curriculum and instruction committee

	Curriculum and Instruction Committee

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Instructions:

Step 1

Generate certificate or degree MHEC document for approval by Academic Deans
Get on Academic Deans’ meeting agenda to seek approval for new courses, certificates or degrees

Step 2

Upon the deans’ approval, obtain a course number(s) and designator(s) from Lynn MacLaughlin
Obtain Curriculum and Instruction Committee (CIC) Proposal number(s) from vice chair of CIC

Step 3

Step 4

Attend CIC meeting to present proposal
Corrections to the documents must be made within a week so the proposal can be submitted to the Senate for final approval
Attend the Senate meeting for approva
Upon Senate approval:

New courses: submit a signed hard copy of the Banner form to the Dean of Instruction for Curriculum and Assessment. CIC chair will submit the CCO for posting to the Web.
For new programs: Send the document on how the program will appear in the catalog to the Catalog Editor. Please note: new programs cannot be included in the next academic catalog until approval has been received from MHEC.
For new certificates: MHEC approval is not needed for certificates but they do need an informational letter regarding the certificate
For revised programs and certificates: Print out a copy of the affected pages from the current catalog and mark the approved changes in red. Submit the marked pages to the Catalog Editor

Step 5

The Vice President of Instruction will submit Senate approved proposal for new programs to Board of Trustees for approval
The Vice President of Instruction will submit a letter of explanation to MHEC regarding the creation of new certificates
The Vice President of Instruction will forward Board of Trustees approved proposals to Maryland Higher Education Commission

Hints for successful CCOs:

Catalog description, all written in present tense, includes the name of the course followed by a verb: ENGL 101 – 3 credits -College Composition I introduces
Banner form course description is one to two sentences taken from the longer description
Objectives

have between twelve and fifteen (use Arabic numbers)
should be measurable and use action verbs; avoid non-measurable words: understand, know, etc.
must include lower and higher levels of intellectual achievement : from identify to evaluate (Google “Bloom’s Taxonomy” for further guidance)
preceded by numbers 1,2,3 etc. are part of a list. They need to begin with a lower case and end with a semicolon except for second to last objective which uses semicolon with and and the last item ends with a period.

should specify minimum number of tests, give examples of appropriate writing assignment(s), and specify other essential evaluation strategies
show a clear and direct relationship with the objectives