Regular Courses

The majority of OSU courses fall in the Regular Course category.

Want to propose a Core Education course, including WIC and DPO? See the Core Education Course page for guidance.

Workflow

• New courses and changes to existing courses go through the full review workflow (diagram of full workflow)
• Proposals to change only schedule type, crosslisting, or campus go through the expedited review process (diagram of expedited workflow)

Required Information

• Course details
  • Complete all mandatory fields (boxes outlined in red) in the course proposal.
• Liaisons
  • At least three liaisons are required
    • One Academic Liaison must be from outside the college associated with the Originating Academic Unit.
    • The remaining liaisons can be from within the college but must be outside the Originating Academic Unit.
• Syllabus
  • Must meet the syllabus minimum requirements policy
  • If a course is offered in multiple campus locations or modalities, only one syllabus must be submitted with the proposal. (This rule is different for Core Ed courses.)
  • Syllabus templates: On campus course and Ecampus online or Hybrid course

Approval Deadline

New course proposals must be approved by the end of week 6 of the term prior to when the course is taught. Course change proposals must be approved by May 1 for the changes to take effect the following catalog year. See the catalog year policy for details.

Hybrid Programming Offered at the Portland Center

To propose an individual course to be developed and scheduled for hybrid delivery at the Portland Center, visit the Ecampus Course Proposal page and indicate that the course will be an Ecampus hybrid-Portland Center course in the form. Once approved for development as a hybrid course by Ecampus, please submit a course proposal in CIM.  

Proposal questions? Contact CM's Curriculum Coordinators.