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.

HSCC Submission Deadlines

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

DeadlineProposals Due by Deadline
August 22, 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 6, 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.

Resources for Curricular Work
ResourceDescription
Technical Guides for Working with CIMThe Office of the Registrar maintains Courseleaf (CIM) Technical Guides on their Faculty Resources Page.
APC Guides to Preparing Curriculum ProposalsGuides on course and program proposals, writing SLOs, and a variety of other topics. Scroll to Resources for Faculty.
HSCC Guidelines for Curricular ProposalsOverview of the curriculum review and approval process, and procedure and policy on course types and internships.
Guide to Course AttributesA comprehensive guide to course attributes: why they are useful, how they work, and how to add them to courses and/or sections.
Semester Planning GridFolder containing excel template in NYSED format, instructions for filling it out, and sample semester plans.
Selected Topics CoursesA guide to Selected Topics courses and how to put them into the semester schedule.
HSCC Curriculum BallotsFolder that contains current year ballot materials describing the proposals to be voted on by the faculty, and the Ballot Results.
HSCC Curriculum LogSpreadsheet containing actions taken on curricular proposals reviewed in current year.
APC Running AgendaAPC page containing links to agendas of APC actions on curricular proposals.
HSCC Membership and By-laws

2025-2026 Committee

MemberDepartmentArea and Term End
Julia CozzarelliWorld Languages, Literatures, and CulturesHumanities & Fine Arts, 2026
TBATBAHumanities & Fine Arts, 2027
Eric LeibenspergerPhysics and AstronomyNatural Sciences, 2026
David BrownMathematicsNatural Sciences, 2027
TBATBASocial Sciences, 2026
TBATBASocial Sciences, 2027
Mary Lourdes de Silva
Committee chair
WritingAt-Large, 2026
Eric SteinschneiderPhilosophy and ReligionAt-Large, 2026
Katherine Cohen-FilipicAssociate DeanH&S Dean, ex officio

HSCC By-laws - revised September 2024