Curriculum Management
General Bulletin
The General Bulletin is an annually published, point-in-time compilation of the university's departments, degree programs, and requirements, as well as a catalog of courses that departments can offer during a given academic year. The catalog of courses is sourced directly from the Student Information System (SIS). The General Bulletin serves as official documentation of academic structure, programs, credentials, and course offerings as of the beginning of an academic year.
Resources for Bulletin editors can be found on General Bulletin Editing.
Catalog of Courses
The catalog of courses is the collection of active courses that are approved to be offered by university departments during a given academic year. Course information is included in the catalog in accordance with the university’s established academic governance processes, including formal review through school and university curriculum approval processes. The catalog contains non-term-specific information, such as course names, units, descriptions, and cross-listed courses. The University Registrar’s Office maintains the catalog of courses within SIS.
To add new courses to the catalog or make changes to existing courses, faculty and staff use the Course Action Form.
Courses not offered in five years are inactivated in the course catalog. Learn about the course inactivation/reactivation process.
Schedule of Classes
The schedule of classes is a subset of catalog courses that are being taught in a particular term. It includes term-specific information such as class number, days and times of class meetings, building, room number, and instructor. Individual departments maintain the class schedule for their unit within SIS. This schedule comprises the classes available for student registration in SIS.
Detailed information (including how to gain access) can be found on Schedule of Classes Administration.
Class Search
Class Search is the tool used to view and search the schedule of classes. Class Search is available in SIS to authenticated users and viewable to anyone via the public Class Search.
Program Management
Program Action Form
The Program Action Form is required when creating a new or requesting changes to an existing program (degree/university certificate/major/minor, concentration/track/field of study, or dual degree). Faculty and staff have access to the Program Action Form.
Program Action Forms may be submitted at any time. Although the duration of approval workflows varies by school and type of change, the target submission date each year is February 1 for program changes to be reflected in the General Bulletin of the following academic year.