{"id":28,"date":"2019-03-11T14:37:19","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T14:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.usnh.edu\/curriculumcommittee\/chapter\/changing-3-credit-programs-to-4-credit-programs\/"},"modified":"2024-05-17T19:52:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T19:52:55","slug":"changing-3-credit-programs-to-4-credit-programs","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.usnh.edu\/curriculumcommittee\/chapter\/changing-3-credit-programs-to-4-credit-programs\/","title":{"raw":"Changing 3-credit programs to 4-credit programs","rendered":"Changing 3-credit programs to 4-credit programs"},"content":{"raw":"<div>\r\n\r\nIn 2017-18, at least five programs converted from 3-credit curricula to 4-credit. Most of those programs presented their proposals in February. In order to avoid many of the problems that programs and the committee encountered, we offer the following guidance to academic units planning to propose 4-credit conversions for their programs.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\n<strong>Deadlines<\/strong>\r\n\r\nProblems do sometimes arise in the proposal process. To allow programs time to make adjustments before the Spring catalog deadline, the Curriculum Committee requires <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">all proposals to convert <em>programs <\/em>to 4-credits to come to us before the end of the calendar year.<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 1em\">Furthermore, we recommend submitting your proposal package to the Provost at least one month before your target Curriculum Committee meeting to allow plenty of time for discussion and adjustments before acquiring the Provost's signature.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1em\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"text-align: initial;text-indent: 1em;font-size: 1em\">In the event a program encounters significant problems with their initial proposal, this allows the faculty to bring revised proposals to a subsequent meeting. Revised proposals may need to come to our February meeting (which will otherwise be reserved for <\/span><em style=\"text-align: initial;text-indent: 1em;font-size: 1em\">new <\/em><span style=\"text-align: initial;text-indent: 1em;font-size: 1em\">program proposals or individual course proposals). As always, our March meeting is reserved smaller proposals that need not make the catalog deadline.<\/span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Required Documents for Proposal package<\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Under most circumstances, converting a program to 4-credits will require you to delete several courses and recombine their content to create new 4-credit versions. Programs converting to 4-credits must include the following documents in their proposal to the Curriculum Committee:<\/span>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/campus.plymouth.edu\/faculty-governance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2010\/08\/Curriculum-Change-Proposal.docx\">Curriculum Change Proposal<\/a>(s) showing the revised Major\/Option as it would appear in the catalog<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Curriculum Change Proposal(s) showing the revised Minor\/Certificate\u00a0as it would appear in the catalog<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Curriculum Change Proposal(s) for Blanket Agreements (see <a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.usnh.edu\/curriculumcommittee\/chapter\/creating-blanket-agreements\/\">Creating Blanket Agreements<\/a>)<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Curriculum Change Proposal(s) for individual converted courses<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Curriculum Change Proposal(s) for deleted courses<\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/campus.plymouth.edu\/faculty-governance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2010\/08\/New-Course-Proposal-111815.docx\">New Course Proposal<\/a>(s)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<strong>Recommended Documents for the Curriculum Committee<\/strong>\r\n\r\nWhile the following documents are not associated with specific proposal forms, we recommend that programs incorporate the following as separate documents to assist them (and the committee) in managing their overall proposal package.\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>Communication to students <\/strong>[<a href=\"https:\/\/campus.plymouth.edu\/faculty-governance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2017\/05\/CC4-credit-conversion-examples-Student-Letter.pdf\">Example <\/a>of student correspondence]\r\nIn considering these proposals, the Curriculum Committee always seeks to ensure that the proposed changes to the program will be clear to students. To that end, please ensure that your communication addresses the following:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Description of the new program(s)<\/li>\r\n \t<li>When the discipline will begin offering the new\/revised courses<\/li>\r\n \t<li>When the discipline will discontinue the old courses<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Changes to courses in the program core or other key courses (if applicable)<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Who should consider changing to the new catalog and what implications that may have (see below, consider completing your blanket agreement first).<\/li>\r\n \t<li>What will happen to students who remain in the current catalog\u00a0(see <a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.usnh.edu\/curriculumcommittee\/chapter\/creating-blanket-agreements\/\">Creating Blanket Agreements<\/a>)<span style=\"color: #000000\">?<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li>Remind them that converted versions of existing courses will receive new course numbers (and plan to publicize that as soon as those numbers are issued by the registrar). Note that it may take up to several weeks for the registrar to generate new course numbers.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Summary of communication to AUs\/disciplines, and Lamson Library liaison, and IT <\/strong><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/campus.plymouth.edu\/faculty-governance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2017\/05\/CC4-credit-conversion-examples-External-communication-summary-.pdf\">Example<\/a> of Communication]\r\n<\/span>As always, curriculum changes and new courses require that you consult with Lamson Library, and (if your courses are included in other majors) affected departments. Rather than include such correspondence on each proposal form, it may be simpler to present it in a standalone document.<\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Cover sheet with document list <\/strong><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">[<\/span><a style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\" href=\"https:\/\/campus.plymouth.edu\/faculty-governance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2017\/05\/CC4-credit-conversion-examples-Program-Changes-Cover-Sheet.pdf\">Example 1, <\/a><a style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\" href=\"https:\/\/campus.plymouth.edu\/faculty-governance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2017\/05\/CC4-credit-conversion-examples-COVERSHEET-EnglishMajorRevisionsforCurrComm.pdf\">Example 2<\/a><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">]\r\n<\/span>The proposal package from the English department included 40 separate files. Communication and Media Studies included 50 files, and the combined Social Sciences proposal included over 100 files. In order for the Curriculum Committee to navigate such a large number of proposals and supporting documents, we request that you include a cover sheet and document list, and that you use some consistent naming convention for those files. Communication and Media Studies prefixed all supporting documents with the numbers CM0x (i.e., \u201cCM02 Summary of CMS Changes.pdf\u201d), overall option or minor proposals with the numbers CM1x (i.e., \u201cCM11 Curriculum Change Proposal Professional Communication Option.pdf\u201d), new course proposals with the numbers CM2x (i.e., \u201cCM22 New Course Proposal CM2xxx Strategic Communication.pdf\u201d), and so on. This made review much easier for the committee, but also made it much easier for the department to manage the large number of files in their proposal.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>Summary of changes with 4-credit justification <\/strong>[<a href=\"https:\/\/campus.plymouth.edu\/faculty-governance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2017\/05\/CC4-credit-conversion-examples-Summary-of-CM-Course-Changes.pdf\">Example <\/a>of change summary]\r\nDisciplines have the autonomy to decide where and how they wish to allocate the additional credit for courses transitioning to 4 credits. In the proposal, the Curriculum Committee assesses the modifications that justify another credit. To facilitate this process, the Curriculum Committee suggests highlighting in the new syllabi the changes that demonstrate the additional credit. For programs that are converting all (or most) of their courses to 4 credits, it may be helpful to provide an overview of those changes, explain which courses were cut\/recombined\/reconfigured, and why.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","rendered":"<div>\n<p>In 2017-18, at least five programs converted from 3-credit curricula to 4-credit. Most of those programs presented their proposals in February. In order to avoid many of the problems that programs and the committee encountered, we offer the following guidance to academic units planning to propose 4-credit conversions for their programs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Deadlines<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Problems do sometimes arise in the proposal process. To allow programs time to make adjustments before the Spring catalog deadline, the Curriculum Committee requires <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">all proposals to convert <em>programs <\/em>to 4-credits to come to us before the end of the calendar year.<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 1em\">Furthermore, we recommend submitting your proposal package to the Provost at least one month before your target Curriculum Committee meeting to allow plenty of time for discussion and adjustments before acquiring the Provost&#8217;s signature.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1em\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"text-align: initial;text-indent: 1em;font-size: 1em\">In the event a program encounters significant problems with their initial proposal, this allows the faculty to bring revised proposals to a subsequent meeting. Revised proposals may need to come to our February meeting (which will otherwise be reserved for <\/span><em style=\"text-align: initial;text-indent: 1em;font-size: 1em\">new <\/em><span style=\"text-align: initial;text-indent: 1em;font-size: 1em\">program proposals or individual course proposals). As always, our March meeting is reserved smaller proposals that need not make the catalog deadline.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Required Documents for Proposal package<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Under most circumstances, converting a program to 4-credits will require you to delete several courses and recombine their content to create new 4-credit versions. Programs converting to 4-credits must include the following documents in their proposal to the Curriculum Committee:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/campus.plymouth.edu\/faculty-governance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2010\/08\/Curriculum-Change-Proposal.docx\">Curriculum Change Proposal<\/a>(s) showing the revised Major\/Option as it would appear in the catalog<\/li>\n<li>Curriculum Change Proposal(s) showing the revised Minor\/Certificate\u00a0as it would appear in the catalog<\/li>\n<li>Curriculum Change Proposal(s) for Blanket Agreements (see <a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.usnh.edu\/curriculumcommittee\/chapter\/creating-blanket-agreements\/\">Creating Blanket Agreements<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Curriculum Change Proposal(s) for individual converted courses<\/li>\n<li>Curriculum Change Proposal(s) for deleted courses<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/campus.plymouth.edu\/faculty-governance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2010\/08\/New-Course-Proposal-111815.docx\">New Course Proposal<\/a>(s)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Recommended Documents for the Curriculum Committee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While the following documents are not associated with specific proposal forms, we recommend that programs incorporate the following as separate documents to assist them (and the committee) in managing their overall proposal package.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Communication to students <\/strong>[<a href=\"https:\/\/campus.plymouth.edu\/faculty-governance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2017\/05\/CC4-credit-conversion-examples-Student-Letter.pdf\">Example <\/a>of student correspondence]<br \/>\nIn considering these proposals, the Curriculum Committee always seeks to ensure that the proposed changes to the program will be clear to students. To that end, please ensure that your communication addresses the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Description of the new program(s)<\/li>\n<li>When the discipline will begin offering the new\/revised courses<\/li>\n<li>When the discipline will discontinue the old courses<\/li>\n<li>Changes to courses in the program core or other key courses (if applicable)<\/li>\n<li>Who should consider changing to the new catalog and what implications that may have (see below, consider completing your blanket agreement first).<\/li>\n<li>What will happen to students who remain in the current catalog\u00a0(see <a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.usnh.edu\/curriculumcommittee\/chapter\/creating-blanket-agreements\/\">Creating Blanket Agreements<\/a>)<span style=\"color: #000000\">?<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Remind them that converted versions of existing courses will receive new course numbers (and plan to publicize that as soon as those numbers are issued by the registrar). Note that it may take up to several weeks for the registrar to generate new course numbers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Summary of communication to AUs\/disciplines, and Lamson Library liaison, and IT <\/strong><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/campus.plymouth.edu\/faculty-governance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2017\/05\/CC4-credit-conversion-examples-External-communication-summary-.pdf\">Example<\/a> of Communication]<br \/>\n<\/span>As always, curriculum changes and new courses require that you consult with Lamson Library, and (if your courses are included in other majors) affected departments. Rather than include such correspondence on each proposal form, it may be simpler to present it in a standalone document.<\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">Cover sheet with document list <\/strong><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">[<\/span><a style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\" href=\"https:\/\/campus.plymouth.edu\/faculty-governance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2017\/05\/CC4-credit-conversion-examples-Program-Changes-Cover-Sheet.pdf\">Example 1, <\/a><a style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\" href=\"https:\/\/campus.plymouth.edu\/faculty-governance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2017\/05\/CC4-credit-conversion-examples-COVERSHEET-EnglishMajorRevisionsforCurrComm.pdf\">Example 2<\/a><span style=\"text-align: initial;font-size: 1em\">]<br \/>\n<\/span>The proposal package from the English department included 40 separate files. Communication and Media Studies included 50 files, and the combined Social Sciences proposal included over 100 files. In order for the Curriculum Committee to navigate such a large number of proposals and supporting documents, we request that you include a cover sheet and document list, and that you use some consistent naming convention for those files. Communication and Media Studies prefixed all supporting documents with the numbers CM0x (i.e., \u201cCM02 Summary of CMS Changes.pdf\u201d), overall option or minor proposals with the numbers CM1x (i.e., \u201cCM11 Curriculum Change Proposal Professional Communication Option.pdf\u201d), new course proposals with the numbers CM2x (i.e., \u201cCM22 New Course Proposal CM2xxx Strategic Communication.pdf\u201d), and so on. This made review much easier for the committee, but also made it much easier for the department to manage the large number of files in their proposal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Summary of changes with 4-credit justification <\/strong>[<a href=\"https:\/\/campus.plymouth.edu\/faculty-governance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2017\/05\/CC4-credit-conversion-examples-Summary-of-CM-Course-Changes.pdf\">Example <\/a>of change summary]<br \/>\nDisciplines have the autonomy to decide where and how they wish to allocate the additional credit for courses transitioning to 4 credits. In the proposal, the Curriculum Committee assesses the modifications that justify another credit. To facilitate this process, the Curriculum Committee suggests highlighting in the new syllabi the changes that demonstrate the additional credit. For programs that are converting all (or most) of their courses to 4 credits, it may be helpful to provide an overview of those changes, explain which courses were cut\/recombined\/reconfigured, and why.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"menu_order":6,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-28","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":17,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.usnh.edu\/curriculumcommittee\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.usnh.edu\/curriculumcommittee\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.usnh.edu\/curriculumcommittee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.usnh.edu\/curriculumcommittee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.usnh.edu\/curriculumcommittee\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.usnh.edu\/curriculumcommittee\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/28\/revisions\/50"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.usnh.edu\/curriculumcommittee\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/17"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.usnh.edu\/curriculumcommittee\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/28\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.usnh.edu\/curriculumcommittee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.usnh.edu\/curriculumcommittee\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.usnh.edu\/curriculumcommittee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.usnh.edu\/curriculumcommittee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}