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Undergraduate Council (UgC)

Committee Charge

The Undergraduate Council makes policy for undergraduate education at UCLA; recommends to the Legislative Assembly undergraduate programs leading to new degrees; authorizes, supervises and regulates all undergraduate courses and programs of instruction and preparatory education; periodically reviews and evaluates all undergraduate programs of study and all programs of preparatory education in conjunction with the Graduate Council; and sets standards for honors and recommends procedures for awards of undergraduate scholarships. For information on undergraduate course or program approval, please refer to the "Guide to Undergraduate Course and Program Approval." For a general understanding for the routing process for evaluating proposals, please see "Procedural Manual for the Review of Proposals for Academic Programs And Units." Procedures and guidelines are available upon request.

Course Action Request Forms are submitted on-line via the Course Inventory Management System (CIMS).

CIMS is designed to be used by staff and faculty to manage the approval process for UCLA courses. To use CIMS, you must have a BOL or AIS account. The application is designed to be used with the Internet Explorer browser. For questions or assistance, call the Registrar’s Office at 67045 or 64055.

Membership

The Council consists of 26 members: 21 appointed members with vote and 5 ex-officio members without vote as follows - the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, the Director of the Office of Instructional Development, the Chair and Vice Chair of the Committee on Undergraduate Admissions and Relations with Schools, and the Chair of the General Education Governance Committee. In addition, there are four undergraduate student representatives and two graduate student representatives, appointed in accordance with Bylaw 45. The Chair and Vice Chair are designated by the Committee on Committees.

Also, please refer to relevant Appendices.

Council Members (2012-2013 AY)

2012-13 UNDERGRADUATE COUNCIL MEMBERSHIP
	Troy Carter - CHAIR Physics and Astronomy 2009-2013	Ellen Carpenter - VICE CHAIR Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences 2010-2013
	David Aboody Management 2012-2015	Hal Ackerman Film, Television, and Digital Media 2010-2013
	Priyanga Amarasekare Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 2011-2014	Aaron Blaisdell Psychology 2010-2013
	Michael Cooperson Near Eastern Languages and Cultures 2010-2013	Leobardo Estrada Urban Planning 2010-2013
	Eric Gans French and Francophone Studies 2012-2015	David Glanzman Integrative Biology and Physiology 2011-2014
	James Gober Chemistry and Biochemistry 2012-2015	Katherine King Comparative Literature / Classics 2012-2015
	Elisabeth Le Guin Musicology 2011-2014	Vasilios Manousiouthakis Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 2010-2013
	John McCumber Germanic Languages 2010-2013	Kathleen McGarry Economics 2011-2014
	Igor Pak Mathematics 2012-2015	Caroline Streeter English 2011-2014
	Mariko Tamanoi Anthropology 2012-2015	Elissa Tognozzi Italian 2012-2015
	Jason C.S. Woo Electrical Engineering 2011-2014
STUDENT REPRESENTATIVES
	Kelsey Orens USAC Representative Political Science	Gabriel Sanchez USAC Representative Asian American Studies, Education (Minor)
	Tlaloc Vasquez USAC Representative IDS and Chicana/o Studies, Education (Minor)	Ramanveer Virk USAC Representative Anthropology
	Micah Akuezue GSA Representative Political Science	Andrew Pollard GSA Representative Civil and Environmental Engineering
EX OFFICIO MEMBERS
	Patricia Turner Dean/Vice Provost, Undergraduate Education	Scott Chandler Chair General Education Governance Committee
	Robert Gurval Vice Chair CUARS	Larry Loeher Associate Vice Provost/Director Office of Instructional Development
	Dorothy Wiley Chair CUARS
SENATE STAFF
	Melissa Spagnuolo Council Analyst Academic Senate	Jennifer Caulfield Council Assistant Academic Senate

Chair: Troy Carter, Physicis & Astronomy, 310-825-4770, tcarter@physics.ucla.edu

Senate staff contact: Melissa Spagnuolo, Principal Policy Analyst, 310-825-1194, mspagnuolo@senate.ucla.edu

Subcommittees

The Council has four main policy subcommittees: the Committee on Admissions, the Committee on Curriculum, Committee on Honors, Awards and Prizes, and the Committee on Student Development. In addition, there is an Administrative Committee of the Council.

Committee on Admissions: The Committee on Admissions meets with the Committee on Undergraduate Admissions and Relations with Schools (CUARS) to determine standards and criteria for undergraduate admission in accordance with the provisions of SBL 311.C.1; and monitors campus procedures for recruitment, outreach, and informational services to schools.
Committee on Curriculum: By delegation from the Undergraduate Council, the committee holds course approval authority. It will review proposals for majors, minors, concentrations, and other undergraduate initiatives before sending them to the Council for action. In the areas of innovative education, it will work with Faculty Executive Committees (FECs), with the Office of Instructional Development (OID) and its oversight committee, and with the Office of the Provost and other relevant entities.
Committee on Honors, Awards and Prizes: The Committee is responsible for the development of awards policy to further the aims of undergraduate education. The Honors, Awards and Prizes Committee will select the Regents Scholarships, the President’s Undergraduate Fellowship (PUF’s), the Teague-Melville-Elliot Prizes, and will interview candidates for other scholarships such as the Wal-Mart scholarship or Women in Communication Award.
Committee on Student Welfare: The Committee develops strategies and policies to improve and enrich student intellectual and academic life and foster a sense of academic community at UCLA. The focus is on undergraduate life outside the classroom and on developing connections between course work and extracurricular activity and between life on campus and in the community.
Administrative Committee: Consisting of the UgC Council Chair and Vice-Chair, the subcommittee chairs and co-chairs, and the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, previews the program review reports submitted by review teams and establishes the agenda for Council meetings.

Meeting Schedule 2012-2013
Day	Date	Time	Location
Friday	October 5, 2012*	2:00pm - 4:00pm	Downstairs Room, Faculty Center
Friday	October 19, 2012	2:00pm - 4:00pm	2121 Murphy
Friday	November 2, 2012	2:00pm - 4:00pm	2121 Murphy
Friday	November 16, 2012	2:00pm - 4:00pm	2121 Murphy
Friday	December 7, 2012	2:00pm - 4:00pm	2121 Murphy
Friday	January 11, 2013	2:00pm - 4:00pm	2121 Murphy
Friday	January 25, 2013	2:00pm - 4:00pm	2121 Murphy
Friday	February 8, 2013	2:00pm - 4:00pm	2121 Murphy
Friday	February 22, 2013	2:00pm - 4:00pm	2121 Murphy
Friday	March 8, 2013	2:00pm - 4:00pm	2121 Murphy
Friday	April 5, 2013	2:00pm - 4:00pm	2121 Murphy
Friday	April 19, 2013	2:00pm - 4:00pm	2121 Murphy
Friday	May 03, 2013	2:00pm - 4:00pm	2121 Murphy
Friday	May 18, 2013	2:00pm - 4:00pm	2121 Murphy
Friday	May 31, 2013	2:00pm - 4:00pm	2121 Murphy
Friday	June 7, 2013	2:00pm - 4:00pm	2121 Murphy
Friday	June 14, 2013	12:00pm - 2:00pm	2121 Murphy

*Joint UgC/GC Meeting.

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