Courses that have not been taught for a period of three or more years will be dropped from a department’s approved course offerings. This policy does not apply to generic or individualized study courses. 

Area of Inquiry and Cultural Literacy courses must be taught at least every other year. If these courses are not taught at least every other year, they may lose their core education status (modified from previous). 

Departments are notified in February of those courses to be dropped or that are at risk of losing core education status and given an opportunity to respond. For a course to be extended there must be a commitment to schedule the course in a specific term of the next academic year and an instructor assigned. The department also may respond that a course is approved to drop. The deadline for responses is generally in April, prior to the submission of the UOCC spring curriculum report to the senate. 

Departments may request via CourseLeaf that a dropped course be reinstated if no more than three years have passed since the term the course was dropped. Reinstatement requires the department to commit to teaching the course in a specific future term with a specific instructor. This reinstatement will be effective the next term. 

Courses subject to reinstatement may not be modified in any way. The UOCC must be assured that the course will be taught as previously approved during the present or the next academic year. The course is returned to the curriculum as it was when it was dropped. 

If a course has not been taught for six consecutive years (three years not taught, followed by three years dropped), a new course must be developed rather than reinstated, as there may be a change in instructor, content, and course format. (Note: The subject matter may be taught using an experimental course number while a proposal for a new course is developed.) 

Approved By: University Senate        Date: 05/24/2023

Motion Number: US22/23-20

Revision History:

Original US22/23-20 Date 05/24/2023