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Forms, Policies, and Procedures

Faculty proposing a new course, a major course revision, or a new or revised academic program are encouraged to attend the Committee meeting at which the proposal will be reviewed. If the faculty member is unavailable, a substitute who is knowledgeable about the proposal may attend in their place.

CEHD Curriculum Council Procedures

Teacher Licensure review and approval flow charts

Forms

All proposals are due 2 weeks before each Curriculum Council meeting. Please see links to forms below, send questions to Patrick Doble at schdcehd@umn.edu.

Directed Studies, Directed Research, Independent Study, Umbrella Course Special Topics
In instances where a course requires a contract between faculty and student, but no syllabi are required the course is approved by the department chair. No curriculum council review is needed.

Adding or Changing Course Modality
Adding or changing a course modality is a major course revision and will need to be reviewed by the CEHD Curriculum Council. Please see Course Revisions page.

CEHD Course Modality Exception Process

For questions, please contact Nicole Shopbell (wileb011@umn.edu) or Patrick Doble (doble004@umn.edu).

Graduate and Undergraduate Special Topic Courses

To propose a Special Topic course, you will need the following:

1. Complete syllabus
2. Explanation of why this topics course important to the mission of CEHD and the University.
3. Projected student enrollment
4. Department chair approval

Optional documents
1. If this is being taught online Synchronous or Asynchronous. Please attach the Online Instructional Contact Time Grid, which can be found here:
https://sky.cehd.umn.edu/governance/default/committees/cc/forms-policies-and-procedures/
2. If this is being proposed as Fee in Lieu of Tuition (FILOT), please email cehdfso@umn.edu for other forms that need to be submitted.

Note: Undergraduate special topics courses should be taught no more than two times before being converted to regular courses.

Note: Graduate-level special topics courses should be taught no more than two times in three calendar years before being converted to regular courses.

This form must be completed each time a Special Topics course is taught. No further College approval is needed for the second time the course is taught, however the form is required for tracking purposes and Department Chair approval. Prior to teaching a Special Topics course, please contact your scheduler to add approved courses to the schedule.

Special Topics Proposal submission form

De-activating or re-activating a course & adding or removing a Writing Intensive (WI), Liberal Education (LE), or Community Engaged Learning (CEL)

  • De-activating or re-activating a course:  Any course may be made inactive at the request of the department chair. An inactive course may be made active at the request of the department chair.  If changes are requested when a course is made active again, the course must go through the Course Revision process. Any course that has not had enrollment in the past 4 years should be made inactive.
  • Adding or removing a Writing Intensive (WI), Liberal Education (LE), or Community Engaged Learning (CEL):  Undergraduate courses may add W or and LE at the request of the department chair. Please keep in mind that the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs should be consulted before requesting the removal of both W and LE.  When requesting W or LE a full syllabus should be sent to the following and CC schdcehd@umn.edu:

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