Routing proposals through the approval process

There are five different routes for proposals:

• Path to approval for most courses and programs

  The standard path to approval for most course and program proposals is:

  1. Your Department
  2. Your College Curriculum Committee
  3. University Curriculum Committee
  4. University President
• Path to approval for interdisciplinary courses and programs

  Interdisciplinary courses have compound prefixes, such as MAT/WGS 199.  This procedure is also followed for interdisciplinary programs, such as the Social Media Theory and Strategies major and minor.  The routing procedure for interdisciplinary proposals is:

  All programs or departments who are submitting the proposal

  All the College Curriculum Committees for the departments in Step 1 above

  University Curriculum Committee

  University President

• Path to approval for change in syllabus, prerequisites or co-requisites

  The path to approval for proposals to change the syllabus, prerequisites or co-requisites is:

  1. Your Department
  2. Your College Curriculum Committee
  3. University Curriculum Committee - Announcement only
  4. University President
• Path to approval for Selected Topics courses, One-Time-Only courses, First-Year Seminar courses, Alumni Courses, changes in the course numbers, titles, descriptions and statuses.

  The routing procedure is used for adding a new topic to the existing Selected Topics course number for your department.  This is also the path for One-Time-Only courses, First-Year Seminar courses, Alumni courses, and changes in the course numbers, the course titles, the course descriptions, and statuses (archive/retrieve from archive).  Selected Topics courses may only be offered twice.  First-Year Seminar and Alumni courses can be repeated indefinitely.

  The routing procedure for these courses is:

  1. Your Department
  2. University Curriculum Committee - Announcement Only
  3. University President
• Path to approval for the General Education designation

  Only existing courses can be approved for use in General Education.  If you are working with a new course, it must first go through the regular UCC process, and then come back through the process again for the General Education designation.  Since the General Education Committee is a subcommittee of the UCC, and UCC has previously voted to approve the course, if your proposal is approved by the GEC, the course will be announced at UCC, but will not need to be voted on a second time.

  The routing procedure for approval for a course to be used in General Education is:

  1. Your Department
  2. Your College Curriculum Committee
  3. General Education Committee
  4. University Curriculum Committee
  5. University President

  There is more information on the GEC web page and the GEC D2L page.