Agenda

Third Meeting of the First Session of the Texas A&M University Faculty Advisory Council

 

3 pm CT | Nov. 9, 2026
The October Faculty Advisory Council meeting will be held in 601 Rudder and via Zoom.
Zoom link will be sent directly to Senators and Selected Guests
 
The meeting is livestreamed to the university community and the public via the FAC YouTube.

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CALL TO ORDER

OPENING REMARKS

MINUTES

Oct. 12, 2026 – Attachment A

CHAIR REMARKS

CONSENT AGENDA

Graduate Council

• New Courses

  • B1 BUSH 637: Quantitative Methods for International Affairs I

  • B2 LAW 670: Professional Responsibility for Nonlawyers

• Change in Courses

  • B3 BESL 612: Content Area Instruction for Bilingual Programs (revised title, course description, and CLOs added)

  • B4 BUAD 651: Contemporary Business Topics (adding NTFD and CLOs added)

  • B5 PHAR 769: Leading Change in Pharmacy (revised course description, prerequisites and CLOs added)

• Course Inactivation
  • B6 ISTM 612: Management Information Systems
  • B7 ISTM 670: Capstone Information Systems Service Project
  • B8 SCMT 601: Doctoral Seminar in Operations and Supply Chain Management
  • B9 SCMT 661: Operations Strategy
  • B10 SCMT 670: Service Operations Models
  • B11 VMID 922: Clinical Correlates IV
  • B12 VMID 926: Diagnostic Imaging Interpretation II
  • B13 VMID 936: Surgery II
  • B14 VMID 943: Veterinary Practice: Legal, Ethical and Managerial
  • B15 VMID 953: Clinics II
  • B16 VMID 963: Veterinary Anesthesia II

uNDERGraduate CURRICULUM cOMMITTEE

• New Courses
  • B17 ITAL 458: Italian Food Culture
  • B18 KINE 470: Professional Development in Exercise Physiology

• Change in Courses
  • B19 ACCT 229: Fundamentals of Accounting (revised title, course description change, adding Galveston NTFD and NTFO, and CLOs added)
  • B20 ACCT 329: Cost Management and Analysis (adding NTFO and CLOs added)
  • B21 ACCT 407: Auditing (revised course description, prerequisites, adding NTFO and NTFD, and CLOs added)
  • B22 FINC 351: Investment Analysis (revised prerequisites and CLOs added)
  • B23 HIST 464: International Developments Since 1918 (study abroad course adding NTFD and CLOs added)
  • B24 ISTM 210: Fundamentals of Information Systems (revised course description, prerequisites, adding Galveston and CLOs added)
  • B25 ITAL 303: Advanced Italian - Italian for the Professions (revised title, course description and CLOs added)
  • B26 KINE 213: Foundations of Kinesiology (revised course description and CLOs added)
  • B27 KINE 406: Motor Learning and Skill Performance (revised prerequisites, removing NTFD and CLOs added)
  • B28 MGMT 204: Discover Consulting (revised prefix from BUSN to MGMT – changing from the Department of Business to the Department of Management and CLOs added)
  • B29 MGMT 405: Consulting Interview Preparation (revised prerequisites and prefix from BUSN to MGMT – changing from the Department of Business to the Department of Management and CLOs added)
  • B30 MKTG 321: Marketing (revised prerequisites and CLOs added)
  • B31 MKTG 323: Marketing Research (revised prerequisites and CLOs added)
  • B32 MKTG 326: Retail Customer Experience (revised title, course description, and CLOs added)
  • B33 MKTG 347: Advertising Strategy (revised title, course description, and CLOs added)
  • B34 PBSI 332: Neuroscience of Learning and Memory (adding NTFO and CLOs added)
  • B35 PBSI 333: Biology of Psychological Disorders (adding NTFO and CLOs added)
  • B36 PBSI 350: Cognitive Neuroscience (adding NFTO and CLOs added)
  • B37 PBSI 353: Personnel Psychology (adding NFTO and CLOs added)
  • B38 PHYS 328: Experimental Physics II (revised course description, prerequisites, and CLOs added)
  • B39 SCMT 281: Supply Chain Management Professional Development (revised prerequisites and CLOs added)
  • B40 SCMT 305: Forecasting and the Statistical Foundation of Business Analytics (revised prerequisites and CLOs added)
  • B41 SCMT 335: Sourcing and Procurement (revised course description, prerequisites and CLOs added)
  • B42 SCMT 336: Data Analytics with Optimization (adding Galveston, revised prerequisites and CLOs added)
  • B43 SCMT 345: Business Process Design (revised prerequisites and CLOs added)
  • B44 SCMT 361: Operations Planning and Control (revised prerequisites and CLOs added)
  • B45 SCMT 364: Operations Management (adding Galveston, revised prerequisites and CLOs added)
  • B46 SCMT 465: Information Technology for Supply Chain Management (revised prerequisites and CLOs added)
  • B47 SCMT 481: Seminar (revised prerequisites and CLOs added)
  • B48 SOCI 320: Demographic Methods (adding Galveston, revised prerequisites, and CLOs added)
  • B49 SOCI 321: Qualitative Methods (course level change from 229 to 321, revised prerequisites and CLOs added)
  • B50 SOCI 331: Quantitative Methods in Sociology (course level change from 420 to 331, revised title and CLOs added)

• Course Inactivation

  • B51 BUSN 232: Resource Development

  • B52 BUSN 302: Nonprofit Perspectives

  • B53 EHRD 325: Human Capital Acquisition, Management, and Development

  • B54 ISTM 420: Web-Enabled Applications

  • B55 ISTM 473: Energy Industry Transition

  • B56 ISTM 474: Legal Issues in Supply Chain and IT

  • B57 ISTM 482: Data Analytics Platforms

  • B58 MKTG 427: Retail Capstone

  • B59 MKTG 437: Sales Analytics

  • B60 MKTG 445: Account Planning and Research

  • B61 MKTG 447: Advanced Advertising: Case Competition

  • B62 SCMT 309: Supply Chain Management Principles

• Change in Programs
  College of Arts & Sciences, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences – No external action
  • B63 BA-PSYC: Psychology - BA (revised program requirements)
• Change in Programs
  College of Arts & Sciences, Department of Sociology – No external action
  • B64 BA-SOCI: Sociology - BA (revised program requirements)
• Change in Programs
  College of Education & Human Development, Department of Kinesiology & Sport Management – No external action
  • B65 BS-KINE-AEP: Kinesiology - BS, Exercise Science Track, Applied Exercise Physiology Concentration(revised program requirements)
• Change in Programs
  College of Arts & Sciences, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences – No external action
  • B66 BS-PSYC: Psychology - BS (revised program requirements)
• Change in Programs
  College of Arts & Sciences, Department of Sociology – No external action
  • B67 BS-SOCI: Sociology - BS (revised program requirements)
• Change in Programs
  Mays Business School, Department of Management – No external action
  • B68 CERT-MCON: Management Consulting - Certificate (revised program requirements) 

• Program Inactivation Proposal
  College of Arts & Sciences – External Action Required: The relocation of BS-ENST will be submitted to THECB.

  • B69 BS-ENST-AT: Environmental Studies - BS (The overall Environmental Studies (ENST) program will continue and is being administratively moved from Interdisciplinary to the Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology (PLPM) in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences)

UCC AND GPC PROGRAMS

• Change in Programs
  College of Arts & Sciences, Department of Mathematics – No external action
  • B70 BS-MATH/MS-MATH-FTR: Mathematics - 5-Year Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Mathematics (revised program requirements)

END OF CONSENT AGENDA

NEW BUSINESS

FALL 2026 DEGREE CANDIDATE COUNT - ATTACHMENT

• TAMU Main Campus – details coming soon
  (Includes: AG, AR, AT, GB, BA, ED, EN, PV, VM)

• TAMU Galveston - details coming soon
  (Includes: MM)                                                             

• TAMU Qatar - details coming soon                                                                  

• TAMU Law - details coming soon                                                                    

• TAMU Health Science Center - details coming soon
  (Includes: DN, MD, NU, CP, PH)

• Total Degree Candidates for Fall 2026 - details coming soon

INFORMATIONAL ITEMS

COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE

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