Publication Notes and Landmarks

Publication Notes and Landmarks for the Fall 2010 - Summer 2011 Base Catalog

DATE	PUBLICATION NOTES AND LANDMARKS
May 11, 2010	Fall 2009 Catalog with Spring 2010 Course Updates captured for creation of archive.
May 27, 2010	Pertaining to The College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics - Mathematics (MATH) course descriptions: the erroneous prerequisite of "BIOL 3306" was removed from the course description for MATH 4320: Introduction to Stochastic Processes.
June 7, 2010	Pertaining to the Academic Calendar: for the future Spring 2011 semester, the Last Day to Add a Class was changed from Monday January 24, 2011 to Tuesday, January 25, 2011.
June 8, 2010	Pertaining to the Academic Calendar: for the future Fall 2010 Semester, the Last Day to Add a Class was changed from Saturday August 28, 2010 to Monday August 30, 2010.
June 10, 2010	Pertaining to the Academic Calendar: graduation application fees were noted as non-refundable throughout the future By-Semester 2010 calendars, as had already been published in the By-Events calendar for Academic Year 2009-2010.
June 15, 2010	Pertaining to the Academic Calendar: for the future Summer 2011 Semesters, the specific clock-time reference was removed from the deadline for Last Day to Add a Class.
July 6 , 2010	Pertaining to the Academic Calendar: for the current Summer 2010, 6 Week - 2nd Session (By-Event Calendar), changed the Last day to add a class from July 7, 2010 Tuesday to July 7, 2010 Wednesday. For current Summer 2010 Semesters, the specific clock-time reference was removed from the deadline for Last Day to Add a Class.
July 21, 2010	Pertaining to the Academic Calendar, future Summer Semester 2011: Summer Semester Session names were changed for future Summer Semester 2011 and forward: 6-Week 1st - became Summer Session 1 9-Week 1st - became Summer Session 2 12-Week Regular - became Summer Session 3 6-Week 2nd - became Summer Session 4 In addition, certain event/deadline dates were changed for each of the four summer sessions. Also, the additional Friday meeting days previously designated as "To Be Announced" for each of the four summer sessions were further specified as detailed below: 6-Week 1st changed dates: last day of class (from "June 30" to "July 5"); final exam period (from "July 1-2" to "July 6-7"); official closing of session (from "July 3" to "July 7"); additional Friday meeting days were specified as "June 10, 17, 24, and July 1". 9-Week 2nd changed dates: last day of class (from "July 7" to "July 21"); final exam period (from "July 8-9"" to "July 26-27"); official closing of session (from "July 10" to "July 27"). 12-Week Regular changed dates: last day of class (from "August 8" to "August 9"); final exam period (from "August 9-11" to "August 10-12"); official closing of session (from "August 11" to "August 12"); notation referring to additional Friday meeting days for Tues/Thurs classes was edited to read as "certain Fridays (TBA)" instead of "Friday (TBA)". 6-Week 2nd changed dates: first day of classes (from "July 5" to "July 11"); last day to add a class (from "July 6" to "July 12"); ORD / last day to drop a course or withdraw without receiving a grade / last day to drop a course without hours counting towards the enrollment cap for Texas residents (from "July 8" to "July 14"); additional Friday meeting days were specified as "July 5, 10, 15, 20".
July 22, 2010	Pertaining to the Admissions Requirements, General and Freshman Requirements, Contact Information: "Office of Enrollment Management" information became "Customer Service - Enrollment Services" information; International Admissions location updated from E. Cullen to Welcome Center.
August 11, 2010	Pertaining to the University Profile - Campus Tours contact information: Phone number updated from 713-743-9621 to 832-842-9060.
August 12, 2010	Official closing of the Summer 2010 semester.
August 19, 2010	Publication of the Fall 2010 - Summer 2011 Base Catalog.   Notice was added to the College of Education's Health and Human Performance departmental undergraduate catalog page in regard to the impending migration of the HHP department over to the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences.
August 20, 2010	Pertaining to the Academic Calendar, future Summer Sessions 2011, 2012: Class meeting days were updated.
August 23, 2010	First Day of Classes of the Fall 2010 semester.
August 25, 2010	Pertaining to the Academic Calendar, future Summer Sessions 2011, 2012: Spring 2011 graduation filing dates were included which had previously been indicated as TBA.
August 31, 2010	Pertaining to the University Profile, Libraries page: Broken link to "other librarians and contact information" was updated. Information relating to the now-closed Pharmacy Library was removed.
Dec. 3, 2010	Pertaining to the undergraduate catalog's University Profile pages: On the Accreditations page, the broken Council on Social Work Education site link was updated. On the UHS addresses page, the broken UH Clear Lake site link was updated. On the UH Office Hours page, broken link to catalog information about UScholars was updated. On the Student Services page: various broken links under student publications [Houstonian / Daily Cougar / Student Publications Committee] were fixed; broken link to Bayou Oaks information was fixed; extraneous mention of parking and transportation in mid-page subnavigation was removed; various broken same-page table of contents links was fixed.
Dec. 4, 2010	Last Day of Classes for the Fall 2010 semester.
Dec. 5, 2010	Pertaining to the colleges of Education and Liberal Arts and Social Sciences: The migration of the Health and Human Performance department (i.e., courses, minors, majors, policies, etc.) from College of Education to CLASS was finalized.
Dec. 15, 2010	Pertaining to the Honors College Certificate in Global Studies and Research: Information was added detailing how different routes to the certificate combine with the capstone course itself (HON 4375: Global Studies and Research).
Dec. 17, 2010	Official Closing of the Fall 2010 semester.
Dec. 21, 2010	Pertaining to the Academic Calendar By-Semester views: for the future 2011 summer session 4, the weekday for the "First day of classes" was corrected from "Tuesday July 11, 2011" to "Monday July 11, 2011"; and the "Summer Session Meeting Days" were changed from "July 8, 15, 22, 29" to "July 15, 22, 29, Aug. 5".
Jan. 13, 2011	Pertaining to the Academic Calendar By-Event views: for the future 2011 summer session 4, meeting days were changed from "July 8, 15, 22, 29" to "July 15, 22, 29, Aug. 5". Effective date of capture for creation of Fall 2010 Base Undergraduate Catalog archive.
Jan. 18, 2011	First Day of Classes, Spring 2011 Semester.
Jan. 18, 2011	Pertaining to the Major Fields of Study page vis á vis the migration of the Health and Human Performance department from College of Education to CLASS: the listings for "Human Nutrition and Foods" and "Kinesiology" were moved from COE to CLASS.   Pertaining to the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics' Chemistry major: MATH 3321 was added to both the B.S. and B.A. degree requirements, increasing the required Mathematics hours for each degree from 12 hrs to 15 hrs.
Jan. 19, 2011	Pertaining to the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences' Communication Sciences and Disorders department: names of individuals no longer with the department were removed; correction was made to how the name of the Council on Academic Accreditation in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology (CAA) was represented ("of" was corrected to "on"); the suggested contact for additional graduate program information was changed.
Jan. 20, 2011	Pertaining to the information about Grades under the Policies/Academic Regulations section: an item numbered six was added under the heading "Grade Explanations" which read, "All NR grades will be automatically converted to F 90 days after the official closing of term."
Jan. 24, 2011	Pertaining to the Academic Calendar: the following future summer sessions' meeting days were changed from specified Fridays to all Fridays within each respective session's timeframe - AY 2010-2011: Summer Session 1, Summer Session 4; AY 2011-2012: Summer Session 1, Summer Session 4.
Feb. 3, 2011	Pertaining to the various college sections' links to UH scholarhip information: links were updated for the colleges of Engineering, Hotel and Restaurant Management, Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Technology, and for Undergraduate Scholars at UH. The link to HRM's internal scholarship information was also updated.
Feb. 9, 2011	Pertaining to the current Spring 2011 semester in the Academic Calendar: the "Last day to drop a course or withdraw with a "W" was changed from "Tuesday April 5th, 2011" to "Thursday April 7th, 2011".
Feb. 16, 2011	Pertaining to the information about Grades under the Polices/Academic Regulations section: the note added Jan. 20, 2011 relating to NR grade conversion to F 90 days after term close was removed.
Feb. 21, 2011	Pertaining to the Academic Calendar: the following future summer sessions' meeting days notation was changed from - AY 2010-2011: Summer Session 2: "classes meet Tuesdays through Thursdays, plus some Fridays (TBA)" to "classes meet Tuesdays through Thursdays." AY 2010-2011: Summer Session 3: "classes meet either Mondays and Wednesdays, plus some Fridays (TBA), or Tuesdays and Thursdays, plus certain Fridays (TBA)." to "classes meet either Mondays and Wednesdays, plus Fridays (June 3 and June 10), or Tuesdays and Thursdays."
Mar. 10, 2011	Pertaining to the Academic Calendar, Summer Semester session names: For reference, previously-used PeopleSoft session names (6 Week-1st, 9 Week-1st, 12 Week-Regular, 6 Week-2nd) were added back as notes to the current session names.
Mar. 14, 2011	Pertaining to the Academic Calendar, current Spring 2011 semester, "Late Graduation Filing Period": a typographical error was corrected in the dates presented in the general information section at the top of the calendar - "March 25, 2010" was corrected to "March 25, 2011" to match the correct deadlines which were already stated lower in the dated section of the calendar.   Pertaining to the Academic Calendar, future Summer Sessions 2011 and Fall Semester 2011 : Graduation filing dates were included which had previously been indicated as TBA.
April 28, 2011	Publication of the Fall 2010 Catalog with Spring 2011 Course Updates.
May 13, 2011	Official closing of the Spring 2011 semester.
May 17, 2011	Pertaining to the College of Pharmacy: the Pharmaceutical Sciences Degree Plan was deleted and the PHPS course rubric was  retired.
August 9, 2011	Pertaining to the Academic Calendar: Links to the imminent Fall 2011 semester were added to the main table of contents page.
August 10, 2011	Pertaining to the HIST 1379 course description: The incorrect History courses (HIST 1376 and 1377) were listed in the course description caveat of HIST 1379.  The error was corrected and now reads as "Credit in both HIST 1378 and 1379 cannot be applied toward a degree."
August 12, 2011	Official closing of the Summer 2011 semester.
	

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Catalog Publish Date: August 18, 2011
This Page Last Updated: August 10, 2011
Effective Date of Archive: August 20, 2012