Curriculum Forms

Submission Instructions: Once forms are approved at the college level, they must be submitted electronically to the Dean of Graduate Studies and the Chair of the Graduate Council. In addition, one hard copy with approval signatures should be sent by campus mail to the Dean of Graduate Studies.

Downloading Instructions: Instructions for completing curriculum forms below: Save the form to your desktop; open the form and click on "lock box" in bottom toolbar to open or close the form; the open form allows data to be entered and pull down menus to operate; to save data to the form lock the lockbox; save the completed form to your files; to begin a new curriculum proposal save a new form to desktop.

New Courses/Course Changes
The following forms are to be used to propose new courses, delete existing courses, or make changes to existing courses such as number of hours, or changes to title, description, prerequisites, co-requisites, etc.

EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY: All new course proposals must include Student Learning Outcomes and Assessment methods. Click here for information on how to write and assess SLOs.

Graduate New Course Form
Graduate Course Change Form

Program Changes
Graduate New Program/ Program Change Form should accompany all changes to existing degree programs such as changes in admission or completion requirements, core courses, hours, new tracks, etc.

New Degree Proposal
If you have approval from the Provost to propose a new degree program, you will need to download the Format for Preliminary Authority Requests form from THECB website. All required parts of the preliminary authority request must be submitted through the Dean of Graduate Studies before any new degree proposal is written. The Preliminary Authority Request will be sent through the UT System to THECB for approval. This may take several months.

If the Preliminary Authority Request is approved, then work on writing the proposal may begin. You are encoruaged to work with the Dean of Graduate Studies as you prepare the proposal, particularly as you work on the budget. When submitting a new degree proposal to the Graduate Council, please include the following documents:

THECB New Program Request Form for Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees

complete catalog copy

Graduate New Program/ Program Change Form.

New Graduate Certificate Programs
Proposals for new graduate certificate programs must follow this outline: Graduate Certificate Proposal Outline (Word Doc). All certificate proposals should be accompanied by a Graduate New Program/ Program Change Form

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