courses for Cultural Discourse (CD) or International and Cultural Diversity (ICD) certification. We recommend approval of these courses by the Faculty Senate.

Cultural Diversity (CD)

B 56. URPN 370-CD: Health Systems Planning

International and Cultural Diversity (ICD)

B 57. INTA 261-ICD: Contemporary Issues in the Global South

The Council approved the following course for core curriculum certification as a transfer-only course. This course is part of the state core curriculum. The university is required to accept it as transfer credit if it meets a student’s degree requirements regardless as to whether it is part of Texas A&M University core curriculum or not. Having this course in place facilitates the transfer process and monitoring use of this course at TAMU. We recommend approval of this course by the Faculty Senate.

Life and Physical Sciences

B 58. BIOL 101-GE: Botany

Informational Item: the following courses are being removed from the core curriculum at the request of the instructor(s) and department(s) effective for the Fall 2026 catalog. This does not affect their status as a course, it only removes the core attribute from the course.

Language, Philosophy and Culture

CLAS 221: Intermediate Latin II

Social and Behavioral Sciences

SOCI/WGST 207: Introduction to Gender and Society

NEW BUSINESS

Student Rule – Rule 7.2.2.10– Attendance – Attachment D1

Student Rule – Rule 8.3 – Examinations – Attachment D2

Student Rule – Rule 11 – Distinguished Students – Attachment D3

Student Rule – Rule 24.4.25 – Stalking – Attachment D4

Student Rule – Rule 24.5- Bias-Related Violations -Attachment D5

Student Rule – Rule 57.4.2 and 57.6.3– Undergraduate Academic Appeals Panel – Attachment D6

Student Rule – Rule 57.6.1. – Undergraduate Academic Appeals Panel – Attachment D7

SEM School of Engineering Medicine Department Creation Proposal. – Attachment D8

Summer 2025 Degree Candidate Count – Attachment D9

TAMU Qatar - 11

Master’s 5

Bachelor’s 6

Total Degree Candidates for Summer 2025- Qatar 11

INFORMATIONAL ITEM

Code of Conduct (Discussion only) – Attachment D10

Faculty Senate Awards

Aggie Spirit Award
Richard Stadelmann Award
Walter Daugherity Service Award

COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE

ADJOURN

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