Academic Senate: General Course Proposal Approval Process

1. Faculty create a new course or propose changes to an existing course. Upon departmental approval, the Department Course Preparer enters the proposal into the CRS system, and the Registrar's office reviews it.
2. The path then depends on the course:
   • Graduate courses:
     1. College Executive Committees submit graduate course proposals to the Graduate Council via CRS.
     2. The Graduate Council reviews the course proposal and either approves the course or returns it to the Department Course Preparer for additional information.
     3. If the Graduate Council does not approve the course, it goes back to the College Executive Committee step. If the Graduate Council approves it, it goes to the Committee on Courses (step 3).
   • Undergraduate courses: College Executive Committees submit approved undergraduate course proposals to the Committee on Courses via CRS.
3. The Committee on Courses reviews the course proposal.
   • If the Committee on Courses does not approve it: the Committee returns the course to the Department Course Preparer. The course is rerouted through the process to the Committee on Courses when the information or requested correction is entered in CRS.
   • If the Committee on Courses approves it: the Committee submits a quarterly report to the Division with the list of courses approved.

Please note that some courses, including those from GSoE, SoBA, SoM, SPP and the Honors Program, have different course proposal processes. For detailed course proposal processes for all courses, please see the Office of the Registrar's webpage (http://registrar.ucr.edu/crs/course-proposal/approval-routing.html).