Curriculum management at the University of Waterloo includes the creation, retirement, and modification of academic programs and plans, as well as courses and regulations, and the publication of the academic calendars. Curriculum management and academic calendars are critical and core functions for the University.
Unless otherwise stated, the curriculum management processes linked below are undergraduate in nature - see also graduate-specific processes.
Background knowledge
- Reactivating previously retired courses
- Cross-listed course vs held with:
- What's the difference?
- Guidance:
- Determining if cross-listing is the solution
- How to create new cross-lists
- How to make changes to cross-lists
- How to retire cross-lists
- Course ownership:
- How is course ownership determined?:
- Kuali CM and the Academic Unit field
- Why must all courses match the subject code ownership?
- Guidance: What to consider before changing ownership of a subject code
- Subject code ownership change process
- How to make a request to change ownership of a subject code
- How is course ownership determined?:
- Components:
- About the form field
- Available components
- Guidance
- Course component creation approval process
- Consent:
- About the form fields
- Guidance
- Descriptions:
- About the form field
- Guidance
- Notes:
- About the form field
- Guidance
- Repeatable courses:
- About the three form fields
- Guidance
- Topic courses
- Topic titles
- Repeatable courses
- Requisites:
- Types of requisites
- About the three form fields
- Guidance
- Guidelines for building requisites
- Subject code and number:
- About the form fields
- Guidance: What to consider before changing a subject code and/or number
- Subject code creation process
- Titles (main and abbreviated):
- About the form fields
- Guidance: Composing titles
- Abbreviated title conventions
- Unit weights:
- About the Units form field
- Guidance
- Other special considerations:
- Grading
- Fees
- Units for academic progression
- Academic program vs academic plan
- Proposing new undergraduate academic programs and plans:
- What is a new program (per IQAP)?
- How to propose a new program
- Academic plan definitions and guidelines
- Guidance
- Degree and plan title length
- Degree recognition
- Hidden requirements
- Modifying existing academic programs and plans:
- Approval process
- Major modification vs minor modification
- Guidance
- Changing a plan's name
- Changing a major plan's average requirement
- Process: Retiring and/or pausing admissions to credentials
- Regulations
- Calendar content not in Kuali databases: Content in the About the Undergaduate Studies Academic Calendar, Studying at Waterloo, and Important Dates & Deadlines sections
- Inter-university course agreements
- Scholarships, awards, bursaries