FORMAT FOR DEVELOPING NEW GRADUATE COURSE PROPOSALS
(PERMANENT, OR EXPERIMENTAL = X)
1. Listing
a.
b.
c.
d.
Department/school, course number, title
Credits (if variable in what range)
Grading (normal, i.e. A through F; or P/F or S/U)
Precise, brief catalogue description including prerequisites (follow catalogue
style)
e. When offered (Fall, Spring, or both)
f. If you want enrollments to be counted for other than your normal department
FTE, please enter the HEGIS code
g. Is this a fixed course or "topics" course (topics change from semester to semester)?
2. Reasons: Explain the reasons for the proposal and the relation between this new course
and the existing graduate program. If the course has been taught before as a X course,
comment on your reasons for wanting to make it permanent.
3. Currency: Explain the course’s relation to recent developments and new theories or
knowledge in the field.
4. Diversity: Explain any relation to cultural diversity, indicating if the course considers
various communities or issues of social and cultural difference.
5. Format: Describe how the class will be taught (seminar/discussion, lecture, laboratory,
tutorial, programmed instruction, workshop, distance education, or a combination of
these).
6. Budgetary and Resource Requirements: Describe all new requirements associated with
this course in the following areas:
a. Funds
b. Space and facilities
c. Staff support
d. Computers, software, computer time
e. Laboratory needs
f. Special scheduling
If the course needs no new resources, please say so. If it requires resources, explain how
the department will provide them. Indicate the faculty who are available to teach the
course. If they are not tenure/tenure-track faculty, then a justification is needed and
the instructor’s CV.
7. Library Requirements: Describe any new library services or resources, e.g. online
services, databases, or periodicals this course will require, and any area in which the
library collections will need enhancement for this course.
8. Enrollments: Anticipated numbers of students and frequency of offering. Describe the
course’s relation to requirements of the graduate program, and categories of students
who would be likely to take this course.
9. Interdisciplinary Role: How does this course relate to or complement existing courses in
other programs? Does this course fill a need in another graduate program? How have
you discussed this course with those programs? Please summarize their responses. It
may also be appropriate to attach copies of emails indicating who approved and why.
10. Undergraduate Program: Is the course taught simultaneously as an undergraduate and
graduate course? If so, what differences will distinguish the graduate version? A
graduate course co-taught with an undergraduate course must have significant
elements that make it graduate-level (e.g., additional assignments and more rigorous
grading). 500-level graduate courses may be approved when co-taught with 400-level
courses, but will not be approved co-teaching with 100 to 300 level courses.
11. Approval: Has the course been approved by the graduate committee of the department
or school? Indicated the date of approval and chair of committee.