Learning and Teaching Committee
Curriculum
Sub-Committee
Subject: Revised
Terms of Reference
Overview
Programme
Approval has both a strategic and operational phase.
Strategic
programme approval is undertaken by the relevant Faculty
Directorate,
and then by Operations Sub-Committee. Outline proposals are
scrutinised
to ensure that an appropriate level of preliminary planning has
been
carried out, taking into account the development of the academic
portfolio
with particular reference to the University Strategic Plan,
Faculty/Department
Development Plans and resource implications.
The
operational phase of programme approval is undertaken by Curriculum
Sub-Committee,
for which the terms of reference follow.
Terms of Reference
1. To issue guidance to departments within a
framework agreed by the
Learning
and Teaching Committee, on the formulation of proposals for new
programmes
or modules, and for modifications to existing programmes or
modules.
2. To scrutinise proposals, having regard to the
importance of securing the standards of the University’s awards against
appropriate external reference points.
3. To establish that necessary consultations
have been undertaken by the department concerned and that satisfactory
programme regulations, programme specifications and/or module specifications
have been formulated.
4. To seek to ensure that the design and content
of the curriculum and the assessment strategy will allow students appropriate
learning opportunities to achieve the intended outcomes of the
programmes/modules concerned.
5. To report and make recommendations to
Learning and Teaching Committee.
Author - Jennie Elliott
Date - October 2007
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