Academic Program Changes Approved by the UAPC, July 2001 through June 2002

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 Doctor of Audiology in the Communicative Disorders department.  

Authorization to Implement

Ratified the Graduate Faculty Executive Committee's approval of an authorization to implement a Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition (an inter-departmental program in the College of Letters and Science). 

Joint Review

Ratified the Graduate Faculty Executive Committee's approval of the joint review and continuation of the M.S. and Ph.D. program in Geological Engineering, College of Engineering.  

Phased-out

Discontinued the undergraduate major History of Culture (History Department, Letters and Science).

Discontinued the undergraduate major “Dietetics” in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences and associated the CALS degree “BS-Dietetics” with the major “Nutritional Sciences”.  

Discontinued the MS in Recreation Resources Management (CALS).

Renamed/Restructured

Ratified the Graduate Faculty Executive Committee's approval of renaming the M.S. and Ph.D. in Environmental Toxicology to Molecular and Environmental Toxicology. 

Ratified the Graduate Faculty Executive Committee's approval of renaming the M.S. and Ph.D. in Oncology to Cancer Biology

Options, Minors, and Honors Programs

New

Renamed/Restructured

Phased-out

Certificates

Established

Renamed/Restructured

Awarded Artist Certificate in Music, corrected so that it is available to special students only (not to graduate and undergraduate students as allowed in the original approval), in Letters and Science.

Phased-out

Awarded Certificate in Library and Information Studies at the Undergraduate Level, an undergraduate certificate in Letters and Science.

Awarded Certificate in Public Service History, a graduate-level certificate program in Letters and Science. 

Advanced Professional Development Program in Educational Psychology - Individual Differences in Classroom Learning Completed, a graduate-level certificate program in the School of Education. 

Advanced Professional Development Program in Educational Psychology - Gifted, Talented, and Creative Education Completed, a graduate-level certificate program in the School of Education. 

Awarded Certificate in Agriculture, Technology and Society (CALS). 

Awarded Certificate in International Agriculture (undergraduate certificate program in CALS).

Articulation Agreements

Established an articulation agreement between Madison Area Technical College's Biotechnology program and the undergraduate degree programs in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (Natural Sciences, Agricultural Sciences, Natural Resources, International Agriculture and Natural Resources).

Discontinued the 1992 articulation agreement between the UW-Madison School of Nursing and the Madison-Area Technical College program in Nursing. 

Academic Departments and Programs

Established

Department of Dermatology, Medical School (formerly a division of the Department of Medicine).

Renamed/Restructured

Environmental Toxicology Center renamed Molecular and Environmental Toxicology Center (CALS). 

History of Medicine Department renamed Department of Medical History and Bioethics, Medical School.  

Phased-out

Timetable Departments/Listings

Established

Endocrinology-Reproductive Physiology

Legal Studies 

Neurological Surgery 

Renamed/Restructured

History of Medicine renamed Medical History and Bioethics (Medical School).

Environmental Toxicology Center renamed Molecular and Environmental Toxicology Center (CALS). 

Phased-out

Centers and Institutes

Established

Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures in the College of Letters and Science.  

Center for European Studies in the College of Letters and Science.  

Remington Center in the Law School (previously existing center missed in original grand-fathering exercise).

Resource Center on Impaired Driving in the Law School (previously existing center missed in original grand-fathering exercise).

Great Lakes Indian Law Center in the Law School (previously existing center missed in original grand-fathering exercise).

Mandelbaum Eye Research Institute, to be housed in Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Medical School. 

Wisconsin Transportation Center, in the College of Engineering. 

Polymer Engineering Center, in the College of Engineering. 

Center for Interdisciplinary French Studies in the College of Letters and Science.

European Union Center, College of Letters and Science.

Center for German European Studies, College of Letters and Science.

Renamed/Restructured

Phased-out

 [Office of Academic Planning and Analysis] 
[UW System Administration]
Updated  May 22, 2002, Jocelyn Milner

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