Review Process to Identify Duplicate and/or Mis-Designated Course Offerings

A.      Data Collection Stage:

1. Department and unit heads are kindly required by the University Curriculum Committee of the Senate to provide the following written infomation with sufficient justification:

1. List all the courses offered by other departments or units that you strongly believe must be offered by your department since the course content is sufficiently relevant to your deparment’s academic discipline. These courses may be sufficiently similar to (or overlap in content with) the courses already being offered in your department. (For example, for the Mathematics Department: which courses already being offered by departments other than the Mathematics Department should be offered by the Mathematics Department?)

2. List existing or planned courses that you believe should be offered by a department other than your own department. (For example, for a department other than the Mathematics Department:  Are there any courses you currently offer in your department, but which you sincerely believe must be offered by the Mathematics Department or any other department?)

2. Feedback from Faculty Curriculum Committees, General Education Committee, Registrar’s Office, or other relevant offices, as well as the feedback from the academic staff via their department heads, will be welcomed for consideration.

3. A subcommittee of the University Curriculum Committee (UCC) will independently review the existing courses university-wide to identify overlapping.

B.      Data Processing Stage:

1. The information supplied will be filed and sorted by the University Curriculum Committee for evaluation.

C.      Evaluation Stage:

1. The file prepared in Stage (B) including the findings from the Data Collection Stage (A) will be posted on the UCC WEB page for one week. All department/academic unit heads and staff will be asked to send their objections (if any) within that week. Sufficient notification of the posting will be given.

2. If there are no objections, the reviewed courses will then be reassigned to the relevant department or academic unit.

3. In the event of an objection, the Chairperson of the UCC will meet with the relevant department or unit heads to resolve the issue. Resolution will be reached through the mutual agreement of the relevant department heads involved, and the decision will be accepted.

4. If no resolution is achieved, an independent referree assigned by the Rector’s Office, will be asked to arbitrate the issue. The referree will most likely be an experienced nonmember of EMU. Based on the referee’s comments/recommendations, the Rector will make the final decision.

D.       Teaching Staff Policy in the Implementation / Adaptation Period:

1. In the event of a course-transfer from one department or unit to another, the staff member already designated to teach the course will be transferred to the relevant department for the Fall 2005-2006 academic year. In other words, the contract of the staff member will be transferred from his/her originating department to the destination department.

2. If departments mutually agree that no complete teaching-staff transfer is necessary, but instead agree to a shared distribution of the workload, then an individual staff-member will continue to be contracted by his/her originating department or unit.  Course-credits will also be equatibly distributed between the relevant departments or units.