The two foundational pieces of any course proposal are the Rationale and the Course Learning Outcomes. These key elements answer the essential questions:

Why are you creating (or modifying) this course?

What do you expect students to learn in this course?

The rest of the information needed to complete the proposal (and fill in the course proposal Curriculog template) flows from the answer to these two questions. Here are the recommended steps of course proposal design:

Step 1: Rationale and Learning Outcomes

Step 2: Course Content, Alignment and Assessment

Step 3: Resource Requirements

Step 4: Catalog Data

Step 5: Course Modifications (modification proposals only)

Before you get started

Contact the Curriculum Committee Chair, a member of the Curriculum Admin Team, or your division representative to the Curriculum Committee so that you can receive advice, support and resources you need to ensure a smooth and timely proposal process.

Working Outside of Curriculog

If you are doing your drafting, thinking and collaborating before entering data into Curriculog, we recommend using a Google template from the Champlain Template Gallery. In the Gallery, scroll down to the "Curriculum" heading find these course proposal templates:

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Course Elimination

Experimental (EXP) Course

Independent Study

Course Modification

New Permanent Course

To create your own worksheet from these templates, go to Google Drive. Click the "New" button to create a new document. Click the right arrow next to "Google Docs" and choose "From a template."

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You will arrive at the Champlain Template Gallery. Scroll down to the "Curriculum" heading and select/create a document by clicking on it. Rename the document according to the convention described in step 1 of the instructions on the template.

The document will now reside in your Google Drive.

To build your course proposal, follow the instructions on the template as well as the guidelines laid out in the following steps. Share the Google Document with collaborators.

These worksheets are available to help you collect, refine and organize the information you'll need to create a course proposal. You can then copy and paste this information into the appropriate Curriculog template. Or you can begin working in Curriculog directly.

This helpful video explains step-by-step how to use the Google template worksheets.

IMPORTANT NOTE for course modifications or eliminations:

If you are doing a course modification or elimination, your first step when originating a Curriculog proposal is to download existing catalog information into the template.

When starting any course modification proposal in Curriculog, the first step must be to (1) import the existing catalog data into the template. Be sure to (2) launch the proposal before making revisions.

Go to this page for detailed instructions on how to import existing catalog information.

IMPORT > LAUNCH > EDIT

Click on the "NEXT" button at the bottom left of the screen for a video showing how to use the Google worksheets.