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CIM Courses

A page within Records & Registration

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Getting started:

Training materials for proposers are available in the UCC/GCC Faculty Training Canvas course. Enroll in the course to have access to materials on using the Curriculum Inventory Management system (CIM) for course and program proposals, your roles and responsibilities, and guides on what the committees review. 

Courses:

  1. Login by clicking the Course Form link above.
  2. To make changes to an existing course, search for the course, select, and click "Edit Course" to begin.

or

  1. To propose a new course, click "Propose New Course."

Umbrella topics:

To propose a new umbrella topic, login by clicking the Umbrella Topic Form link above. Search for an existing topic by typing in the course with an * at the end. Or propose a new topic by clicking "Propose New Umbrella Topic."

Special course types

General Education Courses

Both UCC and the General Education Committee review all changes to courses in the General Education Program, including new courses being added, courses being deactivated, and all updates to current courses in the program. The general education portion of the CIM Course Form must be completed for all general education courses.

Gen Ed materials for proposers are available in the UCC/GCC Faculty Training Canvas course. 

Helpful links

General Education Director: Bryan Kopp, bkopp@uwlax.edu 

Cross-Listed Courses

What is a cross-listed course? A course offered by more than one department that has the same course description, credits, and title but different prefixes is a cross-listed course (e.g., ECO/THA 376; BIO/MIC 714). Students may earn credit only once for taking a cross-listed course.

Directions for cross-listed courses are available in the UCC/GCC Faculty Training Canvas course. 

Umbrella Courses & Subtopics

An umbrella course is a generic course "shell" that allows departments to test individual topics under the umbrella of the parent course's number and see if the topic would be useful as a regular course. If there is enough interest, the test topic become an independent course with its own number. A full explanation of umbrella courses and how they differ from regular topic courses is in the Umbrella Courses Policy.

An Umbrella Topic Form should be in workflow before the topic is scheduled. Please contact your ADA for the scheduling deadlines. The department should resubmit the form each time the test topic is offered so the most up-to-date version of the approved outline and outcomes are on record. If the instructor wants to change the topic's title, a new form should be submitted. 

Creating a New Test Topic or Reusing an Existing Topic:

  • Refer to the CIM Guide - Umbrella Course Topics in the Records & Departments Teams site, the Schedule of Classes channel (requires login).
  • Umbrella topics require approval from the department chair, dean's office, and the Registrar. Your college's curriculum committee may also need to approve.

Creating a New Umbrella "Parent" Course:

  • Refer to the "Create a New Course" guide in the  UCC/GCC Faculty Training Canvas course. 
  • Select "Yes" for "Is this an Umbrella Course?" and complete the rest of the form as directed.
  • A new umbrella parent course or change to a parent course requires approval from department chair, dean's office, Registrar, and UCC/GCC. Your college's curriculum committee may also need to approve.

The Records office works with the department to ensure approved topics appear on the students’ transcripts and in the schedule. 

Additional info

CIM stands for Curriculum Inventory Management, a system of online curriculum forms and approval workflows. Users can see what step the proposed change is at in the process at any time, and approvers are notified when they have a proposal to review. New faculty/staff who are not able to login should email curriculum@uwlax.edu. 

Additional materials:

Deadline to make the next meeting: Proposals must be at the Registrar's step in workflow (received dean's office approval) by the noon on Wednesday of the week before the UCC or GCC meeting. 

Stale proposals: Proposals not submitted into workflow or sitting at the same step in workflow after 6 months or more are subject to review. The UWL Curriculum Team will verify with the department if the proposal is still moving forward. If the proposed change is no longer being worked on, please contact the Curriculum Team to shred the proposal.

Questions? Need to start over on the form?

Contact the UWL Curriculum Team at curriculum@uwlax.edu.