INFORMATION SHEET The following information is provided in connection with recent actions taken by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and reported to your institution in a letter from Rex Peebles dated June 26, 2015. ACTION: UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON On June 26, 2015, the Coordinating Board approved at the staff level the submission from University of Houston in regards to revisions of the Texas Core Curriculum. Changes will be effective beginning in the fall 2015 semester. University of Houston: 2015 Core Curriculum Revision Component I. Course Selection Process: Approved Component IIa. Core Objective Attainment Process: Approved Component IIb. Core Objective Assessment Plan: Approved Comments: Component III. Approved Courses: 010 Communication ENGL 1303 FIRST YEAR WRITING I ENGL 1304 FIRST YEAR WRITING II ENGL 1370 COMPOSITION II-HONORS ENGL 2361 020 Mathematics WESTERN WORLD LIT II--HONORS MATH 1310 COLLEGE ALGEBRA MATH 1311 ELEM/MATHEMATICAL MODELING MATH 1312 INTRO TO MATH REASONING New MATH 1313 FINITE MATH WITH APPLICATIONS New MATH 1314 CALC FOR BUS/LIFE SCIENCES New MATH 1330 PRECALCULUS New MATH 1431 CALCULUS I 4.00 SCH MATH 1450 ACCELERATED CALCULUS 4.00 SCH New MATH 2311 INTRO TO PROB & STATISTICS New 030 Life and Physical Sciences BIOL 1309 HUMAN GENETICS AND SOCIETY BIOL 1310 GENERAL BIOLOGY BIOL 1320 GENERAL BIOLOGY BIOL 1361 INTRO TO BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE BIOL 1362 INTRO TO BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE CHEM 1301 FOUNDATIONS OF CHEM CHEM 1331 FUNDAMENTALS OF CHEMISTRY CHEM 1332 FUNDAMENTALS OF CHEMISTRY
GEOL 1302 INTRO TO GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE GEOL 1330 PHYSICAL GEOLOGY GEOL 1340 EARTH SYSTEMS GEOL 1350 GEOL 1360 INTRODUCTION TO METEOROLOGY INTRODUCTION TO OCEANOGRAPHY GEOL 1376 HISTORICAL GEOLOGY NUTR 2332 INTRO TO HUMAN NUTRITION PHAR 2362 PRINCIPLES OF DRUG ACTION PHYS 1301 INTRO GENERAL PHYSICS I PHYS 1302 INTRO GENERAL PHYSICS II PHYS 1305 INTRO ASTRONOMY-SOL SYS PHYS 1306 INTRO ASTRO-STEL & GAL New PHYS 1321 UNIVERSITY PHYSICS I PHYS 1322 UNIVERSITY PHYSICS II 040 Language, Philosophy and Culture AAS 2320 INTRO TO AFRICAN AMERICAN STDY AAS 2330 BLACK LIBERATION THEOLOGY ARAB 3340 MODERN & RATIONAL IN ISLAM ARTH 1300 ART AND OUR VISUAL WORLD ARTH 1380 ART & SOCIETY: PREHIST-GOTHIC CHNS 3352 CHIN CUL & SOC THRU MOD LIT CHNS 3360 A LOOK INTO MODERN CHINA CLAS 3307 CLAS 3308 GREEK & ROMAN MYTHS OF HEROES MYTHS & CULT OF ANCIENT GODS CLAS 3366 GREEK ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY CLAS 3374 WOMEN IN THE ANCIENT WORLD ENGL 2305 INTRO TO FICTION ENGL 2306 INTRO TO POETRY ENGL 2308 INTRO-NON-FICTION PROSE ENGL 2315 LITERATURE AND FILM New ENGL 2316 LITERATURE AND CULTURE ENGL 2323 LITERATURE AND IDENTITY New ENGL 2325 LIT TRAD OF NONWESTERN WORLD ENGL 2340 COSMIC NARRATIVES ENGL 3306 SHAKESPEARE-MAJOR WORKS ENGL 3324 DEVELOPMNT OF THE NOVEL New ENGL 3325 STRUCTURES OF POETRY ENGL 3327 BRITISH LITERATURE, I New ENGL 3328 BRITISH LITERATURE, II ENGL 3350 AM LIT TO 1865 New
ENGL 3351 AM LIT SINCE 1865 ENGL 3360 SURVEY OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT FREN 3318 HISTORY OF FRENCH CINEMA FREN 3319 HISTORY OF THE FRENCH CINEMA FREN 3321 FRANCOPHONE AFRICAN CINEMA FREN 3322 FRANCOPHONE AFRICAN CINEMA FREN 3362 PARIS AND BERLIN SINCE 1800 FREN 3364 WRITING HOLOCAUSTS GERM 3350 20TH C THRU GERMAN CULTURE GERM 3362 PARIS AND BERLIN SINCE 1800 GERM 3364 WRITING HOLOCAUSTS GERM 3369 WORLD WAR I IN LITERATURE GIS 2364 SOUTH ASIA TO 1600 New HIST 2348 U.S. LATINO/A HISTORIES HIST 2351 WESTERN CIVILIZATION TO 1450 HIST 2353 WESTERN CIVILIZATION FROM 1450 HIST 2361 STUDY OF EARLY CIVILIZATIONS HIST 2364 SOUTH ASIA TO 1600 New HIST 2366 IRAN THROUGH ITS FILMS HIST 2367 EAST ASIAN HISTORY IN FILM New HIST 2368 INTRO TO AFRICAN STUDIES New HIST 2372 HIST 2373 LATIN AMERICAN HIST SINCE 1820 ENVIRONMENT IN LATIN AMERICA New HIST 3379 WORLD CIV TO 1500 HIST 3380 WORLD CIV SINCE 1500 HIST 4330 FLOWERING OF THE MIDDLE AGES HON 2301 HUMAN SITUATION: ANTIQUITY ILAS 2350 INTRODUCTN TO LIBERAL STUDIES ILAS 2360 COSMIC NARRATIVES New ITAL 3305 ITALIAN CULTURE THROUGH FILMS ITAL 3306 ITALIAN CINEMA ITAL 3308 ITALIAN HERITAGE New ITAL 3335 SURVEY OF ITALIAN LITERATURE ITAL 3336 SURVEY ITALIAN LIT IN TRANSL JWST 2380 MAS 3340 INTRODUCTION TO JEWISH STUDIES MEXICAN AMER URBAN COMMUNITIES PHIL 1301 INTRO TO PHILOSOPHY PHIL 1305 INTRO TO ETHICS
POLS 3340 ANCIENT&MED POL THOUGHT POLS 3342 LIBERALSM & ITS CRITICS POLS 3343 DEMOCRATIC THEORY RELS 1301 INTRO TO RELIGIOUS STUDIES RELS 2310 BIBLE AND WESTERN CULTURE I RELS 2311 BIBLE AND WESTERN CULTURE II RELS 2330 JUDAISM SPAN 3331 MEXICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE SPAN 3373 SPANISH CULTURE & CIVILIZATION SPAN 3374 SPAN AMERICAN CULTURE & CIV SPAN 3375 WCL 2351 US HISPANIC CULTURE & CIVILIZA WORLD CULTURES THRU LIT & ARTS WCL 2352 WORLD CINEMA WCL 2370 CULTURES OF INDIA WCL 3351 INTRO LATINO CULTURAL STUDIES New WCL 3377 MODERN MIDDLE EAST WGSS 2350 INTRO TO WOMEN'S STUDIES New WGSS 2360 050 Creative Arts ARCH 2350 INTRODUCTION TO GLBT STUDIES SURVEY OF ARCHITECTURAL HIST I New ARCH 2351 SURVEY OF ARCH HISTORY II ARTH 1381 CLAS 3345 ART & SOC: RENAISS TO MODERN MYTH&PERFORMANCE IN GREEK TRAG CLAS 3381 FROM HOMER TO HOLLYWOOD DAN 2307 AESTHETICS OF MOVEMENT New DAN 3310 DANCE HISTORY I New ENGL 2307 INTRO TO DRAMA ENGL 2318 CREATION AND PERFORM OF LIT GERM 3363 THEMES IN GERMAN DRAMA GERM 3381 GERMAN CINEMA GERM 3384 FASCISM AND GERMAN CINEMA GERM 3385 EAST GERMAN CINEMA HIST 4371 LATIN AMERICAN HIST THRU FILM INDS 2355 DESIGN HISTORY I INDS 2356 DESIGN HISTORY II MUSI 2302 LISTENING TO JAZZ MUSI 2342 MUSIC FOR CHILDREN MUSI 2362 HISTORY OF MUSIC I New MUSI 3300 LISTENING TO MUSIC MASTERWORKS
MUSI 3301 LISTENING TO WORLD MUSIC PHIL 1361 PHILOSOPHY AND THE ARTS POLS 2346 POLITICS OF GREK THEATER SPAN 3386 SPANISH CULTURE THROUGH FILM THEA 1331 INTRODUCTION TO THEATRE THEA 1332 FUNDAMENTALS OF THEATRE WCL 3366 060 American History LATIN AMERICAN AND LATINO FILM New HIST 1376 THE UNITED STATES TO 1877 HIST 1377 THE U S TO 1877 HIST 1378 THE U S SINCE 1877 HIST 1379 THE UNITED STATES SINCE 1877 070 Government/Political Science POLS 1107 FEDERAL AND TEXAS CONSTITUTION 1.00 SCH POLS 1336 US AND TEXAS CONST/POLITICS POLS 1337 POLS 2336 US GOVT: CONGRESS,PRES & CRTS US/TX CONST, POLITICS & INSTNS 080 Social and Behavioral Sciences ANTH 1300 INTRO ANTHROPOLOGY ANTH 2301 INTRO-PHYSICAL ANTH ANTH 2302 INTRO TO CULTURAL ANTH ANTH 2303 INTRO TO ARCHAEOLOGY CUST 2300 INTRO ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES ECON 2301 GLOBAL ECONOMIC CONCEPTS ECON 2304 MICROECONOMIC PRINCIPLES ECON 2305 MACROECONOMIC PRINCIPLES ECON 3332 INTERMED MICROECONOMICS HDFS 2317 HUMAN DEV AND INTERVENTIONS New HRMA 2365 TOURISM KIN 1304 PUBLIC HLT ISSUES IN PHYS/OBES POLS 3311 INTRO COMPAR POLITICS POLS 3354 LAW AND SOCIETY PSYC 1300 INTRO TO PSYCHOLOGY PSYC 2350 CHILD DEVELOPMENT PSYC 2351 PSYCHOLOGY OF ADOLESCENCE SOC 1300 INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY SOC 1301 HONORS INTRO TO SOCIOLOGY TECH 1313 090 Component Area Option IMPACT MODERN TECH. ON SOCIETY
ANTH 2304 INTRO TO LANGUAGE AND CULTURE ANTH 3348 ANTHROPOLOGY OF RELIGION ANTH 3361 HUMAN ORIGINS ANTH 3381 GLOBAL HINDUISM ARAB 3314 WOMEN AND GENDER IN ARABIC LIT ARCH 1359 DESIGN SINCE 1945 ARTH 3312 PRE-COLUMBIAN ART BCHS 4311 BIOCHEMISTRY LAB II BIOL 3311 GENETICS LABORATORY CLAS 4305 FIFTH-CENTURY ATHENS CLAS 4381 LATIN CLASSICS IN TRANSLATION COMM 1302 INTRO TO COMM THEORY COSC 1306 COMPUTER SCIENCE & PROGRAM DAN 2307 AESTHETICS OF MOVEMENT DAN 3310 DANCE HISTORY I ECON 2370 INTRO TO ECON DATA ANALYSIS New ECON 3334 INTERMED MACROECONOMICS ELET 2300 INTRODUCTN TO C++ PROGRAMMING ENGI 2304 TECHNICAL COMMUNICATIONS New ENGL 2330 WRITING DISCIPLINE ENGLISH GENB 4350 BUSINESS LAW AND ETHICS HDCS 1300 HDFS 1300 HIST 3314 HUMAN ECOSYSTEMS & TECH CHANGE DEV OF CONTEMPORARY FAMILIES LIB VS. CONSERV: FDR TO PRESEN HIST 3333 CHICANO HISTORY SINCE 1910 HIST 3351 WORK&FAMILY-MODERN EUR HIST 3369 COLONIAL MEXICO HIST 4339 MOD EUROPEAN INTELLECTUAL HIST HRMA 3358 HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY LAW ITAL 3307 ITALIAN RENAISSANCE ITAL 3309 WOMEN WRITERS & FILMMAKERS ITAL 4308 DANTE AND HIS WORLD LAST 3300 INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES New MATH 1312 INTRO TO MATH REASONING New MATH 1313 FINITE MATH WITH APPLICATIONS New MATH 1314 CALC FOR BUS/LIFE SCIENCES New MATH 1330 PRECALCULUS
MATH 1431 CALCULUS I 4.00 SCH New MATH 1432 CALCULUS II 4.00 SCH MATH 1450 ACCELERATED CALCULUS 4.00 SCH New MATH 1451 ACCELERATED CALCULUS 4.00 SCH New MATH 2311 INTRO TO PROB & STATISTICS MUSI 2301 MUSI 3303 CLASSICAL MUSIC/LASTING VALUE New POP MUSIC OF AMERICAS SN 1840 PHIL 1321 LOGIC I PHIL 1334 INTRO TO THE MIND PHYS 3313 ADVANCED LABORATORY I POLS 2341 RENAISSANCE CLASSICS POLS 3310 INTRO-POLITICAL THEORY POLS 3312 INTRO-RESEARCH METHODS POLS 3316 STATS FOR POLITICAL SCIENTISTS PSYC 2344 CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY PSYC 3301 INTRO PSYCH STATS PSYC 3310 INDSTRL-ORGNZTNL PSY PSYC 4321 ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY RELS 2340 INTRODUCTION TO HINDUISM RELS 2350 INTRODUCTION TO ISLAM RELS 2360 INTRODUCTION TO BUDDHISM RELS 3370 THE BIBLE AND MODERN SCIENCE RELS 3381 GLOBAL HINDUISM SOC 3351 SOC CLASS&MOBILTY IN AM SPAN 3384 INTRO TO HISPANIC LITERATURE TELS 3363 TECHNICAL COMMUNICATIONS THEA 2344 AMERICAN DRAMA TMTH 3360 APP TECH STAT WCL 4351 FRAMES OF MODERNITY I WCL 4352 FRAMES OF MODERNITY II WCL 4356 WORLD FILM AND FILM THEORY WCL 4365 WORLD DOCUMENTARY FILM WCL 4367 VOICES FROM EXILE AND DIASPORA Component III. Denied Courses: The following courses were evaluated and did not align with the description of the Foundational Component Area and/or did not incorporate the appropriate Core Objectives. These courses are not approved and may not be included in your 2015 Core Curriculum: 090 Component Area Option MUSI 2210 THEORY III 2.00 SCH New MUSI 2214 TECHNIQUES OF MUSIC SINCE 1900 2.00 SCH New
Additional Comments: The courses MUSI 2210, Theory III, and MUSI 2214, Techniques of Music since 1900, are not approved because they require the pre-requisite courses MUSI 1310 and 1311, Theory I and II. The courses WGSS 2355, WGSS 2360, ECON 2370, HDFS 2317, and LAST 3300 are flagged as "NEW", but were approved already for the 2014 core curriculum. These courses changed rubric and course number or course title.