College Committees

Overview

• Current Degree: Please indicate whether majors will earn a B.A. or a B.S. (it’s no longer possible to give students the option to choose). This is not applicable to minors.
• Current Area of Study: Please enter the current Area of Study for this program. The options are:
  • Interdisciplinary Studies
  • Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
  • Mathematics and Natural Sciences
  • Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Values and Societies
  • Visual and Performing Arts.
• Summary of Changes: Provide a bulleted list of the changes that you are proposing. Possibilities include:
  • Program name change
  • Changes to the list of associated faculty
  • Changes to the list of forbidden major or minor combinations
  • Revised program learning outcomes
  • Revised language about the program
  • Revised program requirements
  • Revised courses
  • New courses.
  • Changes to the curriculum map
• Courses Being Sunset: Please list all of the courses that are being sunset, i.e. permanently deleted, as part of this program revision.
• Rationale: Please explain why these changes are being requested. If they are in response to program assessment, please describe how your assessment data informed this proposal.
• Rationale for Number of Credits: This rationale must be provided if:
  • The program is a major and requires more than 48 credits (as a reminder, majors may only include 48 credits in a single department; credits above that limit must be in a different department, up to a maximum of 64)
  • The program is a minor and requires more than 24 credits.
• Courses Outside Your Program: If your revised major or minor includes courses taught by faculty in other departments/programs, please list these departments/programs. You should contact the appropriate chair(s) or program coordinator(s) to get their feedback on the proposed changes.

• Feedback from Other Programs: Please provide a summary of the feedback you received from the chair(s) or or program coordinator(s) that you listed in the last box.

Bulletin Language

• Preamble/Areas of Study Content: If you are revising the preamble/Areas of Study, enter the current Areas of Study language for that program. This is all of the content from the list of faculty through the first listing of learning outcomes. Indicate any proposed changes by striking out deletions and adding new language in red.
  You can copy and paste the language from the PDF version of the Bulletin. Alternatively, find the program language in the Areas of Study section of the online version of the Bulletin, click the printer icon, and copy the current language from the pop-up box. Both of these methods will result in a copy that does not include the colored background.

• Major: If you are revising Major requirements, enter the current Bulletin language for that major and indicate any proposed changes by striking out deletions and adding new language in red.
  You can copy and paste the language from the PDF version of the Bulletin. Alternatively, find the program language in the online version of the Bulletin, click the printer icon, and copy the current course listing from the pop-up box. Both of these methods will result in a copy that does not include the colored background.

• Minor: If you are revising Minor requirements, enter the current Bulletin language for that minor and indicate any proposed changes by striking out deletions and adding new language in red.
  You can copy and paste the language from the PDF version of the Bulletin. Alternatively, find the program language in the online version of the Bulletin, click the printer icon, and copy the current course listing from the pop-up box. Both of these methods will result in a copy that does not include the colored background.

Program Learning Outcomes

If you are revising your program learning outcomes, enter the current PLOs and indicate any proposed changes by striking out deletions and adding new language in red.

In the New Courses tab, please create a numbered section, beginning with the course number and title, for each new course. Two sections have been provided for you to copy and paste; please number any additional sections sequentially. More detailed instructions are provided below.

Course Information

• Course Listing: Enter the course details in Bulletin-ready language, following the guidelines below:
  • Course Number: Enter a course prefix and number, e.g. ECON*100. For seven week module courses, add an “A” to the course number if the course will be taught in the first seven weeks of the semester or “B” if the course will be taught in the second seven weeks of the semester., e.g. CHEM*119*A. Please consult with the Registrar’s office about an appropriate course number. Also, if you plan to cross-list this course, please coordinate with other departments to ensure that the course number is the same for both prefixes.
  • Number of Credits: The number of credits can be 1, 2, 3, or 4, or can be listed as variable (1-4).
  • Course Description: See guidelines. 
    • Please include the language “This course will be taught as a seven-week course.” at the end of the course description, if applicable. 
  • Prerequisites: List the prerequisites for the course. If there are no prerequisites, write “None”.
  • Distribution Requirement: If this course will count towards the Distribution Requirements, please enter no more than 2 tags (CL, HE, IP, ME, PD, QR, SB, SP) for the course. The learning outcomes for each category are listed on this page. If no tags are required, write “none”.
• Short Title: If a course title is more than 30 characters, an abbreviated title that is under 30 characters long must be provided. 
• Grading Option: The options are:
  • Must be taken on a letter-grade basis
  • Must be taken Credit/No Credit basis
  • Can be taken on a letter-grade basis or a Credit/No Credit basis
• First Offering: Please enter the semester and year in which the course will first be offered.
• Frequency of Offering: Please select the option that is most likely, or provide other information, as applicable:
  • Every semester
  • Once a year
  • Every other year.
• Staffing: Please describe who you expect to teach the course and whether you are deleting another course in order to accommodate this addition to your program.
• Other Programs Affected: Please list all of the majors and minors that will include this new course. The other departments affected will need to submit a program revision for each program that will include the new course. 

Learning Outcomes and Mapping

• Course Learning Outcomes: Please list 3-5 course learning outcomes, keeping the following points in mind:
  • Learning outcomes should describe what students should know, understand or be able to do by the end of the course and should be written broadly enough that changes in instructor, textbook, etc would not require a change to the outcomes. (Changing the outcomes for a future offering of this course would necessitate the proposal of a new Special Topics course.)
  • As you write your outcomes, please think about how the wording of your outcome might affect your ability to effectively assess the outcome. For example, compound outcomes will require you to separately assess multiple components of the outcome. To avoid compound outcomes, you may need to think about which outcomes to prioritize by listing them as CLOs and which outcomes are important but don’t rise to the level of a CLO.
• CLO to PLO Mapping: Please complete the table in the following way:
  • Replace PLO 1, PLO 2, etc with the exact wording of your program learning outcomes.
  • Replace CLO 1, CLO 2, etc with the exact wording of your course learning outcomes.
  • For each CLO, indicate any mapping to a PLO by entering I, D, R, or P in the appropriate cell in the table:
    • I – Introducing
    • D – Developing
    • R – Refining
    • P – Proficient.
  • Feel free to add rows and columns, as needed.
• CLO to DR Mapping: If you have included DR tags, please complete the table in the following way:
  • Replace DR 1, DR 2, etc with the DR tag and the exact wording of the corresponding DR learning outcomes, available from this page.
  • Replace CLO 1, CLO2, etc with the exact wording of your course learning outcomes.
  • Map the CLOs to the DR outcomes, as applicable, using an X in the appropriate cells. Each DR tag should be aligned with at least one CLO, meaning that each column should contain at least one entry.

In the Course Revisions tab, please create a numbered section, beginning with the course number and title,  for each course that is being revised, meaning retitled, renumbered (within the same level), and/or redescribed.  If you want to change the DR tags or the level of the course or if you want to add a cross-listing, you will need to sunset the current course and propose a new course with a different course number instead.

Two sections have been provided for you to copy and paste; please number any additional sections sequentially. More detailed instructions are provided below.

Course Revision Information

• Summary of Changes: Using a bulleted list, please list all of the types of changes you are proposing and provide a brief description in each case. The possible types of changes are:
  • Renumbering
  • Retitling
  • Redescribing.
• Rationale: Please explain why these course revisions are being proposed, making sure that you address each of the types of change that you listed in the Summary of Changes. If they are in response to program assessment, please describe how your assessment data informed this proposal.
• Revised Course Listing: Copy the current course listing from the PDF version of the current Bulletin and paste it into the proposal document. Alternatively, find the course in the online version of the Bulletin, click the printer icon, and copy the current course listing from the pop-up box. Both of these methods will result in a copy that does not include the colored background. Indicate the proposed changes by striking out any language that is being removed or revised and entering any new language in red.
  • Course Number: If you are renumbering the course, please consult with the Registrar’s office about an appropriate course number. 
  • Number of Credits: The number of credits can be 1, 2, 3, or 4, or can be listed as variable (1-4).
  • Course Description: See guidelines.
• Short Title: If a course title is more than 30 characters, an abbreviated title that is under 30 characters long must be provided. Paste your current short title (if applicable) into the box and then indicate any changes.
• Grading Option: Enter your current grading option. If you are changing the grading option for the course, please enter the current grading option and strike it out and enter the new grading option in red. The options are:
  • Must be taken on a letter-grade basis
  • Must be taken Credit/No Credit basis
  • Can be taken on a letter-grade basis or a Credit/No Credit basis
• Other Programs Affected: Please list all of the majors and minors affected by this change. You should inform all affected programs of the proposed changes so that they can revise their major/minor, as needed.

Learning Outcomes and Mapping

• Course Learning Outcomes: If you are not revising your course learning outcomes, please enter the current learning outcomes. If you are revising some of your course learning outcomes, enter the current learning outcomes and indicate any changes by striking out any language that is being removed or revised and entering any new language in red. If this course revision affects all of the course learning outcomes, you will need to sunset the current course and propose a new course.If you are revising your course learning outcomes, please keep the following points in mind:

• • Learning outcomes should describe what students should know, understand or be able to do by the end of the course and should be written broadly enough that changes in instructor, textbook, etc would not require a change to the outcomes. 
  • As you write your outcomes, please think about how the wording of your outcome might affect your ability to effectively assess the outcome. For example, compound outcomes will require you to separately assess multiple components of the outcome. To avoid compound outcomes, you may need to think about which outcomes to prioritize by listing them as CLOs and which outcomes are important but don’t rise to the level of a CLO.

• CLO to PLO Mapping: If you are not revising your CLO to PLO mapping, please enter the current mapping (using the IDRP scale). If you are revising your CLO to PLO mapping, enter the current mapping (using the IDRP scale) and indicate any changes by striking out entries that are being removed or revised and entering any new entries in red. Feel free to add rows and columns, as needed.
• CLO to DR Mapping: If you are not revising your CLO to DR mapping, please enter the current mapping. If you are revising your CLO to DR mapping, enter the current mapping (using X’s) and indicate any changes by striking out entries that are being removed or revised and entering any new entries in red. Feel free to add rows and columns, as needed.

In the Other Courses tab, please create a numbered section, beginning with the course number and title, for each non-new, non-revised course that you are adding to the program, if applicable. Two sections have been provided for you to copy and paste; please number any additional sections sequentially. More detailed instructions are provided below.

Learning Outcomes and Mapping

• Course Learning Outcomes: Enter the current learning outcomes. 
• CLO to PLO Mapping: Enter the current mapping (using the IDRP scale). 
• CLO to DR Mapping: Enter the current mapping, if applicable.