Course Addition Worksheet

COURSE ADDITION WORKSHEET

FOR NEW COURSES

GENERAL INFORMATION

Course Name:
Course Description:
This course will be: /  Required
 Elective
Prerequisites:
Please state prerequisites and reasons for such
Majors:
What majors will be targeted for this course?

REVIEW PROCESS

Please outline the review process completed at the departmental and college level used to approve this course.

COURSE CONTENT

Indicate why the course is essential or advantageous for the discipline. If the course relates directly to a practiced profession, indicate how the course content will be useful in furthering success in that profession.
List five (5) keywords that characterize the course:
Please provide the results of doing a keyword search of the electronic catalog using your keywords (
If an existing course has a similar title or description and might be perceived as similar to your proposed course, please
a) identify the existing course/s and
b) provide an explanation of how your course differs from the existing course/s.
Note: Instruction in basic analysis with discipline-unique applications will not typically be considered justification for a new course.

PREVIOUS OFFERINGS

Hasthis course has been offered before (as a current topics course, for example), indicate:
Semester / Enrollment

ANTICIPATED ENROLLMENT

If the course has not been offered before, please provide the anticipated enrollment and the basis for that forecast.

ANTICIPATED OFFERINGS

Indicate the anticipated frequency of offering and the expected enrollment.

The course will be offered: /  Twice a year
 Once a year
 Every two years
 Other, specify ______
If applicable, indicate whether the number of studentswho would take this course is increasing, stable, or decreasing.

STAFFING

Explain how the proposed course will be staffed.

The course will staffed with: /  Existing or replaced faculty
 New hire (replacement faculty are not considered as new)
If the course is to be taught by existing faculty, indicate how the faculty member’s current work load will be altered to accommodate the new offering. If the proposed course will require additional faculty, indicate how these resources will bemade available.

IMPACT ON EXISTING OFFERINGS

The Committee will evaluate the proposed course both on individual merit and the impact of the proposed course on other courses.

Will an existing course be dropped to accommodate this course? If so, which course?
If the course is an elective, indicate other elective enrollments that will be potentially affected by this offering. (Note that unless program enrollments are increasing, it is likely that offering a new elective will decrease enrollment in other electives.)

DISTANCE DELIVERY

If the proposed course will be offered via a distance modality, please provide documentation of the appropriate approvals for that delivery method.

OTHER

Indicate any other reasons why the course will benefit your graduate programs.
Note: While the university has set strategic goals of increasing graduate enrollment, simply providing additional courses does not guarantee increased enrollment. Suggestions that the new course offering will increase graduate enrollment should be documented and justified as well as possible.