**READ BEFORE YOU BEGIN**

IMPORANT: ALL APPLICABLE FIELDS MUST BE COMPLETED AS THE PROGRAM CURRENTLY EXISTS AND THE PROPOSAL LAUNCHED BEFORE MAKING ANY CHANGES.  Your changes will not be tracked if changes are made before launching.

1. Detailed instructions on how to complete this proposal are available in the Curriculog User's Guide.
2. Fields with an asterisk (*) are required. A proposal cannot be launched without data in each of the required fields.
3. To automatically populate many of the fields of this proposal form from the online catalog, click on the "Import"  icon above, just below the "My Tasks" tab, to select your program from the catalog. Finish completing the remaining fields with information as it currently appears in the catalog.  In order to make edits or changes, you must first LAUNCH the proposal, and then make your desired changes.
4. Once all desired edits have been made the Originator must APPROVE the proposal to advance it to the next step. 
5. Once approved by the Originator, each subsequent approval step will have a 15 calendar day deadline to make a decision. After 15 calendar days the proposal is automatically rejected and returned to the Originator. If there are questions or clarifications needed that require time beyond this deadline you may select the HOLD decision. This decision requires administrative approval.
6. Please email curriculog@cwu.edu with questions or if you need assistance in completing this proposal.

Special Note: Program Change proposals are all effective dated for fall term. The deadline for program changes for the 2017-2018 catalog is January 8, 2017.  Proposals must be approved up to the Registrar Services approval step by that date.

Level of Study

Program Proposal Types:

Majors:  The major forms the basis for granting of a baccalaureate or graduate degree.  It is a coherent, in-depth program of study in a particular discipline or disciplines wherein the student will develop and demonstrate an increasing awareness of both the possibilities and the limits of the major program of study.  Majors are designed to provide a mastery of the content, insights, skills and techniques appropriate to an undergraduate education in a particular body of knowledge.  Majors will consist of courses that are often sequential, leading to advanced study in the discipline(s).  A major will consist of a minimum of 45 credits.  For undergraduate degrees, a 45 to 59 credit major requires completion of a minor and/or second major, in which case the total credits of the major and minor/2^nd major must total at least 60 credits.

Specializations:  A specialization is a coherent, focused subfield within a degree program. A specialization can be distinguished from a new degree in that the full designation of the degree title - including level, type and major - does not change when a new specialization is added. Specializations in an undergraduate major must share a core, defined as a group of courses shared by all specializations within a major, which consists of no fewer than 25 credits for an undergraduate program or 15 credits for a graduate program. The courses constituting the specialization must consist of no fewer than 20 credits for an undergraduate program or 15 credits for graduate program.

Minors:  A minor is a coherent program of study in a particular discipline that provides an area that complements or supplements the student’s major.  A minor will consist of a minimum of 20 credits and a maximum of 44 credits.

Certificates:  Certificate programs are programs of study that normally require less than 25% of the credits required for a degree program at the same level. Certificate programs may not exceed 44 credits.  Certificate programs are specialized career programs, often geared for admission to licensing or career entrance tests, and results in a certificate.  Certificate programs may also be noncredit.

Graduate Certificates:  Graduate certificate programs are courses of study that require equal to half or less than half of the credits required during a degree program at a similar level.  They are usually limited in scope relative to a graduate degree program but provide an opportunity for advanced study with a particular focus.  Subject to the regulations that govern a specific program, a graduate certificate can often serve as an intermediate accomplishment for a student whose ultimate goal is a graduate degree.

Minor/ Certificate:  This option should be selected when the proposed program may be used as either a minor, certificate program, or both..

Narrative:  This is the descriptive text for a College or Department. This information is built as a “Shared Core,” and can be imported as such. Any courses or programs of study referenced in this section are text only and will not automatically update when those items are changed.​​

Effective Fall Quarter (select year below)

To minimize delays in approval of your curriculum please confirm that you are within the required deadlines for the year selected. A list of deadline dates can be found here. Submissions made after a deadline has passed may be delayed or rejected at any stage of the approval process. 

For questions, contact curriculog@cwu.edu for assistance.

College or Academic Group

Please select your College or Academic Group by clicking on the Add Item button below. If your College or Academic Group is not showing in the list of available options, please email curriculog@cwu.edu.

If you selected "Yes," please return to the "All Departments and Programs..." field above and add any additional departments or programs who will be affected by this proposed program change. 

​If multiple Departments or Programs have been selected above, please enter the name of the Department or Program who will have primary oversight of the proposed academic program in the field below (if only one department is selected above this field may be left blank).

Program vs. Shared Core

A shared core is an identical series of courses that are used by multiple programs, while a program is a set of courses or requirements unique to a single program. If you are unsure whether your proposal is a program or a shared core contact curriculog@cwu.edu for assistance.

Title of Program

To import your program information from the Online Catalog, including the program title, description and curriculum, click on the Import arrow at the top left of this form. 

Do not make any changes to the program until after it has been launched. If you elect not to use the import feature, or there are fields not completed through the process, enter information in exactly as it currently exists, launch the proposal, and then make any changes. ​

MyCWU Program and Specialization Codes

If the fields that follow have not imported in, they may be selected from the drop-down code list. If you are unsure of the appropriate code it can be left blank, however this may cause delays at the integration approval steps. Email curriculog@cwu.edu if you need assistance in finding the correct code(s) to use. These codes are used to identify the program (and specialization, when applicable) in MyCWU and help differentiate programs that may have very similar titles.

Description of Change

Program Text for Catalog Copy 

The Program Narrative is a required description of the program, the others are optional text fields where additional descriptions can be added. If any of the requirements below involve courses or shared cores they must be added into the proposed curriculum. For assistance in attaching an existing core, or in creating a new one, contact curriculog@cwu.edu. A proposal may be rejected or delayed if the program has, or should have, information in the optional text fields in this section that is not included.

Program Curriculum

Changes to a program's curriculum should be done in the following order:

1.  From the "Curriculum Schema" tab delete all courses that need to be removed from the program curriculum.
2. Change to the "Curriculum Courses" tab and remove the courses from there as well.
3. In the "Curriculum Courses" tab, click "import courses" to add any courses to the program curriculum that currently exist in the catalog.
4. Click "Add courses" to add any courses that are either currently in the approval process, or will be submitted concurrently with the program change proposal. 
5. Return to the "Curriculum Schema" and add all of the courses added or imported into the "Curriculum Courses" into the appropriate cores (a core with a blue padlock is a shared core and can only be edited as part of a shared core change proposal).
6. If needed, add new cores, and fill with courses or custom text.
7. Review for accuracy. If curriculum changes affected credit totals, either to cores, or the program as a whole, that these fields in curriculog are text only and will not adjust automatically to match changes.

Justification for Change

Additional Information for Graduate Programs:

For changes that affect a graduate program, make sure that any admissions and graduation requirements align with the minimum standards as set by the School of Graduate Studies and Research.

For undergraduate programs the remaining fields should be left blank. If this is a change to a graduate program, completion of this section is required. Please indicate if and how the proposed changes will impact the following: