Academic Program Changes Approved by the UAPC, July 2000 through June 2001

The University Academic Planning Council considered and recommended these formal academic actions and changes related to academic programs:

Majors and Degrees

Preliminary Entitlement to Plan

Ratified the Graduate Faculty Executive Committee's approval of an entitlement to plan a Master of Arts in Gender and Women's Studies. 

Ratified the Graduate Faculty Executive Committee's approval of an entitlement to plan an MS in Biotechnology. 

Authorization to Implement

Ratified the Graduate Faculty Executive Committee's approval of an authorization to implement a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Creative Writing. 

Approved the authorization to implement an undergraduate major  in Jewish Studies with an option in Jewish Studies: Education (BS or BA degree in Letters & Science).

Approved the authorization to implement an undergraduate major in Religious Studies (BS or BA degree in Letters & Science).

Joint Review

Phased-out

Renamed/Restructured

Approved renaming the undergraduate major in "Behavioral Science and Law" to "Legal Studies".  

Ratified the Graduate Faculty Executive Committee's approval to rename the MS-Agricultural Journalism to MS-Life Sciences Communication (major and degree).  

Ratified the Graduate Faculty Executive Committee's approval to rename the graduate level major in "Water Chemistry" to "Environmental Chemistry and Technology". 

Options, Minors, and Honors Programs

New

Approved the addition to the undergraduate major in Biology of an option in Neurobiology

Approved the addition to the undergraduate major in Music of an option in Theory

Renamed/Restructured

Phased-out

Certificates

Established

Approved the creation of an undergraduate certificate program in Folklore.  

Ratified the Graduate Faculty Executive Committee's approval of a Graduate Certificate in Bioinformatics.  

Ratified the Graduate Faculty Executive Committee's approval of a Capstone Certificate in Bioinformatics.  

Approved the creation of a Certificate in Environmental Law and Policy specifically for Law students.  

Approved the creation of a Certificate in International Law and Business specifically for Law students.  

Ratified the Graduate Faculty Executive Committee's approval of a Capstone Certificate in Fundamentals of Clinical Research.

Ratified the Graduate Faculty Executive Committee's approval of a Capstone Certificate in Laboratory Quality Management.

Renamed/Restructured

Phased-out

Articulation Agreements

Approved the expansion of the School of Nursing articulation agreement with Madison Area Technical College as a program-to-program, system-to-system articulation agreement between the Wisconsin Technical College System's associates degree program in Nursing and the UW System's Collaborative Program in Nursing.

Departments and Programs

Established

Renamed/Restructured

Approved the name change of the Preventive Medicine Department to Population Health Sciences Department.  

Approved a restructuring of departments in the Medical School to create a new department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation formed as a merger of the existing Department of Rehabilitation Medicine and the division of Orthopedic Surgery within the Department of Surgery.  The Master of Physical Therapy program will move from the Department of Surgery to Orthopedics and Rehabilitation.  The Department of Surgery will continue to exist, absent the division of Orthopedic Surgery.  This change is formally a renaming of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine to the Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation. 

Phased-out

Centers and Institutes

Established

Approved the establishment of the of the Center for Urban Population Health, undertaken cooperatively between the Medical School's Milwaukee Clinical Campus and the UW-Milwaukee.  

Approved the establishment of the Center for Communication and Democracy within the School of Journalism and Mass Communications. 

Approved the establishment of the Wisconsin Public Health and Health Policy Institute within the Medical School (Preventive Medicine/Population Health Sciences Department).    

Approved the establishment of the Center for Patient Partnerships within the Law School and with connections to programs in the health sciences.  

Renamed/Restructured

Approved the change in name of the “Wisconsin Institute for Respiratory Research” to the “Dr. David and Sacia Morris Institute for Respiratory Research”. 

Approved the change in name of the "Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in Medicine" to the "Center for the Study of Cultural Diversity in Health Care".

Enzyme Institute moved from the Graduate School to the Department of Biochemistry within the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (UAPC ratified action of the GFEC). 

University-Industry Research Program renamed University-Industry Relations (UAPC ratified previously unrecorded 1994 action of GFEC).

Wisconsin Press added to the center's list; absence was an oversight (UAPC ratified action of the GFEC). 

Phased-out

Developmental Biology Center and the associated Center for Research and Training in Developmental Biology and the Developmental Biology Training Program (UAPC ratified  action of the GFEC). 

Center for Addiction Research and Education, Medical School.

 [Office of Academic Planning and Analysis] 
[UW System Administration]
Updated  June 27, 2001, Jocelyn Milner

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