New Course

Course Inventory Management

Preparing a proposal

Proposing a new course

After submission

Modifications

Replacing courses

Justification

Form Expectations

Instructions

Questions

Graduate course modifications

Undergraduate

Graduate

Undergraduate

Graduate

All courses are proposed, edited or banked through Course Inventory Management. You can login with your EWU SSO.

The submitter is expected to provide a justification for the new course. In preparing this, consider the following questions:

Is this course part of an existing or proposed program?
Is this course an elective?
If so, is it for more than one program?
Was this course an experimental course for 3 terms?

Prior to inputting a CIM course submission, familiarize yourself with the information expected for each form field and prepare any additional materials that might be needed.

Form Field Details

After you log in, you will be directed to the CIM home. Here you can propose a new course—either one that has not been in the catalog before or one to replace an existing course.

CIM homepage

Click Propose New Course. A New Course Proposal form will open in a new window.
Complete all areas where the boxes are outlined in red. See Course Form Fields for details.
You have three options for saving changes:
- Save & Submit - saves your changes and submits the proposal for review, starting the workflow.
- Save Changes - saves your changes without submitting.
- Cancel - discards your changes.

An email is sent to notify each person in the workflow that a task in CIM is waiting his or her review. As only one email is sent, it is the responsibility of the submitter to follow the proposal and make sure each step in the workflow is complete on time.

All departments and programs that are affected by the proposal are included in the CIM approval process. The CIM system flags any additional approvals needed and notifies departments impacted by the proposed change.

Workflow & Timeline

If modification is needed during the approval process, this can be handled by one of the following methods.

Rollback

The proposal needs significant changes.

The person reviewing sends the document back to the initiator for changes and communicates with the initiator to clarify what changes are required. The proposal then moves forward following the full workflow approval process. It is the initiator’s responsibility to monitor and encourage the movement through the workflow steps.

If you have questions related to the workflow review after a document rollback, contact:

Heather Veeder
509.359.6814
hveeder@ewu.edu

Roberta Brooke
509.359.6566
rbrooke@ewu.edu

Edit By Current Reviewer

For graduate courses, you must respond to CPAC questions within two weeks or else the proposal will rollback to the start of the workflow.

If the new course is intended to replace an existing course, please contact Mark Ward or Roberta Brooke to determine when it is appropriate to bank the old course. This ensures CPAC understands the full scope of the proposed changes.

Mark Ward
509.359.6807
mward59@ewu.edu

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Roberta Brooke
509.359.6566
rbrooke@ewu.edu

See the Edit Course page for how to bank a course.

Banking Courses