Course submission procedures

All course outlines should be submitted to UCC for review and eventual approval by Faculty Assembly. This includes new courses (and course numbers), revised/updated courses (with the same course number), changes to existing course prerequisites, or in very rare cases, existing courses whose numbers are being changed.

At the department level

  1. An individual or team develops, updates or revises course outline and secures department chair and Curriculum Committee approval.  Many departments review, deliberate, and vote on the course proposals before submission to UCC. Department chairs or program directors are expected to keep a copy of this course outline and related communication on file within the department. A template is provided as a convenient means to prepare and review course proposals at the department level (use “enable macros” when prompted to have the most effective template). Once courses are approved at the department level, contact your UCC representative and ask them to review the proposal with you. Your representative will be able to anticipate questions likely to be raised by the council. You are now ready to proceed to the next step — submitting to UCC via the web form.
  2. Use Curriculog to submit a proposal.
  3. The language of the proposal must be free of gender and cultural bias, according to the Faculty Assembly Resolution passed on April 2, 1980.

UCC course review process 

  1. Upon review, the UCC member serving as the lead for a specific course may contact the department chair or additional contact for clarifications and/or revisions until the course is ready for approval. 
  2. UCC will report the approved course to the Faculty Assembly at the next FA meeting.
  3. Final approval is assumed after a two-week period from the FA report date.

Approval of courses beyond UCC

Approval of courses for the following programs is separate from the UCC process and should be arranged elsewhere. For example,  

  1. For courses for General Education, contact the director of General Education.
  2. For courses listed in the SUNY Oswego course registration space, or in the Course Bulletin, contact the Registrar’s Office.
  3. For sets of courses to be included in specific programs, minors or majors, see the director or chair for the program or department. Program approval occurs with the Academic Policies Council.