Representatives from UNI proposed a change to the 2014-16 Academic Catalog at the Iowa Board of Regents meeting April 23-24. The proposal included the addition of 103 courses and the termination of 55 courses from the school’s current course offerings.

“These proposals may include creating new courses, eliminating courses no longer needed or changing some aspect of existing courses (title, prerequisites, course description, etc.),” said Mike Licari, associate provost of Academic Affairs.

Licari said faculty in each academic department proposes changes to their curricula during the development of each new catalog.

If the changes are approved, an instructional strategist minor would be added to the College of Education, while the performance and training technology masters programs would be closed, Licari said. Overall, 40 courses would be added to the COE and 30 would be dropped.

“Curriculum changes happen because programs may feel like we need to do something differently to maintain currency,” said Dwight Watson, dean of the College of Education, in an interview with the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier.

Six courses would be added to the Liberal Arts Core, including a two-semester set of Cornerstone courses.

The College of Humanities, Arts and Sciences would see 40 new courses and the elimination of 18. Licari said the chemistry minor in teaching and the chemistry-marketing major would be dropped. An interdisciplinary language studies minor in French would be added to the college, as well as a Spanish/English translation minor.

“Before, you could only minor in French studies, as opposed to French languages,” said Emma Thompson, sophomore instrumental music education major. “I’m really excited that I could have this opportunity.”

Licari also said a social welfare minor would be added to the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences.

“All of this is done in the various disciplines so that the curriculum and set of courses offered for students will reflect the state of the art in those disciplines,” Licari said.

The course changes were proposed at the Council Bluffs meeting by outgoing provost Gloria Gibson April 23-24.