FAQs on the Curriculum Process

Standard proposals go through the full course/curriculum processes for approval and can be modified at any stage, by the procedures of the voting body at that stage. { K-State ARN Manual – pg.11 }

Expedited proposals go through the following steps for approval: Department Faculty; College course/curriculum committee; Graduate Council – both GCAAC and GC vote on the proposal; FSAAC.

However, at any time prior to approval, a faculty senator may request to the chair of FSAAC that an expedited proposal be changed to a standard proposal. Such a request is always honored. Any bodies that have approved the proposal do not need to reapprove the proposal. { K-State ARN Manual – pg. 12 }

A course proposal is expedited if all the following are true: { K-State ARN Manual – pg. 11 }

• The proposal is a course change or drop (course additions cannot be expedited).
• The change does not impact an academic unit outside of the proposing college or school.
• The course meets one of the following criteria
  • It is not part of any curriculum offered outside of the proposing college or school. This is verified by running the impact report and including it with the proposal.
  • It is part of curriculum, but only among a list of numerous other options (technical, free, unrestricted, humanities, etc. electives).
• Students from outside of the proposing college rarely enroll in the course.
• The change involves renumbering, renaming or changing course descriptions due to changes in current practices or terminology in the discipline.
• The course proposal does not add, change, or remove a K-State 8 tag from an existing course. However, dropping a course can be an expedited process, even if the course has K-State 8 tags.
• The course proposal does not combine two or more courses that result in dropping one of the course numbers.

{ K-State ARN Manual – pg. 12 }

A curriculum proposal may use the expedited process if all the following are true:

• The proposal is a change.
• The proposal does not add or discontinue a curriculum or sub-curriculum (option, track, specialization, etc.).
• The required total number of credit hours for completion of a program is not changing.
• The proposal does not impact another unit outside of the college.
• This proposal does not add or delete a course(s) that impacts enrollment of courses outside the college.
• There is no addition of course(s) outside the college which were not previously required.
• The degree name is not changing.
• This proposal is not a substantial re-write of a curriculum.

In order to ensure that any change to courses and programs will pull into the university catalog they must be approved by the Catalog Deadlines Dates - regardless if expedited or standard processes.

https://www.k-state.edu/curriculum/deadlines/catalogdeadlines/index.html