Getting ready to modify a course, program, or addendum?

Please allow time to do a course slo aggregate or degree/certificate assessment and reflect on the success data. Build on assessment!

Whether you are modifying an existing outline or drafting a new one, you must log into CurrIQunet, use the "Create Proposal" button, and choose the correct course or program (degree/certificate) "proposal type" option. Everything is a "proposal" in CurrIQunet, be it an outline, addendum, or an assessment.

  • Please choose the correct proposal type. When modifying active curricula or reactivating historical curricula, follow the search and select steps carefully. For visual guidance, see the  (Curriculum Focus).
  • When modifying a course outline, please also modify the DEA and/or honors addendum attached to it. Thanks!
  • It's also important to look at an , especially when a modification involves a unit-hours change or a course is being deactivated.

Please also use the documents linked below to ensure that you are following current outline and addenda standards. Thank you.

  • If you are new to the curriculum writing process or need a refresher, please view this , browse the Curriculum Resources page, and use the crib notes below.
  • Is your outline going to expire (i.e., exceed its 6-year shelf life from Curriculum Committee approval date)?
  • Remember, all degrees and certificates must also include a narrative. See and the narrative templates below.
  • For a sense of how outlines enter and move through tech review, see this .
  • Use  to access .

Outline writers and reviewers, please use these crib notes and checklists

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    • AA-T/AS-T outlines must follow a
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  •  (for the new DEA form)
    * Technical Review Avoiding Common Errors (TRACE)

Ready to rock? Please log into  to use and make curriculum magic.

Outcomes, Hours, and Units

  • : Course (SLO), Program (PSLO). Gen Ed (GELO), and Institutional (ILO)
  •  - for checking hours and units
    • Units = [Total contact time + homework time] divided by 52.5 and then round down.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Curriculum

Is it a GE course? Which GE areas are being satisfied or requested?

  • Look at the most recent ÃÈ·­µ¼º½ gen ed worksheet.
  • The course's learning outcomes must map to the gen ed learning outcomes (GELO).
  • More on general education at ÃÈ·­µ¼º½
  • Non Ethnic Studies departments (e.g., SOC, ART, or HIST) proposing an Ethnic Studies course must cross list with NAIS, LALS, ASAM, AFAM, or ETHN. Prior to proposing the course to the Curriculum Committee, consultation with the appropriate department chair is required, as is to help ensure that the course meets Ethnic Studies expectations.

Distance Ed Addenda

  • New distance ed addenda may be created directly in CurrIQunet by departments, but the  (DLAC), a Shared Governance Committee, reviews the application for a faculty member to develop a new online course.
  • Review the steps for developing an online course.
  • agreed to during the addendum creation process (fall '23)

If you are proposing a new course or program, please consider the following:

  • Do our students truly need this course or program?  to be certain.
  • Instead of creating a new course, could an already existing course--in or out of your department--be modified?
  • Does the department have the resources, personnel, and facilities to support this new course or program?
  • Which courses or programs could be deactivated to "make room" for new offerings?
  • What role will a new course play in programs or transfer?
  • Does the course number make sense, and has it ever been used before?

Reminders

  • When modifying a course, you must look at the IMPACT REPORTS of the active and historical versions of the course to see if degree, certificate, or requisite changes will also need to happen. If the course is in another department’s program, communicate with them. This is especially crucial if there is a unit, hour, or name change, as that will have catalog implications. Please document Impact Report info (copy/paste) and intradepartmental communication in CurrIQunet’s Internal Notes section. Thank you.
  • If the ToP Code or units change during a Certificate of Achievement modification for a 16+ unit program that already qualifies students for financial aid, this could temporarily prevent a student from receiving financial aid. Please consult the Dean of Financial Aid about the Dept of Education process involved.
  • A certificate of accomplishment cannot simply be modified into a certificate of achievement; that must be a new proposal, and it should correspond with deactivation of the certificate of accomplishment.
  • Course and program aggregate reports must be launched within 18 months prior to outline modification submissions. (NOTE--Addenda modifications do not require an aggregate assessment.) These assessment reports pull together the results of individual section-level reports and should inform outline revision. Allow time for analysis, reflection, and conversation. Consult your chair or course/program coordinator about the currency of the aggregate report you need.

Please use the CurrIQunet assessment and search guides.

CurrIQunet Curriculum Support

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  • For questions on the software, request help through the .

Help guide your proposal through the workflow

You are not done yet! Your active participation in ensuring that your proposal moves through in a timely manner is usually necessary. Help move your proposal through by checking the status in CurrIQunet, by carefully and thoroughly responding to all communications about your proposal, and by bringing it to the attention of those who need to sign off on it.

Timely completion of stipulations (after the Curriculum Committee meeting)

When a proposal is reviewed by the Curriculum Committee during a meeting and stipulations (changes) are requested, those stipulations will be posted in CurrIQunet after the meeting.  Check the approvals queue and watch for emailed notifications.

  • Changes must be made and resubmitted within CurrIQunet within a short time period, as posted on the Curriculum Committee Calendar.
  • Proposals approved with stipulations that are not resubmitted correctly in a timely manner may be moved back to the department chair to start over again.