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 Provost
  • Path to approval for interdisciplinary courses and programs

    Interdisciplinary courses have compound prefixes, such as MATH/WGST 045.  This procedure is also followed for interdisciplinary programs, such as the Game Development minor.  The routing procedure for interdisciplinary proposals is:

    1. All programs or departments who are submitting the proposal
    2. All the College Curriculum Committees for the departments in Step 1 above
    3. University Curriculum Committee
    4. University Provost
  • 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 Provost
  • 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 Provost
  • Path to approval for the General Education designation

    [NEW POLICY] A new course or a course that needs updating may be approved concurrently along with approval for General Education. The proposal should contain both a summary of request for UCC (new course, changes in prerequisites, etc.) and requested material listed on the UCC cover sheet, as well as the separate summary of request and supporting material listed on the GEPAC site for General Education approval. Once the proposal is approved by your department and College Curriculum Committee, two versions of the proposal must be uploaded to GEPAC and UCC simultaneously: one with the routing number uploaded to the UCC SharePoint site, the other (with the letters GE added to the routing number) uploaded to the GEPAC D2L page. Be sure you are aware of different deadlines for UCC and GEPAC for that month.

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

    1. Your Department
    2. Your College Curriculum Committee
    3. General Education Committee
    4. University Curriculum Committee – Announcement only
    5. University Provost

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

    1. Your department
    2. Your College Curriculum Committee (once approved submit proposal to both 3 and 4 below)
    3. General Education Committee – Provisional approval pending UCC approval of course or course changes
    4. University Curriculum Committee – on agenda twice: Approval of the new course or course changes. For General Education portion: Announcement only
    5. University Provost

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

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