Faculty & staff resources

New course

  1. Create a digitally accessible syllabus that fulfills the General Education syllabus requirements
    1. Follow the course credit guidelines
    2. General Education Learning Outcomes
    3. LAS Online policies & guidelines
  2. Propose a course in the Course Inventory Management Courses (CIM-C) system. Upon submission, CIM-C will route the request to the necessary departmental approvals.
    1. Guidelines to assist in completing new course CIM-C online form
    2. Please submit your syllabus to CIM-C as a .doc file
    3. Fill out and attach the CIM-C Gen Ed Guide
  3. LAS General Education and LAS Courses and Curriculum Committees will review your proposal and syllabus. Feedback will be provided to the sponsor, and you will work with the Courses and Curricula Office to improve your submission. Once approved, your proposal will go through the General Education Board for approval.
  4. You will receive feedback from the board of approval or further development needed.
  5. You will receive notification through CourseLeaf once your course is approved and in the Academic Catalog, Courses of Instruction. General Education credit can be earned by students the first time the course if offered.
  6. Maintain General Education status
    Units are responsible for ensuring their Gen Ed offerings follow all Gen Ed guidelines, including offering courses on a continuing and regular basis. The Office of the Provost will monitor Gen Ed courses each semester and remove Gen Ed certification from inactive courses. Gen Ed courses remain in Active status by meeting one of the below criteria:
    1. Newly-certified Gen Ed courses: Must be offered at least once a year for the first three years
    2. All Gen Ed courses: Must be offered at least once every three years

General Education recertification

Courses with Gen Ed certification are required to go through Gen Ed Recertification where the sponsoring unit submits updated information about the course which is reviewed. The Office of the Provost posts recertification schedules for the upcoming one to two years. 

  1. Before submitting a course for recertification, ensure that the course still meets all general education criteria and that it will continue to be offered on a consistent basis.
  2. We recommend referring to the Gen Ed CIM-C Guide. Any changes to the course (description, title, hours, etc.) must be done before recertification in CIM-C as a revision.
  3. Complete the steps for Gen Ed recertification
  4. The review process and approval or rollback with feedback will take place.
    1. If a course is rolled back following Gen Ed Board review the sponsor will receive an email with information including if the course was rolled back to a role in the workflow (editing needs to be done in CourseLeaf) or if the course was rolled back to the sponsor before workflow (editing needs to be done in CIM-C).
  5. You will receive notification through Courseleaf once your course is approved and in the Academic Catalog, Courses of Instruction.