1. The content of the core courses is specified in the course outlines as approved by Faculty Council. All instructors should thus use these course outlines. The course coordinator and instructors should ensure that the level of difficulty is appropriate and that the assessment procedures are consistent among sections, and from term to term. In order to ensure that the students are treated equally, all sections in a course should write the same final exam, and the papers should be marked in common, with each instructor marking some questions on all papers. Each instructor should have the opportunity to submit questions for the final exam, which will be set by the coordinator in collaboration with the instructors. The coordinator should also arrange for common term test(s) to be held.
2. The coordinator should select the text for the course after consulting with the instructors, the previous coordinator, and the Associate Dean.
3. The coordinator, in consultation with the instructors, should ensure that a set of problems is available which cover the basic course material at the intended level of difficulty. It is anticipated that these problems will evolve from term to term, and will be designed to help students to achieve an understanding of the course material, and to discourage learning by rote. These problems should be distributed to all students. Instructors may select the assignments to be submitted from these problems, or may assign other questions as they see fit.
4. In order to preserve a measure of individuality in a multi-section course, instructors should be free, to some extent, to vary the emphasis and presentation of the topics in the course. However, a basic schedule should be established at the start of the term, and there should be regular communication between the coordinator and the instructors to ensure that all sections are proceeding through the course material at about the same rate.
5. At the end of the term the coordinator and instructors should review the course outline and course text, with the view of recommending possible changes to the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies. Significant changes in the course outline would have to be approved by the Undergraduate Affairs Committee and by Faculty Council.