Course Creation

Office of the Registrar Last Date for Submitting a CAP: 11/09/2026

 

Academic Affairs, individual colleges, and the Board of Trustees all have their own timelines. When in doubt, please contact the respective departments to clarify.

 

• To apply for a University Studies Program (USP 2015) attribute, make sure these worksheets are included if the faculty is requesting any of these attributes.
• For questions about the attributes, please contact the respective department for questions.
• You do NOT need to get the signatures on the USP forms, the Curriculum workflow takes care of
  the signatures moving forward.
• Make sure to have the correct learning outcomes in the syllabus for an initial application or for a renewal of an attribute.

• The University Studies Program is University of Wyoming Regulation Number: UW Regulation 2-105

 

University Studies Program 2015 Worksheets Renewals or Initial Application:
https://www.uwyo.edu/usp/index.html

 

o Upper division classes are those designed primarily for juniors and seniors and are designated by numbers
between 3000-3999 and 4000-4999.

Upper division classes are characterized by the following criteria.
§1. The class must: a. Build upon concepts, techniques and skills learned in lower division classes by presenting advanced concepts requiring well developed analytical skills, or encouraging the abilities to synthesize and create; and ·b. Require significant prerequisites such as: 1) substantial general introduction in the
discipline or related areas, as evidenced by specific collegiate classes as prerequisites; or 2) a general educational background at the collegiate level, as evidenced by multiple prerequisites; 3) acceptance into or advanced standing in a recognized professional program; or 4) appropriate progress in program.

§2. 4000-level classes should contain specific content at a level to prepare students for either graduate study
or entering the work force. Class content at the 4000- level should normally have a relatively deep and narrow focus. Since some 4000-level classes can be utilized for graduate credit, these classes should generally
be restricted to either seniors or graduate students.

Prerequisites:
1. Course Prerequisites default are passing with a D, unless specified otherwise on the CAP.
2. Please use brackets and (and/or) language. Example: (ARE 3110 and ARE 4200) or ARE 4260
3. Test scores, test code, department, class, degree, program, campus, college, student attribute, cohort.
4. Courses above the 3000 level are highly encouraged to have prerequisites that build on the concepts of the course.

1. Please make course descriptions 50 words or less.
2. The course description used in the CAP must match the course description in the syllabus.

1. Faculty are expected to have a minimum of three (3) hours, spread over two (2) days of the week
of out-of-class availability to students each week.
2. If faculty do not know the office hours, paste the entire Office hours and/or open door policy in
place of office hours to acknowledge requirement in the syllabus

Undergraduate and graduate classes are classified into either group-instruction, or individualizedinstruction.
Group-instruction, or Group 1 classes include: Lecture, Laboratory, Discussion, Seminar, Recitation, and Studio.
Individualized instruction or Group 2 classes includes: Lesson, Internship, Readings, Clerkship, Practicum, Independent Study, Independent Research, Thesis Research, Dissertation Research, and Continuing Registration.

For all courses, please include a template syllabus that includes information about learning objectives.
The syllabus needs to follow all of the Syllabus Guidelines outlined in the Academic Affairs Syllabus Template.
This includes the following courses:
Capstone, Field Studies, Directed Studies/Research Problems, Internship/Practicum/Independent Studies, Cooperative Work Experience, Seminar, Topics/Trial Courses, Workshop, First Year Seminar, 

Creating a new Course Number

Please contact the Office of the Registrar to check to make sure the new course number has not been used in the history of the University of Wyoming. Once a number has been discontinued from Banner, it can never be used again. It is easier to double-check the number is available before the CAP is submitted in the Curriculum software.

Creating a new Prefix

 

1. Write in the comments section what is incorrect and who said it (If it isn't the person who is using the software).
2. If the CAP is "rejected" it doesn't really mean rejected. It just sends the CAP back to the Originator for corrections.
3. The Originator would make the updates and send the CAP back through the workflow of approvals. It is possible during any step to make edits if it is on your step. For Example, If you are the College CAP Checker, and you make an edit, it will make the update and it will time stamp who did what when. Then the CAP would move forward in the workflow without a rejection. It is up to colleges if they want to reject or do edits on a step.

Please submit an Excel or Word file outlining the courses to be Hibernated or Mass Discontinued to the Office of the Registrar.

 

Definitions:

Course Hibernation: Non-publicized status of an already approved course that has not been taught in the last 12 months that will remain in Banner, but is not listed in the Catalog or degree programs, if applicable.

 

Course Discontinue: The complete deletion of a course from UWYO’s Acalog Catalog and Banner. Once a course number is discontinued, it can never be used again at UWYO.

 

Mass Discontinuation: This process allows users to delete multiple courses using one form in Curriculog for removal of the course from the Catalog and Banner.

 

A course that isn’t expected to be taught in the next year or more may be hibernated or hidden from the course catalog. The course may be taken out of hibernation whenever it is going to be offered again by contacting the Office of the Registrar.

• The Curriclulum forms for new course and course discontiuation are new this year. The CAP form for course modifications will be updated and released once it is finalized.
• Currently, the course import and course impact report are not functional. Please manually fill out the previous course information from the previous years catalog in the CAP.
• For a cross-listing, you do NOT need to fill out a seperate CAP for each course involved in the crosslisting. This year, you just need to write what is cross-listed on the form. Please do not use the cross-listings button for cross-listings or dual-listings.
• Mass Discontinuations will be handled by the Office of the Registrar. Please sumbmit an Excel or Word file in the Curriclum form and the Office of the Registrar will fill out the rest.