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Instructions:
Step 1
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Generate certificate or degree MHEC document for approval by Academic
Deans Complete CIC course proposal forms for new certificate, degree,
or course Get on Academic Deans’ meeting agenda (this process replaces
the old Routing Form)
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Complete CIC course proposal forms for new certificate, degree, or
course
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Get on Academic Deans’ meeting agenda (this process replaces the old
Routing Form)
Step 2
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Upon the deans’ approval, obtain a course number and designator from
Lynn MacLaughlin
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Obtain Curriculum and Instruction Committee (CIC) Proposal number from
vice chair of CIC
Step 3
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send proposal to CIC chair three weeks before meeting date
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Work with your assigned CIC reviewer
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Make any necessary corrections submit to CIC chair again at least one
week before CIC meeting date
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Submit to CIC chair again at least one week before CIC meeting date
Step 4
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Attend CIC to present proposal
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Make any necessary corrections and also submit signed (and electronic)
Banner forms to CIC chair
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Attend Senate meeting the following month for approval
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Notify library of proposed course
Step 5
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VCLSD will forward Board of Trustees approved proposals to Maryland
Higher Education Commission
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VCLSD will forward Board of Trustees approved proposals to Maryland
Higher Education Commission
Hints for successful presentation to CIC:
Catalog description, all written in present tense, includes the name of
the course followed by a verb: College Composition I introduces
Banner form course description is one to two sentences taken from the
longer description
Objectives should number from twelve to fifteen
Objectives should be measurable and use action verbs; avoid non
measurable words: understand, know, etc.
Objectives should include lower and higher levels intellectual
achievement : from identify to evaluate
Objectives, preceded by numbers 1,2,3 etc. are a list in lower case
followed by a semicolon except for second to last objective which uses
semicolon with and
Evaluation activities should specify minimum number of tests, describe
in general writing assignment(s), and specify other essential evaluation
strategies
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