Most approvals to offer an Honors version of an existing course, keeping the same course number, happen at the departmental level. Sometimes this simply requires department head approval, while other times it may require a faculty vote. Talk to your department head or undergraduate program director to find out how Honors is handled in your area.

If you are proposing a course that will need its own course number, you should follow the procedures for other new courses in your department, including approvals from your school or college C&C, Common Curriculum Committee, and/or the Senate. The curriculum action request form used by the Senate C&C will ask whether the course as a whole, or any sections of the course, will be taught as Honors.

Honors courses may hold Common Curriculum designations, and Common Curriculum courses may be offered as Honors. As with other Honors courses, membership in the Honors Program serves as a pre-requisite for enrollment in Honors Common Curriculum courses. Instructors of Honors courses may issue permission numbers to otherwise qualified students who are not currently in the Honors Program.

Departments may offer Honors versions of any course, including those with Common Curriculum designations, at any time. However, departments should not replace a Common Curriculum course with an Honors version of the same course. The non-Honors version should be taught at least as often as the Honors version.

With the exception of UNIV courses, the Honors Program does not schedule Honors courses, instructors, or rooms. Departments should include Honors courses in their normal scheduling procedures.

In CLSS (CourseLeaf), there are 3 necessary settings. All three should already be in place for courses that are specified as Honors in the catalog (i.e., those that can only be offered as Honors). For Honors sections of non-Honors courses, schedulers will need to manage them manually.

• Grading basis Honors
• Section attribute "Honors Course" (unless set as course attribute)
• Section requisite "RQ Honors students only" (unless Honors included in catalog requisite)

If only one or two of these settings are in place, rules within CLSS will prompt schedulers to add the missing settings.

In addition to the standard department, school, and university approvals, Honors Core courses must be approved by the Honors Board. If you would like to propose a new course for the Honors Core, please contact Jaclyn Chancey. She will be happy to consult with you about the requirements for these courses and coach you through the approval process.