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Appendix III - Formal Approval Process

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To convert an existing campus-taught paper to a distance paper, your Department needs to submit a proposal to your Divisional Board.

Formal academic approval is required for any paper to be offered in distance mode. 
All distance papers are listed in a separate section in the UniversityCalendarand the GuidetoEnrolment.

The appropriate document to complete is called “Form 6”. To seek approval for an entirely new distance paper, “Form 3” needs to be completed. Both forms are available from Forms for academic proposals.

For 100, 200, 300, and most 400-level papers, after Divisional Board approval the proposal goes to the Board of Undergraduate Studies (BUGS). Some 400-level papers and all papers at 500-level or above must go to the Board of Graduate Studies (BoGS). Both BUGS and BoGS are University level committees.

There is a schedule of annual deadlines for academic proposals, which can be found on the "Proformas for new proposals and resources for academic approval processes page" on the University website.

All distance papers are listed in a separate section in the UniversityCalendarand the GuidetoEnrolment. However, approval Forms generally need to go to the March meetings of BUGS or BoGS in order for the papers to be published in the Calendar, the Guide to Enrolment, and the Distance Learning Prospectus for the following year.

A considerable amount of early planning is necessary, therefore, to get through the approval process in time for your paper to be promoted via the University’s main publications.