GSE Executive Committee Checklist
for New Graduate Course Proposals
1.
BASIC INFORMATION
_____ Instructor(s). The primary instructor must either be a full-time tenured, tenure-track, or
clinical faculty member or a part-time faculty member who has a multiple year
appointment. An adjunct instructor who is hired to teach one or two courses during the
academic year cannot be the primary instructor.
2.
REQUIRED APPENDICES
_____ Description for Catalog. This is a brief description of the course as it will appear in the
catalog. The course objectives must be clearly elaborated. See sample – Attachment A.
_____ Course Outline. This is a specification of the course content, that is, the information to
be presented. Include a course syllabus which details the course objectives or minimum
requirements, an outline of the content, a course bibliography with an explicit
organization of readings, potential texts, plans for course evaluation, and grading
requirements/procedures. If field trips are planned, please describe them. See sample –
Attachment B.
_____ Rationale. The basis or justification for introducing the course must be clearly addressed.
This may include the function of the course as an essential element in a departmental or
program major, the use of the course as an essential supplement to a program in another
department, the role of the course in providing appropriate electives, etc. See sample –
Attachment C.
_____ Duplication Check. The description of the duplication check with courses in GSE as well
as university-wide must be detailed and explicit. Each course that potentially duplicates
the proposed course must be listed, and the differences between such courses and the
proposed course must be clarified. See sample – Attachment D.
_____ Cross Listing. Cross listing is defined as a course offered by two or more departments on
the same day and time with the same instructor. Each department schedules the course
with its own course number, course title, course type, and registration number, but only
one department is the funding department that coordinates the cross-listing process. In
order to cross list a graduate course, a justification must be provided and approved by the
Dean of The Graduate School.
_____ Dual Listing. Dual listing is defined as courses offered by the same department involving
graduate and undergraduate students meeting in the same room at the same time with the
same instructor. Graduate level courses can only be dual listed with a 400-level
undergraduate course. The courses must have the same title and be the same course type.
In order to dual list a graduate course with an undergraduate course, a justification must
be provided along with a description of the additional work graduate students will be
expected to undertake to justify graduate credit (e.g., extra recitation sections, extra
projects, etc.).
November 2009