课程检讨程序

This website provides information to assist University of South Alabama faculty and staff in the creation and submission of curriculum proposals and revisions. 的信息 presented here applies only to courses and programs administered by Academic Affairs. It includes information on procedures and dead行s for the following types of proposals 在所有学术水平上:

• New academic programs such as majors, minors, concentrations, and certificates
• Revision or removal of existing academic programs
• 新课程建议
• Revision or removal of existing courses
• Requests for courses to be included in the general education curriculum
• 课程费用要求

课程回顾

Typically, all curriculum proposals require at least departmental, college and university-level 批准. Some proposals may require additional 批准 from one or more outside agencies such as the Alabama Commission on Higher Education (ACHE), the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools – Council on Colleges (SACS-COC), and in rare cases the Department 的教育. 请注意 that some proposals may also be subject to review by an accrediting 身体在程序的纪律. 

The USA Faculty Handbook section 6.9 specifies the committees and administrative offices charged with curriculum review at the university level, as well as providing additional guidance for the development of new academic programs. 检讨委员会包括 Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, which reviews all new undergraduate course and program proposals as well as curricular 更改 existing programs, the Graduate Curriculum Committee of the Graduate Council, which reviews all graduate courses and program proposals, the Honors College, which reviews proposals with an Honors ("HON") designation, and the Writing Committee, which recommends and monitors Writing ("W") 信贷的课程. Each academic department and college should have its own curriculum 还有评审委员会. 

Reviewers take into account a number of considerations in assessing a proposed change. These may include the rationale for the change, the impact on current students if it is implemented, and for new courses and programs, expected student demand, learning outcomes and academic content, whether the course or program duplicates existing offerings, 预期成本.