• CIM help documents are available by signing onto ARIESweb. Under the “General Tools” heading, click on the “CIM Help Documents” link.
• Additional curricular tips are included in the “Help Bubbles” on the CIM proposal forms.

New CIM users: please contact [email protected] to request access to the CourseLeaf Curriculum Management system.

To propose a new course, program or make a change to an existing course or program, visit ARIESweb.

• Curricular Policies & Procedures Handbook (pdf)
• UCC Curriculum Email Listserv (subscribe/unsubscribe)
• Faculty Council resolution regarding unit/department responsibility for course delivery format and timely communication (pdf)

• Copying Experimental Course Information Into a New Permanent Proposal in CIM (pdf)
• Developing Course Learning Objectives (TILT website)
• Course Learning Objectives – Interactive Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy (Iowa State website)
• Course Contact Hour Guidelines Grid (pdf)
• Special Course Fee Manual (revised September 2019)
• Special Course Fee Listing and Forms (Provost’s website)
• Reserved Course Numbers (pdf)
• High Impact Practices for Use in CIM and Course Development (pdf)
• UCC policy for Study Abroad courses (pdf)

• New Degree Proposal Process (the links below are all maintained by the Office of the Provost):

• • New Program Proposal Flow Chart
  • New Program Proposal Flow Chart Narrative
  • New Program Proposal Process
  • New Program Proposal Budget Form (Excel)
  • New Program Proposal Budget Form Example (Excel)
  • New Program Proposal Timeline
  • PowerPoint Template: Preliminary Program Proposal (pptx)
  • PowerPoint Template: Comprehensive Program Proposal (pptx)

• Graduate Certificate FAQs (Graduate School website)
• Undergraduate Certificate Policy (pdf)
• Program Level Learning Objectives (pdf)
• AUCC Comment Entry Text for Programs in CIM (Word)
• Program Title Changes (pdf)