All permanent courses (undergraduate and graduate) must be submitted electronically through the Curriculum Management System (CIM) .

Course Proposal Development

  1. Discuss the course that you want to propose with your program chairs, program coordinators, school director, and relevant faculty members. If the course is deemed suitable through this initial consultation, the faculty member may elect to offer it as a Special Topics course. Since Special Topics courses can be offered two times before they need to be submitted as permanent offerings, they provide faculty with the flexibility to explore various topics and assess the viability of potential courses. Throughout the University, Special Topics courses (1-9 credits) commonly receive the following course numbers (097/098, 197/198, 297/298, 397/398, 497/498). Course titles and numbers should be requested from the faculty member submitting the proposal. This will provide the Special Topics course with a title that appears on student transcripts. See the One-Semester Titles Request Form, which should be submitted online (the form will automatically be routed to the correct office). Nothing needs to be submitted via CIM for special topics courses.
  2. If the course will be proposed as a permanent undergraduate or graduate University course, the faculty member will need to use the CIM system to submit the course. Visit the user's guide for course management. The guide will provide step-by-step instructions to walk faculty through the proposal creation.
  3. The user guides will walk faculty through how to propose a new course, how to propose and edit to a course, how to propose to drop a course, and how to format prerequisites, concurrent, and corequisites. 
  4. For policies and rules for Undergraduate Instruction and Curriculum.
  5. For more information on who should be consulted on proposals, see the Curricular Consultation Statement.