A&S Course Proposals

Proposals for New Courses and Course Changes

1. See the ICC Guidelines for New Courses and Course Changes. Scroll down the page to “Forms and Guidelines:” other course proposal information is available here as well, including the ICC document “Top Reasons for Course Returns.”
2. Note that new course proposals require consultation with academic units with potential significant overlap in the course content, as do proposals for course changes that will significantly affect other academic units.
   
   A single email memo can be addressed to chairs/curriculum chairs of relevant departments with potential significant overlap, both within and outside the college. Relevant departments can include their comments/notes of support for the course in the course Discussion tab in OCEAN, or the department contact can cut and paste email messages from other academic units regarding the course in the discussion tab. (Doing this can help to avoid questions from the college and university curriculum committees concerning consultation with other units.)

Temporary Approval of a New Course

Following CASCC and A&S Dean’s approval of a course proposal, temporary approval for one offering prior to ICC and UCC approval can be requested. The college office will send the request for temporary approval to the Provost’s office, for the term that you specify.

1. Courses can be offered on a temporary basis only once.
2. Temporary courses do not count toward General Education, but can count toward A&S distribution requirements.
3. Temporary approval of a new course requires consultation with other academic units with potential overlap in course content (described above).
4. See the ICC Temporary Course Form.

Experimental Course Proposals

This is the option to propose a new course that your department or program would like to offer experimentally before proposing it as a regular offering (or your academic unit may decide not to proceed with proposing the course as a regular offering following the experimental course offering).

1. For information on proposing experimental courses, see p. 8 of the ICC’s “Guidelines for Submission of New Course Proposals and Course Changes.” Note that experimental courses can be offered for a maximum two-year period and require approval at the department/program and college levels only.
2. See the form to propose an experimental course. (UCC Form 5) Completed forms for A&S experimental course proposals should be emailed to the A&S Curriculum Committee Chair, Dr. Nukhet Sandal. Note: In contrast to the information on the current form, paper copies are not required for experimental course proposals submitted in the College of Arts & Sciences.
3. If an existing departmental/program prefix will be used, that department/program will need to sign off on designating the course with that prefix (with an “x” appended to the number, to indicate that it is an experimental course).
4. If an existing departmental/program prefix is not appropriate to use for the course, the course can be proposed with the college “CAS” prefix (with an “x” appended to the number, e.g., CAS 2000x) . Please check with cas@ohio.edu regarding the specific number to be used for a CAS-designated course. If the course will subsequently be proposed as a regular course, it is preferable if the same number is utilized for both the experimental and regular course (e.g., CAS 2000x becomes CAS 2000).
5. Experimental courses do not count toward General Education but can count toward A&S distribution requirements. For a course to fulfill General Education requirements, a regular “new course proposal” needs to be submitted in OCEAN and approved by the college and university curriculum committees (CASCC, ICC, UCC).
6. Experimental course proposals (as well as proposals for new courses and temporary approvals for new courses) require consultation with other academic units with potential overlap in course content.

As noted above, a single email memo can be addressed to chairs/curriculum chairs of relevant departments with potential significant overlap, both within and outside the college. (Doing this can help to avoid questions from the college and university curriculum committees concerning consultation with other units.) Since experimental course proposals are not entered in OCEAN, the experimental course proposal should be attached to the email, with a request to please reply with any input or objections within 2 weeks; after that you will assume that there are no objections or other input.