Approval and Revision

Prior to the Development Process

Types of academic and degree programs include degree or major (including concentrations), co-major, minor, and certificate.

Prior to beginning the process of developing or revising an academic program, you should contact Carolyn Haynes, Senior Associate Provost, about participating in the Miami Academic Incubator Program (MAPI). Departments or faculty proposing new programs or significant revisions of existing programs (meaning more than 25% of the content or credit hours are being changed) are encouraged to participate in MAPI.

Additionally, proposers should review the definitions of curricular terms and consult the General Bulletin (General Information section) for a listing of existing Miami academic programs and their requirements to ensure that the program you intend to propose does not overlap significantly with existing programs. As a general rule of thumb, departments should aim for at least 50% of their credit hours of the program to be unique. To aid advising and retention of students, healthy program enrollments, as well as efficient use of resources, it is important to keep the Miami curriculum as streamlined as possible.

Once you have completed the MAPI program, you should create a full proposal for the program via Miami’s Course Information Management (CIM) system. The CIM workflow approval processes for each type of program are articulated below.