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77.		(a)		Proposals for new courses or proposed changes of departmental course offerings for the next academic year must be submitted to the Committee on Academic Priorities by November 15 for first-semester courses and by March 1 for second-semester courses (exceptions to these deadlines will be made only for newly appointed members of the faculty).
(b)				Proposals of new courses should be accompanied by an outline of the work to be covered by the course. This syllabus should indicate briefly the purpose of the proposed course, its value to the students for whom it is designed, its place in the department's total offering, the sequence of major topics within the course, the more important elements in its bibliography, and its relationship to offerings at the other Five Colleges.
(c)				Courses to be offered once only and courses to be offered experimentally not more than twice shall require the approval of the department and the Committee on Academic Priorities but not the faculty. Approval of such courses will be reported to the faculty, and the courses will be appropriately designated in the Catalogue.
(d)				Changes in or additions to interdepartmental courses may be initiated by individual members of the faculty, departments, divisions, or the Committee on Academic Priorities. Such proposals (including descriptive material for new courses) will be submitted to interested departments or divisions (or divisional representatives) for their comment before they are taken to the faculty.
(e)				Student-initiated courses for credit, open to sophomores, juniors and seniors only, are permitted with the following provisos: At least ten but no more than fifteen students, including the proposer(s) of the course, must enroll in it. Each student-initiated course must have a faculty sponsor with competence in the subject matter. The sponsor's role in organizing the course is to be determined by the group. The sponsor will be expected to participate in all regular meetings of the class. Such participation may count as part of a normal teaching load, with the approval of the department. Before May 1 of the preceding year or November 1 of the preceding semester, the initiators of the course, with the advice of the faculty member, will draw up a course proposal to be presented to the Committee on Academic Priorities for approval. The proposal should follow the Committee's guidelines for student-initiated courses. The Committee may approve the course without referring it to the faculty. Regular letter grades, for which the faculty sponsor takes ultimate responsibility, must be recorded with the Registrar. No student may take more than 8 credits of such courses. No faculty member may participate in more than one such course in a single year. Next