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Course Framework Review

Course framework review process


Beginning in academic year 2018-19, the Teaching and Assessment Committee (TACO) will begin reviewing course entries in the Course Inventory Management (CIM) system with the following goals:

  1. Ensuring that all of the institution's courses have entries in CIM that are current
  2. Specifically reviewing the quality of those entries for their:
    1. Catalog description
    2. Curriculum based rationale
    3. Course learning outcomes
    4. Program learning outcomes supported by the course
    5. Optional course requirements
  3. Providing an institutional record of required course elements in support of institutional accreditation
  4. Providing an institutional record of required course elements in support of faculty and instructors who are new to teaching the course

Colleges, schools, divisions, departments, and other academic units whose courses are under review will be notified at the beginning of the academic year as well as given a list of those courses that fail to meet goal 1.

Courses that meet criterion 1 will be reviewed by the committee (see the TACO rubric for review components) to determine which courses (if any) then fail to meet goal 2.

Changes to any course's CIM entry as a result of TACO review will go through an expedited workflow that goes straight to TACO for review and approval.

At the end of each review year, TACO will prepare a summary report of the department's CIM entries presented as for information to Faculty Senate and also provided to the department chair and Director of Assessment.

Complete a TACO Course Review