Curriculum Changes

Requests for Curriculum Action

• Request for Curriculum Action (RCA)
  With this form, propose new courses or change existing ones.
  
• Request for Prerequisite and/or Credit Hour Changes
  Optional: Use this form instead of the RCA form when changing only prerequisites or credit hours for existing courses.
  
• Request for Deletion
  Optional: Use this form instead of the RCA form when deleting courses.
  

Send completed curriculum form(s) to:

Paper copies of supporting documentation (syllabus, statement of justification) may be sent to the address above, but we prefer to receive those materials by e-mail attachment instead. Please send them to jschneid@unlnotes.unl.edu.

Curriculum Approval Reports

Curriculum requests approved by the UNL Graduate Council, by fiscal year. Reports in PDF format:

Curriculum Reminders

Signatures: All curriculum action forms must be signed by the college dean or appropriate department head before they will be considered.

Crosslistings: If a course is cross-listed, a memo from the cross-listed department must accompany the curriculum request.

400/800-Level Courses:
     Proposals for 800-level courses that have a 400-level counterpart must include a sample syllabus clearly differentiating the work required of graduate students as opposed to undergraduate students. As stated in the Graduate Studies Bulletin, "There is an expected differentiation of student performance according the [level] of the course numbers". (p. 27)
     400/800-level courses need approval of both the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee and the UNL Graduate Council. Those approvals occur independently.