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HARPUR COLLEGE PERMANENT COURSE PROPOSAL FORM

It is understood that proposals come approved by the department's/program's curriculum committee.

All Harpur College course proposals, Undergraduate and Graduate, must follow the proposal format presented below. Be sure to answer all questions. Unanswered questions may delay the proposal. Please submit as a Word Document.

Email proposals to Shannon Monell at monell@binghamton.edu in the Harpur College Dean’s Office.

1. Course Details

a) Department/Program:

b) Instructor(s) Name and Title: If the instructor of record is not tenure/tenure-track faculty, then a justification is necessary, and the instructor’s CV must also be submitted.

c) Course Rubric/Number: (see page 3 for Harpur College Guidelines on numbering)

d) Course Title: (30 characters & spaces maximum)

| | | | |

|Fall/Spring semester courses meeting 3 hours per week for lecture/discussion |3 |9.5 |12.5 |

|(14 weeks) | | | |

|Fall/Spring semester courses with additional meeting times (discussion, |Varies |Varies |12.5 |

|sections, labs or other) (14 weeks) | | | |

|Summer Session (5 weeks) fact-to-face course |10 |25 |35 |

|Summer Session (5 weeks) online courses |n/a |35 |35 |

|Winter Session (3 weeks) face-to-face courses |15 |43 |58 |

|Winter Session (3 weeks) online courses |n/a |58 |58 |

*From the document entitled “Syllabus statements on credit hours and course expectations March, 2014” in the Faculty Staff Handbook

GENERAL EDUCATION DESIGNATIONS

Harpur College experimental or permanent course approval process differs from that needed to designate a course as satisfying a General Education requirement. Gen Ed approvals are handled by the University Undergraduate Curriculum Committee. Guidelines, submission form and FAQ can be found on the General Education website. General Education designations are not used at the graduate level.

HARPUR COLLEGE NUMBERING SYSTEM

• The x80-x89 range of numbers at each level are reserved for topics courses.

• The x90-x99 range at each undergraduate level are reserved for:

1 91 Teaching Practica

2 95 Internship

3 97 Independent Study

4 98 - 99 Honors/Thesis

• 100 level Introductory Courses, normally with no prerequisites, open to all students

• 200 level Lower division, intermediate courses with or without prerequisites

• 300 level Upper division, intermediate courses, normally with prerequisites

• 400 level Upper division, advanced courses with specific course prerequisites

• 500-589  Master’s-level courses: at the option of the instructor (not the student), either S/U or regular letter grading may be used.

• 590, 592-596 and 598  Internship or practicum courses: at the option of the instructor (not the student), either S/U or regular letter grading may be used.

• 591 Supervised college teaching of the discipline: only S/U grading may be used.

• 597  Independent study: at the option of the instructor (not the student), either S/U or regular letter grading may

be used.

• 599 Thesis: only S/U grading may be used.

• 600-696 Doctoral research seminars: at the option of the instructor (not the student), either S/U or regular letter grading may be used.

• 697 Independent study at the doctoral level: at the option of the instructor (not the student), either S/U or regular letter grading may be used.

• 698 Pre-dissertation research: only S/U grading may be used.

• 699 Dissertation: only S/U grading may be used.

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