The Humanities & Sciences Curriculum Committee is an elected body of the faculty of the School of Humanities and Sciences (H&S). It has overall responsibility, subject to the approval of the faculty, for the structure, coherence, and quality of the curriculum of the school. This curriculum should be consistent with the educational mission of the school, which is to provide students with “the lifelong learning skills that are fundamental to continuing personal and professional growth.” The Committee’s responsibility involves both immediate and long-range objectives.

Reminder: All curriculum proposals must be prepared and submitted through the Curriculum Inventory Management system (referred to as CIM), an online system. 

The CIM system is available at these links:
Course Proposals - experimental, new, revised
Program Proposals - new or revised majors, minors, or concentrations
Miscellaneous Proposals - request new or revise existing attribute code or subject code prefix
CourseLeaf Console - access to proposals and reporting

All full-time, continuing faculty members have access to CIM with your netpass user name and password. If you find you do not have access, please contact the Dean's Office by emailing hsadmin@ithaca.edu for assistance.

The office of the registrar has prepared a user guide for the CIM system, Courseleaf Online Curriculum Management System document; this guide focuses on how prepare course proposals.

HSCC Submission Deadlines

Deadlines for curriculum revisions to be included in the Fall 2026 (AY 2026-27) catalog:

Deadline DateProposals Due by Deadline
August 27, 2025New and revised program proposal packages requiring NYSED submission. 
Check with the Associate Dean for Curriculum to determine if your program proposal requires 
NYSED review.
October 1, 2025All other program revision packages, with associated courses.
December 15, 2025All other course and expedited program revisions.

Note that HSCC deadlines are earlier than APC deadlines because we need time to complete review in the school in order to meet those APC deadlines.

Complete curriculum packages for revised majors and minors include new courses, standard course revision proposals, expedited course proposals (formerly ROAs), course deactivations, and any other documentation required by the program revisions.