Course Reactivation Guidelines

Adopted April 16, 2007, Amended July 22, 2008

Each year departments are asked to deactivate (remove from the catalog) courses in which there has been no enrollment in the previous five years. Courses may be reactivated when a department/college is ready to teach the course again.

To request course reactivation, the department chair must send a memo through the college's Associate Dean to the University Courses and Curricula Committee.

The following information must be included in the memo or in the attachments to the memo.

  1. A copy of the previous catalog description of the course and a statement that no change in the course (description, title, prerequisites or credits) is being requested.
  2. Editorial corrections are permitted (for example, a prerequisite course that has been renumbered).
  3. A syllabus for the course. The syllabus must meet expectations described in the Syllabus Guidelines .
  4. Identify the term in which the course will next be offered.
  5. Describe t he frequency with which the course will be offered (every semester, Spring only, Fall even years, etc.).
  6. How will the department cover the course (current professor, full-time instructor, LOA or an instructor to be hired in an ongoing search, etc.)?
  7. Provide the expected enrollment for the course.

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