There are several actions that can be taken regarding the courses Miami offer. Each action has a particular set of guidelines and approval processes. These course actions include:
New permanent course proposals
New temporary course proposals
Proposed additional or minor change(s) to existing course
Proposed change(s) to existing course
Deletion of a course
New Permanent Course Approval
Note: You should follow this process if you wish to offer the course three or more times.
Any permanently approved course may have modifiers to allow students to register for the course more than once or to focus on specific content (hence, different titles) within a very large body of material.
New Temporary Course Approval
Note: Temporary courses can only be offered no more than four consecutive terms/semesters.
Courses may be deleted via submitting the proposal for significant course change (described above) or via the procedure articulated below:
In the fall semester of each academic year, the Office of the Registrar will notify via an electronic report the appropriate chair or director and dean of any courses that have not been offered for the past four academic years. No action will be taken on these courses at this point in time.
If the courses on this list are not offered by the start of the fifth academic year, they will be removed from the Bulletin listing of courses.
In this fifth year, the chair or director with the approval of the appropriate academic dean may submit to the Office of the Registrar a written justification for retaining the course on the list of active University courses for one additional year. The course will remain active for an additional (sixth) year and be deleted during the following year, if not offered.
Failure to supply such justification by the stated deadline of the fifth year of a course not being offered will result in the deletion of the course from the Bulletin list of active University courses.
A department or program wishing to offer a course that has been deleted must follow the procedures for approval of a new course before the course may be offered again.
