Graduate Curriculum

For an overview of the graduate curricular review process, please see this document. These are in addition to any requirements that may be in place for your School curriculum committee.  Please see the Curriculum Review Dates for the Graduate Curricular Subcommittee/Graduate Council process in the table below for submission deadlines.

The Graduate Curricular Subcommittee/Graduate Council reviews:

• New and revised program proposals (substantial)
• New and revised courses in a program (substantial)
• Expedited program or course proposals (non-substantial, minor changes to programs or courses)
• Exempt proposals (administrative changes)
• Course deactivation proposals
• Miscellaneous other curricular issues (new subject codes, attributes)

• Information on required elements in a course syllabus is available here.

• For assistance in developing student learning outcomes, this chart of Bloom's Taxonomy (online) provides active verbs to use at each level of the taxonomy (the higher the level of the course, we expect to see higher order learning outcomes as well).

• NYSED Application to Change or Adapt a Registered Professional Education Program is available here (Please note that all communications with NYSED must go through the Office of the Provost. Please contact the Associate Provost, Graduate and Professional Studies for NYSED-related questions).

• All curriculum proposals must be prepared and submitted through the online Curriculum Inventory Management System (CIM). 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

• 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 Office of the Registrar 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.

• Proposals for all new and substantially revised programs or courses must be received by the Graduate Council by November 1 to assure timely submission for review by the New York State Education Department.

• All other proposals received by March 1 are guaranteed to be reviewed/considered by Graduate Council before the end of the academic year. Submission by March 1 will secure inclusion in the 2023-2024 Graduate Catalog.