Who sets the deadlines for course approval?
It is ultimately the departments who determine precise deadlines for the receipt of Course Proposal Forms. At the outermost administrative level, the Academic Senate has, via the Course Proposal Form, approved the following language governing deadlines: “The deadline for submitting the form to Committee on Courses of Instruction (COCI) is one month before the end of instruction in the preceding semester (or summer).” Individual departments, further, are at liberty to set their own internal deadlines at points earlier than this, to enable them to manage their student-initiated course approval process more smoothly. Many have done so. DeCal tries to publicize and clarify whatever they can about departmental and campus policies. They have absolutely no deadlines regarding forms, since it is not to their office that the Course Proposal Form originals are to be delivered. DeCal asks students wishing to publicize a course on their website to submit photocopies of signed Course Proposal Forms
